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RHCE: Red Hat Certified Engineer (EX294)

5 Courses
1 Lab
16 Hours
Practice exam

These courses are not approved or sponsored by Red Hat. \ \ Tired of having to do so many things manually, why not try automating your Linux system administration tasks with Ansible! These courses cover how to automate RHEL administration with the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

In addition, these courses cover the objectives and competencies of the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam and can help you prepare.

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What's New In RHEL 9 for RHCE EX294?

The RHEL 9 updates to the RHCE EX294 exam emphasize advanced automation using Ansible, aligning with Red Hat's focus on automation and DevOps practices.

Course

What's New In RHEL 9 for RHCE EX294?

  • by Andrew Mallett
  • 2h 5m
  • Jan 10, 2025

Linux Administration with Ansible: Ansible Automation

This section of the path provides a comprehensive guide to Ansible automation for system administrators. It focuses on equipping learners with the essential skills to automate tasks, manage configurations, and succeed in the RHCE EX294 certification exam.

Course

Linux Administration with Ansible: Getting Started with Ansible Automation

  • by Andrew Mallett
  • 3h 23m
  • Jul 30, 2021
Course

Linux Administration with Ansible: Advanced Ansible Automation

  • by Ugur Oktay
  • 2h 33m
  • Oct 01, 2021
Course

Linux Administration with Ansible: Writing Ansible Playbooks

  • by Andrew Mallett
  • 4h 21m
  • Sep 13, 2021

Ansible Hands-on Sandbox

The Ansible Hands-on Sandbox provides a practical, interactive environment to master Ansible automation skills for the RHCE EX294 exam. It allows users to practice real-world scenarios, refine their system management techniques, and gain confidence in automating tasks with Ansible.

Course

Getting Started in the Lab Environment

  • by Aaron Rosenmund
  • 6m
  • Oct 07, 2021
Lab

Ansible Hands-on Sandbox

  • by Stefan Nychka
  • 3h 5m
  • Aug 04, 2025
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Build confidence to ace your certification exam with a variety of prep tools, including video courses, labs, and practice exams.

What You'll Learn
  • Explain the bounds Linux System Administrator knowledge a viewer should have before using Ansible to automate system administration
  • Use and understand the core components of Ansible
  • Install and configure an Ansible control node
  • Manage Ansible Configuration Files and Locations
  • Create and Manage Ansible Inventories
  • Configure Ansible managed nodes
  • Script administration tasks
  • Create Ansible plays and playbooks
  • Use Ansible modules for system administration tasks
  • Work with roles and collections
  • Use advanced Ansible features
Prerequisites
  • You should be familiar with Linux system administration at the level of RHCSA certification.
Related topics
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Linux
  • RHCSA
  • Ansible
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Andrew Mallett
Andrew Mallett
Andrew is an all around Linux professional with in depth knowledge of the OS and this is supported with scripting in bash, perl, python and ruby and application development in C, C++ and Java. Having worked for many years in training, Andrew has developed automated course build systems after endless time wasted on Friday nights. The first build system he built was aptly named "Friday nights." This has inspired his interest in all things deployment related. He has authored training courses on M...
Ugur Oktay
Ugur Oktay
Ugur Oktay has a degree in Electronics Engineering and passed his Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert Routing and Switching exam (CCIE #16829) in September 2006. He is one of a small percentage of people that pass their CCIE labs on their first attempt. Ugur has a multitude of experience in IT and telecommunications around data centers , OSS/BSS systems, information security and automation. He worked for Cisco as part of the Global Service Provider team prior to becoming a Pluralsight author.
Aaron Rosenmund
Aaron Rosenmund
Aaron M. Rosenmund is a cyber security operations subject matter expert, with a background in federal and business defensive and offensive cyber operations and system automation. Leveraging his administration and automation experience, Aaron actively contributes to multiple open and closed source security operation platform projects and continues to create tools and content to benefit the community. As an educator & cyber security researcher at Pluralsight, he is focused on advancing cyber secur...
Stefan Nychka
Stefan Nychka
I've been involved in andragogy and programming my entire career, with a BSc in Computing Science from the University of Alberta, having worked there as a Lab Instructor, and now as a Technical Content Producer for IT Operations at Pluralsight.

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