Training & Certifications

Red Hat® Certified Engineer (RHCE®)

Offered by Red Hat, Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification tests your knowledge and skill in managing multiple systems using Red Hat® Ansible® Engine and executing common system administration tasks across a number of systems with Ansible. The Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) training program offered by Multimatics is designed to help participants complement their deployment and configuration expertise with a better understanding of how Ansible Automation interacts with other Red Hat technologies. The training material is prepared based on the latest edition of RHCE EX294 exam outline, accompanied by discussions and exercises to work on the questions.

Multimatics is an Authorized Training Partner for the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) training and certification program accredited by the Red Hat Academy.

Program Objectives

At the end of the program, the participants will be able to :

  1. Work with Ansible
  2. Best prepare for the RHCE EX294
  3. Manage RHEL 9 with Ansible
  4. Set up a Managed IT Environment
  5. Use Ad Hoc Commands and Playbooks to manage RHEL 9 Servers
  6. Work with Ansible Content Collections

Target Audience

This course is aimed at:

  1. Experienced Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administrators seeking validation of their skills or require a certification
  2. Professionals who have taken Red Hat System Administration III: Linux Automation with Ansible (RH294) and are on the path to becoming a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
  3. Professionals who are on the path to becoming a Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)
  4. Systems administrators
  5. IT professionals who work in a DevOps environment

Duration

This program is 5 days of intensive training class.

Requirement

The following are the requirements in taking the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) Exam.

  • Earn the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) certification. This is required in order to earn the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification.
  • Have either taken both Red Hat System Administration I (RH124) and Red Hat System Administration II (RH134) or RHCSA Rapid Track Course (RH199), or have comparable work experience as a system administrator on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Have taken Red Hat System Administration III: Linux Automation with Ansible (RH294) or have comparable work experience
  • Review the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam (EX200) objectives
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Method of Delivery

The program provided by Multimatics will be delivered through interactive presentation by professional instructor(s), group debriefs, individual and team exercises, behavior modelling and roleplays, one-to-one and group discussion, case studies, and projects.

Examination Format

Participants will take RHCE EX294 Red Hat Certified Engineer Exam which consists of 12 – 15 lab-based practical questions. They will be given 4 hours to finish the exam. Participants who successfully passed the exam will be given an official Red Hat Certified Engineer certification from Red Hat.

Program Modules

Module 1 : Introduction to Red Hat Certified System Administrator
  1. Understand and Use Essential Tools
  2. Operate Running Systems
  3. Configure Local Storage
  4. Create and Configure File Systems
  5. Deploy, Configure, and Maintain Systems
  6. Manage Users and Groups
  7. Manage Security

Module 2 : Core Components of Ansible
  1. Inventories
  2. Modules
  3. Variables
  4. Facts
  5. Loops
  6. Conditional tasks
  7. Plays
  8. Handling task failure
  9. Playbooks
  10. Configuration files
  11. Roles
  12. Use Provided Documentation to Look Up Specific Information about Ansible Modules and Commands

Module 3 : Use Roles and Ansible Content Collections
  1. Create and Work with Roles
  2. Install Roles and Use Them in Playbooks
  3. Install Content Collections and Use Them in Playbooks
  4. Obtain a Set of Related Roles, Supplementary Modules, and Other Content from Content Collections, and Use Them in A Playbook

Module 4 : Install and Configure an Ansible Control Node

  1. Install Required Packages
  2. Create a Static Host Inventory File
  3. Create a Configuration File
  4. Create and Use Static Inventories to Define Groups of Hosts

Module 5 : Configure Ansible Managed Nodes
  1. Create and Distribute SSH Keys to Managed Nodes
  2. Configure Privilege Escalation on Managed Nodes
  3. Deploy Files to Managed Nodes
  4. Be Able to Analyze Simple Shell Scripts and Convert Them to Playbooks

Module 6 : Run Playbooks with Automation Content Navigator
  1. Know How to Run Playbooks with Automation Content Navigator
  2. Use Automation Content Navigator to Find New Modules in Available Ansible Content Collections and Use Them
  3. Use Automation Content Navigator to Create Inventories and Configure the Ansible Environment

Module 7 : Create Ansible Plays and Playbooks
  1. Know How to Work with Commonly Used Ansible Modules
  2. Use Variables to Retrieve the Results Of Running a Command
  3. Use Conditionals to Control Play Execution
  4. Configure Error Handling
  5. Create Playbooks to Configure Systems to a Specified State

Module 8 : Automate Standard RHCSA Tasks Using Ansible Modules

  1. Software Packages And Repositories
  2. Services
  3. Firewall Rules
  4. File Systems
  5. Storage Devices
  6. File Content
  7. Archiving
  8. Task Scheduling
  9. Security
  10. Users and Groups

Module 9 : Manage Content
  1. Create and Use Templates to Create Customized Configuration Files
  2. Use Ansible Vault in Playbooks to Protect Sensitive Data
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