Doc, The gaping holes you refer to are covered in the RHCDS, RHCVA, RHCSS and RHCA training tracks. The RHCE is the base to build your Red Hat certification on not the end.
-Dougal On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 14:05 -0500, Will Kane wrote: >> I'll be sitting for the RHCE exam late next week. I'm hoping the >> community can offer some advice on what to do and/or not do in final >> preparation for the exam and on exam day. >> >> I've been a unix/Linux user for many years as well as a system >> adminstrator on non-unix/Linux systems. However, I've only had >> systems admin responsibilities for RHEL for a few months. I have >> recently graduated from a Red Hat Academy course which did not offer >> the exam. That all gives me some readiness for the exam, but it is >> far from automatic that I would pass. >> >> I'd very much welcome any insights, suggestions, gotchas, etc from >> those of you who have taken the exam. >> >> Thanks in advance. > > Will, > > Obviously those of us who have sat for that exam cannot offer any > specific advise. There are several general areas you should bone up on, > such as installing and configuring the OS itself, a web server, setting > up accounts, setting up permissions and quotas, and so on. Sitting > through a formal course like RH300 is helpful, but there is really no > subsitute for total immersion in RHEL as an admin for many months (years > would be better). > > IMHO there are gaping holes in the RHCE program that are not taught in > courses and not captured in the RHCE exam. SELinux is given the most > superficial coverage. Backups aren't even mentioned. Nor are virtual > machines or SANs unless they've been added recently. You'll have to > learn about those on your own. > > --Doc Savage > Fairview Heights, IL > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list > _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
