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Red Hat® Certified Engineer (RHCE®) Exam (EX300)
The Red Hat Certified Engineer exam is a performance-based evaluation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administration skills and knowledge. You will perform a number of routine system administration tasks and be evaluated on whether you have met specific objective criteria. Performance-based testing means that you must perform tasks similar to what you would perform on the job.
Note: Global Knowledge and Red Hat do not guarantee that anyone who takes one or all of the courses in the Red Hat certification program will pass a Red Hat exam. On-the-job experience, in combination with high-quality training, is the best way to build skills and prepare for a Red Hat exam. The exam itself is a hands-on learning experience, and many of those who do not pass on the first try come away with knowledge of what they need to work on to pass the exam on a re-take.
Who Needs to Attend
- RHCEs who were certified on RHEL3, RHEL4, or RHEL5
- Current RHCSAs
- Linux IT professionals who can demonstrate the competencies needed to earn an RHCE but have not taken the RHCE
- Solaris administrators with more than three years of experience
Prerequisites
- RH254 or RH255
- Red HatŪ System Administration III (RH254)
- Red HatŪ System Administration III with RHCSA and RHCE Exams (RH255)
Follow-On Courses
- Red HatŪ Enterprise Deployment, Virtualization, and Systems Management (RH401)
- Red HatŪ Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management (RH436)
- Red HatŪ Enterprise Directory Services and Authentication (RH423)
- Red HatŪ Enterprise System Monitoring and Performance Tuning (RH442)
- Red HatŪ Enterprise Security: Network Services (RHS333)
- SELinux Policy Administration (RHS429)
Certification Programs and Certificate Tracks
This course is part of the following programs or tracks:
Course Outline
You should be able to:
- Diagnose and correct boot failures arising from bootloader, module, and filesystem errors
- Use the rescue environment to recover unbootable systems
- Diagnose and correct problems with network services
- Diagnose and correct problems where SELinux contexts or booleans are interfering with proper operation
- Produce and deliver reports on system utilization (processor, memory, disk, and network)
- Use bash shell scripting to automate system maintenance tasks
- Install the packages needed to provide the service
- Configure SELinux to support the service
- Configure the service to start when the system is booted
- Configure the service for basic operation
- Configure host-based and user-based security for the service
- Configure the following services (with additions to above tasks):
- HTTP/HTTPS: virtual hosting, private directories, stage a CGI script, group managed content
- DNS: caching name server, DNS forwarding
- FTP: anonymous-only download, anonymous "drop-box" upload (provisional)
- NFS: share a directory to specific clients, share for group collaboration
- SMB: share a directory to specific clients, share for group collaboration
- SMTP: null client, outbound smarthost relay, accepting inbound
- SSH: key-based authentication, port forwarding
- rsyslog: remote logging
- NTP: serve to selected clients
- RHCEs are expected to also be able to:
- Use /proc/sys and sysctl to modify and set kernel run-time parameters
- Use iptables to implement packet filtering
- Route IP traffic and use iptables for NAT
- Establish IP static routes
- Configure Ethernet bonding
- Manage default user/group password policies
- Build a simple rpm that packages a single file
- Configure system as an iSCSI Initiator persistently mounting existing Target
- Authenticate to an existing Kerberos V realm (provisional)
- Create a private yum repository (provisional)
In addition to meeting the RHCE exam objectives above, you should able to complete RHCSA-level tasks, as many are required to meet RHCE exam objectives. Consult the RHCSA Exam Objectives document for information.
