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

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 Enterprise Linux 9 live USB drive on Windows 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 and create simple shell scripts.

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 - The State of Enterprise Linux

1. Deploy Systems

05 - Create a bootable Enterprise Linux 9 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 - Manage virtual machines

2. System Config and Services

13 - Understand the Linux Boot Process
14 - Rescue a system
15 - Introduction to systemd services
16 - Get systemd service status
17 - Manage systemd services
18 - Make systemd services persistent
19 - Configure networking
20 - Configure a system to use network time protocol
21 - Manage one-time jobs with at
22 - Manage reoccurring user jobs with cron
23 - Manage reoccurring system jobs with cron
24 - Limit access to at and cron

3. Essential Tools

25 - About file globs
26 - Use character classes
27 - Use globs to match files
28 - Use input-output redirection ( , , , 2 , and more)
29 - Use grep and regular expressions to analyze text
30 - Create files and directories
31 - Copy files and directories
32 - Move files and directories
33 - Remove files and directories
34 - Create hard and soft links
35 - Introduction to Vim
36 - Edit text with Vim
37 - Locate, read, and use system documentation
38 - Archive files using tar and cpio
39 - Compress files and archives
40 - Read system logs

4. Manage System Software

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

5. Create Simple Shell Scripts

57 - What makes a shell script a shell script
58 - Bash variable scope
59 - Positional arguments
60 - Pipe data into a script
61 - Output to STDOUT and STDERR
62 - Conditional flow with if, then if
63 - Conditional flow with case
64 - Numeric conditions
65 - String conditions
66 - File conditions
67 - Use looping constructs - The for loop
68 - Use looping constructs - The while loop

Conclusion

69 - Next steps

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

Authors

Grant McWilliams