Red Hat Certified Advanced System Administrator in Ansible Exam

What you'll learn

• 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
• 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
• Configure Ansible: 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: Know how to run playbooks with ansible-navigator and ansible-playbook; 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
• Perform basic source control operations using Git: Clone a Git repository, Add files to a Git repository
• Be familiar with Visual Studio Code (VS Code) and be able to perform the following tasks from within the editor: Create playbooks and push them to a Git repository, Configure ansible-navigator, Run playbooks using an Ansible development container
• 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.

Prerequisites

• ›Have either taken both Red Hat System Administration I (RH124) and Red Hat System Administration II (RH134) or RHCSA Rapid Track Course (RH199), or have comparable work experience as a system administrator on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• ›Have taken Red Hat Enterprise Linux Automation with Ansible (AU294) or have comparable work experience
• ›Review the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam (EX200) objectives
• ›Review the Red Hat Certified Advanced System Administrator in Ansible exam objectives

Who should attend

• ›Experienced Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administrators seeking validation of their skills or require a certification either by their organization or based on a mandate (DoD 8570 directive)
• ›IT professionals who have taken Red Hat Enterprise Linux Automation with Ansible (AU294) and are on the path to becoming a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
• ›IT professionals who are on the path to becoming a Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)
• ›Systems administrators who want to demonstrate competency in managing multiple systems
• ›IT professionals who work in a DevOps environment and want to demonstrate competency in automating part of their workload
• ›Red Hat Certified Engineers who are noncurrent or who are about to become noncurrent and wish to recertify as RHCEs

Preparation

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