Red Hat System Administration II (RH134)

Red Hat System Administration II (RH134) is an intermediate-level course that targets system administrators who have mastered the basics and are ready to move into automating, optimizing, and securing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in an enterprise setting. Building on the foundation of RH124, it takes you from routine maintenance to proactive system management. The course emphasizes automation with shell scripting, managing advanced storage, enforcing security through SELinux, and troubleshooting boot and system issues. You’ll also learn performance tuning, network-attached storage management, and boot control, all critical for reliability and availability. Completing this course is a key step toward earning the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) credential, transitioning you from a proficient user to a skilled administrator capable of designing secure, efficient, and resilient enterprise solutions.

The course content delves into advanced administrative activities in an interactive, lab-based curriculum. It begins learning to improve command-line productivity with bash scripting, regular expressions, and automated job scheduling with at and cron. You will then learn how to parse and aggregate logs to audit effectively, and archive and transfer files securely across the network. Significant portions of curriculum are devoted to major enterprise skills: managing advanced storage with logical volume management (LVM) and network file systems (NFS), deploying and repairing SELinux security policy, and safeguarding network security via firewalls. The course also covers essential boot control and failure recovery troubleshooting methodologies, along with automated installation methods via Kickstart. Finally, you learn modern container management with Podman to set the stage for cloud-native environments. The in-depth review labs require you to bring all these skills together to develop a strong skillset to address complex, real-world system administration issues when you complete.