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Course Length:
5 Days
Course Description:
Red Hat System Administration III with RHCE Exam (RH255) is designed for experienced Linux administrators who require networking and security administration skills. With a heavy emphasis on practical, hands-on labs, this course is tightly aligned with experienced Linux administrators' job tasks and the skills required for advancement. Focus is placed on enhancing the students' automation skills to securely configure, deploy and manage network services including DNS, Apache, SMTP, and network file sharing. In addition, this course emphasizes security, including monitoring, packet filtering, access controls, and SELinux. At the completion of this course, students already familiar with the RHCT/RHCSA administration skills will have exposure to all competencies tested by the RHCSA and RHCE exams. This class includes the RHCSA and the RHCE exams.
Who Should Attend:
This course is for senior Linux system administrators who require networking and security administration skills, as well as Linux IT professionals who currently have RHCT/RHCSA certification, and are interested in earning an RHCE certification. The course is also for Linux IT professionals who can demonstrate the competencies needed to earn an RHCT/RHCSA, but have not passed the RHCSA exam provided with the Red Hat System Administration II course.
Benefits of Attendance:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
  • Enhance user security
  • Perform Disk management with iSCSI
  • Perform system and network activity monitoring
  • Perform network management and packet filtering
  • Perform Software management
  • Perform Web service management
  • Perform File sharing across platforms
  • Perform Basic SMTP management
Prerequisites:
Students should have taken RHCSA Rapid Track Course (RH200) or Red Hat System Administration I & II (RH124& RH134), have equivalent experience to the RHCSA Rapid Track Course, and have skills required to earn an RHCT/RHCSA certification.
Course Outline:
  • Unit 1: Getting Started with the Classroom Environment
    1. Objective: Given a virtualized environment, begin to administrate multiple systems using prerequisite skills
  • Unit 2: Enhance User Security
    1. Objective: Configure system to use Kerberos to verify credentials and grant privileges via sudo
  • Unit 3: Bash Scripting and Tools
    1. Objective: Automate system administration tasks utilizing Bash scripts and text-based tools
  • Unit 4: File Security with GnuPG
    1. Objective: Secure files with GnuPG.
  • Unit 5: Software Management
    1. Objective: Use yum plugins to manage packages and understand the design of packages to build a simple package
  • Unit 6: Network Monitoring
    1. Objective: Profile running services then capture and analyze network traffic
  • Unit 7: Route Network Traffic
    1. Objective: Configure system to route traffic and customize network parameters with sysctl
  • Unit 8: Secure Network Traffic
    1. Objective: Secure network traffic through SSH port forwarding and iptables filtering/network address translation (NAT)
  • Unit 9: NTP Server Configuration
    1. Objective: Configure an NTP server
  • Unit 10: Filesystems and Logs
    1. Objective: Manage local file system integrity, monitor system over time, and system logging
  • Unit 11: Centralized and Secure Storage
    1. Objective: Access centralized storage (iSCSI) and encrypt filesystems
  • Unit 12: SSL-encapsulated Web Services
    1. Objective: Understand SSL certificates and deploy an SSL encapsulated web service
  • Unit 13: Web Server Additional Configuration
    1. Objective: Configure web server with virtual hosts, dynamic content, and authenticated directories
  • Unit 14: Basic SMTP Configuration
    1. Objective: Configure an SMTP server for basic operation (null client, receiving mail, smarthost relay)
  • Unit 15: Caching-Only DNS Server
    1. Objective: Understand DNS resource records and configure a caching-only name server
  • Unit 16: File Sharing with NFS
    1. Objective: Configure file sharing between hosts with NFS
  • Unit 17: File Sharing with CIFS
    1. Objective: Configure file and print sharing between hosts with CIFS
  • Unit 18: File Sharing with FTP
    1. Objective: Configure file sharing with anonymous FTP
  • Unit 19: Troubleshooting Boot Process
    1. Objective: Understand the boot process and recover unbootable systems with rescue mode