RHCE Red Hat Certified Engineer Linux Study Guide (Exam RH302) (Certification Press) |  | Author: Michael Jang
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
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Edition: 5
Pages: 848
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.5 x 2
ISBN: 0072264543
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.432
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Publication Date: June 21, 2007
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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
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 Not a good source for prep June 28, 2010
ba50627
It is like reading a table of contents...does not really read like a text book.
Red Hat has a very difficult test, and this book will not prepare you for the exam.
 Big book, but don't expect just reading it will get you through the test... April 12, 2010
David Hostetler (League City, Texas U.S.A.)
But if you are studying for the RHCE you already knew that.... I am working my way through this book, and the Red Hat official class guide to prep for the exam, not to mention working on the systems on a daily basis. The challenge is working through the aspects of the system that are not related to your day to day job. You really need a small network, or just a virtual network of boxes at home to test and practice on.
What I would LOVE to see in one of these test prep books / software packages is the sorts of labs, practices and simulations similar to the actual Red Hat material.
 Helped my pass my RHCT March 7, 2010
K. Cochran (Chicago, IL USA)
Highly recommend as a study aid. I have always worked with Linux distros at home, but my job recently required more from me in the area of Red Hat Enterprise Linux support. I attended the RH 133 week long class. While attending the class I was also reading this book. It gave me a different angle to the material that the instructor covered and really think that it helped give me the extra push to get my RHCT. I would not say that this book alone would have caused me to pass the exam, but it really helped augment the instructor based class. It is also been a great reference guide in going forward in my new duties with managing RHEL systems around the office.
Excellent book, a bit out of date January 5, 2010
Christopher W. Chua
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I used this book to study for my RHCE Exam in December of 2009. From what I have heard from this book and my personal experience, it is THE book to use for studying for the RHCE exam besides the material provided in the 300 course. The labs in the book were quite good, but I found that I had to do some extra steps to get my system to a point where I could execute the lab well. Figuring out how to get my system to that point were very good learning experiences, but they made me skim through labs since I didn't want to bother with the setup. It would have been very nice if they provided a pre-configured vm image of a similar release (like CentOS) that was preconfigured so that when you hit a lab, you had all of the necessary pieces, or at least build on the pieces from the previous labs.
NOTE: I mentioned in my title that the book is a bit out of date. From studying book I thought that I would have to configure a RHEL system from scratch (do an install, pick package groups, pick partition sizes, etc). Red Hat eliminated the installation portion of the exam in 2008 or 2009. The exam is now only a 3.5 hour session consisting of RHCT troubleshooting and RHCE system configuration.
 Best practices and growing your career! October 18, 2009
AR_Linux_User (Arkansas)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I think everyone should be required to take & pass the RHCE 'if' you would in a
Enterprise environment or in a smaller company. Understanding the fundamentals of
an Operating System to the complexity of services that can survive the public
Internet or Internal network is key to success.
I learned a lot from digging in and I know when I set up servers for work they
are correct and done by the book, not by some search off the Internet or by some
forum where people do things by the seat of the pants...
This to me was an awesome achievement and milestone, I knew after going through
all of the self-sacrifice it allowed me to except new challenges.
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