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RedHat EX294 Exam Syllabus

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Before starting your EX294 exam preparation, it is recommended to review the complete RedHat Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Exam syllabus and carefully go through the exam objectives listed below. Once you understand the exam structure and objectives, you should practice using our free EX294 questions. We also provide premium EX294 practice test, fully updated according to the latest exam objectives, to help you accurately assess your preparedness for the actual exam.

RedHat EX294 Exam Objectives

Section Objectives
Be able to perform all tasks expected of a Red Hat Certified System Administrator
  • Understand and use essential tools
  • Operate running systems
  • Configure local storage
  • Create and configure file systems
  • Deploy, configure, and maintain systems
  • Manage users and groups
  • Manage security
Understand core components of Ansible
  • Inventories
  • Modules
  • Variables
  • Facts
  • Plays
  • Playbooks
  • Configuration files
  • Use provided documentation to look up specific information about Ansible modules and commands
Install and configure an Ansible control node
  • Install required packages
  • Create a static host inventory file
  • Create a configuration file
  • Create and use static inventories to define groups of hosts
  • Manage parallelism
Configure Ansible managed nodes
  • Create and distribute SSH keys to managed nodes
  • Configure privilege escalation on managed nodes
  • Validate a working configuration using ad hoc Ansible commands
Script administration tasks
  • Create simple shell scripts
  • Create simple shell scripts that run ad hoc Ansible commands
Create Ansible plays and playbooks
  • Know how to work with commonly used Ansible modules
  • Use variables to retrieve the results of running a command
  • Use conditionals to control play execution
  • Configure error handling
  • Create playbooks to configure systems to a specified state
Use Ansible modules for system administration tasks that work with:
  • Software packages and repositories
  • Services
  • Firewall rules
  • File systems
  • Storage devices
  • File content
  • Archiving
  • Scheduled tasks
  • Security
  • Users and groups
Work with roles
  • Create roles
  • Download roles from an Ansible Galaxy and use them
Use advanced Ansible features
  • Create and use templates to create customized configuration files
  • Use Ansible Vault in playbooks to protect sensitive data
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