Red Hat Certified Engineer Exam (EX294)

Product Description

Candidates for the Red Hat Certified System Engineer exam must be able to perform the following 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
• Be able to analyze simple shell scripts

Be familiar with Visual Studio Code (VS Code) and be able to perform the following tasks from within the editor:

• Clone a GIT repository
• Create playbooks and push them to a GIT repository
• Configure ansible-navigator
• Run playbooks using an Ansible development container

Understand core components of Ansible

• Inventories
• Modules
• Variables
• Facts
• Loops
• Conditional tasks
• Plays
• Handling task failure
• Playbooks
• Configuration files
• Roles
• Use provided documentation to look up specific information about Ansible modules and commands

Install and configure Ansible

• Install required packages
• Create and modify ansible.cfg
• Modify ansible-navigator.yml
• Create a static host inventory file
• Create and use static inventories to define groups of hosts

Configure Ansible managed nodes

• Create and distribute SSH keys to managed nodes
• Configure privilege escalation on managed nodes
• Deploy files to managed nodes

Run playbooks with ansible-navigator

• Know how to run playbooks with ansible-navigator
• Use ansible-navigator to find new modules in available Ansible Content collections and use them
• Use ansible-navigator to create inventories and configure the Ansible environment

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 roles and Ansible Content Collections

• Create and work with roles
• Install roles and use them in playbooks
• Install Content Collections and use them in playbooks
• Obtain a set of related roles, supplementary modules, and other content from content collections, and use them in a playbook

Automate standard RHCSA tasks using Ansible modules that work with:

• Software packages and repositories
• Services
• Firewall rules
• File systems
• Storage devices
• File content
• Archiving
• Task scheduling
• Security
• Users and groups

Manage content

• Create and use templates to create customized configuration files
• Use Ansible Vault in playbooks to protect sensitive data

As with all Red Hat performance-based exams, configurations must persist after reboot without intervention.