Preliminary Exam in Red Hat System Administration I

• Experienced or novice Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administrators seeking validation of their skills
• Students who have attended Red Hat System Administration I (RH124) and are on the path to becoming an RHCSA
• IT professionals who are on the path to becoming a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)

• Have either taken Red Hat System Administration I (RH124) or have comparable work experience as a system administrator on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Review the Red Hat Preliminary Exam in System Administration I (PE124) objectives

Study points for the exam
Red Hat Preliminary Exam in System Administration I (PE124) 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.)
  • Access remote systems using SSH
  • Log in and switch users in multi-user 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
• Operate running systems
  • Boot, reboot, and shut down a system normally
  • Boot systems into different targets manually
  • Identify CPU/memory intensive processes and kill processes
  • Locate and interpret system log files and journals
  • Preserve system journals
  • Start, stop, and check the status of network services
  • Securely transfer files between systems
• Create and configure file systems
  • Create and configure set-GID directories for collaboration
  • Diagnose and correct file permission problems
  • Manually mount and unmount existing filesystem
• Deploy, configure, and maintain systems
  • Start and stop services and configure services to start automatically at boot
  • Configure systems to boot into a specific target automatically
  • Configure time service clients
  • Install and update software packages from Red Hat Network, a remote repository, or from the local file system
  • Work with package module streams
  • Modify the system bootloader
• Manage basic networking
  • Configure IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
  • Configure hostname resolution
  • Configure network services to start automatically at boot
• 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 superuser access

As with all Red Hat performance-based exams, configurations must persist after reboot without intervention.

Preparation
Red Hat encourages you to consider taking Red Hat System Administration I (RH124) to help prepare.

Exam format
The Red Hat Preliminary Exam in System Administration I is a hands-on, practical exam that requires you to undertake real-world tasks. Red Hat Preliminary Exams are taken using your own laptop or computer and remote cloud instances.

Previous courses

Red Hat System Administration I [RH124]

Next courses

Red Hat System Administration II [RH134]