Red Hat Certified System Administrator (EX200) Cert Prep: 1 Deploy, Configure, and Manage (2021)

Course details

Get prepared to pursue the sought-after Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) certification! This course walks you through the skills addressed in the first half of the RHCSA exam. Instructor Grant McWilliams introduces what you should know about the Red Hat EX200 certification, then explains how to deploy systems, with steps like creating a bootable CentOS8 live USB drive and using kickstart files to automate installs. Next, he explains system config and services, including the Linux boot process, Systemd services, and one-time and recurring user jobs. Grant then goes through essential tools, such as input-output redirection, compressing files and archives, and copying files and directories. Plus, he shows you how to manage the system software.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Break into system administration with the Red Hat EX200 certification
02 - What you should know
03 - About Red Hat certifications
04 - State of Enterprise Linux

1. Deploy Systems

05 - Create a bootable CentOS 8 live USB drive on Windows
06 - Install Enterprise Linux on a physical machine
07 - Virtualization on Enterprise Linux
08 - Prepare the host for virtualization
09 - Install Linux interactively in a guest VM
10 - Use kickstart files to automate installs
11 - Install Linux unattended in a guest VM
12 - Configure VM virtual graphics cards and terminals
13 - Managing virtual machines
14 - Before you go further - VM checklist

2. System Config and Services

15 - Understand the Linux boot process
16 - Boot into the emergency target
17 - Introduction to systemd services
18 - Get systemd service status
19 - Manage systemd services
20 - Make systemd services persistent
21 - Configure networking
22 - Configure a system to use network time protocol
23 - Manage one-time jobs with AT
24 - Manage reccuring user jobs with cron
25 - Manage reccuring system jobs with cron
26 - Limiting access to AT and cron

3. Essential Tools

27 - Use input-output redirection ( , , , 2 , and more)
28 - Use grep and regular expressions to analyze text
29 - Archive files using tar
30 - Compress files and archives
31 - Create files and directories
32 - Copy files and directories
33 - Move files and directories
34 - Remove files and directories
35 - Create hard and soft links
36 - Introduction to vim
37 - Editing text with vim
38 - Locate, read, and use system documentation
39 - Locate and interpret system log files
40 - Reading the system journal

4. Manage System Software

41 - Install from a software repository
42 - Linux repository management systems
43 - Query with RPM
44 - RPM query formatting
45 - DNF overview
46 - Select DNF packages by name
47 - Get info on packages with DNF
48 - Get info on package groups
49 - Search for packages
50 - Install and remove packages
51 - Install and remove package groups
52 - Manage OS updates
53 - Update the kernel
54 - Manage kernel modules

Conclusion

55 - Next steps

Red Hat Certified System Administrator (EX200) Cert Prep: 1 Deploy, Configure, and Manage (2021)

Authors

Grant McWilliams