Red Hat® Certified Architects (RHCA®) prove their skills using Red Hat Enterprise Linux® and other Red Hat technologies within existing architectures or when moving to new ones. A Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) is a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®) who attained Red Hat’s highest level of certification.
Concentrate on the skills you need:
Would your organization like to build a modern datacenter, improve cloud infrastructure, or plan for your future application platform? RHCA concentrations are recommendations by Red Hat that test technical professionals’ skills and knowledge planning and building Red Hat solutions. Participants can select the concentration they wish to focus on or can choose any combination of eligible Red Hat certifications to create a custom concentration of their own.
1. Datacenter
An RHCA with a datacenter concentration is a Red Hat Certified Engineer who has attained Red Hat’s highest level of certification, proving their skills with tasks common in an on-premise datacenter.
2. Cloud
An RHCA with a cloud concentration is a Red Hat Certified Engineer who has attained Red Hat’s highest level of certification, proving their skills with tasks common to cloud infrastructure.
3. Application platform
An RHCA with an application platform concentration is a Red Hat Certified Engineer who has attained Red Hat’s highest level of certification, proving their skills with tasks common for building and managing tools and applications.
4. Application development
An RHCA with an application development concentration is a Red Hat Certified Engineer who has attained Red Hat’s highest level of certification, proving skills in enterprise application development, integration, and architecture.
Prove your skills and knowledge
Choose from certifications spanning Red Hat’s product portfolio, or take common concentrations in cloud, datacenter, application platform solutions, and enterprise application development.
RHCA can be earned through different combinations of Certificates of Expertise, employers are advised to request the Red Hat certification ID of all individuals claiming RHCA status and verify which of the Certificates of Expertise they have earned here.
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Is this certification right for you?
The following audiences may be interested in earning an RHCA certification:
- Red Hat Certified Engineers who wish to demonstrate greater depth and breadth of knowledge and skills in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and across other Red Hat products
- IT architects who wish to demonstrate Red Hat-specific skills and knowledge
To attain RHCA status, an RHCE must pass any 5 of the following exams listed in the First Column
RHCA status in Cloud track or RHCA status in Datacenter, the “tick” mark indicates the available exams. (Any 5 are required)
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RHCA
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RHCA Cloud | RHCA Datacenter |
| EX210 – Red Hat Certified System Administrator in Red Hat OpenStack exam | ✔ | |
| EX220 – Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Hybrid Cloud Management exam | ✔ | |
| EX234 – Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Application Server Management exam | ||
| EX236 – Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Hybrid Cloud Storage exam | ✔ | ✔ |
| EX248 – Red Hat Certified JBoss Administrator exam | ✔ | |
| EX280 – Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Platform-as-a-Service exam | ✔ | |
| EX297 – Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Persistence exam | ||
| EX310 – Red Hat Certified Engineer in Red Hat OpenStack | ✔ | |
| EX318 – Red Hat Certified Virtualization Administrator exam | ✔ | ✔ |
| EX401 – Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Deployment and Systems Management exam | ✔ | ✔ |
| EX413 – Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Server Hardening exam | ✔ | |
| EX421 – Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Camel Development exam | ||
| EX427 – Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Business Process Design exam | ||
| EX436 – Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Clustering and Storage Management exam | ✔ | |
| EX442 – Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Performance Tuning exam | ✔ | |
| EX450 – Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Data Virtualization exam | ||
| EX453 – Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Fast-Cache Application Development exam | ||
| EX465 – Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Business Rules exam | ||
| EX333 – Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Enterprise Security: Network Services exam (Retired) | ||
| EX423 – Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Directory Services and Authentication exam (Retired) | ||
| EX429 – Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in SELinux Policy Administration exam (Retired) |
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