Course Length:

5 Days

Course Description:

The RHCE Rapid Track Course (RH300) provides a fast-track preparation for the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam for experienced Linux system administrator already familiar with many concepts covered in this class. This is a fast-paced course that combines our Red Hat Linux System Administration (RH133) and Red Hat Linux Networking and Security Administration (RH253) courses, normally eight days of training, into a single five-day course. This course includes a RHCE exam on the final day of the course. An RHCE certification is earned by IT professionals who have demonstrated the ability to configure and secure standard networking services as well as command of the core system administration skills tested at the RHCT level.

Who Should Attend:

This course is for experienced Linux system, network, and security administrators who want to hone their skills.

Benefits of Attendance:

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Install and configure Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Understand limitations of hardware.
• Configure networking and file systems.
• Configure the X Window System.
• Configure security, set up common network (IP) services, carry out diagnostics and troubleshooting, and perform essential Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administration.

Prerequisites:

Students should have taken Red Hat Linux Networking and Security Administration (RH253) or be experienced Red Hat Enterprise Linux administrators with equivalent experience.

Course Outline:

• Unit 1 - Automated Installation and Virtualization
  1. Perform an automated installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  2. Create a para-virtualized user domain under Xen
• Unit 2 - Package Management
  1. Manage software on system using yum, Red Hat Network, and rpm
• Unit 3 - Administrative Access and System Services
  1. Configure and access various consoles
  2. Escalate privileges
  3. Secure OpenSSH service with keys
  4. Manage system logging, printers, task automation and time synchronization
• Unit 4 - System Initialization and Troubleshooting
  1. Define boot process, recover system, and manage service startup
  2. Utilize the rescue environment of anaconda
• Unit 5 - Kernel and Network Configuration
  1. Explore kernel modules and variants, tune kernel parameters, and manage devices
  2. Configure dynamic and static network settings for IPv4
• Unit 6 - Filesystem Management
  1. Expand storage by adding new filesystems and swap space
  2. Configure autofs for on-demand network storage
  3. Manage filesystems using Software RAID and Logical Volume Management
• Unit 7 - User Administration
  1. Create, modify and delete users, groups, and policy
  2. Establish collaborative group directories
  3. Protect users and groups through ACLs and quotas
• Unit 8 - Advanced Account Management
  1. Revisit user administration by connecting to network directory services like NIS and LDAP
  2. Manage local system security utilizing Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)
• Unit 9 - Securing Data and SELinux
  1. Review digital certificates and OpenSSH
  2. Implement and troubleshoot Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux)
• Unit 10 - Network-level Access Controls: Netfilter
  1. Protect the system using a packet filtering host-based firewall
• Unit 11 - Service-level Access Controls: TCP Wrappers
  1. Protect services using TCP Wrappers
• Unit 12 - Web Services
  1. Configure the Apache web server
  2. Extend web server utilizing virtual hosting
  3. Configure the Squid web proxy cache
• Unit 13 - Network Infrastructure Services
  1. Centralize logging
  2. Distribute network addresses with a DHCP server
  3. Establish name resolution through caching and slave DNS server utilizing BIND
• Unit 14 - Network File Sharing Services
  1. Set up an FTP server with vsftpd
  2. Share files with an NFS server
  3. Network with Windows systems utilizing Samba
• Unit 15 - Mail Services
  1. Switch MTAs
  2. Configure an MTA utlizing postfix
  3. Implement mail retrieval using POP3/POP3S/IMAP/IMAPS through dovecot