- Red Hat Certified System Administrator
- Certification details
- Skills
- Prove your skills and knowledge
- Audience
- Is this certification right for you?
- Exams
- Test your skills and knowledge
- Training
- The best way to learn is to do
- 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
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- Red Hat® Certified Engineer (RHCE®) & Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA®)
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator
- Test your skills and knowledge
Red Hat Certified System Administrator
An IT professional who has earned the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA®) is able to perform the core system administration skills required in Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments. The credential is earned after successfully passing the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) Exam (EX200).
Certification details
Skills
Prove your skills and knowledge
A Red Hat® Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) is able to perform the following tasks:
- Understand and use essential tools for handling files, directories, command-line environments, and documentation
- Create simple shell scripts
- Operate running systems, including booting into different run levels, identifying processes, starting and stopping virtual machines, and controlling services
- Configure local storage using partitions and logical volumes
- Create and configure file systems and file system attributes, such as permissions, encryption, access control lists, and network file systems
- Deploy, configure, and maintain systems, including software installation, update, and core services
- Manage users and groups
- Manage security, including basic firewall and SELinux configuration
- Perform basic container management
Audience
Is this certification right for you?
The RHCSA certification is designed for:
- Experienced Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administrators seeking validation of their skills
- Students who have attended Red Hat System Administration I (RH124) and Red Hat System Administration II (RH134) and are on the path to becoming an RHCSA
- Experienced Linux system administrators who require a certification either by their organization or based on a mandate (DOD 8570 directive)
- IT professionals who are on the path to becoming a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®)
- An RHCE who is noncurrent or who is about to become noncurrent and wants to recertify as an RHCE
- DevOps professionals who wish to demonstrate their expertise with the fundamentals of container technology
Exams
Test your skills and knowledge
The performance-based Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam (EX200) tests your knowledge and skill in areas of system administration common across a wide range of environments and deployment scenarios. You must be an RHCSA to earn a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®) certification.
Training
The best way to learn is to do
We recommend these courses to help you prepare to become a Red Hat Certified System Administrator.
For Windows system administrators or candidates with minimal experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
For Linux or UNIX administrators:
For candidates seeking an introductory course on container management:
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
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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.
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Red Hat® Certified Engineer (RHCE®) & Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA®)
A Red Hat® Certified Engineer (RHCE®) is a Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) who is ready to automate Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® tasks, integrate Red Hat emerging technologies, and apply automation for efficiency and innovation.
Red Hat Certified System Administrator
Test your skills and knowledge
Getting the Red Hat Certified System Administrator training enables to perform the following tasks:
- Understand and use essential tools for handling files, directories, command-line environments, and documentation
- Create simple shell scripts
- Operate running systems, including booting into different run levels, identifying processes, starting and stopping virtual machines, and controlling services
- Configure local storage using partitions and logical volumes
- Create and configure file systems and file system attributes, such as permissions, encryption, access control lists, and network file systems
- Deploy, configure, and maintain systems, including software installation, update, and core services
- Manage users and groups
- Manage security, including basic firewall and SELinux configuration
- Perform basic container management
An IT professional who has earned the Red Hat Certified System Administrator certification is able to perform the core system administration skills required in Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments. The credential is earned after successfully passing the Red Hat Certified System Administrator exam (EX200).