System configuration and management
- Use network teaming or bonding to configure aggregated network links between two Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems
- Configure IPv6 addresses and perform basic IPv6 troubleshooting
- Route IP traffic and create static routes (Chapter 12)
- Use firewalld and associated mechanisms such as rich rules, zones and custom rules, to implement packet filtering and configure network address translation (NAT) (Chapter 10)
- Use /proc/sys and sysctl to modify and set kernel runtime parameters (Chapter 12)
- Configure a system to authenticate using Kerberos (Chapter 12)
- Configure a system as either an iSCSI target or initiator that persistently mounts an iSCSI target (Chapter 12)
- Produce and deliver reports on system utilization (processor, memory, disk, and network)
- Use shell scripting to automate system maintenance tasks (Chapter 12)
Network services
Network services are an important subset of the exam objectives. RHCE candidates should be capable of meeting the following objectives for each of the network services listed below:
The SELinux and Server part is in Chapter 11. Specific service configurations have chapters noted.
- Install the packages needed to provide the service
- Configure SELinux to support the service
- Use SELinux port labeling 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 (Chapter 14)
- Configure a virtual host
- Configure private directories
- Deploy a basic CGI application
- Configure group-managed content
- Configure TLS security
- DNS (Chapter 17)
- Configure a caching-only name server
- Troubleshoot DNS client issues
- NFS (Chapter 16)
- Provide network shares to specific clients
- Provide network shares suitable for group collaboration
- Use Kerberos to control access to NFS network shares
- SMB (Chapter 15)
- Provide network shares to specific clients
- Provide network shares suitable for group collaboration
- SMTP (Chapter 13)
- Configure a system to forward all email to a central mail server
- SSH
- Configure key-based authentication
- Configure additional options described in documentation
- NTP
- Synchronize time using other NTP peers
- Install and configure MariaDB
- Backup and restore a database
- Create a simple database schema
- Perform simple SQL queries against a database