Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)

• Describe and define Boot Process
• SysV init
• Systemd
• GRUB Boot Loader

Linux Kernel

• Kernel 2.6.x, 3.x and 4.x documentation
• Compiling a kernel
• Kernel runtime management and troubleshooting

System configuration and management

• Produce and deliver reports on system utilization (processor, memory, disk, and network)
• SWAP Management
• Maintaining a Linux file system
• Configuring RAID
• Tools and utilities for iSCSI

Network services

• Basic Network Configuration
• Advanced Network Configuration and Troubleshooting
• Troubleshooting Network Issues

SSH / VSFTP

• Configure key-based authentication
• Configure additional options described in documentation
• Configuration files, tools and utilities for vsftpd

Manage security

• Create and use file access control lists
• Configure firewall settings using iptables/firewalld
• Tools and utilities to scan and test ports on a server
• Configure SELinux

LVM

• Create and remove physical volumes
• Assign physical volumes to volume groups
• Create, resize and delete logical volumes

HTTP/HTTPS

• Configure a virtual host
• Configure access restrictions on directories
• Deploy a basic CGI application
• Configure group-managed content
• Configure TLS security

DHCP

• DHCP configuration
• Subnet and dynamically-allocated range setup

DNS

• Configure a caching-only name server
• Configuring BIND to run in a chroot jails
• Troubleshoot DNS client issues

NFS / Autofs

• autofs configuration files
• Understanding of automount units
• Provide network shares to specific clients
• Provide network shares suitable for group collaboration
• Use Kerberos to control access to NFS network shares

SMB

• Provide network shares to specific clients
• Provide network shares suitable for group collaboration
• Mounting CIFS shares on Linux

SMTP

• Configure a system to forward all email to a central mail server

NTP

• Configure NTP server
• Synchronize time using other NTP peers

Database services

• Install and configure MariaDB
• Backup and restore a database