15 days full time RHCSA

Hello people,
So i have 15 days full time dedicated for RHCSA exam. Starting from today, Hopefully that is enough with the materials i have. which is
1: Asghar Ghori book
2: LinuxAcademy
3: Official Red Hat workbooks (I, II, III), i believe only "I, II" is for RHCSA and "III" is for RHCE.
And i have subiscription with Red Hat to use RHEL7 to be as close as the exam.
I will be following the exam objective directly from Red Hat website for RHCSA, watching linuxacademy, reading the book, and practicing.
The onething i have to figure out is to make my own Scenarios and practice them accordingly. Would be great to get you guys help on this.
So todays plan is,
If anyone of you are also having the same plan for the exam, lets dig together then
Happy Studies guys!
So i have 15 days full time dedicated for RHCSA exam. Starting from today, Hopefully that is enough with the materials i have. which is
1: Asghar Ghori book
2: LinuxAcademy
3: Official Red Hat workbooks (I, II, III), i believe only "I, II" is for RHCSA and "III" is for RHCE.
And i have subiscription with Red Hat to use RHEL7 to be as close as the exam.
I will be following the exam objective directly from Red Hat website for RHCSA, watching linuxacademy, reading the book, and practicing.
The onething i have to figure out is to make my own Scenarios and practice them accordingly. Would be great to get you guys help on this.
So todays plan is,
- Access a shell prompt and issue commands with correct syntax
- Use input-output redirection (>, >>, |, 2>, etc.)
- Use grep and regular expressions to analyze text
- Access remote systems using ssh
- Log in and switch users in multiuser targets
- Archive, compress, unpack, and uncompress files using tar, star, gzip, and bzip2
- Create and edit text files
- Create, delete, copy, and move files and directories
- Create hard and soft links
- List, set, and change standard ugo/rwx permissions
- Locate, read, and use system documentation including man, info, and files in /usr/share/doc
If anyone of you are also having the same plan for the exam, lets dig together then

Happy Studies guys!
Comments
What you need is put together few scenarios of more time consuming and involved tasks and see how you fare in terms of time that you take to complete them.
I don't know if two weeks non stop study is realistic. You will at some point stop learning. Saturation. But a month sounds much more realistic. Unless you already completed at least one of those courses you listed.
That is the most important, to make your own complex scenario and work through it, like giving few minutes for each task. Until now i have not been able to do that. My plan is to go through the blueprint once by watching the videos and reading the book, once i finish the blueprint, i will start again from the beggining and this time, work on my own scenarios. Basically the plan is, the first week i go through the blueprint once, second week my own scenarios and some practice test.
So Today is plan,
Happy Studies!
Everything went smoothly except...... I have 3 servers, server1, server2, server3. i have setup FQDN between them, all works good except.. Server 2 can't resolve server 1 by name, but can ping by IP.....
My Question is,
Where is the host cache is keep in linux? how do we flush out the dns cache....?
thanks guys...
Setting up name resolution server: not only should syntax of DNS's config files be absolutely correct, you'll have to watch out on how client is set up to resolve host names. Clearly, in your scenario, server 2 isn't getting the resolution right and I don't think it is a cache thing.
Partitions via fdisk/gdisk: detect whether a disk was partitioned via fdisk or gdisk. Set up extended partitions and set up LVM on them with size of extents of (arbitrary number). Create swap on your disk and activate it so that system can use it. List devices by their UUID, copy/paste the UUID of the device you'd want to mount on boot on the command-line only. No copy/paste via mouse clicks.
You are right varelg, it wasn't cache problem, it was wrong hosts setup. it is resolved thanks.
I went through very well on fdisk and gdisk as well as LVM stuff..... at first i was little confused about LVM but i could wrapped up my head around quickly and figured it out that it is not very complicated, you just have to know some stuff like PV, LV etc....how they work....
Well, Todays plan.... I don't know how much of it i can go through, but i feel little exhausted and i think i will grab a drink with some friends and resume back incase I'm unable to concentrate properly..... after all I'm just another normal human
Happy studies guys!
P.S. Of course you are a just a human being and need to decompress, that's how I earned my Margarita+...
hahahaha coool.....
Well today I'm in a better mood, i think i will go through those remained from yesterday and hopefully finish "Manage Users and Groups" part too. which remains for tomorrow only SELinux (AKA. Security part).
What about you varelg..... i suppose you already have RHCA....
Once you are done with the course (any of those you listed above, or all of them), you'd have to work on your approach of how you take the exam and what is to happen at exam day. There will be plenty of distractions to take you out of that exam- taking mental zone. Travel for example. Taking time off of work can also be challenging.
That is true, i must work on my own scenarios and go through them without any help "google, techexams...etc..."
I am confused. If you did not pass you failed.
Go check out the Windows certification forum, you'll see plenty of people coming back to post about their failures.
I have been going through something, so i couldn't touch RHCSA since Friday morning until now. so i will resume from tomorrow morning with the last section "Manage Security". That kind of break in my studies clearly states that i can't go according to that 15 days plan, but i will do it within this month. cause I have no time budget for longer than that.
Happy Studies!
I studied this round quite well, i watched the videos and read the book and practiced alot. Now this time i will go little faster and practice even more, but I want to watch Sandar van videos on RHCSA on Safari...... also planing to book my exam this week, so lets see.
Happy Studies guys!
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Don't just rely on LinuxAcademy.com......
First of all,
They are not strategic, their method is to follow exactly the blueprint from Red Hat, and not very in detail, they skip alot of important stuff......
Specially LDAP part.... Be very cautious.
thanks
Many who come to RHCSA exam or preparing for it are exposing themselves to some subjects for the first time, LDAP is one example, another is LVM, to a certain extent partitioning and automounting at startup or autofs, subjects that common users rarely if ever get to deal with unless they intentionally set out to study those subjects.
I like how Sander in his book teaches how to set up the server and how to set up client to authenticate, immediately assumes certificates will be required and proceeds.
I don't have official RH training material vteche, I wonder how do you like their explanation and howto's on LDAP client setup?
RH training material are just like those linuxacademy etc.... but of course little better, but still makes you very confuse if you just rely on that.
I never thought just the LDAP and NFS automounting part would take me two full days, but guess what, i know the ins and outs of the client and server side configuration.
I was just ready to book the test and saw that they increased the price from 450 to 500 euro. I honestly have no idea if a simple certificate like RHCSA even worth to that price. I feel sorry for myself that i invested so much time to study for this.
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Maybe in the mean time i start preparing for RHCE.... what do you think guys? Kinda confuse here.
i've just came across thisforum, and found your thread quite interesting,i'm willing to prepare for the RHCSA exam too,
honestly, i already began preparing a whiiiile ago, but just gave up, (i was not motivated enough)
boring, saturation, begin to hate RedHat
anyway,, IMHO it a good idea to prepare for RHCE if you think you will really need it,
as you probably know, the certification validity lasts about 3 years,
and it costs almost the same as RHCSA,
but the objectives are obviously different,
so just don't rush yourself right now, take time to pass the RHCSA first, then start preparing for the RHCE, so you DO NOT confuse yourself.
if anyone wants to join me, start preparing for the RHCSA as a group of two or more, (the less it is the more effective it will be)
why not, we could put up a daily schedule or else, depending on the availability of each one, and start from beginning.
and if vtech would like to play the teacher
anyway, doing it in group would be much better and more fun.
Waiting for replies...
Well you are right, i take it little slower, didn't start RHCE, but i will once im done with RHCSA, maybe another 15 days for RHCE...
Right now, i practice 2-3 hours RHCSA and have started to Puppet and Chef..
But if you have a group surely will join and share our experiences