Red Hat Linux (RHCSA and RHCE)
This course is designed for anyone seeking RHCSA and RHCSE (RH124, RH134, RH255) certification and gives you a broad range of fundamental knowledge for all IT careers. This course provides in-depth knowledge for personnel involved in deploying, implementing, operating, and optimizing Linux Server including advanced feature like automation and programmability using Ansible. The Redhat Linux covers a breadth of topics like Linux Server deployment, Server hardening, Server networking, Automation and programmability. Redhat Linux is a lab-intensive course and objectives are accomplished mainly through hands on learning.
Introduction
This 80hrs (Lectures + hands-on Lab) Redhat Linux training is designed for anyone seeking RHCSA and RHCSE (RH124, RH134, RH255) certification and gives you a broad range of fundamental knowledge for all IT careers. This course provides in-depth knowledge for personnel involved in deploying, implementing, operating, and optimizing Linux Server including advanced feature like automation and programmabilityusing Ansible. The Redhat Linux covers a breadth of topics like Linux Server deployment, Server hardening, Server networking, Automation and programmability. Redhat Linux is a lab-intensive course and objectives are accomplished mainly through hands on learning.
The key to a high success rate is based on the program’s objectives as follows:
- Course contents are based on Redhat course outlines.
- Dedicated Monitoring to evaluate and report candidate’s progress.
- Extensive hands-on lab exercises.
- Industry acclaimed, experienced and certified instructors.
- Project manager can be assigned to track candidate’s performance.
- Curriculum based on course outlines defined by Cisco Systems.
- This Instructor-led classroom course is designed with an aim to build theoretical knowledge supplemented by ample hands-on lab exercises.
- Facility of Lab on cloud available.
- Courseware includes reference material to maximize learning.
- Assignments and tests to ensure concept absorption.
- Courseware includes reference material to maximize learning.
- Repeating of lectures allowed (On approval basis)
- Candidates can attend lectures online.
- Install Red hat Linux servers with license activation.
- Perform day-to-day Linux management with basic commands.
- Manage user accounts and groups on a large scale deployment.
- Manage data security.
- Create shell scripts for automating administrative tasks.
- Handle background and foreground processes.
- Manage targets on server.
- Deploy infrastructure services like DNS, WEB, FTP.
- Configure Linux using cli remote access and WebUI.
- Administer Linux using ansible ad-hoc commands.
- Create and deploy ansible playbooks.
- Automate Linux tasks using ansible roles.
- Troubleshoot servers errors using ansible.
- Secure server access using firewall.
- Schedule tasks on Linux server.
- Create virtual machines and containers on Linux.
- Configure local and network storage
This course is aimed at imparting knowledge and skills related to Linux fundamentals, server hardening, data security, server networking, automation and programmability. This course will help candidates prepare for the RHCSA and RHCE exam. The following topics are general guidelines to better reflect the contents of the course and for clarity purposes, the guidelines below may change at any time without notice.
RHCSA: Linux Administration
Introduction to Linux:
- Introduction to Operating System
- Introduction Kernel
- What is Linux?
- History of Linux
- Basic concepts of Linux
File Management:
- Understand Linux file system in-depth
- Manage files and directories
- Create and delete files and directories
- Copy, Move and delete files and directories
- Read files using cat, less, grep, head, tail, sort and cut command
- Perform I/O redirection
- Edit files using vi, nano and sed
- Configure Symlinks and Hardlinks
- Perform data backup using Tar and compression tools
User Management:
- Understand AAA process
- Manage user accounts
- Create user accounts
- Delete user accounts
- Modify user accounts
- Manage Password
- Set password for users
- Disable password for users
- Understand password aging policies
- Understand password complexity rules
- Manage groups
- Understand group management
- Understand group and user association
- Understand default groups
- Understand user profile management
Data Security:
- Understand directory permissions
- Understand user category management
- Understand umask and default permissions
- Understand special permissions
- Understand File ACL
Shell Scripting:
- Creating and executing scripts
- Understand use of variables
- Create hybrid scripts
- Understand conditional loops
- If Then Else
- Nested If
- Case
- For Loops
Process Management:
- Understanding Linux processes
- Threads
- Process types
- Running foreground processes
- Running background processes
- Monitoring processes using ps utility
- Monitoring processes using top utility
- Understanding process termination and sig terms
- Managing process prioritization
Service Management:
- Understanding services
- Types of services
- Managing services in run-time
- Managing startup services
- nderstanding Linux targets
- Managing targets
- Configuring default target
- Root password reset
Miscellaneous Topics:
- Managing Device drivers and Kernel modules
- User Delegation
- Task scheduling using crontabs
- Software management
- RPM
- YUM/DNF
Networking:
- Networking basics
- Managing IPv4 / IPv6 Networking
- Configuring SSH server for remote access
- Configuring cockpit service
- Accessing and managing Linux via WebUI
- Configuring DNS server
- Deploying a web server
- Configuring system logs
- Configuring remote logs using rsyslog
- Control network security using firewalld
Storage Management:
- Disk partition management
- Understanding MBR and GPT partition table
- Adding disk to virtual machines
- Managing disks using parted
- Formatting partitions with Linux file systems
- Persistent mounting via fstab
- Disk quota management
- Swap management
- Advanced disk management
- Understanding LVM
- Configuring LVM
- Provisioning LVM
- Understanding the fundamentals of STRATIS
- Creating STRATIS pools
- Creating STRATIS file systems
- Mounting and accessing STRATIS file systems
- Snapshot management
- Data recovery using snapshots
- Network Storage
- Understanding NAS and SAN storage
- Configuring NAS storage using NFS
- Configuring SAN storage using iSCSI
- Troubleshooting using emergency mode and rescue mode
- Understanding virtualization
- Understanding containerization
- Understanding public and private cloud
RHCE: Ansible Automation
- Introduction to Ansible
- What is Ansible?
- Why Ansible?
- Installing Python 3.6 and Ansible
- Getting familiar with ansible commands
- Understanding and controlling the ansible config file
- Understanding and managing ansible inventory
- Understanding and performing project management
- Getting familiar with ansible modules
- Performing ansible ad-hoc commands
- Creating an ansible playbook
- Scripting a play
- Running a play
- Running a play using inventory
- Defining tasks in a play
- Understanding variables in ansible
- Creating conditional loops
- Understanding and performing facts gathering
- Understanding and managing parallelism
- Hybrid playbook
- Understanding the concept of roles
- Creating an Ansible role
- Deploying and configuring servers using Ansible roles
- Understanding and performing error handling
- Encrypting playbooks using a password vault
- Troubleshooting playbooks
Followings labs will be performed by candidates during lab practice sessions: ROUTER & SWITCH BASICS:
Lab 1. Linux Basics Commands
- Task 1: Managing the terminal
- Task 2: Managing System Name
- Task 3: Managing System Date
- Task 4: Exploring System Information
- Task 5: Using Calendar
- Task 6: Using Calculator
- Task 7: Exploring User Login Information
- Task 8: History of commands
- Task 9: Powering System On and Off
Lab 2. File Management
- Task 1: Explore pwd Command
- Task 2: List Content of Directory
- Task 3: Create Directory
- Task 4: Explore Filetype
- Task 5: Create Empty File
- Task 6: Explore Command to Copy Files
- Task 7: Explore Command to Copy Directories
- Task 8: Explore Command to Move Files & Directories
- Task 9: Explore Command to Remove Files
- Task 10: Explore Command to Remove Directories
- Task 11: Explore Command to Read A File
- Task 12: Explore Command to Cut A Filed Form A File
- Task 13: Piping 2 Or More Commands
- Task 14: Explore Command to Find File Or Directories
- Task 15: Input Output Redirection
Lab 3. Using Text Editor
- Task 1: Explore vi Text Editor
Lab 4. Data Backup and Compression
- Task 1: Compression using tar archive manager and gzip compression tool
- Task 2: Compression using tar archive manager and bzip2 compression tool
- Task 3: Compression using tar archive manager and xzip compression tool
Lab 5. User Management
- Task 1 : Manage user accounts
- Task 2: Configure Aging Policy
- Task 3: Managing Group
Lab 6. File and Directory Permissions
- Task 1: Configuring file/directory permissions using numerical method
- Task 2: Configuring file/directory permissions using alphabetical method
- Task 3: Configuring Sticky-bit
- Task 4: Configuring File Access Lists
- Task 5: understand umask, read, write, execute permissions and recursive permissions
Lab 7. Shell Scripting
- Task 1: Create a script with basic commands and echo
- Task 2: Create an interactive script with use of read variable, i/o redirection, sleep
- Task 3: Generate server audit report with a script
- Task 4: Create a hybrid script
- Task 5: Create an alternate program for ‘finger’ program
- Task 6: Comparing value with ‘if then’ logic
- Task 7: Comparing integer with ‘if then’ logic
- Task 8: Managing files with ‘if then’ logic
- Task 9: Repeat task 6 with ‘case’ logic
- Task 10: Create a script with ‘case’ logic
- Task 11: Create a for-loop script
- Task 12: Bulk user creation using for-loop
Lab 8. Task Scheduling
- Task 1: Manage Crontab
- Task 2: Manage AT
Lab 9. Filtering Features
- Task 1: Configure IPv4 ACL.
- Task 2: Configuring Numbered and Named IPv4 ACL.
Lab 10. Process Management
- Task 1: Managing Processes
- Task 2: Monitoring Processes
Lab 11. Service Management
- Task 1: Managing Services
- Task 2: Troubleshooting using emergency mode
- Task 3: Troubleshooting using rescue mode
- Task 4: Password breaking of root user
Lab 12. Inodes, Symlinks and Hardlinks **
- Task 1: Understanding relation of copy and move commands with inode number
- Task 2: Creating a symlink
- Task 3: Creating a hardlink
Lab 13. Configuring GRUB Security
- Task 1: Securing GRUB2 BootLoader with a password
- Task 2: Testing GRUB Security
Lab 14. Accessing CD-ROM
- Task 1: Accessing Optical drive on Linux Command-line
- Task 2: Create ISO image of a CD-ROM
- Task 3: Mount ISO image on a directory
Lab 15. Software Management
- Task 1: Using RPM method to install packages
- Task 2: YUM configuration (DNF configuration)
Lab 16. Configuring Network Card
- Task 1: Force Linux to use kernel assigned drivers for network cards
- Task 2: Configure IP address with nmcli
- Task 3: Configure IP address persistently
- Task 4: Configure Link Aggregation with ‘nmcli’ utility
- Task 5: Test connectivity
Lab 17. Configure SSH
- Task 1: Configuring SSH on server
- Task 2: Configuring key pair authentication
- Task 3: Use SCP for remote file transfer
Lab 18. Configure Apache web server
- Task 1: Hosting Web Server
- Task 2: Hosting Virtual Web Server
- Task 3: Configuring DNS server
Lab 19. Configuring Firewall
- Task 1: Allow Service & Port Number in Firewall
- Task 2: Configuring Rich Rule in Firewall
- Task 3: Managing zone in firewall
Lab 20. Configure NFS
- Task 1: Configuring NFS on Server
- Task 2: Access Shared Directory from Client
- Task 3: Make access persistent
Lab 21. Configure Storage
- Task 1: Manage local hard drives
- Task 2: Configure quota limits
- Task 3: Create a swap partition
- Task 4: Configure LVM
- Task 5: Configure Stratis Pool
- Task 6: Configure AutoFS
- Task 7: Create VDO
Lab 22. Configure Network Storage
- Task 1: Configure NAS storage using NFS
- Task 2: Configure SAN storage using iSCSI
- Task 3: Connect storage to other servers
Lab 23. Configure SELINUX
- Task 1: Manage SELINUX status
- Task 2: Manage SELINUX policies
- Task 3: Create a custom SELINUX rule
Lab 24. Build and Operate containers
- Task 1: Create Web hosting application for containerization.
- Task 2: Build container image using Docker.
- Task 3: Run and Manage container and allocate resources.
Lab 25. Deploy Ansible
- Task 1: Install Ansible
- Task 2: Configure Inventory file
- Task 3: Confirm Ansible installation
Lab 26. Using Ad hoc commands
- Task 1: Write an ad hoc command to ping other servers
- Task 2: Write an ad hoc command to list directories
- Task 3: Write an ad hoc command to install software on other servers
Lab 27. Managing Playbooks
- Task 1: Create a playbook
- Task 2: Use variables
- Task 3: Use Loop
- Task 4: Use When condition
- Task 5: Use variable slicing
- Task 6: Use import and include
Lab 28. Perform error handling
- Task 1: Use ignore_errors
- Task 2: Perform playbook dry run
- Task 3: Perform YAML syntax check
- Task 4: Run selected tasks
Lab 29. Additional parameters in a Playbook
- Task 1: Use handlers
- Task 2: Gather facts
- Task 3: Print output using debug module
Lab 30. Playbook Security
- Task 1: Create an encrypted playbook
- Task 2: View an encrypted playbook
- Task 3: Edit an encrypted playbook
- Task 4: Run an encrypted playbook
- Task 5: Reset key of an encrypted playbook
- Task 6: Decrypt an encrypted playbook
- Task 7: Encrypt and existing playbook
Lab 31. Roles
- Task 1: Create a role
- Task 2: create a project in the role
- Task 3: Run the role
Lab 32. Ansible Projects
- Task 1: Create an ansible project for user management on Linux servers
- Task 2: Create an ansible project for file management on Linux servers
- Task 3: Create an ansible project for hosting website on Linux servers
- Task 4: Create an ansible project for scheduling tasks on Linux servers
- Task 5: Create an ansible project for storage management on Linux servers
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