Run commands more efficiently by using advanced features of the Bash shell, shell scripts, and various Red Hat Enterprise Linux utilities.

Run repetitive tasks with for loops, evaluate exit codes from commands and scripts, run tests with operators, and create conditional structures with if statements.

Create regular expressions to match data, apply regular expressions to text files with the grep command, and use grep to search files and data from piped commands.

Set up a command to run once at a future time.

Schedule commands to run on a repeating schedule with a user's crontab file.

Schedule commands to run on a repeating schedule with the system crontab file and directories.

Enable and disable systemd timers, and configure a timer that manages temporary files.

Describe the basic Red Hat Enterprise Linux logging architecture to record events.

Interpret events in the relevant syslog files to troubleshoot problems or to review system status.

Find and interpret entries in the system journal to troubleshoot problems or review system status.

Configure the system journal to preserve the record of events when a server is rebooted.

Maintain accurate time synchronization with Network Time Protocol (NTP) and configure the time zone to ensure correct time stamps for events that are recorded by the system journal and logs.

Archive files and directories into a compressed file with tar, and extract the contents of an existing tar archive.

Transfer files to or from a remote system securely with SSH.

Efficiently and securely synchronize the contents of a local file or directory with a remote server copy.

Optimize system performance by selecting a tuning profile that the tuned daemon manages.

Prioritize or deprioritize specific processes, with the nice and renice commands.

Explain how SELinux protects resources, change the current SELinux mode of a system, and set the default SELinux mode of a system.

Manage the SELinux policy rules that determine the default context for files and directories with the semanage fcontext command, and apply the context defined by the SELinux policy to files and directories with the restorecon command.

Activate and deactivate SELinux policy rules with the setsebool command, manage the persistent value of SELinux Booleans with the semanage boolean -l command, and consult man pages that end with _selinux to find useful information about SELinux Booleans.

Use SELinux log analysis tools and display useful information during SELinux troubleshooting with the sealert command.

Create storage partitions, format them with file systems, and mount them for use.

Create and manage swap spaces to supplement physical memory.

Describe logical volume manager components and concepts, and implement LVM storage and display LVM component information.

Analyze the multiple storage components that make up the layers of the storage stack.

Identify NFS export information, create a directory to use as a mount point, mount an NFS export with the mount command or by configuring the /etc/fstab file, and unmount an NFS export with the umount command.

Describe the benefits of using the automounter, and automount NFS exports by using direct and indirect maps.

Describe the Red Hat Enterprise Linux boot process, set the default target when booting, and boot a system to a non-default target.

Log in to a system and change the root password when the current root password is lost.

Manually repair file-system configuration or corruption issues that stop the boot process.

Accept or reject network connections to system services with firewalld rules.

Verify that network ports have the correct SELinux type for services to bind to them.

Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux on a server.

Explain Kickstart concepts and architecture, create a Kickstart file with the Kickstart Generator website, modify an existing Kickstart file with a text editor and check its syntax with ksvalidator, publish a Kickstart file to the installer, and install Kickstart on the network.

Install a virtual machine on your Red Hat Enterprise Linux server with the web console.

Explain container concepts and the core technologies for building, storing, and running containers.

Pull container images from a registry and run containers by using Podman.

Authenticate to and explore the container images stored in remote container registries.

Manage the lifecycle of a container from creation to deletion.