Pass Red Hat Certified Technician - RHCT

I've been out of the loop for a while and I'm trying to get more articles out to ease the backlog. I promise to get some programming articles up soon. First, I will go through the .NET introduction and getting started with C#.

Today, I want to go through the steps that will help you pass the RHCT exam. This is the information I based my preparation on.

A Description of the RH133 class that will help you pass the exam (depending on the instructor) is here:
https://www.redhat.com/courses/guide/

Some more information of what will be gone over in the RH133 class is listed here:
https://www.redhat.com/courses/rh133_red_hat_linux_system_administration_and_rhct_exam/details/

The real meat and potatoes of what you need to know for the RHCT Certification exists here:
https://www.redhat.com/certification/rhct/prep_guide/

From the above link:
"The RHCT exam is a subset of the RHCE exam delivered separately. Effective May 1, 2009, this exam is a single section lasting 2.0 hours. Previously, it had been two sections lasting a combined 3.0 hours. Consolidation and reorganization have made it possible to cover the same material more efficiently."

What this means is that this is not a written test. You will be tasked to perform the tasks listed in the above RHCT preparation guide. What I recommend doing to help in your preparation:

1) Take each item in the RHCT list and put them on top of an engineering piece of paper.
2) Start building a "how-to" on each item on the list
- list relevant commands
- common switches
- examples
3) Create a Red Hat Enterprise Linux box or Fedora box
4) Go through several times your "how-to" list with the Linux box to make sure you know how to do everything on the RHCT prep guide

This should get you well down the road to passing the RHCT exam without taking the RH133 class. I would recommend the class, if you are relatively new to the Linux game. If you want to save the money and just get the cert, follow the above steps and you should be in very good shape.