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Academic Curriculum

Current Curriculum

RHA 030 Red Hat Linux Computing Essentials

Students will learn to be effective users of Linux systems, acquiring skills and understanding of command line functions, file systems, users and groups, bash shell, process management, text editors, network applications, searching and organizing data, and graphical applications.

RHA 130 Red Hat Linux Core System Administration

Students will learn to be effective administrators of Linux systems, mastering tasks such as hardware and device configuration, file system management, user administration, network configurations, kernel services, attaching new Linux systems to a corporate network, configuring the new systems for end-users, and troubleshooting.

RHA 230 Red Hat Linux Network Applications

Students learn to deploy and administer the core networking services which have made Red Hat Enterprise Linux popular, including the Apache Web Server, the Samba File Server, BIND Domain Name Service, the Sendmail Mail Transport Agent, the Network File System (NFS), and more.

RHA 250 Red Hat Linux Security Administration

Students learn to implement and administer basic security policies relating to user authentication (including PAM and NIS) and securing network applications using application level access control and kernel level firewalling (ipchains). Students additionally learn skills in administering SELinux, system monitoring, and implementing common encryption protocols (including public key infrastructures).

Designed for Choice

  • RHA 030 & RHA 130 each comprise of over 80 contact hours of workbooks, lessons, discussion material, exercises, assessments, class management tools and live lab exams. Either course may be taught individually, over a minimum of 8 weeks, or sequentially for over at least 16 weeks.
  • RHA 230 & RHA 250 each comprise of over 40 contact hours of workbooks, lessons, discussion material, exercises, assessments, class management tools and live lab exams. Either course may be taught individually, over a minimum of 4 weeks, or sequentially for over at least 8 weeks.
  • Although each course requires a minimum amount of weeks of instruction, you decide how many contact hours are taught each week. You may also teach any course as frequently as you wish during the subscription period.
  • The courses are ideally designed for instructor-led classes in a computer lab - each computer will use the latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux as provided with your subscription; however, you may also choose a hybrid of student self-study with lab time - you decide on your preferred teaching method.
  • There are no textbooks since the curriculum is fully web hosted, delivered and managed by Red Hat; each student and instructor may print one copy of the material

Performance-based Assessment and Testing

Each course has 10-12 workbooks and each workbook contains a variety of lessons, each followed by live-system lab tests which provide both student and teacher with a definitive measurement of the student's competency before proceeding to the next workbook.

Such competency measurements accompany traditional cognitive pre-tests, exercises, and final exams to measure overall curriculum knowledge and understanding. With each course designed for demonstrating competency throughout the instruction, students are provided the best Linux education and preparation possible.

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