RHCSA (022): The Season 2 Game Plan: Tackling RHEL 10 Objectives on Rocky 9 (Until Rocky 10 is Available on Linode)

RHCSA (EX200) Objectives

Executive Summary

Episode 22 finalizes the entire strategy for the upcoming 25 hands-on lab episodes of Season 2. This session lays out the official game plan, confirming that our mission is to achieve total command-line mastery by focusing exclusively on the first major RHCSA objective: "Understand and use essential tools." We will systematically work through all 11 core competencies, covering everything from shell access and file management to data streams and documentation, to build the rock-solid foundation required for the rest of the certification.

The episode solidifies our lab strategy, confirming that we will begin our training on a Rocky Linux 9 server hosted on Linode. This approach provides a stable, professional-grade environment that is functionally identical to Red Hat Enterprise Linux for exam purposes. Crucially, we will pivot our labs to Rocky Linux 10 as soon as it becomes a standard one-click option on the Linode platform, ensuring our skills remain perfectly aligned with the latest RHEL 10 certification target.

Finally, we detail the practical format for Season 2. Each of the 25 episodes will be a focused, follow-along lab session where I will demonstrate tasks via SSH on our shared lab environment. With the blueprint, tools, and methodology now locked in, this episode concludes all the theoretical planning. The planning is over. The next episode kicks off the practical work as we begin building our lab from scratch. 🚀

Keywords: RHCSA, RHEL 10, Rocky Linux 9, Rocky Linux 10, Linode, EX200, Red Hat Certified System Administrator, Season 2 Plan, RHCSA Objectives, Command-Line Mastery, Hands-on Labs, System Administration, IT Training, Exam Preparation, Linux Podcast, Understand and use essential tools, Shell, SSH, File Management, Permissions, grep, tar

```
+-- Episode 22 Abbreviations
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|-- EX200: Red Hat Certified System Administrator Exam Code
|-- grep: Global Regular Expression Print
|-- gzip: GNU Zip
|-- IT: Information Technology
|-- Regex: Regular Expression
|-- RHEL: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
|-- RHCSA: Red Hat Certified System Administrator
|-- rwx: Read, Write, Execute
|-- SSH: Secure Shell
|-- tar: Tape Archive
\-- ugo: User, Group, Other
```

```
+-- Episode 22: The Season 2 Game Plan: Tackling RHEL 10 Objectives on Rocky 9
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|-- 1. Finalizing Our Foundation
|   |-- 1.1 Our Target: RHEL 10 Certification
|   |-- 1.2 Our Lab Strategy: Start with Rocky 9, pivot to Rocky 10 on Linode when available
|   \-- 1.3 Our Confidence: Rocky provides a 100% transferable skill set
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|-- 2. The Season 2 Mission: Total Command-Line Mastery
|   |-- 2.1 The Official Goal: "Understand and use essential tools"
|   |-- 2.2 Our Explicit Goal: Master sub-objectives 1.1 - 1.11 over 25 episodes
|   \-- 2.3 Why This First? These skills are the foundation for everything else
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|-- 3. The Blueprint: 11 Core Skills in 25 Labs
|   |-- 3.1 Shell & System Access
|   |   |-- 1.1: The Shell Prompt & Command Syntax
|   |   |-- 1.4: Remote Access with SSH
|   |   \-- 1.5: Logging In & Switching Users
|   |-- 3.2 File & Directory Management
|   |   |-- 1.7: Creating & Editing Text Files
|   |   |-- 1.8: Create, Delete, Copy, & Move
|   |   |-- 1.9: Hard & Soft Links
|   |   \-- 1.10: Standard ugo/rwx Permissions
|   |-- 3.3 Data Streams & Processing
|   |   |-- 1.2: Input-Output Redirection (>, >>, |)
|   |   |-- 1.3: Searching Text with grep & Regex
|   |   \-- 1.6: Archiving & Compression (tar, gzip)
|   \-- 3.4 Learning How to Learn
|       \-- 1.11: Using System Documentation (man, info)
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|-- 4. The Lab Format: How We'll Practice
|   |-- 4.1 One Focus Topic per Episode (or two for smaller topics)
|   |-- 4.2 Live Demos: SSH into our Rocky 9 Linode
|   \-- 4.3 Practical, repeatable tasks you can follow along with
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\-- 5. Final Countdown & Next Steps
    |-- 5.1 Recap: The blueprint for the next 25 hands-on episodes is locked in
    \-- 5.2 The Bridge to E23: "The planning is over. It's time to build."
        \-- Next Episode: We deploy our Rocky 9 Linode from scratch
```