RHCE 

(Investment of Time: 32 hours)

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) is earned by a Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) who has demonstrated the knowledge, skill and ability required of senior system administrators responsible for Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems.

The RHCE exam is a hands-on, practical exam that lasts 2.0 hours.

Course Outline:

System Configuration and Management

Route IP traffic and create static routes | Use iptables to implement packet filtering and configure network address translation (NAT) | Use /proc/sys and sysctl to modify and set kernel run-time parameters | Configure system to authenticate using Kerberos | Configure a system as an iSCSI initiator that persistently mounts an iSCSI target | Produce and deliver reports on system utilization (processor, memory, disk, and network) | Use shell scripting to automate system maintenance tasks | Configure a system to log to a remote system | Configure a system to accept logging from a remote system.

Network Services

HTTP/HTTPS

Configure a virtual host | Configure private directories | Deploy a basic CGI application | Configure group-managed content

DNS

Configure a caching-only name server | Configure a caching-only name server to forward DNS queries ( Note: Candidates are not expected to configure master or slave name servers)

FTP

Configure anonymous-only download

NFS

Provide network shares to specific clients | Provide network shares suitable for group collaboration

SMB

Provide network shares to specific clients | Provide network shares suitable for group collaboration

SMTP

Configure a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) to accept inbound email from other systems | Configure an MTA to forward (relay) email through a smart host

SSH

Configure key-based authentication | Configure additional options described in documentation