Course Overview
Red Hat System
Administration II (RH134) is designed for IT
professionals working to become full-time
enterprise Linux system administrators. The
course is a follow-up to System
Administration I and continues to utilize
today's best-of-breed, contemporary teaching
methodology. Students will be actively
engaged in task-focused activities,
lab-based knowledge checks, and facilitative
discussions to ensure maximum skills
transfer and retention. Building on the
foundation of command line skills covered in
System Administration I, students will dive
deeper into Red Hat Enterprise Linux to
broaden their "tool kits" of administration
skills. By the end of this five-day course,
students will be able to administer and
troubleshoot file systems and partitioning,
logical volume management, access control,
package management. Students who attend Red
Hat System Administration I & II will be
fully prepared to take the Red Hat Certified
System Administration (RHCSA) exam.
Audience
IT professionals who have attended
Red Hat System Administration I, and
want the skills to be a full-time
enterprise Linux administrator and/or
earn an RHCSA certification.
Prerequisites
•
Red Hat System Administration I - RH124
• Confirmation of
the correct
skill-set knowledge
can be obtained by
passing the online
pre-assessment quiz
at
http://www.redhat.com/explore/pre-assessment
Course Outline
Unit 1: Automated Installations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Objectives: Create and manage kickstart configuration files; perform
installations using kickstart
Unit 2: Accessing the Command Line
Objectives: Access the command line locally and remotely; gain
administrative privileges from the command line
Unit 3: Intermediate Command Line Tools
Objectives: Use hardlinks, archives and compression, and vim
Unit 4: Regular Expressions, Pipelines, and I/O Redirection
Objectives: Use regular expressions to search patterns in files
and output; redirect and pipe output
Unit 5: Network Configuration and Troubleshooting
Objectives: Configure network settings; troubleshoot network
issues
Unit 6: Managing Simple Partitions and Filesystems
Objectives: Create and format simple partitions, swap
partitions, and encrypted partitions
Unit 7: Managing Flexible Storage with the Logical Volume Manager
(LVM)
Objectives: Implement LVM and LVM snapshots
Unit 8: Access Network File Sharing Services; NFS and CIFS
Objectives: Implement NFS, CIFS, and autofs
Unit 9: Managing User Accounts
Objectives: Manage user accounts including password aging
Unit 10: Network User Accounts with LDAP
Objectives: Connect to a central LDAP directory service
Unit 11: Controlling Access to Files
Objectives: Manage group memberships, file permissions, and
access control lists (ACL)
Unit 12: Managing SELinux
Objectives: Activate and deactivate SELinux; set file contexts;
manage SELinux booleans; analyze SELinux logs
Unit 13: Installing and Managing Software
Objectives: Manage software and query information with yum;
configure client-side yum repository files
Unit 14: Managing Installed Services
Objectives: Managing services; verify connectivity to a service
Unit 15: Analyzing and Storing Logs
Objectives: Managing logs with rsyslog and logrotate
Unit 16: Managing Processes
Objectives: Identify and terminate processes, change the
priority of a process, and use cron and at to schedule processes
Unit 17: Tuning and Maintaining the Kernel
Objectives: List, load, and remove modules; use kernel arguments
Unit 18: System Recovery Techniques
Objectives: Understand the boot process and resolve boot
problems