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EX200 Hands-on Labs — practise in a simulated RHEL 10 terminal
Learn it. Practise it. Make it stick.
36 practical tasks + 4 troubleshooting challenges. Familiar administration workflows, gradual hints and explanations. Independent simulation — no real tenant, device or cloud resources.
First five tasks are free, repeatable and have no expiry · No credit card required.
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Certificate of Completion
Finish the course. Prove it.
Complete all 36 labs and you can download a certificate of completion with your name, the skills you practised and a unique ID. Challenges are optional. Anyone can check it on a public verification page — and add it to LinkedIn in one click.
- Not self-declared. Before issuing, our server re-runs the grader on every lab you saved, so a checkbox in your browser is not enough.
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- Honest. It certifies that you completed this course. It is independent training, not an official certification.
ExamIT Lab
Certificate of Completion
Linux System Administration
Hands-on skills course · EX200 track · 36 graded labs
Alex Morgan
has completed every hands-on lab of the course. Each task was graded on the resulting state of a simulated Linux server — not on the commands typed.
Users & sudoLVM & XFS storageSELinuxfirewalldsystemd servicesSchedulingNetworkingContainers
Completed
4 October 2026
4 October 2026
36/36labs
Certificate ID
LSA-7K4Q-2M9D-X8
LSA-7K4Q-2M9D-X8
Verify at examitlab.com/verify/LSA-7K4Q-2M9D-X8. This is a certificate of course completion issued by ExamIT Lab. It is independent training and not an official certification of any vendor.
Sample certificate — name and ID are fictional.
Your learning path
Work through the tasks in order — each one builds on the last.
LAB 01 · FREE
Create the ops team: groups, users, password aging and sudo
Users and groups · Security · 10–12 min
Open lab →LAB 02 · FREE
Add a 2 GiB XFS logical volume on /dev/vdb, mounted at /data at boot
Local storage · File systems · 12–15 min
Open lab →LAB 03 · FREE
Serve the enrolment site on port 9876: httpd, SELinux port label, firewalld
Security · Deploy and maintain · Networking · 12–15 min
Open lab →LAB 04 · FREE
Shell essentials: redirection, grep, tar and links on the course archive
Essential tools · 8–10 min
Open lab →LAB 05 · FREE
Fix the broken permissions on /srv/enrolment (ugo/rwx, setgid, umask)
Essential tools · File systems · 8–10 min
Open lab →LAB 06 · LOCKED
Archive and compress: tar with gzip and bzip2, verify, extract
Essential tools · 6–8 min
Included with full EX200 lab access
LAB 07 · LOCKED
Documentation: find answers with man, man -k and /usr/share/doc
Essential tools · 5–6 min
Included with full EX200 lab access
LAB 08 · LOCKED
Write backup.sh: arguments, loop, test and command output
Shell scripts · 10–12 min
Included with full EX200 lab access
LAB 09 · LOCKED
Write check-users.sh: conditional logic over /etc/passwd
Shell scripts · 8–10 min
Included with full EX200 lab access
LAB 10 · LOCKED
Boot targets: make multi-user the default and keep graphical available
Operate running systems · Deploy and maintain · 6–8 min
Included with full EX200 lab access
LAB 11 · LOCKED
Interrupt the boot process and reset the lost root password
Operate running systems · 10–12 min
Included with full EX200 lab access
LAB 12 · LOCKED
Find and stop the runaway process, lower the priority of the batch job
Operate running systems · 8–10 min
Included with full EX200 lab access
LAB 13 · LOCKED
Apply a tuning profile with tuned-adm
Operate running systems · 5–6 min
Included with full EX200 lab access
LAB 14 · LOCKED
Journals: find the failed unit and make journald persistent
Operate running systems · 8–10 min
Included with full EX200 lab access
LAB 15 · LOCKED
Securely transfer files to serverb with scp, rsync and sftp
Operate running systems · 6–8 min
Included with full EX200 lab access
LAB 16 · LOCKED
Partition /dev/vdb with GPT: add swap and LVM partitions without destroying data
Local storage · 10–12 min
Included with full EX200 lab access
LAB 17 · LOCKED
Extend the vg_data volume group with a new PV and grow lv_data online
Local storage · File systems · 10–12 min
Included with full EX200 lab access
LAB 18 · LOCKED
Add 1 GiB of swap from a logical volume, persistent across reboots
Local storage · 8–10 min
Included with full EX200 lab access
LAB 19 · LOCKED
VFAT and ext4 filesystems mounted persistently by label
File systems · 8–10 min
Included with full EX200 lab access
LAB 20 · LOCKED
Mount the NFS export from serverb at boot
File systems · 8–10 min
Included with full EX200 lab access
LAB 21 · LOCKED
Configure autofs for home directories from serverb
File systems · 10–12 min
Included with full EX200 lab access
LAB 22 · LOCKED
Install packages and configure the local repository
Manage software · 8–10 min
Included with full EX200 lab access
LAB 23 · LOCKED
Flatpak: add the Flathub remote and install an app for the kiosk
Manage software · 6–8 min
Included with full EX200 lab access
LAB 24 · LOCKED
Schedule tasks: a cron job for alice, a one-off at job, a systemd timer
Deploy, configure and maintain · 10–12 min
Included with full EX200 lab access
LAB 25 · LOCKED
Services: enable the time service, mask the one that must never run
Deploy, configure and maintain · 6–8 min
Included with full EX200 lab access
LAB 26 · LOCKED
Configure chrony to use the campus time server
Deploy, configure and maintain · 6–8 min
Included with full EX200 lab access
LAB 27 · LOCKED
Modify the bootloader: add a kernel parameter permanently
Deploy, configure and maintain · 8–10 min
Included with full EX200 lab access
LAB 28 · LOCKED
Configure static IPv4 and IPv6 addressing with nmcli
Basic networking · 10–12 min
Included with full EX200 lab access
LAB 29 · LOCKED
Hostname and name resolution: hostnamectl and /etc/hosts
Basic networking · 6–8 min
Included with full EX200 lab access
LAB 30 · LOCKED
firewalld: services, ports and a rich rule for the admin network
Basic networking · Security · 10–12 min
Included with full EX200 lab access
LAB 31 · LOCKED
Key-based SSH authentication from student to serverb
Security · 8–10 min
Included with full EX200 lab access
LAB 32 · LOCKED
SELinux: return to enforcing, fix the web root labels with fcontext and restorecon
Security · 10–12 min
Included with full EX200 lab access
LAB 33 · LOCKED
SELinux booleans: let httpd reach the database and serve home directories
Security · 6–8 min
Included with full EX200 lab access
LAB 34 · LOCKED
Default permissions: system-wide umask and a setgid collaboration directory
Security · Essential tools · 8–10 min
Included with full EX200 lab access
LAB 35 · LOCKED
Users: delete, lock, change shells and set expiry dates
Users and groups · 8–10 min
Included with full EX200 lab access
LAB 36 · LOCKED
Podman: run the web image as a systemd user service that starts at boot
Containers · 12–15 min
Included with full EX200 lab access
Troubleshooting challenges
Inspect evidence, identify the cause, make a safe fix and verify it. 4 separate exercises, included with full EX200 lab access.
The server will not boot into graphical mode
8–10 min
Locked · Full lab access required
Users cannot write to the shared directory
8–10 min
Locked · Full lab access required
The web server answers locally but not from the network
10–12 min
Locked · Full lab access required
The volume group is full
10–12 min
Locked · Full lab access required
EX200 hands-on labs — questions
- Does EX200 have labs, and can I practise them without a tenant?
- Yes. ExamIT Lab gives you 36 guided EX200 labs in a simulated RHEL 10 terminal. Nothing is deployed to a real Microsoft tenant, subscription or device, so there is nothing to set up, nothing to pay Microsoft for, and nothing you can break.
- Are the EX200 labs free?
- The first 5 labs in the learning order are free, repeatable and never expire — no credit card and no sign-up required to start. The full course of 36 labs plus 4 troubleshooting challenges is a one-time purchase with no subscription.
- What does a EX200 lab look like?
- Each lab opens a realistic simulation of a simulated Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 shell — users and groups, sudo, LVM and XFS storage, fstab, NFS and autofs, SELinux, firewalld, systemd services and timers, cron, networking with nmcli, GRUB and boot recovery, Podman containers. You get a task brief, a guided or independent mode, progressive hints and a "Check configuration" button that grades the actual end state you left behind — not just the buttons you clicked.
- Do the labs cover the current EX200 exam outline?
- The labs are mapped to the objectives in Microsoft's current EX200 study guide, and we re-audit the mapping when Microsoft updates the skills measured. Combine them with the EX200 practice test on ExamIT Lab for full coverage.
- Is there a certificate at the end?
- Yes. When all 36 labs are complete you can issue a certificate of completion in your account: a PDF with your name and a unique ID, an Add to LinkedIn link and a public verification page. Before issuing, the server re-runs the course grader on every lab you saved, so it reflects work you really did. It certifies completion of this course; it is independent training, not an official certification.
- How is this different from a Microsoft Learn sandbox or a trial tenant?
- A trial tenant gives you a blank environment and no feedback. These labs give you a pre-built scenario with fictional users, devices and policies, a clear goal, and automatic checking of your result — so you practise the exact administration workflows the EX200 exam expects, in minutes, not hours of setup.
Access is per course. Sign in for account progress. After paid access expires, your saved progress is retained and the first five tasks remain free.