System administration, automation and enterprise Linux platform certifications.
Linux credentials are the foundation under most cloud, container and DevOps work. The strongest exams in this category are practical: you configure real systems against a task list and are graded on the resulting state.
Topics span storage and file systems, users and permissions, networking, containers, service management and increasingly automation with configuration-management tooling.
Vendor-neutral Linux administration: system management and configuration, security hardening, scripting and container basics, and troubleshooting a running system.
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Vendor-neutral Linux administration: system management and configuration, security hardening, scripting and container basics, and troubleshooting a running system.
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Multi-exam credentials in this category.
A two-stage hands-on credential: pass RHCSA to prove you can administer RHEL, then EX294 to prove you can automate it with Ansible.
Red Hat
Questions, answered
Clear answers about the exam, the study experience, and what to expect before you begin.
4 exams from 2 vendors are tagged to Linux & Open Source. Exams appear in this category when it is either their primary focus or a substantial secondary one.
Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) (EX200) is the most common entry point. The foundation of the Red Hat programme: a timed practical exam covering user and file management, storage, networking, services, containers and system troubleshooting on RHEL.
Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) (EX200), Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) — Ansible Automation (EX294) and CompTIA Linux+ (XK0-005) are the most frequently pursued in this category.
IT Operations & Support
Help desk, endpoint, hardware and enterprise infrastructure operations credentials.
DevOps & SRE
Continuous delivery, infrastructure as code, observability and site reliability engineering exams.
Containers & Kubernetes
Kubernetes, container runtime, service mesh and cloud native project certifications.