Red Hat Certified System Admin – SA2

What you’ll learn
Red Hat System Administration II – RH134

This course specifically designed for students who have completed Red Hat System Administration (RH124). Red Hat System Administration (RH134) focuses on the key tasks needed to become a full time Linux Administrator and to validate those skills via the Red Hat Certified System Administrator exam.

RHCSA – Certified Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Administrator

Course Outline

Introduction

Red Hat System Administration II

Installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Automating Installation with kickstart

Overview of kickstart Server

Features & configuration of kickstart server

Graphical mode to configure the kickstart config file

Deploying a new virtual system with kickstart

Practice Lab Sessions

Regular expressions with grep or pattern matching

Overview of pattern matching

Regular expressions fundamental

Match the regular expressions

Practice Lab Sessions

Vim Editor – Creating & Editing text files

Overview of Vim Editor

Different versions & modes of Vim

Command Mode, Ex Mode & Exit Mode

Use of Yank in Vim

Practice Lab Sessions

Scheduling cron jobs

at command – scheduling one-time job

Practice Lab sessions

Overview of crontab format

How to schedule jobs at specific time

Practice Lab Sessions

Access control Lists ACL’s

Overview of ACL

Use of command getfacl & setfacl

Default ACL

Securing files with ACLs

Practice Lab Sessions

Disks, Partitions, and File Systems to a Linux System

Overview of Disks & partitions

Partition tables , MBR Schemes and GPT

Primary, Extended & Logical partitions

Practice Lab Sessions

Logical Volume Manager Administration

LVM Architecture Overview

LVM Components

LVM Logical Volumes

Logical Volume Creation Overview

Growing a File System on a Logical Volume

Logical Volume Backup

LVM Administration with CLI Commands

Using CLI Commands

Physical Volume Administration

Creating Physical Volumes

Displaying Physical Volumes

Preventing Allocation on a Physical Volume

Resizing a Physical Volume

Removing Physical Volumes

Volume Group Administration

Creating Volume Groups

Adding Physical Volumes to a Volume Group

Displaying Volume Groups

Removing Physical Volumes from a Volume Group

Changing the Parameters of a Volume Group

Activating and Deactivating Volume Groups

Removing Volume Groups

NFS Network File Systems

Overview of NFS Server

Installation and configuration of NFS Server

Service in nfs

rpc, rpcbind services

How nfs works?

Configuration file in NFS

Firewalld

Overview of firewalld in RHEL 7

Features of firewalld & its advantages over iptables

firewalld components

how packet flows

Limiting network communications

Practice Lab Sessions

Managing SELinux Security

Introduction – SELinux

SELinux Security Concepts

Changing SELinux Modes

Practice Lab Sessions

Changing SELinux Contexts

SELinux Booleans

Audit logs & troubleshooting SELinux

Who is the target audience?
There is no formal prerequisites for this course; however, previous system administrator experience on other operating system would be very beneficial.