Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
The RHCSA (EX200) is a performance-based exam covering the core system-administration skills for Red Hat Enterprise Linux: the shell and essential tools, managing running systems and services, configuring local storage and file systems, deploying and maintaining systems, managing users, groups and security including SELinux, and running basic containers.
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Start EX200 examSkills measured
Understand and Use Essential Tools
20%Shell basics, input/output redirection and pipes, grep and regular expressions, archiving, SSH, and man pages.
Operate Running Systems
20%Boot targets, the boot process and rescue mode, processes and signals, tuning, journald and systemd services, and scheduling with cron and at.
Configure Local Storage and File Systems
15%Partitions, physical volumes, volume groups and logical volumes, extending LVM, XFS and ext4, swap, and mounting including /etc/fstab.
Deploy, Configure and Maintain Systems
25%Networking with nmcli, hostname resolution, package management with dnf and modules, time synchronization, and configuring systems to boot into a target automatically.
Manage Users, Groups and Security
10%Local users and groups, password aging, sudo, file permissions and special bits, ACLs, and SELinux modes and contexts.
Manage Containers
10%Pulling and running images with podman, rootless containers, port and volume mapping, and systemd-managed container services.