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RHCE Exam Responsibilities

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

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

Ansible Basics

  • Inventories
  • Modules
  • Variables
  • Facts
  • Loops
  • Conditional tasks
  • Plays
  • Handling task failure
  • Playbooks
  • Configuration files
  • Roles
  • Use provided documentation to look up specific information about Ansible modules and commands
  • Use roles and Ansible Content Collections

Working with Ansible

  • Create and work with roles
  • Install roles and use them in playbooks
  • Install Content Collections and use them in playbooks
  • Obtain a set of related roles, supplementary modules, and other content from content collections, and use them in a playbook.
  • Install and configure an Ansible control node

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
  • Configure Ansible managed nodes

Managing Ansible Managed Nodes

  • Create and distribute SSH keys to managed nodes
  • Configure privilege escalation on managed nodes
  • Deploy files to managed nodes
  • Analyze simple shell scripts and convert them to playbooks
  • Run playbooks with Automation content navigator

Automation Content Navigator

  • Know how to run playbooks with Automation content navigator
  • Use Automation content navigator to find new modules in available Ansible Content Collections and use them
  • Use Automation content navigator to create inventories and configure the Ansible environment
  • Create Ansible plays and playbooks

Creating 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
  • Automate standard RHCSA tasks using Ansible modules that work with:

Automating RHCSA Tasks with Ansible

  • Software packages and repositories
  • Services
  • Firewall rules
  • File systems
  • Storage devices
  • File content
  • Archiving
  • Task scheduling
  • Security
  • Users and groups
  • Manage content

Managing Content

  • Create and use templates to create customized configuration files
  • Use Ansible Vault in playbooks to protect sensitive data

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

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) Exam Objectives