Red Hat Certification
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Our certification program helps you prove your skills and build your career. It also gives employers a meaningful way to find and develop qualified professionals.
Proven
You want your tech skills to be exceptional
Employers want to hire only the best IT professionals. That’s why a Red Hat® certification isn’t just about answering test questions. You must pass a hands-on, practical exam using our technologies.
Explore Certification SuccessesThe Red Hat certification program reinforces fundamentals and builds proficiency.
Carl Thompson, RHCA
2015 Red Hat Certified Professional of the Year
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Certification news
Concentrate on the Red Hat Certified Architect skills you need
A Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA ®) is a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE ®) or Red Hat Certified JBoss Developer (RHCJD) who has additionally attained Red Hat's highest level of certification. Earning RHCA is flexible. You can choose the set of eligible certifications beyond RHCE or RHCJD that best suit your professional needs, or you can follow one of our recommended concentrations below.
- Datacenter
- Prove your skills with tasks common in an on-premise datacenter.
- Cloud
- Demonstrate your skills with tasks common to cloud infrastructure.
- Application platform
- Focus your skills on tasks common for building and managing tools and applications.
- Enterprise application development
- Demonstrate knowledge of enterprise application development, integration, and architecture.
Training and certification
Nexor provides a high level of trust to their customers through technology
Nexor, a UK market leader in secure information exchange and information assurance security, gets help from Red Hat hands-on training and certification to move from a proprietary set of operating systems to an open system. This gives them more competitive pricing and increases the services they provide their customers. Using deep, hands-on training and testing from Red Hat to integrate the Red Hat and Nexor products helps them use all of the features of the Red Hat operating system with the Nexor code–a solution that has a high degree of security and usability.
Red Hat Certified Professionals
Build your career at your convenience
Our customers are larger enterprises that look to us to have the right expertise on staff. One way we show them that we are prepared to handle their environments is the large number of Red Hat Certified Engineers we have.
Sean Millichamp, Enterprise architect, Secure-24 Watch this video
Employers
Because your IT staff is an important asset
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Learn morePopular links
- Certification program update video
- To provide even more value to people and organizations, Red Hat updated the requirements and policies of the program. Watch the video to learn more.
- Certification success stories
- Explore success stories from around the globe.
- The training student center
- Get additional information to help you build your career with training and certification.
- Ways to test
- You can take an exam at a Red Hat testing facility convenient for you. Select between enrolling for a classroom exam or scheduling an Individual Exam Session.
