Certification overview

Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Infrastructure as popularly known as RHCOE in the market has changed its name to Red Hat Certified System Administrator in Open Stack. This name change came because of change in role in job market. Now it caters specifically in the role of system administrator in the job market. Red Hat as we all know is a global leader in the market in the field of operating system platforms and middleware applications. Red Hat Certified System Administrator certification caters to all who wants to make head start career in the field of system configuration and administration. Red Hat is well knowingLinux vendor all over the world. Red Hat certification has become very popular in the job market and is one of the bench mark for industries in terms of knowledge.

Who can do this certification

Anyone who is interested and wants to make a career as system administrator can for this certification. There is no hard and fast rule in the eligibility of this certification, anyone wants to give the exam can appear for this certification. The certification is based on performance that is candidate can perform tasks and activities on a live system. Real time experience is the best way of appearing on this certification. As the certification is more practical in nature, so it is important for the candidate to know logical aspect of work. This will make anyone more closely in clearing the certification. There is lots of study material available including live scenarios and examples to guide beginners as well as professionals.

Benefits

There are number of benefits one can imagine off after passing the certification. Today's job industry looks for certified professionals, so getting yourself certified will place you in that category. Industry looks for certified professionals because of the skills authencity and moreover industry all over world recognizes that. It will keep an individual much way ahead in job search once you get certified. The increase in requirement for system administrators is growing and getting those skills will get someone dream job of his or her choice with good package. Getting certified has changed many professional lives, as they are placed in good MNC's all over. The role of system administrator are increasing day by day in job market, it will be ideal for individual to get the knowledge on the same. Morover system administration work is very basic thing one can imagine off in the industry, without that it is tough to start for any organization. So the role will never be at stake in any adverse condition, however advancement will definitely happen over the period of time to meet industry standards.

Associated Exam

There is no associated exam with this certification. However there certification on other specialized areas which include network services, SELinux policy administration, directory services and authentication, clustering area and storage management, performancetuning, server hardening exam and many more catering to other areas of work.

Prerequisite

This certification requires individuals some basic information on areas like open stack platform architecture, installation using packstack, manual operation, customizing instances as well. People who are new to all these terminologies can enroll themselves for a introductory course by Red Hat (CL210). This course basically gives you all the basic insights of system administration, which will help you in your certification and in your future as well in your career. This certification is also for individuals who wants to showcase their skills in open platforms.

Examination Overview

Red Hat Certified System Administrator certification (EX210) tests your skills on live system, how to build and manage cloud using Red Hat Enterprise Linux open stack platform. It also tests your skills on demonstration, knowledge, configure real time systems. The real time experience in the certification makes an individual industry ready. The certification validated individuals on real time testing.

Some of the topics which are being discussed in the certification exam are as follows:

• Configuring and deploying hosts on Open Shift Infrastructure.
• Deploying the web hosts and various applications with the usage of Open Shifts.
• Managing of Open Shifts resources.

This certification is a performance based exam, so there is no cut to cut passing scores and no fixed number of questions as well.

Result gets out after 5 working days of giving your exam. It will be mailed to individuals.

Validity of the Certification

Previously there was no expiry for this certification. Once an individual pass the exam, he or she is certified for lifetime. However from now on once anyone gets certified, it will valid for 3 years from the date of passing the certification.

Expert Review

All the multinational companies like to hire the employees who have completed the certification course. The certification gives you immense knowledge and skills which helps individuals in their working environment.

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