Be able to perform all tasks expected of a Red Hat Certified System Administrator
Understand and use essential tools
Operate running systems
Configure local storage
Create and configure file systems
Deploy, configure, and maintain systems
Manage users and groups
Manage security
Understand core components of Ansible
Inventories
Modules
Variables
Facts
Loops
Conditional tasks
Plays
Handling task failure
Playbooks
Configuration files
Roles
Use provided documentation to look up specific information about Ansible modules and commands
Use roles and Ansible Content Collections
Create and work with roles
Install roles and use them in playbooks
Install Content Collections and use them in playbooks
Obtain a set of related roles, supplementary modules, and other content from content collections, and use them in a playbook.
Install and configure an Ansible control node
Install required packages
Create a static host inventory file
Create a configuration file
Create and use static inventories to define groups of hosts
Configure Ansible managed nodes
Create and distribute SSH keys to managed nodes
Configure privilege escalation on managed nodes
Deploy files to managed nodes
Be able to analyze simple shell scripts and convert them to playbooks
Run playbooks with Automation content navigator
Know how to run playbooks with Automation content navigator
Use Automation content navigator to find new modules in available Ansible Content Collections and use them
Use Automation content navigator to create inventories and configure the Ansible environment
Create Ansible plays and playbooks
Know how to work with commonly used Ansible modules
Use variables to retrieve the results of running a command
Use conditionals to control play execution
Configure error handling
Create playbooks to configure systems to a specified state
Automate standard RHCSA tasks using Ansible modules that work with:
Software packages and repositories
Services
Firewall rules
File systems
Storage devices
File content
Archiving
Task scheduling
Security
Users and groups
Manage content
Create and use templates to create customized configuration files
Use Ansible Vault in playbooks to protect sensitive data
As with all Red Hat performance-based exams, configurations must persist after reboot without intervention