Week 1— Essential Tools
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Essential Tools
Essential Tools is 11% of EX200 and covers the command-line fundamentals every other RHEL 9 task depends on: shell redirection, text processing, file finding, archiving, and links. Questions appear as hands-on lab items where you run commands in a terminal and the grader inspects resulting files, permissions, and output, not multiple-choice recall.
📅 Days 1–7🎯 ~2 questions/day⚖ 11% of exam- ✓Redirect stdout and stderr with >, >>, 2>, and pipes between grep, cut, sort, and wc
- ✓Locate files by name, owner, size, or mtime using find with -exec and xargs
- ✓Create and extract tar archives, including gzip and bzip2 compression with tar czf and tar xjf