EX200: Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator (RHCSA)

This track covers the Linux ecosystem, history, and enterprise support, alongside practical skills like choosing distributions, logging in, using shell types, and executing essential commands. You will develop expertise in workflow automation, file system navigation, pattern matching, and data manipulation, as well as mastering help tools, file operations, and text editors.

In this track, you will learn about essential package management tasks and tools, explore how to install, update, verify, and remove packages, discover how to download RPMs without installation, and troubleshoot common issues.

Explore how to create basic scripts, manage permissions, and control execution flow. Next, learn how to use variables, user input, and conditional statements to build dynamic automation. Finally, discover how to debug scripts, handle exit statuses, and log output for reliable multi-step operations.

This track covers Linux log management, performance monitoring, and troubleshooting. Learn to use tools like rsyslog, journalctl, and logrotate, assess system resources, manage services, detect issues, and enforce auditing for effective system administration and support.

In this track, explore LVM fundamentals, including volume management and troubleshooting, and Podman essentials such as container lifecycle, image creation, and pod organization.

This track covers Linux storage management, including partitioning, mounting, NFS integration, and autofs setup. It also addresses user quotas, persistent and automatic mounting, NFS security, SELinux, firewall settings, and troubleshooting techniques for reliable network access and shared storage management.

In this track, explore Linux process management, systemd essentials, and task automation. Next, learn how to create, monitor, and control processes, manage services with systemctl and journalctl, understand unit files and service dependencies, and handle advanced service controls. Additionally, discover how to automate tasks with scheduling tools, manage cron jobs, configure environments, troubleshoot errors, and ensure secure permissions for scheduled tasks.