RHCSA AND RHCE SYLLABUS FOR RHEL-6

System Administrator - 1

Day 1.

1, Introduction

About Institution, opensource,history of linux and file system architecture

Day2.

1, Get Started with the GNOME Desktop

Using the GNOME Desktop, Editing Files with Gedit

2,Manage Files Graphically with Nautilus

Managing Local Files With Nautilus, Managing Remote Files With Nautils

3,Get Help in a Graphical Environment

Research Local Documentation, Research on-line Documentation,

Getting the most from RedHat global support services

Day 3.

1,Configure Local services

Understand the Role of the Root User, Manage the system clock,

Manage Print Queues, Manage Print jobs

2,Manage Physical Storage 1

Describe MBR,Primary, Extended and Logical Partitions,

List Available Disk Devices, Introduce Classroom virtual Machines,

Create a New Disk partition, Format it with a Filesystem and use it.

Day 4.

1, Manage Logical Volumes

General LVM Concepts and Terms, Displaying Current LVM Usage

Initial LVM Deployment, Extending a Volume Group,

Extending a logical Volume, Removing a physical Volume

Day 5.

1, Monitor System Resources

Understand Process,Priority, and signal concepts,

Monitor Processes by CPU or Memory Consumption,

Manage Running Process, Monitor Disk usage

2, Manage System Software

Identify installed Packages, Register with RedHat Network

Install, Remove and update Packages

Day 6.

1, Get Started with Bash

Bash syntax, Using Bash , Launching Graphical tools from bash

2, Getting Help in a Textual Environment

Read Documentation Using man, Identifying Relevant man pages by keyword,

Read Documentation using pinfo, Documentation in /usr/share/doc

Day 7.

1, Establish Network Connectivity

Essential Network Concepts, Linux Network Configuration,

Confirming Network functionality

2, Administer Users and Groups

User and Group Administration

Day 8.

1, Manage Files from the command line

The Linux File system hierarchy, Navigate with Absolute pathnames

command line file management, save typing with relative pathnames

2, Secure Linux File access

User,Group ,Other(UGO) Concepts, Manage Permissions Using GUI tools,

Manage Permissions from the command line

Day 9.

1, Administer Remote Systems

Remote GNOME Desktop Access, Remote Shell Access,

Remote File Tranfers, Archives and File compression,

Using SSH Keys

2, configure a General Service

Deploy a generic Network service, Securing SSH Access

Configuring a VNC server , Secure Acess to a Remote GNOME Desktop

Day 10.

1, Manage Physical Storage II

Examine File System Attributes, Modify File system Attributes,

Delete an Existing Partition, Swap space concepts

Managing Swap Space

2, Install Linux Graphically

Graphical Installation with Anaconda,

Post-install Configuration with firstboot

Day 11.

1,Manage Virtual Machines

Introduction to KVM Virtualization, Virtual Guest installation,

Configuring Guess to start at Boot time

2, Control the Boot Process

Booting an Alternate kernel, Booting into a different Runlevel,

Getting past a GRUB Misconfiguratuon , Making persistent GRUB changes,

passing kernel arguments, changing the default runlevel

Day 12.

1, Deploy File Sharing Services

Deploy an FTP server, FTP server configuration,

Deploy a webserver, web server configuration

2, Secure Network Services

Activate and Deactivate Firewall Protection,

Modify the Firewall to Allow Access to Trusted services,

Basic Selinux security Concepts, selinux modes,

Use the selinux Management tool to change selinux modes,

Display selinux contexts of processes and files

System Administrator – II

Day 13.

1, Automated Installation of Red Hat Enteprise Linux

Create a kickstart file with system-config-kickstart,

Make the kickstart file available to installers, create boot media,

point the installer to a kickstart file, modify a kickstart file

2, Accessing the command-line

Acessing the command-line locally, Acess the command-line using ssh

Day 14.

1, Intermediate Command-line tools

using hard-links, archives and compression, introduction to vim,

basic vim workflow

2, Regular Expressions, Pipelines, and I/O Redirection

Basic Regular Expressions, Using grep, Pipelines and Redirection

Day 15 .

1, Network Configuration and Troubleshooting

Understanding Network Configuration files, Troubleshooting Process

Network Troubleshooting Toolkit

2, Manage Simple Partitions and File systems

Simple Partitions and file systems, Enable data privacy with file system

encryption, Managing swap space

Day 16.

1, Managing Flexible Storage with the Logical volume manager

Recognize the components of LVM, Implement LVM storage with Command-line

tools, Extend a logical volume and ext4 filesystem , extending and reducing a volume

group, Create a snapshot to facilitate data backup

2, Access Network file sharing services : NFS and CIFS

Mount Network file systems, Automatically Mount network storage

3, Managing User Accounts

what is a user?, Managing local users , managing passwords

Day 17.

1, Network User Accounts with LDAP

Network Authentication using an LDAP server, Network Mounting Home Directories

2, Controlling Access to Files

Managing Groups, Managing File system Access Control lists

Day 18.

1, Managing selinux

Introducing selinux, Display and modify selinux file contexts,

manage selinux booleans, monitor selinux violations

2, Installing and Managing Software

Use yum, Manage yum component Groups, Handle Third Party Software,

Use Third Party Yum repositories

Day 19.

1, Managing Installed services

Manage services . Confirm service availability

2, Analyzing and Storing logs

Determine log Destinations, locate and analyze a log summary report,

change the log summary e-mail address

3,Managing Process

Managing Process, Terminating and Governing Process, Managing periodic

tasks, scheduling deferred tasks

Day 20.

1,Tuning and Maintainig the Kernel

Supported Architectures and Kernel identification, Managing kernel modules,

specifying kernel boot parameters, upgrading your kernel

2, System Recovery Techniques

The Boot process, utilizing single user and sulogin shells 

System Administrator - III

Day 21.

1, Getting Started with the Classroom Environment

Virtualization tools and review

2, Enhance user security

Configuring sudo, kerberos configuration, Troubleshooting system security services

Daemon (sssd)

Day 22.

1, Bash Scripting and tools

Bash programing, Text processing tools, password aging

2, File Security with Gnupg

Encrypting files with Gnupg

Day 23.

1, Package Management

Using yum plugins to manage package, RPM package design ,

RPM package Specifications, building and signing an RPM package,

publish RPM package

2, Network Monitoring

Identifying security Risks by Detecting open ports, sniffing Network Traffic

Day 24.

1, Advanced Network Configuration

Network interface configuration – IP Aliases, Network Interface configuration-

-Bonding, Tuning Kernel Network Parameters, Static Route Configuration

2, Secure through a firewall baston

SSH through a firewall Baston, packet filtering, Network address Translation

Day 25.

1,NTP Server Configuration

Configure an NTP server

2,System Monitoring and logs

Usage Reports, Monitor Systems with aide and sar, Tuning tmpwatch and

logrotate, configure a remote logging service

3, Centralized and secure Storage

Access iscsi storage, Encrypt centralized Storage

Day 26.

1,SSL Encapsulated web services

Securing Apache With Encryption, Customizing a self-signed certificate,

generating a certificate signing request

2, Web server Additional Configuration

Confgure a name based virtual hosting, stage a CGI executable, Configure

User-base Authentication, Troubleshooting apache

Day 27.

1,Basic SMTP Configuration

Basic E-mail Delivery, Intranet Configuration

2,Caching -only DNS server

DNS overview, Caching-only DNS servers

Day 28.

1, File Sharing with NFS

NFS Concepts and Configuration, Using NFS, Securing an NFS server

2, File Sharing With CIFS

Providing Home Directories as CIFS shares, Accessing CIFS shares ,

Configuring Group and Print CIFS Shares

Day 29.

1,File sharing with FTP

“Drop-box” Anonymous upload