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I am fairly new to RH and I am very interested on being familiar with the command shell before doing any kubernetes and advance openshift platform study available here.

I am seeking to get the RH administrator cert.

The study guide and videos are great and I am spending a good amount of time daily.

However the amount of command to memorize is very overwhelming but I wont give up.

Do you have on this subscription some simulation that will give  an idea of what the exam will target?

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Duck
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Good luck on your certification journey. Unlike some of my other multichoice certifications I really felt some sense of accomplishment getting my RH certifications.

Like you, during my RHCSA and RHCE studies I was very overwhelmed with the amount of things you need to know in the CLI to get anywhere.

My biggest advice (and what I found for myself) is to check the requirements of the course and know how to use the man pages.

Example objective from the EX200 is "Configure firewall settings using firewall-cmd/firewalld".

What you want to know is the following:

  1. Generic basic networking (TCP/IP, ports, application and port associations).
  2. What a firewall is in general and vaguely how it works.
  3. The general command (firewall-cmd).

With that in mind, the big secret is to then man firewall-cmd and go to the EXAMPLES section where it explicitly lays out example commands how to do some basic stuff.

About half the things I got in my exams I knew how to do with experience and the other half I figured out quickly using the examples in the man pages. If you rely heavily on the man pages, you run the risk of running out of time; so a balanced approach may be ideal.

Just watch out for the things you may not be able to do because you cannot yet reach operating level for man pages. Basic sysadmin tasks like like recovery kernel or booting broken by SELinux/resetting root password (what ever low level administrator type stuff in the objectives).

Hope this helps.

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Duck
Flight Engineer
Flight Engineer
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Good luck on your certification journey. Unlike some of my other multichoice certifications I really felt some sense of accomplishment getting my RH certifications.

Like you, during my RHCSA and RHCE studies I was very overwhelmed with the amount of things you need to know in the CLI to get anywhere.

My biggest advice (and what I found for myself) is to check the requirements of the course and know how to use the man pages.

Example objective from the EX200 is "Configure firewall settings using firewall-cmd/firewalld".

What you want to know is the following:

  1. Generic basic networking (TCP/IP, ports, application and port associations).
  2. What a firewall is in general and vaguely how it works.
  3. The general command (firewall-cmd).

With that in mind, the big secret is to then man firewall-cmd and go to the EXAMPLES section where it explicitly lays out example commands how to do some basic stuff.

About half the things I got in my exams I knew how to do with experience and the other half I figured out quickly using the examples in the man pages. If you rely heavily on the man pages, you run the risk of running out of time; so a balanced approach may be ideal.

Just watch out for the things you may not be able to do because you cannot yet reach operating level for man pages. Basic sysadmin tasks like like recovery kernel or booting broken by SELinux/resetting root password (what ever low level administrator type stuff in the objectives).

Hope this helps.

Chetan_Tiwary_
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@Rtiebi  for this part of your query : "Do you have on this subscription some simulation that will give  an idea of what the exam will target?" 

You can refer the RHCSA exam objectives here : https://www.redhat.com/en/services/training/ex200-red-hat-certified-system-administrator-rhcsa-exam?... 

For somebody who is new to RH or Linux may find it difficult to familiarize themselves with commands and it feels like mugging up a lot of it but trust me with more practice they will become part and parcel of your daily linux tasks. 

Here is the cheat sheet for basic RH Linux commands that one needs on a daily basis for admin tasks : refer it and practice it , refer man pages for use cases - it will become easier. 

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Chetan_Tiwary_
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some more attached here.

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