RHCSA Objectives

As all knows about Red Hat's certification exams, the new Red Hat System Administrator Exam is also a performance based hands-on exam. The exam objectives are similar to the old RHCT but there are some new task added to the RHCSA.

TASKS to perform in Red Hat System Administrator Exam :

• Boot, reboot, and shutdown the system normally
• Diagnose and correct problems at boot
• Boot systems into different runlevels for troubleshooting and system maintenance
• Use single-user mode to gain access to a system for which the root password is not known
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• Diagnose and correct misconfigured networking settings
• Diagnose and correct hostname resolution problems
• Diagnose and address permissions problems and SELinux policy violations
• Diagnose and correct non-hardware disk storage problems
• Adding new partitions, logical volumes, filesystems, and swap areas to a system non-destructively
• Manually open, mount, unmount, and close LUKS-encrypted filesystems
• Extend existing unencrypted ext4-formatted logical volumes
• Login or switch user to the root account
• Use ssh and VNC to access remote systems
• Locate and read on-line documentation using man, info, and files in /usr/share/doc
• Locate and analyze system log files
• Understand how to use grep and regular expressions to analyze text output

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  RHCSA

  Access a bash shell prompt and issue commands with correct syntax; use pipelines and I/O redirection
• Use text editors such as gedit and vim to create and edit text files
• Manage system resources: identify CPU/memory intensive processes, adjust process priority with renice, kill processes
• Manage files and directories: create/delete/copy/move; create hard and soft links
• Use tar, gzip, and bzip2 to archive and compress files
• Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux manually with the graphical installer from network installation media
• Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux automatically using Kickstart
• Configure a physical machine as a RHEL-based virtualization host
• Manage virtual machines: install/start/stop/configure to start at boot/access a VM´s graphical console
• Manage disk partitions: understand MBR-style partitions (primary,extended,logical); list/create/delete partitions
• Manage logical volumes: create/remove physical volumes, assign PVs to volume groups, create/delete logical volumes
• Create and configure LUKS-encrypted partitions and logical volumes to prompt for password and mount decrypted filesystem at boot
• Canage ext4 filesystems: create, label, mount, mount automatically at boot (by UUID or label), unmount
• Mount and unmount CIFS and NFS network filesystems, manually or by configuring autofs
• Manage network devices: understand basic IP networking/routing, configure IP addresses/default route statically or dynamically
• Manage name resolution: set local hostname, configure /etc/hosts, configure to use existing DNS server
• Manage network services: check status, start, stop, configure to start automatically at boot
• Configure the scheduling of tasks using cron and at
• Manage local user and group accounts: create, delete, change passwords, adjust password aging, adjust group memberships
• Use network user and group accounts stored on an existing LDAP directory service
• Manage standard permissions: list, interpret, change ugo/rwx
• Use sgid directories for collaboration
• Set and manage Access Control Lists (ACLs)
• Manage SELinux security: set enforcing/permissive modes, list file and process context, restore default file context, use "booleans" to adjust policy
• Manage default firewall settings with basic tools
• Install and update software packages from RHN or remote repository, or from the local filesystem
• Update the kernel package appropriately to ensure a bootable system
• Modify the system bootloader
• Configure the system to synchronize system time using remote NTP servers
• Deploy a VNC server that allows multiple desktops to be shared
• Deploy file sharing services with HTTP/FTP.