Prepare for your Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam

System configuration and management

Network services

Network services are an important subset of the exam objectives. RHCE candidates should be capable of meeting the following objectives for each of the network services listed below:

HTTP/HTTPS

DNS

NFS

SMB

SMTP

SSH

NTP

Database services

DNS

Caching Domain Name Service (DNS)

DNS servers comes in several types such as master, slave, forwarding and cache, to name a few examples, with cache-only DNS being the one that is easier to setup. The cache-only DNS server is also known as resolver, which will query DNS records and fetch all the DNS details from other servers, and keep each query request in its cache for later use so that when we perform the same request in the future, it will serve from its cache, thus reducing the response time even more.

https://www.tecmint.com/install-configure-cache-only-dns-server-in-rhel-centos-7/

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/linux_domain_identity_authentication_and_policy_guide/trouble-gen-dns


HTTP/HTTPS

Configure a virtual host

https://www.certdepot.net/rhel7-configure-apache-virtual-host/

https://www.linux.com/blog/multiple-virtual-hosts-centos-7-or-rhel-7

Deploy a basic CGI application

https://www.certdepot.net/rhel7-deploy-apache-basic-cgi-application/

Configure access restrictions on directories

https://www.certdepot.net/rhel7-configure-apache-private-directories/

Configure group-managed content

https://www.certdepot.net/rhel7-configure-apache-group-managed-content/

Configure TLS security

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_a-mq/6.2/html/security_guide/fmqsecurityssl

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/system_administrators_guide/ch-web_servers


NFS

Provide network shares to specific clients

https://www.certdepot.net/rhel7-provide-nfs-network-shares-specific-clients/

Provide network shares suitable for group collaboration

https://www.certdepot.net/rhel7-provide-nfs-network-shares-suitable-group-collaboration/

Use Kerberos to control access to NFS network shares

https://www.certdepot.net/rhel7-use-kerberos-control-access-nfs-network-shares/


SMB

Provide network shares to specific clients

https://www.certdepot.net/rhel7-provide-smb-network-shares/

Provide network shares suitable for group collaboration

https://www.certdepot.net/smb-provide-network-shares-suitable-group-collaboration/


SMTP

Configure a system to forward all email to a central mail server

https://www.certdepot.net/rhel7-configure-system-forward-email-central-mail-server/


SSH

Configure key-based authentication

https://www.certdepot.net/rhel7-configure-ssh-key-based-authentication/



Reference

https://www.redhat.com/en/services/training/ex300-red-hat-certified-engineer-rhce-exam

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/system_administrators_guide/