Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills

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Close the gap in your Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the leading open source platform for modern datacenters, with a stable, flexible foundation that adapts as your business changes. That’s just 1 of the reasons why more than 90% of Fortune Global 500 companies* use Red Hat products and solutions.

Our robust Linux curriculum is built on input from our support team and field personnel and delivers real-world skills development that can only come from Red Hat. Whether you're new to Linux, experienced in Linux, or a master of Linux, we have training and certifications for you. There's also no way to better prepare to earn your Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA®) and Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®) certifications than by training with the experts at Red Hat.

Red Hat’s training and certifications are an effective way to gain or solidify skills and demonstrate mastery of same. Whether you’re looking to get your foot in the door of the IT world, or you’re a seasoned professional looking to move up the ladder, Red Hat’s got you covered.

However, Red Hat’s certifications are not easy to pass. After all, the certification exams are all about performing exam tasks. There are no multiple-choice questions and answers, matching terms, or purely hypothetical scenarios; you get a machine, and you either make it work according to the exam’s objectives, or fail. The idea is to simulate real-world scenarios.

The difficulty is one of the main reasons why the certifications are highly regarded. Today, we’ll explore some ways to ease the difficulty just that little bit.

Make sure to adjust the environment before you begin the exam

Imagine you start the exam, you read through the tasks, and right when you want to begin, you realize the keyboard layout is not what you expected. Other times, you may notice that the screen is too bright, dim, or tilted. Make sure you iron these out before you actually start. The keyboard layout of exams is en-US by default, so either make sure you’re familiar with the layout, or make sure you know how to change it.

Read the exam tasks and environment documentation carefully!

People want to get to work on objectives right away, but this is a common pitfall. The exam tasks may not be in any particular order. Often, one task depends on another. Knowing all the tasks before you begin working on any single one gives you the necessary perspective of what you should achieve at the end of the exam.

The environment documentation is just as crucial as the exam tasks! It describes which environment and servers are available for you, preconfigured and working. Additionally, it contains any documentation that you have available, any passwords that may come in handy, or even how the exam is graded.

Most Red Hat exams are evaluated only after rebooting the environment. This should be included in the documentation of the exam. Other exams have no requirements for rebooting, but dictate which directories you should create your files in, what the file names should be, and how to restore your work should you corrupt the system. These are crucial pieces of information, so ignore them at your peril!

Last but not least, the exam questions change between retakes. So if you failed an exam once, read through the tasks carefully even if you think you know all the tasks. You may be surprised!

Know the exam objectives, and know them well!

As you know by now, Red Hat’s exams are purely about doing. Every exam has a set of objectives, some of which you will be asked perform. Though every objective is a simple sentence, it contains more than you might think. For example:

• When is the feature or a function used?

• How do you configure it? Are there more than one configurations of the particular objective? If so, how do they differ and when would you use each of them?

• Is there any administrative task that can be performed with the objective?

• Is there any client-server architecture connected with the objective? If so, can you configure both the client and the server?

Exam objectives should be the primary source of estimating your preparedness for any exam. Just make sure you go beyond a typical "hello, world" use case of any given objective, and that you understand the "why" and "why not" as well as the "how."