Red Hat System Administration III

Course details

Course Overview

 Red Hat System Administration III (RH254) 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.

Audience:
• Senior Linux system administrators who require networking and security administration skills
• Linux IT professionals who currently have RHCT/RHCSA certification, and are interested in earning an RHCE certification
• Linux IT professionals that can demonstrate the competencies needed to earn an RHCT/RHCSA, but have not passed the RHCSA exam.

Prerequisites:
• RHCSA Rapid Track Course (RH200)
or
Red Hat System Administration I - RH124
Red Hat System Administration II - RH134
• Equivalent experience to the RHCSA Rapid Track Course
• Skills required to earn an RHCT/RHCSA certification
• Confirmation of the correct skill set required for this course can be obtained by passing the online pre-assessment quiz at http://www.redhat.com/explore/pre-assessment

Course Outline

• Unit 1: Getting Started with the Classroom Environment
• Unit 2: Enhance User Security
• Unit 3: Bash Scripting and Tools
• Unit 4: File Security with GnuPG
• Unit 5: Software Management
• Unit 6: Network Monitoring
• Unit 7: Route Network Traffic
• Unit 8: Secure Network Traffic
• Unit 9: NTP Server Configuration
• Unit 10: System Monitoring and Logs
• Unit 11: Centralized and Secure Storage
• Unit 12: SSL-encapsulated Web Services
• Unit 13: Web Server Additional Configuration
• Unit 14: Basic SMTP Configuration
• Unit 15: Caching-Only DNS Server 
• Unit 16: File Sharing with NFS
• Unit 17: File Sharing with CIFS
• Unit 18: File Sharing with FTP
• Unit 19: Troubleshooting Boot Process