Product Description

The Best Fully Integrated Study System Available

With hundreds of practice questions and hands-on exercises, RHCE Red Hat Certified Engineer Linux Study Guide, Fifth Edition covers what you need to know--and shows you how to prepare--for this challenging exam.

• 100% complete coverage of all objectives for exam RH302
• Exam Readiness Checklist at the front of the book--you're ready for the exam when all objectives on the list are checked off
• Inside the Exam sections in every chapter highlight key exam topics covered
• Real-world exercises modeled after hands-on exam scenarios
• Two complete lab-based exams simulate the format, tone, topics, and difficulty of the real exam
• Bonus content (available for download) includes installation screen review, basic instructions for using VMware and Xen as testbeds, and paper and pencil versions of the lab exams

Covers all RH302 exam topics, including:

• Hardware installation and configuration
• The boot process
• Linux filesystem administration
• Package management and Kickstart
• User and group administration
• System administration tools
• Kernel services and configuration
• Apache and Squid
• Network file sharing services (NFS, FTP, and Samba)
• Domain Name System (DNS)
• E-mail (servers and clients)
• Extended Internet Services Daemon (xinetd), the Secure package, and DHCP
• The X Window System
• Firewalls, SELinux, and troubleshooting

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11831 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 848 pages

From the Author
This book covers every published objective in the latest two-part hands-on exam (Troubleshooting and System Maintenance; Installation and Configuration) for the Red Hat Certified Engineer credential from Red Hat. Plus it's up to date for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The best way to prepare for the RHCE exam is with Red Hat's prep courses, but you'll find this book an invaluable resource in your studies and afterwards on the job.

Everything you see on the RHCT exam is part of the RHCE exam. In other words, you can use this book to study for both exams. If you're studying first for the RHCT, read the Introduction. You'll find a guide to the topics to study in the book, based on the publicly available Red Hat exam prep requirements.

But more importantly, to pass the Red Hat exams, you need real-world Linux administration skills. This book can help you brush up and enhance skills in areas where you might be a bit rusty. The problem-based focus means you can use this book even after you pass the RHCE exam.

I've updated this book to the latest requirements, including tips on making Security Enhanced Linux play well with any services you may configure. There are now 16 chapters in this book, which means there are many more labs that can help you practice configuring and troubleshooting Linux.

If you're serious about passing the RHCE or RHCT exam, and can afford it, take the Red Hat courses. And read this book. As suggested by Red Hat's Exam prep guide, practice installing and configuring Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Practice installing, configuring, and activating network services. Configure scenarios that require you to debug the boot process. Configure scenarios that require you to repair network services. Practice until installing, configuring, troubleshooting, and maintaining Red Hat Enterprise Linux is second nature to you.

Thank you, and good luck!

From the Back Cover
Get the book that shows you not only what--but how--to study

• 100% complete coverage of all official objectives for exam RH302
• Exam Readiness checklist at the front of the book--you’re ready for the exam when all objectives on the list are checked off
• Real-World Exercises--Step-by-step instruction modeled after the hands-on RHCE exam questions
• Inside the Exam sections highlight key exam topics covered and how to answer questions correctly
• Simulated exam lab questions match the format, tone, topics, and difficulty of the real exam
• Money-saving tips explain how you can study for the exam without buying Red Hat Enterprise Linux

  Covers all RH302 exam topics, including: Installation * Configuration * Partitioning * Filesystem Management * Kernel, Cron, and User Administration * X Window System * Linux Sharing Services * Samba Networking * DNS/BIND, NFS and DHCP * Systems Administration and Security

  The best fully integrated study system available

  True to the format of the latest RHCE exam! CD-ROM includes:

  • Two complete RHCE exams featuring the same types of hands-on problems that you’ll see on the live exam
  • Electronic book for studying on-the-go
  • Bonus installation screen review for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3

  About the Author: Michael Jang, RHCE, Linux+, LCP, is the author of several computer books and professional certification study guides on Linux and Microsoft operating systems and networking.

  About the Author
  

  Michael Jang, LCP, MCSE, RHCE is the authorof the previous two bestselling editions of the RHCE Study Guide and several other certification prep books.

Customer Reviews

It gives you all you need to pass the exam
I found this book very helpful in preparation for RHCE. It is really easy to pass the test if you follow the book carefully.

Good book, except some mistakes and poor coverage of some topics
This book is quite good for RHCT.
For RHCE - I found that it doesn't explain well following topics :
1) squid and especially acl for squid
2) bind chapter is just a bunch of text, I could not understand anything out of this chapter. Had to take book on Fedora Core 6 which explained step by step how to setup bind.
3) sendmail. It has only basic stuff, again book on Fedora Core 6 has much better explanation.
4) Some of the stuff on LVM is not accurate in the book (for instance, you can resize volume without need to reformat it, just use resize2fs). I suggest to read LVM howto as a substitute for this chapter.


Overall this book is OK, but I would say that alone it's not enough to pass RHCE.
Download Installation guide & Deployment guide from Red Hat and whenever read this book also reference those 2 docs.

Absolutely essential for RHCE exam candidates!
I picked this book up about a month before my RHCE exam was scheduled. I had been studying using the course objectives and the Red Hat Deployment Guide, but felt I was missing that extra jump to put me ahead of the game. This book was EXACTLY that extra jump. As a direct result of studying this book, I nailed the first half of the RHCE (100%), and got 93%/89% on the RHCT/RHCE portions of the second half, respectively. I'm an RHCE now, and I owe it in part to the author of this book. This book is no substitute for real experience. I have been working with Linux for well over 15 years, and running a 50% Linux datacenter for that last 9. But experience isn't everything, because most people, even in a high-linux datacenter environment, don't use all of the technologies that are tested on this exam. Do yourself a favor, buy this book.

Pay special attention to his break/fix instructions and the "Exam tips." You will thank me later for that advice.