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RH124: Red Hat System Administration I
Begin your Red Hat Enterprise Linux journey with the essential skills of a system administrator.
5 daysIntermediate20 modulesRH124Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
About this course
Begin your Red Hat Enterprise Linux journey with the essential skills of a system administrator. You will work at the command line, find help in local documentation and with RHEL Lightspeed, manage files, users, groups and permissions, install software with RPM and Flatpak, control systemd services and configure remote access with SSH and the web console, the first step towards RHCSA.
What you'll learn
- Introduce Linux and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux ecosystem.
- Run commands and view shell environments.
- Manage, organize, and secure files.
- Manage users, groups, and user security policies.
- Control and monitor systemd services.
- Configure remote access by using the web console and SSH.
- Configure network interfaces and settings.
- Manage software by using DNF.
Curriculum
20 modules
- Define and explain the following concepts: open source, Linux, Linux distributions, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
- Log in to a Linux system and run simple commands by using the shell.
- Resolve problems by using information in local help systems and documentation.
- Register a system by using your Red Hat account to get support services and software that Red Hat provides.
- Get AI-driven guidance and suggestions to efficiently manage a RHEL server by using Red Hat Enterprise Linux Lightspeed.
- Describe the organization of files in the Linux file-system hierarchy and specify files by name, by using relative paths or absolute paths.
- Copy, move, create, delete, and organize files from the command line.
- Create, view, and edit text files from the command line.
- Redirect the output of commands and input to commands, by using Bash.
- Obtain superuser access to a system; create, manage, and delete local users and groups; and administer local password policies.
- Set standard permissions on files and interpret the security effects of different permission settings.
- Download, install, update, and manage software packages from Red Hat and DNF package repositories.
- Install, upgrade, and use desktop software from the Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog by using Flatpak.
- Access file systems on removable media devices by mounting them on a directory in the file-system hierarchy.
- Investigate, control, and terminate processes that run on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system.
- Control and monitor the system services and daemons that systemd starts.
- Describe basic TCP/IP networking concepts and investigate the current network configuration and functionality on a server.
- Configure network interfaces and settings on Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers.
- Protect SSH communication by managing host keys and by implementing key-based authentication for users.
- Practice skills learned in Red Hat System Administration I.
Who it's for
IT professionals and users of other operating systems taking their first steps in Linux administration.
Before you start
- Basic technical user skills with computer applications on some operating systems are expected. Previous experience as a Linux user or with system administration of other operating systems might be beneficial.
Prepares for
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