Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)

A Red Hat Certified System Administrator certification is earned when an IT professional demonstrates the core system-administration skills required in Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments.

A Red Hat Certified System Administrator is able to perform the following tasks:

• Understand and use essential tools for handling files, directories, command-line environments and documentation.
• Operate running systems, including booting into different run levels, identifying processes, starting and stopping virtual machines and controlling services.
• Configure local storage using partitions and logical volumes.
• Create and configure file systems and file system attributes, such as permissions, encryption, access control lists and network file systems.
• Deploy, configure, and maintain systems, including software installation, update and core services.
• Manage users and groups, including use of a centralized directory for authentication.
• Manage security, including basic firewall and SELinux configuration

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)

A Red Hat Certified Engineer certification is earned by an RHCSA who has demonstrated the knowledge, skill and ability required of a senior system administrator responsible for Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems.

Additional Knowledge

A Red Hat Certified Engineer is able to perform the following tasks (in addition to tasks associated with RHCSA):

• Configuration of static routes, packet filtering, and network address translation
• Setting kernel runtime parameters
• Building simple RPMs
• Configuring an iSCSI initiator
• Producing and delivering reports on system utilization
• Using shell scripting to automate system maintenance tasks
• Configuring system logging, including remote logging
• Configuring a system to provide networking services, including HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, NFS, SMB, SMTP, SSH and NTP

Red Hat Certified Virtualization Administrator (RHCVA)

The RHCVA certification is for system administrators whose responsibilities require them to have the skill and knowledge to deploy and manage virtual hosts in production environments using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. This credential assures enterprises that their virtualization solutions are administered optimally and establishes credibility for service providers.

Additional Knowledge

A Red Hat Certified Engineer is able to perform the following tasks (in addition to tasks associated with RHCSA):

• Installing Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
• Creating datacenters, clusters, pools and templates
• Installing and configuring Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization hypervisors to support Linux and manage them using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
• Perform essential management tasks, such as logging and bookmarking