Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (EX294)

The performance-based Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (EX294) 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 skills tested in this exam are the foundation for system administration across many Red Hat products.

By passing this exam, you become an RHCE®, which also counts toward becoming a Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA®).

This exam is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux® 8 and Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.7.

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Study points for the exam

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

• Be able to 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
• Inventories
• Modules
• Variables
• Facts
• Plays
• Playbooks
• Configuration files
• Install and configure an Ansible control node
• Install required packages
• Create a static host inventory file
• Create a configuration file
• Configure Ansible managed nodes
• Create and distribute SSH keys to managed nodes
• Configure privilege escalation on managed nodes
• Validate a working configuration using ad hoc Ansible commands
• Script administration tasks
• Create simple shell scripts
• Create simple shell scripts that run ad hoc Ansible commands
• Create and use static inventories to define groups of hosts
• Create 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
• Use Ansible modules for system administration tasks that work with:
• Software packages and repositories
• Services
• Firewall rules
• File systems
• Storage devices
• File content
• Archiving
• Scheduled tasks
• Security
• Users and groups
• Create and use templates to create customized configuration files
• Work with Ansible variables and facts
• Create and work with roles
• Download roles from an Ansible Galaxy and use them
• Manage parallelism
• Use Ansible Vault in playbooks to protect sensitive data
• Use provided documentation to look up specific information about Ansible modules and commands