Hi pingu's,

I am revising for the EX200. With just a few days left I am looking for fresh revision materiel devised around this exam. Can anyone suggest any? To show that my intentions are peaceful I humbly present these two links that I found:

http://rhce.co/category/a-understand...ols-rhcsa.html
A nice resource this, clean and simple. I recommend deeper research around the solutions provided overwise your understanding might not be deep enough, which is why I'm looking for additional material to add depth.

http://haygrays.com/rhcsa/
Not really gone through this deep enough yet, but seems like just some guys notes, rather than an attempt to aid revision. Possibly of some help just by again listing the topics that can come up and mentioning snippets you may have forgotten about.

Of course there's always the schedule on Redhat's site itself but I'm looking more for tutorials written with the EX200 for RHEL 6.x in mind. Any links are appreciated.

Sorry but I can't really see how a tutorial applies, the tests are performance based so if the schedule says 'apache httpd' then you need to be able to configure it for common uses and fix it if it's broken. The test is made up of the things you would be asked to do in a standard sys admin role.

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what is the point of this sort of reply, what do you get out of it?


To others reading the thread looking for usefull information, I have found that the link I posted: http://haygrays.com/rhcsa/ is actually really good, there's a lot of information in there that works not just in terms of topic-revision, but also in terms of links to surrounding knowledge for more depth. If you turn up at the exam and a command you know is required does not work even though the syntax is correct etc, now you will also know what config files or other related considerations to um... consider.

So far in my looking this haygrays.com site is the best I've found for revision in terms of free links on the internet.

tutorials are no replacement for being able to do the work


as above if you are asked to "fix" the busted httpd.conf
you better have had a lot of practice with that config file
and not the "default" one with 98% of it the very good documentation
but a clean config file

these tests are like the course final exam
the lectures and textbook are all fine and dandy
BUT you have to be able to do the work

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That's a fairly rude statement. kbp makes a very valid point, and did so politely. The 'tutorials' to help someone pass an exam are fairly pointless....mainly, because they focus on passing the exam, NOT how to perform the tasks correctly, or learn how to think about things to be able to diagnose problems. Sites like the ones you listed are great for getting people 'certifications', which have very little real weight behind them.
Great...and thanks for posting them so others can find them. However, everyone here is entitled to their own opinions about such sites.

Again, this is not really a contributive comment. It's obvious to anyone intending to do the exam that you'll need to know how to do the work. The whole point of this thread is about learning how to do the work, the probability is that you won't know about what you don't know... even with the schedule you can still waste a lot of time digging deep into subjects that won't play a big part of the exam... or skim past stuff that on the face of it looks quite straight forward except there's more to it than one might think... and yet your time is limited, you may be fitting your studies into snatched bits of time between other commitments. It's easy to distract yourself in Linux but not always affordable. Thus, in the days before an exam, don't just sit and twiddle your thumbs and hope for the best, you might instead try to find means to refine and refresh and practise and expand your knowledge. It's easily large enouygh scope to have totally forgotten several bits of work you might need to do, what's wrong with seeking to revise it all? If you have a problem with this idea or it offends you somewow... I don't know what to say to that frankly, what are you doing in this thread? Is it just to gloat, "lookit the little people who don't know all that I know..." is that it?

When did the idea of studying and revising a subject come to be viewed as trying to cheat your way through an exam without really bothering to learn how to do the work anyway, how did it even become fashionable for this logic to gain traction? Is it the idea that someone should try to learn for free that is offensive now, not "free" in terms of effort but "free" as in beer... is that why the attitude? No money changing hands, not inside the market and therefore derisable? Maybe it's not even at that level, maybe it's just a perculiar narrow-mindedness, or elitism, or something...

"So, you want to learn medicin eh, well book-learnin ain't the same as sawing off some guys gangrenous leg fella"

Indeed. And thanks for stopping by.

As am I entitled to mine. "how to perform the tasks correctly," precisely, if you've no link that discusses these operations (we can't all afford to attend Redhats course afterall or in some other way get an experienced knowledgable person to come and show us how to "perform the tasks correctly, or learn how to think about things to be able to diagnose problems", some of us need to reffer to online resources to access that information.

If you have links that can help toward that end then by all means post them.... I don't see why anyone would waste their time and energy and others just to make snooty statements to the effect of "Well I myself have over a decade of Linux administration at the sharp end so I'm all right, you plonkers with your perfetic attempts to learn stuff through this "InTerNet" thing by doing "TuToRiaLz" and such can get lost.

Why bother, why not just roll your eyes and jog-on if you don't agree with people looking for sources to learn from on the internet. If a person considers other people attempting to learn stuff on the internet to help pass an exam as some sort of deluded work-shy cheat... leave those people to it, why would one descend from their shinning tower of 'sublime just knowing' to comment? I just don't get that, I find it a little irritating actually.

I really mean no offence when I say I think you're taking these comments the wrong way, what we're trying to say is that there is no shortcut that says this is exactly what you need to know about subject X to pass the RHCSA exam. Red Hat exams being performance based means that you can't try to memorise all the possible questions that they may ask as they don't ask questions - they'll just say configure service X to perform this function, or service X is broken, fix it.

Ignoring the exam for a minute, what would you do if your boss said "I need you to put in an ftp server for our customers to download patches"? .. you would install an ftp server, read the documentation and maybe a 'man 5 <x>.conf', fiddle with the configuration settings, search the net for peoples experience with the service and test it until you were happy that it was doing what you wanted.

This is what Red Hat wants, to certify that you are capable of reading man pages and/or documentation, resolving problems and getting results.

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Exactly...and I agree that the OP is taking this the wrong way.

OP...the best way to learn Linux is to USE IT...not attend classes. Do as kbp said in the above example...perform the tasks. Running through tutorials and exam dumps may get you a 'certification', but not much else. Doing the actual work and research will actually TEACH you what to do and how to think about and troubleshoot a system.

I have passed my EX200 exam, and am now an RHCSA.

I've been a linux user and tinkerer to varying extent for a few years now, but it's come time to make it official, so that people looking to hire linux skills can know that prospective candidates have a baseline of understanding, and that can be pointed to as proof of due diligence on the part of the employer should litigation occur.

I certainly found the schedule for the RHCSA very useful indeed for filling a number of gaps in my linux knowledge, it's been a great way to link up the many basics of linux administration for a self-taughter like me.

The two links I posted above were a great help in revising the knowledge and preparing for the exam, used in conjunction with wider or deeper sources of information of course.

Now I can relax for a bit and get back into playin around with Arch or something.

Just saw this old thread again and thought I'd update- a few months ago I achieved the RHCE.

I definitely recommend getting certed up for Linux, it's all very well fiddling about in your bedroom with linux, but as far as employers are concerned it's good to have a certification recognized in the industry.

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Hashbangbingbash, I'm in the process of preparing for the RHCSA and really have no idea what type of information I should review. I read a book by Ashgar Ghori to familiarize myself with everything, but don't know where to go next.

Anything you can share?

Hi xonnfire, yes Ashgar Gohris books are great, although the one for rhel7 wasn't out when I did this, I still recommend it. I made use of the ex300 course as well run by Redhat, the reading material you get on the course is really good and can then be added to with googlings etc. By now there may be more sources like the links I posted above but I havent looked, and you m8ght also ask on reddit/r/linux. Hope helped!

Thanks for the input. I appreciate it.

No probs... and in case you haven't seen this yet re what to focus on, list of objectives half way down: http://www.redhat.com/en/services/tr...neer-rhce-exam