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Sander van Vugt

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Red Hat RHCSA/RHCE 7 Cert Guide: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (EX200 and EX300)

Sander van Vugt

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Sander van Vugt is an independent Linux trainer, author, and consultant living in the Netherlands. Sander is the author of the best-selling Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) Complete Video Course and also of the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) Complete Video Course. He has also written numerous books about different Linux-related topics, and many articles for Linux publications around the world. Sander has been teaching Red Hat, SUSE, and LPI Linux classes since 1994. As a consultant, he specializes in Linux high-availability solutions and performance optimization. You can find more information about Sander on his website at http://www.sandervanvugt.com.

For more information about RHAT certification and additional resources, visit the authors Red Hat Certification page at http://www.rhatcert.com/.

Frederik Vos is a senior technical trainer in Linux training and also in several virtualization solutions, such as VMware vSphere, XenServer, and KVM. For the past 8 years Frederik has working for XTG in Gouda, a training center specializing in virtualization solutions and Linux, as a teacher and Linux evangelist, responsible for the Linux portfolio at XTG.

He has specialized in data center infrastructures (several Linux distributions), hypervisors, networking, and storage solutions and cloud computing (Cloudstack, Cloudplatform, and OpenStack). He has a lot of knowledge as a teacher and also real-world experience as a system engineer and as a long-time (1997) Linux user.

Ross Brunson has more than 20 years of experience as a Linux and open source trainer, training manager, and technologist and is author of the popular LPIC-1 Exam Cram (Que Publishing), as well as the Pearson LPIC-1 Certification Guide.

Ross recently spent almost 5 years as the director of member services for the Linux Professional Institute, building the member program, conducting dozens of Train-the-Trainer sessions, and providing support for the worldwide Master Affiliate network spanning 100+ countries.

Ross holds a number of key IT certifications and is also author of several successful technical books, dozens of technical courses for major organizations (including the first LPI Certification Bootcamp). He is also skilled at both contributing to and building community around IT products.

He lives in Paradise Valley, Montana, with his family and enjoys traveling far and wide, winter sports, and photography.

William Bo Rothwell, at the impressionable age of 14, crossed paths with a TRS-80 Micro Computer System (affectionately known as a Trash 80). Soon after, the adults responsible for Bo made the mistake of leaving him alone with the TSR-80. He immediately dismantled it and held his first computer class, showing his friends what made this computer thing work.

Since this experience, Bos passion for understanding how computers work and sharing this knowledge with others has resulted in a rewarding career in IT training. His experience includes Linux, UNIX, and programming languages such as Perl, Python, Tcl, and Bash. Bo owns several IT certifications, including earning his original RHCE in 2003. He is a former RHCI (Red Hat Certified Instructor) and the founder and president of One Course Source, an IT training organization.