Description

1. Access the command line
   1. Components of a Distribution
   2. Red Hat Linux Products
   3. Logging In
   4. Running Programs
   5. Interacting with Command Line
   6. Desktop Environments
   7. GNOME
   8. got root?
   9. Switching User Contexts
   10. sudo

   Lab Tasks

   1. Login and Discovery
   2. Switching Users With su
2. Manage files from the command line
   1. Physical Unix File Structure
   2. Unix/Linux Filesystem Features
   3. Navigating the Filesystem
   4. Displaying Directory Contents
   5. Directory Manipulation
   6. File Manipulation
   7. Deleting and Creating Files
   8. Filesystem Links
   9. Filename Matching
   10. File Globbing and Wildcard Patterns
   11. Brace Expansion
   12. Shell and Environment Variables
   13. Key Environment Variables

   Lab Tasks

   1. Navigating Directories and Listing Files
   2. Manipulating Files and Directories
   3. Wildcard File Matching
   4. Shell Variables
3. Get help in a textual environment
   1. Gathering Login Session Info
   2. Red Hat Online Documentation
   3. Getting Help Within the Graphical Desktop
   4. Gathering System Info
   5. Help from Commands and Documentation
   6. Getting Help with man & info
   7. $MANPATH, whatis and apropos

   Lab Tasks

   1. Help with Commands
4. Create, view, and edit text files
   1. vi and Vim
   2. Learning Vim
   3. Basic vi
   4. Intermediate vi
   5. Communication Channels
   6. File Redirection
   7. Piping Commands Together
   8. Searching Inside Files
   9. The Streaming Editor
   10. Text Processing with Awk
   11. Producing File Statistics
   12. Replacing Text Characters
   13. Text Sorting
   14. Duplicate Removal Utility
   15. Extracting Columns of Text
   16. Combining Files and Merging Text
   17. Comparing File Changes

   Lab Tasks

   1. Text Editing with Vim
   2. Text Processing
5. Manage local Linux users and groups
   1. User and Group Concepts
   2. User Administration
   3. Modifying Accounts
   4. Group Administration
   5. User Private Group Scheme
   6. Password Aging

   Lab Tasks

   1. User and Group Administration
   2. User Private Groups
6. Control access to files with Linux file system permissions
   1. File Ownership
   2. File and Directory Permissions
   3. Changing File Permissions
   4. File Creation Permissions with umask
   5. SUID and SGID on files
   6. SGID and Sticky Bit on Directories

   Lab Tasks

   1. File and Directory Ownership and Permissions
7. Monitor and manage Linux processes
   1. What is a Process?
   2. Process States
   3. Viewing Processes
   4. System Status – CPU
   5. System Status – Memory
   6. Signals
   7. Tools to Send Signals
   8. Job Control Overview
   9. Job Control Commands

   Lab Tasks

   1. Job Control Basics
   2. Process Management Basics
8. Control services and daemons
   1. systemd System and Service Manager
   2. Using systemd
   3. Modifying systemd services

   Lab Tasks

   1. Managing Services With Systemd's systemctl
   2. Creating a systemd unit file
9. Configure and secure OpenSSH service
   1. Secure Shell
   2. OpenSSH Client & Server Configuration
   3. Accessing Remote Shells
   4. Transferring Files
   5. Alternative sftp Clients
   6. SSH Key Management
   7. ssh-agent

   Lab Tasks

   1. Introduction to ssh and secure file transfer
   2. SSH Key-based User Authentication
   3. Using ssh-agent
10. Analyzing and Storing Logs
    1. System Logging
    2. systemd Journal
    3. systemd Journal's journalctl
    4. Secure Logging with Journal's Log Sealing
    5. Cockpit - Logs
    6. Rsyslog
    7. /etc/rsyslog.conf
    8. Log Management
    9. Log Anomaly Detector

    Lab Tasks

    1. Using the systemd Journal
    2. Setting up a Full Debug Logfile
    3. Remote Syslog Configuration
    4. Remote Rsyslog TLS Configuration
11. Manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux networking
    1. IPv4 Fundamentals
    2. TCP/UDP Fundamentals
    3. IPv6
    4. Linux Network Interfaces
    5. Ethernet Hardware Tools
    6. Network Configuration with ip Command
    7. Starting and Stopping Interfaces
    8. Configuring Routing Tables
    9. IP to MAC Address Mapping with ARP
    10. DNS Clients
    11. DHCP Clients
    12. Hardware and System Clock
    13. Continual Time Sync with NTP
    14. Time Synchronization with Chronyd
    15. Network Diagnostics
    16. NetworkManager

    Lab Tasks

    1. Network Discovery
    2. Using nmcli
    3. Chrony Client Configuration
    4. Introduction to Troubleshooting Labs
    5. Troubleshooting Practice: Networking
12. Archive and copy files between systems
    1. Archives with tar
    2. Archives with cpio
    3. The gzip Compression Utility
    4. The bzip2 Compression Utility
    5. The XZ Compression Utility
    6. The PKZIP Archiving/Compression format

    Lab Tasks

    1. Archiving and Compression
    2. Using rsync and ssh for Backups
13. Install and update software packages
    1. Managing Software
    2. RPM Features
    3. RPM Architecture
    4. RPM Package Files
    5. Working With RPMs
    6. Querying and Verifying with RPM
    7. Managing Software Dependencies
    8. Using the Yum & DNF commands
    9. Yum package groups
    10. Configuring Yum
    11. Updating the Kernel RPM
    12. DNF Repositories
    13. DNF Repository Groups
    14. DNF Plugins & RHSM Subscription Manager
    15. DNF Version Lock Plugin

    Lab Tasks

    1. Managing Software with RPM
    2. Querying the RPM Database
    3. Using DNF
14. Access Linux file systems
    1. Filesystem Creation
    2. Mounting Filesystems
    3. Mounting Filesystems
    4. Filesystem Maintenance
    5. Managing an XFS Filesystem
    6. Persistent Block Devices
    7. Filesystem Structures
    8. Determining Disk Usage With df and du
    9. Filesystem Table (/etc/fstab)

    Lab Tasks

    1. Creating and Managing Filesystems
15. Comprehensive review
    1. System Administration I

    Lab Tasks

    1. Understand And Use Essential Tools
    2. Operate Running Systems
    3. Users, Groups, and File Permissions

Audience

1. System Administrators: Responsible for managing and maintaining Linux-based servers and systems.
2. IT Support Technicians: Provide technical support and troubleshooting for Linux environments.
3. DevOps Engineers: Integrate and automate Linux system management into continuous deployment workflows.
4. Network Administrators: Manage and secure Linux-based network services and infrastructure.
5. IT Managers: Oversee teams that deploy, manage, and maintain Linux systems within an organization.

Prerequisites

Students must be proficient in general computing skills but not necessarily experienced with Linux or Unix.

Exam Information

This course covers the certification objects of the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam.