Skill 2 in course 2.5: Exam Readiness

RHCSA Practice Exam

A timed, three-part practical exam covering every EX200 objective, with checks, solutions and a marking sheet.

Advanced4 lessons25 exercises3 h 5 min
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You will be able to

  • Complete 23 realistic administration tasks on two machines inside a fixed time, covering all ten EX200 objective areas.
  • Check your own work with the verification commands, and score it honestly against a pass mark.
  • Identify weak areas from the marking sheet and return to the matching skill.

Lessons

  1. 01Exam briefing, rules and marking sheetHow the practice exam works: environment, time, scoring, allowed help, preparation on node2, and the sheet you mark yourself on.lab-check.shvirsh snapshot-revertman -kfindmnt --verify0/2 exercises
  2. 02Part A: Users, access and automation (100 points)Seven tasks on accounts, sudo, password policy, shared directories, scheduling, a script, archives and time. Work on node1.useraddchagesetfaclcrontabsystemctl list-timerstar0/7 exercises
  3. 03Part B: System, software and storage (100 points)Nine tasks on repositories, services, tuning, the boot loader, root recovery, LVM, swap and file systems.dnfflatpaksystemctltuned-admrenicegrubby0/9 exercises
  4. 04Part C: Network, shared storage and security (100 points)Seven tasks on addressing, NFS and autofs, firewalld, SSH keys, SELinux, troubleshooting and the final reboot check.nmclihostnamectlmountautomountfirewall-cmdssh-keygen0/7 exercises