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RED HAT CERTIFIED ARCHITECT

A Red Hat® Certified Architect (RHCA) is a Red Hat Certified Engineer

(RHCE®) or Red Hat Certified JBoss Developer who attained Red Hat's
highest level of certification by passing and keeping current five
additional hands-on exams on Red Hat technologies. If you pass more
than five, then you achieve a higher level of RHCA. In order to retain
RHCA status, you must keep at least five credentials beyond either
RHCE or RHCJD current. These need not be the same credentials you
used when you first earned RHCA. Red Hat recommends unique
configurations to achieve the RHCA.

Would you like to be part of a team that builds a modern datacenter,

improve the 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. You can select the concentration you wish
to focus on or can choose any combination of eligible Red Hat
certifications to create a custom concentration of your own.

In the pages that follow, please find details on:

RHCA with Datacenter concentration (pages 4 - 7)
RHCA with Application Platform concentration (pages 8 - 11)
RHCA with Application Development concentration (pages 12 - 15)
RHCA with Cloud concentration (pages 16 - 19)
RHCA with DevOps concentration (pages 20 - 23)
Ways to Train (pages 24 & 25)
Red Hat Learning Subscription (pages 26 & 27)

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 RHCA WITH DATACENTER
CONCENTRATION

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.

The digital economy is driving a virtuous cycle

where connected devices and cloud-powered
services are generating data and insights from that
data are driving further innovation, releasing new
services and businesses back into the world. More
than ever before, the data center is the engine that
will enable your organization to stay ahead in an
ever-changing business environment and make the
kind of impact that can change the world. Modern
data centers are rapidly moving toward open source
as the next-generation foundation for dynamic and
agile IT operations. From big data analytics to cloud-
powered innovation, find out how building the data
center with Red Hat technologies can help your
business thrive.

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Overview:
Datacenter concentration equips you with skills to:
• Secure Red Hat systems against unauthorized access.
• Enhance logging, audit, and identity management capabilities.
• Deploy and manage virtualization infrastructure, hosts, and guests.
• Implement high availability services on Red Hat Enterprise Linux®.
• Use the on-premise capabilities of Red Hat Gluster Storage.
• Deploy applications using Red Hat JBoss® Enterprise Application
Platform.
• Manage many systems using Red Hat Satellite Server.
Audience:
• 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.
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Training:
In preparation to earn an RHCA certification, Red Hat recommends
the following courses:
• Red Hat Gluster Storage Administration (RH236)
• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RH318)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Troubleshooting (RH342)
• Red Hat Deployment and Systems Management (RH401)
• Configuration Management with Puppet (DO405)
• Red Hat Server Hardening (RH413)
• Red Hat High Availability Clustering (RH436)
• Red Hat Performance Tuning (RH442)
• JBoss Administration I (JB248)
Examinations:
To attain RHCA status, an RHCE must pass any 5 of the following
exams:
• Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Hybrid Cloud Storage (EX236)
• Red Hat Certified JBoss Administrator (EX248)
• Red Hat Certified Virtualization Administrator (EX318)
• Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Deployment and Systems
Management (EX401)
• Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Diagnostics and Troubleshooting (EX342)
• Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Configuration Management
with Puppet (EX405)
• Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Server Hardening (EX413)
• Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in High Availability Clustering
(EX436)
• Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Performance Tuning (EX442)
RHCA WITH APPLICATION PLATFORM
CONCENTRATION

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.

Just about every application today relies on other

software: operating systems, database management
software, even software running in the public cloud.
Whatever it does and wherever it runs, all of this
software together comprises an application
platform. Application platforms play a fundamental
role in modern computing environments.

Applications and the data they use provide all of the

value that information technology brings, and
virtually every application depends on an
application platform. Since pretty much every
organization today relies on applications, there's a
clear connection between business value and
application platforms.

The applications they support run on all kinds of

computers, including mobile phones, desktops,
on-premises servers, and servers in the public cloud.
An effective application platform needs to provide
the right set of services on each of these. A single-
user application running on a phone needs radically
different services for execution and storage than
does an application that runs in the cloud and
supports thousands of simultaneous users.

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 Overview:
Application platform concentration skills teach you to:
®
• Install, configure, and manage Red Hat JBoss Enterprise
Application Platform and applications running on it.
• Create, configure, and manage a cloud application platform with
OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat.
• Federate data from multiple sources using Red Hat JBoss Data
Virtualization.
• Manage applications in hybrid cloud environments.
Audience:
• 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.
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Training:
In preparation to earn an RHCA certification, Red Hat recommends
the following courses:
• Red Hat CLoudForms Hybrid Cloud Management (CL220)
• OpenShift Enterprise Administration (DO280)
• JBoss Administration I (JB248)
• Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization Development (JB450)
• Systems Management with Red Hat JBoss Operations Network
(JB234)
Examinations:
To attain RHCA status, an RHCE must pass the following exams:
• Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Hybrid Cloud Management
(EX220)
• Red Hat Certified JBoss Administrator (EX248)
• Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Platform-as-a-Service (EX280)
• Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Data Virtualization (EX450)
• Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Application Server Management
(EX234)
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RHCA WITH APPLICATION
DEVELOPMENT CONCENTRATION

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.

In today's fast paced world people are wondering

what really is application development. Application
development is the process of making or creating an
application to run on various platforms. An
application platform is an operating system. Each
platform has its own rules, regulations, and
requirements to make an application. This is very
important to understand because when making an
application for app development on the various
application platforms you cannot just make one app
and port it over to the next platform.

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Overview:
Enterprise application development concentration skills may include:
• Implementing an object-relational mapping (ORM) layer.
• Implementing enterprise integration patterns.
• Using data virtualization to federate data sources.
• Implementing business rules and process design.
• Managing application servers.
Audience:
• Red Hat Certified JBoss Developers who wish to demonstrate
greater depth and breadth of knowledge and skills with Red Hat
JBoss enterprise middleware.
• Enterprise application architects who wish to demonstrate Red Hat-
specific skills and knowledge.
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Training:
In preparation to earn this RHCA concentration, Red Hat recommends
the following courses:
• Red Hat JBoss Development: Persistence with Hibernate (JB297)
• Camel Development with Red Hat JBoss Fuse (JB421)
• Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization Development (JB450)
• Implementing with Red Hat JBoss BRMS (JB465)
• Developing Workflow Applications with Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite
(JB427)
• Red Hat JBoss Application Administration I (JB248)
• Systems Management with Red Hat JBoss Operations Network
(JB234)
Examinations:
To attain RHCA status, an RHCJD must pass any 5 of the following
exams:
• Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Application Server Management
(EX234)
• Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Business Process Design
(EX427)
• Red Hat Certified JBoss Administrator - RHCJA (EX248)
• Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Persistence (EX297)
• Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Camel Development (EX421)
• Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Data Virtualization (EX450)
• Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Fast-Cache Application
Development (EX453)
• Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Business Rules exam (EX465)
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 RHCA WITH CLOUD CONCENTRATION

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.

Cloud is a model for enabling ubiquitous, on-demand

access to a shared pool of configurable computing
resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications
and services), which can be rapidly provisioned and
released with minimal management effort. Cloud
provides users and enterprises with various capabilities
to store and process their data in third-party data
centers. It relies on sharing of resources to achieve
coherence and economy of scale, similar to a utility
(like the electricity grid) over a network.

Advocates claim that the cloud allows companies to

avoid upfront infrastructure costs, and focus on
projects that differentiate their businesses instead of
on infrastructure. Proponents also claim that the cloud
allows enterprises to get their applications up and
running faster, with improved manageability and less
maintenance, and enables IT to more rapidly adjust
resources to meet fluctuating and unpredictable
business demand. The present availability of high-
capacity networks, low-cost computers and storage
devices as well as the widespread adoption of hardware
virtualization, service-oriented architecture, and
autonomic and utility computing have led to a growth
in cloud infrastructure. The cloud has become a highly
demanded service or utility due to the advantages of
high computing power, cheap cost of services, high
performance, scalability, accessibility as well as
availability.
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Overview:
Cloud concentration skills teach you to:
• Create, configure, and manage private clouds using Red Hat
OpenStack® Platform.
• Manage virtual, private, and hybrid cloud infrastructures with
Red Hat CloudForms.
• Create, configure, and manage a cloud application platform
with OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat.
• Implement flexible storage solutions for on-premise and
hybrid clouds.
• Manage many systems using Red Hat Satellite Server.
Audience:
• 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.
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Training:
In preparation to earn an RHCA certification with a cloud
concentration, Red Hat recommends the following courses:
• Red Hat OpenStack Administration (CL210)
• Red Hat OpenStack Administration III (CL310)
• Red Hat CloudForms Hybrid Cloud Management (CL220)
• OpenShift Enterprise Administration (DO280)
• Red Hat Gluster Storage Administration (RH236)
• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RH318)
• Red Hat Deployment and Systems Management (RH401)
• Configuration Management with Puppet (DO405)
Examinations:
To attain RHCA status, an RHCE must pass any 5 of the following
exams:
• Red Hat Certified System Administrator in Red Hat OpenStack
exam (EX210)
• Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Hybrid Cloud Management exam
(EX220)
• Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Hybrid Cloud Storage exam
(EX236)
• Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Platform-as-a-Service exam
(EX280)
• Red Hat Certified Engineer in Red Hat OpenStack (EX310)
• Red Hat Certified Virtualization Administrator exam (EX318)
• Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Deployment and Systems
Management exam (EX401)
• Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Configuration Management with
Puppet (EX405)
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 RHCA with DevOps Concentration

An Red Hat® Certified Architect (RHCA) with a

DevOps concentration is a Red Hat Certified
Engineer (RHCE) or Red Hat Certified Developer
who has attained Red Hat's highest level of
certification, proving their skills and knowledge in
technologies and practices that can accelerate the
process of moving applications and updates from
development through the build and test processes
and on to production.

In traditional, functionally separated organizations

there is rarely cross-departmental integration of
functions with IT operations. DevOps promotes a set
of processes and methods for thinking about
communication and collaboration between
development, QA, and IT operations.

DevOps integration targets product delivery,

continuous testing, quality testing, feature
development, and maintenance releases in order to
improve reliability and security and provide faster
development and deployment cycles. It aids in
software application release management for an
organization by standardizing development
environments. Events can be more easily tracked as
well as resolving documented process control and
granular reporting issues. The DevOps approach
grants developers more control of the environment,
giving infrastructure more application-centric
understanding.

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Overview:
DevOps concentration skills include:
• Multiple approaches to container management and automation.
• Multiple approaches to configuration management and automation.
Audience:
Red Hat Certified Engineers who wish to demonstrate greater depth
and breadth of knowledge and skills in DevOps.
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Training:
In preparation to earn an RHCA certification with a DevOps
concentration, Red Hat recommends the following courses:
• Containerizing Software Applications (DO276)
• OpenShift Enterprise Administration (DO280)
• Managing Containers with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host
(RH270)
• Cloud Automation with Ansible^
• Configuration Management with Puppet (DO405)
Examinations:
To attain RHCA status, an RHCE must pass any 5 of the following
exams:
• Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Container Management (EX270)^
• Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Containerized Application
Development (EX276)
• Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Platform-as-a-Service (EX280)
• Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Configuration Management
(EX405)
• Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Ansible Automation (EX407)^
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