RH254 Red Hat System Administration III

    

Summary:
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.

Duration:
4 Days/Lecture & Lab

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 provided with the Red Hat System Administration II course

Topics:

• Getting Started with the Classroom Environment
• Enhance User Security
• Bash Scripting and Tools
• File Security with GnuPG
• Software Management
• Network Monitoring
• Route Network Traffic
• Secure Network Traffic
• NTP Server Configuration
• Filesystems and Logs
• Centralized and Secure Storage
• SSL-encapsulated Web Services
• Web Server Additional Configuration
• Basic SMTP Configuration
• Caching-Only DNS Server
• File Sharing with NFS
• File Sharing with CIFS
• File Sharing with FTP
• Troubleshooting Boot Process

Prerequisites:
-RHCSA Rapid Track Course (RH200) or Red Hat System Administration I & II-Equivalent experience to the RHCSA Rapid Track Course-Skills required to earn an RHCT/RHCSA certification

Last Update: May 19, 2013