I'm not familiar with that exact exam. But mine had me write out man pages from memory.
Wow. Are you serious? Seems like not a great exam..
Red Hat exams since RHEL 6 have been completely practical in nature. You are given access to a virtual environment and a series of tasks to accomplish within that environment. You are free to accomplish the tasks however you see fit, so long as the required end state is achieved. This testing methodology is specifically why Red Hat exams are held in high regard by IT professionals.
EX294 (RHCE) is heavily ansible-focused, as I’m sure you can surmise from looking at the test objectives. Know the structure of a playbook, yml syntax, basic scripting, and general RHEL network/OS administration concepts, as well as how to integrate all of these things to achieve a defined system state.
-What does this have to do with OP saying part of the exam had him reciting a manpage effectively?
Edit: I see so they shouldn't be that way anymore since OP was doing RHEL 5 exams
Yeah, it felt pretty bogus. It was for red hat 5. Glad that's all in the past.
...and you have to recite it with full troff markup
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