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In an effort to keep the RHCE community armed with the latest Linux technology, Red Hat is pleased to offer several ways to get current:
While evidence suggests that RHCEs who stay professionally active can evolve their skills in pace with new releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS technology, it is important for Red Hat to maintain a policy for determining whether an RHCE or RHCT certificate can be considered current. Thus, verification services provided for all RHCEs at Certification Central have always indicated which OS release a certificate was earned on, and whether the certificate is current or no longer current.**
The validity period for all RHCEs and RHCTs is pegged to the release of the Enterprise product commercially available at the time certification was earned. RHCE and RHCT certifications are considered current until Red Hat retires exams of the release following the version on which your certification was earned. For example, certificates earned on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 will be current until August 31, 2007, the last date on which Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 exams will be offered. Note that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 was released in March, months before the final retirement of the version 4 exams.
To provide further clarification for earlier versions, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 will remain current until Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 exams are retired, several months after the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Certifications earned on Red Hat Linux 8.0 and Red Hat Linux 9 are pegged to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, and hence will no longer be current after August 31, 2007.
Validity and current status of an RHCE certificate will continue to be verified at Certification Central.
** Note: The requirement of re-certification as part of a high quality certification program is not just a Red Hat policy. Periodic re-certification is recommended for all professional certifications by the National Organization for Competency Assurance (NOCA) and by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA), as well as other organizations that have defined educational and testing standards including AERA, APA, and NCME.
