Kurz: EX200 Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)

The performance-based RHCSA exam [EX200] tests your knowledge and skill in areas of system administration common across a wide range of environments and deployment scenarios. You must be an RHCSA to ea> a Red Hat Certified Engineer [RHCE®] certification. The skills tested in this exam are the foundation for system administration across all Red Hat products. An RHCSA certification is earned when an IT professional demonstrates the core system-administration skills required in Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments. This exam and the exam objectives provided here are based on the Red? Hat®Enterprise Linux® 7 version of the exam.
Audience

• Experienced Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administrators seeking validation of their skills
• Students who have attended Red Hat System Administration I and II and are on the path to ea> RHCSA certification
• Experienced Linux system administrators who require a certification either by their organization or based on a mandate [DOD 8570 directive]
• IT professionals who are on the path to ea> RHCE certification
• An RHCE who is noncurrent or who is about to become noncurrent and wants to recertify as an RHCE

Study points for the exam
RHCSA exam candidates should be able to accomplish the tasks below without assistance. These have been grouped into several categories. Understand and use essential tools

• Access a shell prompt and issue commands with correct syntax
• Use input-output redirection [>, >>, |, 2>, etc.]
• Use grep and regular expressions to analyze text
• Access remote systems using ssh
• Log in and switch users in multiuser targets
• Archive, compress, unpack, and uncompress files using tar, star, gzip, and bzip2
• Create and edit text files
• Create, delete, copy, and move files and directories
• Create hard and soft links
• List, set, and change standard ugo wx permissions
• Locate, read, and use system documentation including man, info, and files in /usr/share/doc

Note: Red Hat may use applications during the exam that are not included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux for the purpose of evaluating candidate s abilities to meet this objective. Operate running systems

• Boot, reboot, and shut down a system normally
• Boot systems into different targets manually
• Interrupt the boot process in order to gain access to a system
• Identify CPU/memory intensive processes, adjust process priority with renice, and kill processes
• Locate and interpret system log files and journals
• Access a virtual machine s console
• Start and stop virtual machines
• Start, stop, and check the status of network services
• Securely transfer files between systems

Configure local storage

• List, create, delete partitions on MBR and GPT disks
• Create and remove physical volumes, assign physical volumes to volume groups, and create and delete logical volumes
• Configure systems to mount file systems at boot by Universally Unique ID [UUID] or label
• Add new partitions and logical volumes, and swap to a system non-destructively

Create and configure file systems

• Create, mount, unmount, and use vfat, ext4, and xfs file systems
• Mount and unmount CIFS and NFS network file systems
• Extend existing logical volumes
• Create and configure set-GID directories for collaboration
• Create and manage Access Control Lists [ACLs]
• Diagnose and correct file permission problems

Deploy, configure, and maintain systems

• Configure networking and hostname resolution statically or dynamically
• Schedule tasks using at and cron
• Start and stop services and configure services to start automatically at boot
• Configure systems to boot into a specific target automatically
• Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux automatically using Kickstart
• Configure a physical machine to host virtual guests
• Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems as virtual guests
• Configure systems to launch virtual machines at boot
• Configure network services to start automatically at boot
• Configure a system to use time services
• Install and update software packages - Red Hat Network, a remote repository, or - the local file system
• Update the kernel package appropriately to ensure a bootable system
• Modify the system bootloader

Manage users and groups

• Create, delete, and modify local user ac-s
• Change passwords and adjust password aging for local user ac-s
• Create, delete, and modify local groups and group memberships
• Configure a system to use an existing authentication service for user and group information

Manage security

• Configure firewall settings using firewall-confi