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RHCSA v7 EX200 objectives (20160323)

Some notes on the EX200 exam.

- Understand and use essential tools

- Access a shell prompt and issue commands with correct syntax

- Use input-output redirection (>, >>, |, 2>, etc.)

- Use grep and regular expressions to analyze text

- Access remote systems using ssh

- Log in and switch users in multiuser targets

- Archive, compress, unpack, and uncompress files using tar, star, gzip, and bzip2

- Create and edit text files

- Create, delete, copy, and move files and directories

- List, set, and change standard ugo/rwx permissions

- Locate, read, and use system documentation including man, info, and files in /usr/share/doc

- Operate running systems

- Boot, reboot, and shut down a system normally

- Boot systems into different targets manually

- Interrupt the boot process in order to gain access to a system

- Identify CPU/memory intensive processes, adjust process priority with renice, and kill processes

- Locate and interpret system log files and journals

- Access a virtual machine's console

- Start and stop virtual machines

- Start, stop, and check the status of network services

- Securely transfer files between systems

- Configure local storage

- List, create, delete partitions on MBR and GPT disks

- Create and remove physical volumes, assign physical volumes to volume groups, and create and delete logical volumes

- Configure systems to mount file systems at boot by Universally Unique ID (UUID) or label

- Add new partitions and logical volumes, and swap to a system non-destructively

- Create and configure file systems

- Create, mount, unmount, and use vfat, ext4, and xfs file systems

- Mount and unmount CIFS and NFS network file systems

- Extend existing logical volumes

- Create and configure set-GID directories for collaboration

- Create and manage Access Control Lists (ACLs)

- Diagnose and correct file permission problems

- Deploy, configure, and maintain systems

- Configure networking and hostname resolution statically or dynamically

- Schedule tasks using at and cron

- Start and stop services and configure services to start automatically at boot

- Configure systems to boot into a specific target automatically

- Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux automatically using Kickstart

- Configure a physical machine to host virtual guests

- Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems as virtual guests

- Configure systems to launch virtual machines at boot

- Configure network services to start automatically at boot

- Configure a system to use time services

- Install and update software packages from Red Hat Network, a remote repository, or from the local file system

- Update the kernel package appropriately to ensure a bootable system

- Modify the system bootloader

- Manage users and groups

- Create, delete, and modify local user accounts

- Change passwords and adjust password aging for local user accounts

- Create, delete, and modify local groups and group memberships

- Configure a system to use an existing authentication service for user and group information

- Manage security

- Configure firewall settings using firewall-config, firewall-cmd, or iptables

- Configure key-based authentication for SSH

- Set enforcing and permissive modes for SELinux

- List and identify SELinux file and process context

- Restore default file contexts

- Use boolean settings to modify system SELinux settings

- Diagnose and address routine SELinux policy violations