RHCE-Red Hat Certified Engineer

RHCE exam candidates should consult the RHCSA exam objectives and be capable of RHCSA-level tasks, as some of these skills may be required in order to meet RHCE exam objectives. Red Hat reserves the right to add, modify, and remove objectives. Such changes will be made public in advance through revisions to this document.

·         System configuration and management

·         Use network teaming or bonding to configure aggregated network

       links between two Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems

·         Configure IPv6 addresses and perform basic IPv6 troubleshooting

·         Route IP traffic and create static routes

·         Use firewalld and associated mechanisms such as rich rules, zones

       and custom rules, to implement packet filtering and configure network

       address translation (NAT)

·         Configure a system to authenticate using Kerberos

·         Configure a system as either an iSCSI target or initiator that

       persistently mounts an iSCSI target

·         Produce and deliver reports on system utilization (processor,

       memory, disk, and network)

·         Use shell scripting to automate system maintenance tasks

·         Network services 

·         Install the packages needed to provide the service

·         Configure SELinux to support the service

·         Use SELinux port labeling to allow services to use non-standard ports

·         Configure the service to start when the system is booted

·         Configure the service for basic operation

·         Configure host-based and user-based security for the service

·         HTTP/HTTPS

·         Configure a virtual host

·         Configure access restrictions on directories

·         Deploy a basic CGI application

·         Configure group-managed content

·         Configure TLS security

·         DNS

·         Configure a caching-only name server

·         Troubleshoot DNS client issues

·         NFS

·         Provide network shares to specific clients

·         Provide network shares suitable for group collaboration

·         Use Kerberos to control access to NFS network shares

·         SMB

·         Provide network shares to specific clients

·         Provide network shares suitable for group collaboration

·         SMTP

·         Configure a system to forward all email to a central mail server

·         SSH

·         Configure key-based authentication

·         Configure additional options described in documentation

·         NTP

·         Synchronize time using other NTP peers

·         Database services

·         Install and configure MariaDB

·         Backup and restore a database

·         Create a simple database schema

·         Perform simple SQL queries against a database

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Automation with Ansible (RH294) teaches the skills needed to manage large numbers of systems and applications efficiently and consistently. You will learn the techniques needed to use Ansible® to automate provisioning, configuration, application deployment, and orchestration.

·         Describe Ansible concepts and install Red Hat Ansible Engine.

·         Configure Ansible to manage hosts and run ad hoc Ansible commands.

·       Write a simple Ansible Playbook and run it to automate tasks on multiple managed hosts.

·     Write playbooks that use variables to simplify management of the playbook and facts to reference information about managed hosts.

·         Manage task control, handlers, and task errors in Ansible Playbooks.

·         Deploy, manage, and adjust files on hosts managed by Ansible.

·         Write playbooks that are optimized for larger, more complex projects.

·         Use Ansible roles to develop playbooks more quickly and to reuse Ansible code.

·         Troubleshoot playbooks and managed hosts.

·         Automate common Linux system administration tasks with Ansible.

As an RHCE exam candidate, you should be able to handle all responsibilities expected of a Red Hat Certified System Administrator, including these tasks: Be able to perform all tasks expected of a Red Hat Certified System Administrator

·         Understand and use essential tools

·         Operate running systems

·         Configure local storage

·         Create and configure file systems

·         Deploy, configure, and maintain systems

·         Manage users and groups

·         Manage security

·         Understand core components of Ansible

·         Inventories

·         Modules

·         Variables

·         Facts

·         Plays

·         Playbooks

·         Configuration files

·         Use provided documentation to look up specific information about Ansible modules and commands

·         Install and configure an Ansible control node

·         Install required packages

·         Create a static host inventory file

·         Create a configuration file

·         Create and use static inventories to define groups of hosts

·         Manage parallelism

·         Configure Ansible managed nodes

·         Create and distribute SSH keys to managed nodes

·         Configure privilege escalation on managed nodes

·         Validate a working configuration using ad hoc Ansible commands

·         Script administration tasks

·         Create simple shell scripts

·         Create simple shell scripts that run ad hoc Ansible commands

·         Create Ansible plays and playbooks

·         Know how to work with commonly used Ansible modules

·         Use variables to retrieve the results of running a command

·         Use conditionals to control play execution

·         Configure error handling

·         Create playbooks to configure systems to a specified state

·         Use Ansible modules for system administration tasks that work with:

·         Software packages and repositories

·         Services

·         Firewall rules

·         File systems

·         Storage devices

·         File content

·         Archiving

·         Scheduled tasks

·         Security

·         Users and groups

·         Work with roles

·         Create roles

·         Download roles from an Ansible Galaxy and use them