Red Hat helps you standardise across environments, develop cloud-native applications, and integrate, automate, secure, and manage complex environments. By certifying your skills, you prove what you know and can do and validate your knowledge to the market or an employer.



FAQs

Organisations hiring employees, contractors, and consultants can look to Red Hat certifications to inform hiring, assignment, promotion, and other management decisions. Similarly, individuals who earn these certifications benefit and see value by having official, impartial, and proven validation of their skills and knowledge.

There are three tiers of Red Hat Certifications:

Within each Red Hat certification tier, there are multiple specialities that you can focus on. Some examples are OpenStack or JBoss. Once you have earned your RHCE, you can explore over 20 different Certificates of Expertise as you attain an RHCA and advance your skills and expertise.

The Red Hat® Certified Architect (RHCA) is the highest-level Red Hat certification. Someone with this credential is a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®), Red Hat Certified Enterprise Microservices Developer (RHCEMD), or Red Hat Certified Cloud-native Developer (RHCCD) who has attained our highest level of certification by passing—and keeping current—five additional certifications chosen from the system administrator and developer lists.

Red Hat provides the opportunity to earn two kinds of Red Hat Certified Architect certifications: Red Hat Certified Architect in Infrastructure and Red Hat Certified Architect in Enterprise Applications. Candidates can choose to follow both paths or earn credentials that might not be on the RHCA path they are pursuing.

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Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) and Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) are two of the most popular certifications. However, to help you find the path to success for you or your team, you can assess skills and get recommendations based on role, skills gaps, or the product you’re interested in.

You can take your hands-on certification exam in a classroom setting or you can schedule an individual exam at a time and place convenient to you.

Enrol in a Classroom Exam

Classroom exams are monitored by a proctor and taken on preconfigured hardware at a Red Hat testing facility. You can enrol in prescheduled classroom exams by selecting the required exam and viewing available dates.

Enrol in an Individual Exam

All Red Hat certification exams are also available as individual exams. You can take the hands-on tests on a secure, preconfigured testing station at a Red Hat location or Red Hat partner site.

Please note: Exams are not included in the course fee with Lumify Work. But they can be purchased separately. Please contact us for a quote.

Red Hat certifications are considered current for 3 years. There are different ways to keep a certification current, depending on the type of certification. You always have the option of retaking an exam to renew its associated certification. In some instances, you can earn other certifications to keep your certification current. Click here for more information.

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Prices for exams vary from AUD 650 to AUD 800. Choose your exam to find the exact cost of your exam.