Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (EX294)

As an RHCE exam candidate, you should be able to handle all responsibilities expected of a Red Hat Certified System Administrator, including these tasks:

- Be able to perform all tasks expected of a Red Hat Certified System Administrator

[p] Understand and use essential tools
[p] Operate running systems
[p] Configure local storage
[p] Create and configure file systems
[p] Deploy, configure, and maintain systems
[p] Manage users and groups
[p] Manage security

- Understand core components of Ansible

[p] Inventories
[p] Modules
[p] Variables
[p] Facts
[p] Plays
[p] Playbooks
[p] Configuration files


- Install and configure an Ansible control node

[p] Install required packages
[p] Create a static host inventory file
[p] Create a configuration file

- Configure Ansible managed nodes

[p] Create and distribute SSH keys to managed nodes
[p] Configure privilege escalation on managed nodes
[p] Validate a working configuration using ad hoc Ansible commands

- Script administration tasks

[p] Create simple shell scripts
[p] Create simple shell scripts that run ad hoc Ansible commands

- Create and use static inventories to define groups of hosts

- Create Ansible plays and playbooks

[p] Know how to work with commonly used Ansible modules
[p] Use variables to retrieve the results of running a command
[p] Use conditionals to control play execution
[p] Configure error handling
[p] Create playbooks to configure systems to a specified state

- Use Ansible modules for system administration tasks that work with:

[p] Software packages and repositories
[p] Services
[p] Firewall rules
[p] File systems
[p] Storage devices
[p] File content
[p] Archiving
[p] Scheduled tasks
[p] Security
[p] Users and groups

Create and use templates to create customized configuration filesWork with Ansible variables and factsCreate and work with rolesDownload roles from an Ansible Galaxy and use themManage parallelismUse Ansible Vault in playbooks to protect sensitive dataUse provided documentation to look up specific information about Ansible modules and commands

As with all Red Hat performance-based exams, configurations must persist after reboot without intervention.