RHCSA – Red Hat Certified System Administrator study guidelines

Posted on by Gregnstuff

As I continue to work toward improving myself the next foundation item that I will be focusing on is the Red Hat RHCSA Certification EX200. 

Reviewing the certification details off of the official site, I knew this would not be enough so combining the official site skills list, along with the outline with the Linkedin Learning course Cert Prep: Red Hat Certified System Administrator (EX200) course. My Red Hat Certified System Administrator study guide will follow the outline below. 

My research and study documentation going to be used are:

Available devices that I will be using for hosting OS:

  • Oracle VM Virtualbox – On Microsoft Surface Book 2
  • HP Laptop running Kali Linux
  • HP Workstation running Ubuntu 20.04
  • Raspberry PI 4 – Nothing loaded on it at this time.

I am targeting the End of April/Beginning of May to take the exam.

RHCSA – Red Hat Certified System Administrator study guide

  • Understand and use essential tools
    • handling files
      • Create
      • Edit
      • Archive and compress files
    • directories
    • command-line environments
      • Redirection
      • File Management
    • documentation
    • Schedule recurring tasks
  • Create simple shell scripts
    • BASH
    • Python
    • Lua
    • Tcl
    • Ruby
    • Grep and regular expressions
  • Operate running systems, including
    • booting into different run levels
    • identifying/Manage processes
    • starting and stopping virtual machines
    • controlling services
    • Interrupt the boot process to gain access
    • Read log files and journals
  • Configure
    • local storage
      • partitions
        • Create
        • Delete
    • Logical volumes management
    • Networking
    • Bootup/modify the bootloader
  • Create and configure
    • file systems and file system attributes, such as
      • permissions
      • encryption
      • access control lists
      • network file systems
        • Mount and unmount
      • Securely transfer files
      • Create and configure
        • Format
        • Mount
        • Unmount
      • Manage SUID, SGID, and sticky bits
  • Deploy, configure, and maintain systems
    • software installation
    • updates
    • core services/kernel packages
    • Linux system Virtual guests
      • Access virtual machine’s console
      • Start/stop virtual machines
  • Manage users and groups
    • Create
    • Delete
    • Modify
    • Password/password aging
    • Use Authentication Systems
  • Manage
    • Security
      • Firewall
      • Key-based authentication for SSH
    • SELinux configuration
      • Modes
      • Security Context
        • Restore Default
      • Modify Booleans
      • Diagnose policy violations
  • Perform basic container management

 

LET THE FUN Begin!!!