Red Hat Certification Rapid Track Course

Description

This intensive course is intended for experienced UNIX or Linux system/network administrators who wish to migrate their skills onto the Red Hat Linux platform and who want a fast-track to prepare them for the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam. This five-day course comprises four days of hands-on training with the fifth day allocated for the RHCE certification lab exam (RH302GB)

Course pre-requisites:

This course is designed for delegates who have a solid understanding of UNIX or Linux system and network administration tasks. Experience of UNIX or Linux system installation, administration, configuration and implementation of key networking services (HTTP, DNS, NIS, DHCP etc) are all vital pre-requisites for this course. Delegates who have worked in UNIX system administration, technical support or consultancy related roles are ideally suited for this intensive course. Delegates without the required pre-requisites will make less than optimal progress in this course and will be unlikely to pass the certification exam. Delegates without the required pre-requisites should attend courses RH033GB (Introduction to Red Hat Linux I, II), RH133GB (Red Hat Linux System Administration I, II) and RH253GB (Red Hat Linux Networking and Security Administration).

Covered on the Red Hat Certification Rapid Track course

Hardware and Installation (x86 Architecture)

1. Hardware Compatibility
2. CPU and SMP Support
3. RAM Size and Recognition
4. New Hardware Detection
5. Peripheral Devices
6. Device Configuration
7. Serial and Parallel Ports
8. Other Devices
9. Block Devices
10. Disk Addressing
11. Disk Partitioning
12. Sample Partition Structure
13. Standard Partition Types
14. File System Schemes
15. The Red Hat Installer
16. Installer Features
17. Red Hat Installation
18. Partitioning Hard Drives
19. Red Hat Linux on FAT: Partitionless Installation
20. Software RAID
21. Package Selection
22. Validating the Installation

Configuration and Administration

1. Console based Configuration Tools
2. Authconfig
3. Basic Networking
4. Client-side DHCP and pump
5. Plug and Play
6. Sound Support
7. Mounting File Systems
8. Predefined mounts: /etc/fstab
9. Miscellaneous Mounting Considerations
10. Printing Overview
11. Print Queue Management
12. Print System User Interface
13. Virtual Consoles
14. Administering User Accounts
15. User Private Groups
16. The Initial User Environment
17. System-wide Shell Configuration for bash Shells
18. The cron System
19. Anacron
20. The locate and tmpwatch Commands
21. System Logging
22. RPM Package Manager
23. Installing and Removing Software
24. RPM queries
25. RPM queries and verification
26. Other RPM features
27. Creating and Building RPMs

Alternative Installation Methods

1. Laptops
2. Multiboot Systems
3. LILO Components
4. LILO Map Installer
5. The LILO Boot Prompt
6. Red Hat Linux Network Installation Server
7. Serial Console Installation
8. Using kickstart to Automate Installation
9. kickstart Directives

Kernel Services and Configuration

1. The /proc file system
2. /proc/sys configuration with sysct1
3. The Linux Quota System
4. Understanding /etc/inittab
5. System Initialization Scripts
6. Managing System V Initialization
7. Software RAID Configuration
8. Kernel Concepts
9. Kernel Modules
10. Kernel Modules and kmod
11. Kernel Compilation: Preliminaries
12. Kernel Compilation: Configuration
13. Kernel Compilation: Compilation and Installation
14. Kernel Compilation: Post-Installation

Standard Networking Services

1. TCP/IP Fundamentals
2. HTTP/Apache
3. Apache's Main Configuration Files
4. Apache Virtual Host
5. Email Services
6. Email Delivery and Protocols
7. BIND
8. FTP
9. NFS File Sharing
10. NFS Server
11. Client-side NFS
12. Samba
13. The /etc/samba/smb.conf File
14. Global Options
15. Service Options
16. Debugging a Samba Installation
17. Samba Clients and Access
18. DHCP
19. OpenSSH Packages and Versions
20. Ssh: Client Capabilities
21. Sshd Daemon
22. Squid Proxy Server
23. Other Red Hat Linux Network Services

X Windows System

1. X Windows System Overview
2. X Server Configuration
3. X Server Version 3
4. X Server Version 4
5. Window Managers
6. Desktop Environments
7. Display Managers
8. Xfree86 Startup
9. X Security
10. The X Font Server
11. Remote Display of X Applications

User and Host Security

1. Security Concepts
2. Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)
3. PAM Configuration
4. PAM Examples
5. Network Information Service
6. NIS Commands
7. Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
8. LDAP Server Support
9. OpenLDAP Configuration
10. LDAP Client Support
11. The xinetd daemon
12. TCP Wrappers

Routers, Firewalls and Troubleshooting

1. Static and Dynamic Routes
2. Linux as a Router
3. Linux Firewall Topologies
4. Ipchains and Firewall Rules
5. Path of Packets Through the Kernel
6. Sample ipchains Commands
7. IP Masquerading
8. Implementing IP Masquerading
9. High Performance Clustering
10. Troubleshooting
11. File System Corruption
12. Rescue Environment
13. Rescue Environment Utilities