RH199 RHCSA Rapid Track Course

1. Getting Started with the Classroom Environment
• Given a virtualized environment, begin to administer multiple systems using prerequisite skills

2. Enhance User Security
• Configure system to use Kerberos to verify credentials
• Grant privileges via sudo

3. Bash Scripting and Tools
• Automate system administration tasks utilizing Bash scripts and text-based tools

4. File Security with GnuPG
• Secure files with GnuPG

5. Software Management
• Use yum plugins to manage packages
• Design of packages
• Build a simple package

6. Network Monitoring
• Profile running services
• Capture and analyze network traffic

7. Route Network Traffic
• Configure system to route traffic
• Customize network parameters with sysctl

8. Secure Network Traffic
• Secure network traffic through SSH port forwarding and iptables filtering/network address translation (NAT)

9. NTP Server Configuration
• Configure an NTP server

10. Filesystems and Logs
• Manage local file system integrity
• Monitor system over time
• System logging

11. Centralized and Secure Storage
• Access centralized storage (iSCSI)
• Encrypt filesystems

12. SSL-encapsulated Web Services
• SSL certificates
• Deploy an SSL encapsulated web service

13. Web Server Additional Configuration
• Configure web server with virtual hosts, dynamic content, and authenticated directories

14. Basic SMTP Configuration
• Configure an SMTP server for basic operation (null client, receiving mail, smarthost relay)

15. Caching-Only DNS Server
• DNS resource records
• Configure a caching-only name server

16. File Sharing with NFS
• Configure file sharing between hosts with NFS

17. File Sharing with CIFS
• Configure file sharing between hosts with CIFS
• Configure print sharing between hosts with CIFS

18. File Sharing with FTP
• Configure file sharing with anonymous FTP

19. Troubleshooting Boot Process
• The boot process
• Recover unbootable systems with rescue mode