EX200 - Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) Exam

This exam and the exam objectives provided here are based on the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7 version of the exam.
The performance-based RHCSA exam (EX200) tests your knowledge and skill in
areas of system administration common across a wide range of environments and
deployment scenarios. You must be an RHCSA to earn a Red Hat Certified Engineer
(RHCE) certification. The skills tested in this exam are the foundation for system
administration across all Red Hat products.
An RHCSA certification is earned when an IT professional demonstrates the core

system-administration skills required in Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments.
The exam based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is available via onsite through March
31, 2016. Details
WAYS TO TRAIN/TEST
Red Hat offers a method of training that is convenient to you - classroom, online, or
at your site.
Classroom
Kiosk
On-site training
How will you train/test?

Classroom
Duration: 2.5 hours Cost: Contact Partner ENROLL

OBJECTIVES
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
AUDIENCE & PREREQUISITES
RECOMMENDED TRAINING
In preparation
Study points for the exam

Red Hat reserves the right to add, modify, and remove objectives. Such changes will
be made public in advance through revisions to this document.
RHCSA exam candidates should be able to accomplish the tasks below without
assistance. These have been grouped into several categories.
Understand and use essential tools

Access a shell prompt and issue commands with correct syntax
Use input-output redirection (>, >>, |, 2>, etc.)
Use grep and regular expressions to analyze text
Access remote systems using ssh
Log in and switch users in multiuser targets
Archive, compress, unpack, and uncompress files using tar, star, gzip, and bzip2
Create and edit text files
Create, delete, copy, and move files and directories
Create hard and soft links
List, set, and change standard ugo/rwx permissions
Locate, read, and use system documentation including man, info, and files in
/usr/share/doc
Note: Red Hat may use applications during the exam that are not included in Red
Hat Enterprise Linux for the purpose of evaluating candidate's abilities to meet this
objective.
Operate running systems

Boot, reboot, and shut down a system normally
Boot systems into different targets manually
Interrupt the boot process in order to gain access to a system
Identify CPU/memory intensive processes, adjust process priority with renice, and
kill processes
Locate and interpret system log files and journals
Access a virtual machine's console

Start and stop virtual machines
Start, stop, and check the status of network services
Securely transfer files between systems
Configure local storage
List, create, delete partitions on MBR and GPT disks
Create and remove physical volumes, assign physical volumes to volume groups,
and create and delete logical volumes
Configure systems to mount file systems at boot by Universally Unique ID (UUID) or
label
Add new partitions and logical volumes, and swap to a system non-destructively
Create and configure file systems
Create, mount, unmount, and use vfat, ext4, and xfs file systems
Mount and unmount CIFS and NFS network file systems
Extend existing logical volumes
Create and configure set-GID directories for collaboration
Create and manage Access Control Lists (ACLs)
Diagnose and correct file permission problems
Deploy, configure, and maintain systems
Configure networking and hostname resolution statically or dynamically
Schedule tasks using at and cron
Start and stop services and configure services to start automatically at boot
Configure systems to boot into a specific target automatically
Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux automatically using Kickstart
Configure a physical machine to host virtual guests
Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems as virtual guests
Configure systems to launch virtual machines at boot
Configure network services to start automatically at boot
Configure a system to use time services
Install and update software packages from Red Hat Network, a remote repository, or
from the local file system
Update the kernel package appropriately to ensure a bootable system

Modify the system bootloader
Manage users and groups
Create, delete, and modify local user accounts
Change passwords and adjust password aging for local user accounts
Create, delete, and modify local groups and group memberships
Configure a system to use an existing authentication service for user and group
information
Manage security
Configure firewall settings using firewall-config, firewall-cmd, or iptables
Configure key-based authentication for SSH
Set enforcing and permissive modes for SELinux
List and identify SELinux file and process context
Restore default file contexts
Use boolean settings to modify system SELinux settings
Diagnose and address routine SELinux policy violations
Red Hat reserves the right to add, modify, and remove objectives. Such changes will
be made public in advance through revisions to this document.

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This exam and the exam objectives provided here are based on the Red Hat

Enterprise Linux 7 version of the exam.

An RHCSA certification is earned when an IT professional demonstrates the core

How will you train/test?

Duration: 2.5 hours Cost: Contact Partner ENROLL

Study points for the exam

Understand and use essential tools

Operate running systems

Access a virtual machine's console

Update the kernel package appropriately to ensure a bootable system

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