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200: Understand and Use Essential Tools

This document outlines the objectives for Red Hat system administration certification exams 200 and 300. For exam 200, it covers essential Linux system administration tasks like using the shell, managing files and permissions, installing and updating packages, and basic storage and user administration. For exam 300, it focuses on more advanced system configuration including networking, firewalls, DNS, NFS, SMB, email, and database services. Candidates are expected to install, configure, secure, and troubleshoot a variety of network services and applications.

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200: Understand and Use Essential Tools

This document outlines the objectives for Red Hat system administration certification exams 200 and 300. For exam 200, it covers essential Linux system administration tasks like using the shell, managing files and permissions, installing and updating packages, and basic storage and user administration. For exam 300, it focuses on more advanced system configuration including networking, firewalls, DNS, NFS, SMB, email, and database services. Candidates are expected to install, configure, secure, and troubleshoot a variety of network services and applications.

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200:

Understand and use essential tools


Access a shell prompt and issue commands with correct syntax
Use input-output redirection (>, >>, |, 2>, etc.)
Use grep and regular expressions to analyze text
Access remote systems using ssh
Log in and switch users in multiuser targets
Archive, compress, unpack, and uncompress files using tar, star,
gzip, and bzip2
Create and edit text files
Create, delete, copy, and move files and directories
Create hard and soft links
List, set, and change standard ugo/rwx permissions
Locate, read, and use system documentation including man, info,
and files in /usr/share/doc
Note: Red Hat may use applications during the exam that are not included in Red Hat
Enterprise Linux for the purpose of evaluating candidate's abilities to meet this objective.

Operate running systems


Boot, reboot, and shut down a system normally
Boot systems into different targets manually
Interrupt the boot process in order to gain access to a system

Identify CPU/memory intensive processes, adjust process priority


with renice, and kill processes
Locate and interpret system log files and journals
Access a virtual machine's console
Start and stop virtual machines
Start, stop, and check the status of network services
Securely transfer files between systems
Configure local storage
List, create, delete partitions on MBR and GPT disks
Create and remove physical volumes, assign physical volumes to
volume groups, and create and delete logical volumes
Configure systems to mount file systems at boot by Universally
Unique ID (UUID) or label
Add new partitions and logical volumes, and swap to a system
non-destructively
Create and configure file systems
Create, mount, unmount, and use vfat, ext4, and xfs file systems
Mount and unmount CIFS and NFS network file systems
Extend existing logical volumes
Create and configure set-GID directories for collaboration
Create and manage Access Control Lists (ACLs)

Diagnose and correct file permission problems


Deploy, configure, and maintain systems
Configure networking and hostname resolution statically or
dynamically
Schedule tasks using at and cron
Start and stop services and configure services to start
automatically at boot
Configure systems to boot into a specific target automatically
Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux automatically using Kickstart
Configure a physical machine to host virtual guests
Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems as virtual guests
Configure systems to launch virtual machines at boot
Configure network services to start automatically at boot
Configure a system to use time services
Install and update software packages from Red Hat Network, a
remote repository, or from the local file system
Update the kernel package appropriately to ensure a bootable
system
Modify the system bootloader
Manage users and groups
Create, delete, and modify local user accounts

Change passwords and adjust password aging for local user


accounts
Create, delete, and modify local groups and group memberships
Configure a system to use an existing authentication service for
user and group information
Manage security
Configure firewall settings using firewall-config, firewall-cmd, or
iptables
Configure key-based authentication for SSH
Set enforcing and permissive modes for SELinux
List and identify SELinux file and process context
Restore default file contexts
Use boolean settings to modify system SELinux settings
Diagnose and address routine SELinux policy violations
300:

System configuration and management


Use network teaming or bonding to configure aggregated network
links between two Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems
Configure IPv6 addresses and perform basic IPv6 troubleshooting
Route IP traffic and create static routes

Use firewalld and associated mechanisms such as rich rules,


zones and custom rules, to implement packet filtering and
configure network address translation (NAT)
Configure a system to authenticate using Kerberos
Configure a system as either an iSCSI target or initiator that
persistently mounts an iSCSI target
Produce and deliver reports on system utilization (processor,
memory, disk, and network)
Use shell scripting to automate system maintenance tasks
Network services
Network services are an important subset of the exam objectives. RHCE
candidates should be capable of meeting the following objectives for
each of the network services listed below:
Install the packages needed to provide the service
Configure SELinux to support the service
Use SELinux port labeling to allow services to use non-standard
ports
Configure the service to start when the system is booted
Configure the service for basic operation
Configure host-based and user-based security for the service
HTTP/HTTPS
Configure a virtual host

Configure access restrictions on directories


Deploy a basic CGI application
Configure group-managed content
Configure TLS security
DNS
Configure a caching-only name server
Troubleshoot DNS client issues
NFS
Provide network shares to specific clients
Provide network shares suitable for group collaboration
Use Kerberos to control access to NFS network shares
SMB
Provide network shares to specific clients
Provide network shares suitable for group collaboration
SMTP
Configure a system to forward all email to a central mail server
SSH
Configure key-based authentication
Configure additional options described in documentation

NTP
Synchronize time using other NTP peers
Database services
Install and configure MariaDB
Backup and restore a database
Create a simple database schema
Perform simple SQL queries against a database

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