Red Hat Certified Engineer
The Red Hat Certified Engineer exam is a performance-based evaluation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administration skills and knowledge. Candidates perform a number of routine system administration tasks and are evaluated on whether they have met specific objective criteria. Performance-based testing means that candidates must perform tasks similar to what they must perform on the job.
Content
- Network Services
- Install the packages needed to provide the service
- Configure SELinux to support the service
- Use SELinux port labelling to allow services to use non-standard ports
- 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
- HTTP/HTTPS
- Configure a virtual host
- Configure private directories
- Deploy a basic CGI application
- Configure group-managed content
- Configure TLS security
- DNS
- Configure a caching-only name server
- Troubleshoot DNS client issues
- NFS
- Provide network shares to specific clients
- Provide network shares suitable for group collaboration
- Use Kerberos to control access to NFS network shares
- NTP
- Synchronize time using other NTP peers
- Database Services
- Install and configure MariaDB
- Backup and restore a database
- Create a simple database schema
- Perform simple SQL queries against a database
- SMB
- Provide network shares to specific clients
- Provide network shares suitable for group collaboration
- SMTP
- Configure a system to forward all email to a central mail server
- SSH
- Configure key-based authentication
- Configure additional options described in documentation
- System configuration and management
- Route IP traffic and create static routes
- Use FirewallD, including Rich Rules, Zones and custom rules, to implement packet filtering and configure network address translation (NAT)
- Use /proc/sys and sysctl to modify and set kernel runtime parameters
- Configure a system to authenticate using Kerberos
- Configure a systems as either an iSCSI target or 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