Study Guide for the RHCSA and RHCE exams

I am taking the RHCE exam for RHEL6 at the end of June. This blog will be my notes, personal study guide, and practice lab recordings until then.

I have bought and am reading two books :

1. RHCSA / RHCE Red Hat Linux Certification Study Guide -  Sixth Edition
2. Hands-on Guide to the Red Hat Exams: RHCSA and RHCE Cert Guide and Lab Manual 

My testing and 'home lab' systems will include :

• I am using VMware Server (2.0) which is a free download at the WMware website .

• I have a desktop PC that is running Windows XP - SP 3 (Yes, old, 3 hard drives in it, so a lot of disk space available .)
• A corporate HP laptop running Windows 7.0 64 bit with Intel i7 processors, w 8 GB memmory
• My personal Toshiba laptop running Windows 7.0 64 bit, QUAD Core AMD A6 processors  w 4 GB memory
• I also have a number of lab VM's to create on demand in the company lab. The drawback here is that we are using a corporate RHEL6 image without a desktop, that has many modifications to the RHEL6 image for security purposes explicitly for server usage only .

Getting started, post chapter 1 notes today.