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.
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.
The RHCE exam, rebuilt around Ansible: writing and running playbooks, using roles and collections, managing variables and secrets, and automating RHEL administration at scale.
A hands-on container exam using Podman: building images, running and managing containers, working with registries, and running containerised services under systemd.
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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
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.