To attain an RHCT certification, you are required to complete two Red Hat Courses namely: RH 033 and RH 133.
Individuals who are interested in completing an RHCE must complete the requirements for an RHCT (RH 033 and RH 133) along with an additional course RH 253 before they can attempt their RHCE certification.
Details of the RH 033, RH 133 and RH 253 courses and their curriculums and what potential candidates can expect to learn from these units is mentioned below:
RH 033 Red Hat Linux Essentials – 32 hours
This Course is ideal for persons who have never used Linux or UNIX, and who have no prior command-line experience in any other operating system. You are taught the basics of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux enviroment and it prepares you for your future role as a system administrator.
Pre-requisites: User level experience with any computer system, using a mouse, menus and any graphical user interface.
RH 033 Prepares You for RH 133- Red Hat Linux System Administration
RH 033 Course Objectives
• Understand the Linux file system
• Perform common file maintenance tasks
• Use and customize the GNOME interface
• Issue essential Linux commands for the command line
• Perform common tasks using the GNOME GUI
• Open, Edit and save text documents using the VI editor
• File access permissions
• Launch applications from command line and GNOM interface
• Printing commands and utilities
• Customize X Windows system
• Regular expression pattern matching and 1/0 redirection
• Copy files to and from a floppy diskette
• Install, upgrade, delete and query packages on your system
• Network utilities for the user
• Power user utilities
• Miscellaneous topics
RH 133 Red hat Linux System Administration – 32 Hours
In this course, you will start building skills in systems administration on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, to level where you can attach and configure a workstation on an existing network.
Pre-requisites: RH033 Red Hat Linux Essentials or equivalent experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
RH 133 Course Objectives
• Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux interactively and with Kickstart
• Control common system hardware
• Create and maintain the Linux file system
• Configre an NFS client and autofs
• Understand system and service initialization
• Perform user and group administration
• Integrate a workstation with an existing network running common network services
• Configure a workstation as a client to NIS, DNS and DHCP services
• Administer the Linux printing subsystem
• Automate tasks with at, corn and anacron
• Maintain and interpret system logs
• Backup file systems to tape and tar archive
• Install, update, query and remove software packages with RPM
• Update the Linux kernel from an RPM
• Configure the X Window system and the GNOME desktop environment
• Perform basic performance, memory and process management
• Configure basic host security
• Perform basic troubleshooting
RH 253 Red hat Linux Network & Security – 32 hours
In this course you will learn how to configure common Red Hat Enterprise Linux network services. Network and local security tasks are also topics of this course.
Pre-requisites: RH133 Red Hat Linux System Administration or equivalent experience Linux; LAN/WAN fundamentals or equivalent; Internet working with TCP/IP or equivalent. with Red Hat Enterprise
Goal
Upon completion of this course, the successful delegate will be a system administrator who can setup a Red Hat Enterprise Linux server and configure common network services and security at a basic level.
This Course Pepares You For RH302 – RHCE certification Exam
RH 253 Course Objectives
• Networking services on Red Hat Enterprise Linux-Server-Side setup,configuration and basic administration of common networking services: DNS, NIS, Apache, SMB, DHCP, Send mail, FTP. Other common services: tftp, pppd, proxy.
• Security administration using Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Introduction to security
• Developing a security policy
• Preparation
• Local security
• Files and filesystem security
• Password security
• Kernel security
• Basic elements of a firewall
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux-Based security tools
• Responding to a break-in attempt
• Security sources and methods
• Overview of OSS security tools
