- What is a Linux certification?
- Why obtain a Linux certification?
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator
- Red Hat Certified Engineer
- Why choose Linux certifications from Red Hat?
- What are Linux certification exams like?
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux software certification
- Overview
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Certification
- Develop on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 is available!
- Benefits of Red Hat certification
- Consistency across hybrid cloud
- Continuous certification
- Support coverage
- Let’s get started
- Learn more about RHEL
- Red Hat solutions for SAP
- Forrester study
- Documentation and Resources
- Certification Documentation
- Enhance Your Skills
- E-book
- Red Hat Products
- Tools & Resources
- Communicate
- About Red Hat Partner Connect
- About Red Hat
- Red Hat legal and privacy links
- Red Hat legal and privacy links
- Red Hat training
- Training and certification
- Close the gap in your Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills
- The core Linux training path for every skill level
- New to Linux
- Learn and build your core Linux skills
- Resources
- Skills assessments
- Sneak peek video
- Experienced in Linux
- Validate and expand your skills in Linux
What is a Linux certification?
A Linux® certification demonstrates a proficiency with a Linux operating system. Many organizations in the open source community offer Linux certifications to prepare IT professionals with knowledge relevant in a real-world environment.
As IT systems and workloads get more complex, the underlying architecture and operating system must be reliable, scalable, and performance driven. Linux has grown over the years to be the de facto standard for running highly available, reliable, and critical workloads—whether traditional or innovative—from bare metal to virtualization, cloud, and containers.
Why obtain a Linux certification?
You may want to validate your skills, or maybe you must verify your Linux experience based on either your company’s requirements or mandate. Either way, professional certifications can be determined by performance-based exams, practical exams, or a combination of these. These methods are designed to test your capabilities with the tasks that Linux administrators should be able to perform.
There are many options out there to prepare you for a certification exam, but training courses are popular, as they can introduce you to realistic Linux-based enterprise environments, and common issues and tasks you may be expected to know. Red Hat® has Linux certification training allowing you to learn as you perform tasks in a virtual Linux environment—so you can experience real-world relevance in a classroom setting.
Red Hat Certified System Administrator
Certifications can be distribution-agnostic, or they can align with specific Linux distributions and products. Red Hat, Linux Professional Institute, and CompTIA Linux+, for example, all offer popular and widely-accepted Linux certification programs.
The RHCSA certification is designed for experienced Linux sysadmins seeking validation of their skills, DevOps professionals who wish to demonstrate their expertise with the fundamentals of container technology, or students working to become a Red Hat Certified System Administrator.
In order to obtain your RHCSA, you’ll need to pass the Red Hat Certified System Administrator Exam (EX200).
Although not prerequisites, the Red Hat System Administration I (RH124) and Red Hat System Administration II (RH134) training resources will help you to prepare for the RHCSA exam.
The Red Hat System Administration I training course covers the core system administration tasks needed to manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers. This course equips you with Linux essentials by focusing on foundational Linux concepts and core tasks. You will learn how to apply command-line concepts and enterprise-level tools, starting you on your journey toward becoming a full-time Linux sysadmin.
The Red Hat System Administration II training course focuses on the key tasks needed to become a full-time Linux administrator. The course goes deeper into core Linux system administration skills in storage configuration and management, installation and deployment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, management of security features such as SELinux, control of recurring system tasks, management of the boot process and troubleshooting, basic system tuning, and command line automation and productivity.
Red Hat Certified Engineer
The Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®) certification offers Linux sysadmins the opportunity to take their expertise further, adding automation skills to their proficiency with Linux deployment and configuration.
With IT organizations facing challenges related to scaling infrastructure efficiently, system administrators need to understand more than how to deploy, configure, and manage an operating system—they need to know how to automate functions and how to make the automation itself scalable.
Becoming a Red Hat Certified Engineer will demonstrate that you are a Red Hat Certified System Administrator who can automate Red Hat Enterprise Linux administration tasks using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and shell scripting.
Why choose Linux certifications from Red Hat?
Red Hat is one of the leading contributors to the Linux kernel, and our performance-based training and exams make our certifications some of the most respected among industry professionals. Employers can easily verify Red Hat credentials, so organizations can build innovative teams with the skill sets they need. Becoming a Linux certified professional can also be an important part of career development and advancement for developers, sysadmins, and engineers.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the open source foundation to the hybrid cloud, and businesses around the world trust Red Hat as the world’s leading provider of open source enterprise IT solutions
What are Linux certification exams like?
Red Hat certification exams are performance-based, so you can demonstrate your skills in real-world situations. If you want to see where you stand, you can try a skills assessment, or take a preliminary exam. Preliminary exams can be taken anywhere, with internet access and a personal computer or laptop.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux software certification
Red Hat Enterprise Linux® software certification: leverage best practices and a path for improved supportability and interoperability. Certify and differentiate your products in the enterprise marketplace.
Overview
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Certification
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the industry-leading Linux, providing the foundation for next-generation architectures, with support for all major hardware platforms and thousands of commercial and custom applications. And it is the foundation for Red Hat OpenShift® and Red Hat OpenStack®.
Develop on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is very developer-friendly. Learn about important new changes and our portfolio of development tools.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 is available!
Benefits of Red Hat certification
Consistency across hybrid cloud
The certification tool verifies your Red Hat Enterprise Linux application environment so it can be supported on any Red Hat footprint.
Continuous certification
Support coverage
Let’s get started
Learn more about RHEL
Red Hat solutions for SAP
Unlocking the Red Hat portfolio eases the complexity of migration while putting your best future in mind by making your datacenter efficient, making hybrid IT simple, powering the intelligent edge of the network, and by enabling new business insights from big data.
Forrester study
Red Hat commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study to examine how Red Hat partners can benefit from Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®. This study offers insights into the business opportunity and return on investment (ROI) for partners to build and expand a Red Hat Enterprise Linux practice.
Documentation and Resources
Certification Documentation
Enhance Your Skills
E-book
Red Hat Products
Tools & Resources
Communicate
About Red Hat Partner Connect
The Red Hat partner ecosystem is a catalyst for open innovation. It connects partners with a thriving network of companies, expertise, and opportunity. With Red Hat, there are multiple paths to partnership and the flexibility to adapt as your business needs change. We work to help you achieve financial success on your terms.
About Red Hat
We’re the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions—including Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes. We deliver hardened solutions that make it easier for enterprises to work across platforms and environments, from the core datacenter to the network edge.
Red Hat legal and privacy links
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Red Hat training
82% of job postings for IT professionals with Linux ® certification are for Red Hat ® Certified Professionals. From training through certification, let us help you get the skills that are in demand.
Training and certification
Close the gap in your Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the leading open source platform for modern datacenters, with a stable, flexible foundation that adapts as your business changes. That’s just 1 of the reasons why more than 90% of Fortune Global 500 companies* use Red Hat products and solutions.
Our robust Linux curriculum is built on input from our support team and field personnel and delivers real-world skills development that can only come from Red Hat. Whether you’re new to Linux , experienced in Linux, or a master of Linux, we have training and certifications for you. There’s also no way to better prepare to earn your Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA®) and Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE ® ) certifications than by training with the experts at Red Hat.
*Red Hat client data and Fortune 500 list, June 2017
The core Linux training path for every skill level
New to Linux
Learn and build your core Linux skills
If you are new to Linux, build your Linux skills by taking our core curriculum courses and become an RHCSA.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Technical Overview (RH024) This series of free, on-demand videos offers a technical introduction to Linux for IT professionals. Red Hat System Administration I (RH124) Designed for IT professionals without previous Linux system administration experience, this course focuses on Linux administration “survival skills.” Red Hat System Administration II (RH134) This course builds on the foundation of core administration tasks needed to become a certified, full-time, enterprise Linux system administrator. Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam (EX200) This test validates your mastery of the skills and knowledge that form the foundation for system administration across all Red Hat products.
Resources
Skills assessments
Gauge your skills and find your gaps in Red Hat Enterprise Linux administration and troubleshooting.
Sneak peek video
Preview the video classroom version of our Red Hat System Administration I (RH124) course.
Experienced in Linux
Validate and expand your skills in Linux
If you have Linux skills, consider our advanced offerings on your way to by becoming a RHCE.
RHCSA Rapid Track (RH199) Designed for students who already have significant experience with Linux administration. The course reviews the tasks covered in Red Hat System Administration I (RH124) and II (RH134) at an accelerated pace. Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam (EX200) Prove your skills and knowledge in the core system administration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux by taking the RHCSA exam (EX200). By passing this exam, you earn the RHCSA certification. Red Hat System Administration III: Linux Automation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RH294) Find out how to automate, configure, and manage Linux system administration tasks with Ansible, allowing you to efficiently operate and scale your organization’s dynamic IT infrastructure. Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (EX294) Validate your ability to manage and execute common system administration tasks across a number of systems with Ansible through this performance-based test of your skills and knowledge. Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (EX300) An RHCE certification is earned by an RHCSA who has demonstrated the knowledge, skill, and ability required of a senior system administrator responsible for Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems. By passing this exam, you earn the Red Hat Certified Engineer certification. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 New Features for Experienced Linux Administrators (RH354) Learn about updates and changes to Red Hat Enterprise Linux to prepare yourself to take full advantage of key features as you pursue deployments and migrations to the new version.
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Through Red Hat’s training and certification program, I learned the real-world Linux and virtualization skills necessary for actual business more quickly and systematically.
Kap-Sik Yoo
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