Red Hat Certification (RHCSA & RHCE)

ChrisD.

ChrisD.

ChrisD.

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Anyone sat the exam recently? Looking to go an sit RHCSA next month in Bristol. I've had no experience of RHEL however I've been administering Solaris 2.6 through to 10 for 6 or so years so I think I'll be alright.

Got myself a book of Amazon and I've downloaded the ISO to put on my server. Any tips at all?
 
I hope your book is for RHEL7 not for RHEL6 as the content of the exams has changed quite a bit and a lot of things within the OS have changed as well.

I did it on RHEL6 RHCE a couple of years ago, will do my RHEL7 later this year when I have some more hands on time with it. When I did the RHCE you did the RHCSA in the morning and then the RHCE exam in the afternoon (assuming you didn't have the former) and the RHCSA wasn't that bad but you really needed to know the syllabus as you didn't have time to sit and work things out and if you didn't know something you were basically screwed as you were blocked from doing further chunks of the exam (it's all hands on).

I don't know how many people on my instance pasted, I strongly suspect from what they said some failed, and listening to the people just doing the RHCSA exam at least 50% of those failed too.
 
memyselfandi said:
I hope your book is for RHEL7 not for RHEL6 as the content of the exams has changed quite a bit and a lot of things within the OS have changed as well.

I did it on RHEL6 RHCE a couple of years ago, will do my RHEL7 later this year when I have some more hands on time with it. When I did the RHCE you did the RHCSA in the morning and then the RHCE exam in the afternoon (assuming you didn't have the former) and the RHCSA wasn't that bad but you really needed to know the syllabus as you didn't have time to sit and work things out and if you didn't know something you were basically screwed as you were blocked from doing further chunks of the exam (it's all hands on).

I don't know how many people on my instance pasted, I strongly suspect from what they said some failed, and listening to the people just doing the RHCSA exam at least 50% of those failed too.
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Thanks. It's this book I've got:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1495148203?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00

Reading it now, just building the server. I think I'm only going to do RHCSA, there's no mention of it being a dual exam.

Not sure this link will work.

http://www.redhat.com/en/services/training/ex200-red-hat-certified-system-administrator-rhcsa-exam
 
Yes the RHCSA is just EX200, the RHCE is EX300 but you need to have done EX200 as well (so if you hadn't then you tended to do it in the morning and then EX300 in the afternoon).

With RHEl 7 buggers are systemd and nmcli networking ...(and don't talk to me about sssd at the moment). Make sure that you know LVM inside and out, some SELinux and ACLs, and how to write a YUM repo configuration file.

I find it interesting that they list Kickstart under RHCSA (it would be nice to know in what depth they require ... one of my things I do at work is write our standard builds using it) and what they mean by configuring host to hold virtual guests etc (and to what depth again).

Certdepot is quite a good online resource to look at.
 
Just going through the first chapters, very easy going so far. I've booked the exam for the 17th July, just have to wait for Red Hat to call me to get my CC details to pay. Cheers for the tips. :)
 
Should also mention that if your company is a Red Hat Partner then you can do a two week implementing RHEL 7 course for free through the Partner training portal which is quite good.

There is a troubleshooting RHEL7 course as well but I can't comment on that as I've not got time to do it until September.
 
I'd rather self learn as I'm a contractor. If I went on a course I wouldn't be able to invoice for those days. Unless it's an interactive evening type of course?
 
S2KIP said:
I'd rather self learn as I'm a contractor. If I went on a course I wouldn't be able to invoice for those days. Unless it's an interactive evening type of course?
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Self paced online learning with labs using Red Hat's online infrastructure. The course is about 2 weeks but you can do it in about 2-3hrs a day during that time (depending on how distracted you are). But you need a Partner Portal login.
 
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