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Guide to Red Hat Certification: Overview and Career Paths
The Red Hat, Inc. is going to provide you an open source software solution to about more than 90 percent of the Fortune 500 companies, which would include the Internet Service Providers, airlines, healthcare companies, and commercial banks. This company has been around for more than about two decades and is well known for its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution. The Red Hat is going to provide a fully open technology stack, which you can alter so as to suit your needs, you're not locked into 4 vendor's vision of the stack or software components. Red Hat's portfolio of services and products also include JBoss middleware, cloud computing cross-platform virtualization, etc. OpenStack and Cloud Forms and much more.
Red Hat Certification offers numerous professional certifications based on its software products including operating systems, virtualization, storage, and cloud-based solutions.
Red Hat Administrator, Engineer and Architect Certifications
The largest group of Red Hat certifications is geared toward system administrators, architects, and engineers. Some of the most popular and sought-after Red Hat certifications dwell in this category, such as the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA), Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) and Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA).
The RHCA is probably Red Hat’s most versatile credential, along with the specialties in Application platform, Cloud, Datacenter, Application Development, and DevOps currently available. Over the past year, Red Hat has retired a great many of its credentials, as you can observe from the long list of “Retired Certifications” at the company’s All Certifications page.
RHCSA: Red Hat Certified System Administrator
The RHCSA certification is designed for the experienced Red Hat administrators and is required by some organizations to meet the Directive U.S. Department of Defense 8570. It's would also a prerequisite credential for the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE).
In order to obtain RHCSA certification, candidates must have to clear the 2.5-hour RHCSA Exam (EX200).
RHCE: Red Hat Certified Engineer
The RHCE certification is geared toward the experienced senior system administrators and is going to fulfill the requirements of U.S. Department of Defense Directive 8570.
So as to gain the RHCE certification, you must first become RHCSA certified. The required training for the RHCE certification is based on your skill level. Windows admins with minimal Linux experience should have to take the Red Hat System Administration I and II (RH124 and RH134) courses, along with the Red Hat System Administration III (RH254) course to prepare for the exam.
The admins of Linux or UNIX with one to three years of experience should take both the RHCSA Rapid Track Course (RH199) and the Red Hat System Administration III (RH254) courses so as to prepare themselves for the exam. RHCEs looking forward to recertifying, or candidates who'd like the opportunity so as to engage in a lab-based review before taking the RHCE exam, should take the RHCE Certification Lab (RH299). The certification lab is an instructor-led opportunity, with a time span of four days, to work through all of the labs from the Red Hat System Administration I, II and III courses, alongside with the Rapid Track course.
In order to complete the RHCE certification, at least you must pass the 3.5-hour RHCE Exam (EX300), which is currently based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
RHCA: Red Hat Certified Architect
The RHCA certification is considered to be the pinnacle cert in the Red Hat Certification program. If the candidates desire to qualify for the RHCA, they must possess a current RHCE or Red Hat Certified JBoss Developer (RHCJD) credential. It would depend on the concentration chosen; five or six exams are required to obtain RHCA certification. Currently, the RHCA is available in five concentrations: they are the Datacenter, Application Platform, DevOps, Cloud and Application Development. Additional prerequisites for the RHCA is going to vary by concentration but generally include a combination of exams, other certifications or certificates of expertise so as to gain the in various Red Hat disciplines.
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