Enhanced courses to help IT professionals install, configure, and
maintain Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 environments
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the launch of several updated system
administration training courses and certification exams, to teach and
qualify students on how to install, configure, deploy, and troubleshoot
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
The courses continue to feature a hands-on, lab-based environment to
provide IT professionals with the skill-sets they need to implement and
maintain Linux deployments. The new curriculum places greater emphasis
on enterprise administration skills including command line
administration, shell scripting, diagnostics and troubleshooting. The
courses will be available via traditional classrooms, live virtual
training, online, or on-site at customers locations for private team
training.
Celebrating 15 years of preparing professionals for open innovation, Red
Hat Training courses benefit both students and the companies they work
for by delivering some of the most comprehensive curricula regarding Red
Hat technology. Oriented around real-world job roles and tasks, Red
Hat's training and certifications help enterprises have confidence that
their IT departments are getting the most out of their Red Hat
environments.
In addition to the more than 40 training courses Red Hat Training
currently offers, the updated courses include:
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Red
Hat System Administration I (RH124) - This course focuses
on providing students with Linux administration "survival skills" by
focusing on core administration tasks. System Admin I also provides a
foundation for students wishing to become full time Linux system
administrators by introducing key command line concepts and other
enterprise level tools such as systemd. It is part one of a two-part
course pairing to provide students with the core system administration
tasks needed to earn their RHCSA and to be a full time Linux
administrator.
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Red
Hat System Administration II (RH134) - This course is
specifically designed for students who have completed RH124. It dives
deeper into enterprise Linux administration, including file systems
and partitioning, LVM, SELinux, firewalld, and accessing storage with
SMB and NFS. Together with Red Hat System Administration I, it can
help prepare a candidate for the Red Hat Certified System
Administrator (RHCSA) exam.
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RHCSA
Rapid Track Course (RH199) - This course is designed for
students who already have significant experience with Linux
administration. The course reviews the tasks covered in Red Hat System
Administration I and II, but at an accelerated pace. On completion of
course materials, experienced Linux admins should be prepared to take
the RHCSA exam.
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Red Hat System Administration III (RH254) - Available soon,
this course is for experienced Linux system administrators who hold a
Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) certification or
equivalent skills, and focuses on deploying and managing advanced
network server services, including: caching DNS services, MariaDB,
Apache HTTPD, Postfix SMTP nullclients, network file sharing with NFS
and SMB, iSCSI initiators and targets, advanced networking and
firewalld configurations, and the use of bash shell scripting to help
automate, configure, and troubleshoot the system. This course can also
help candidates in their preparation for the Red Hat Certified
Engineer (RHCE) exam.
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RHCE Certification Lab (RH299) - Available soon, this course
(formerly known as the RHCE Rapid Track Course) is designed for
students seeking a hands-on, lab-based review prior to taking the Red
Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam. It reviews the labs from RHCSA
Rapid Track Course and Red Hat® System Administration III to prepare
for the Red Hat Certified Engineer Exam (EX300).
The updated exams include:
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Red
Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
(EX200) - The performance-based RHCSA Exam (EX200) tests an IT
professionals Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administration knowledge
and skills.
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Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) Exam (EX300) - Available
soon, the performance-based RHCE Exam (EX300) tests an IT
professionals knowledge, skill, and ability to meet those required of
a senior system administrator responsible for Red
Hat Enterprise Linux systems. The Red Hat
Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) certification is
required to earn Red Hat Certified Engineer
(RHCE) certification.
Supporting Quotes
Pete Hnath, director, Curriculum, Red Hat
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 delivers improvements in reliability,
performance and scalability through the introduction of numerous
redesigned subsystems and new features. Red Hat Training and
Certification is excited to offer the core system administration courses
and exams designed to enable customers to take advantage of these
enhancements immediately, along with soon-to-be-available offerings for
our more advanced engineer- and architect-level professionals."
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