RHCA e-Brochure 240816

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What & How of

®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

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.

used when you first earned RHCA. Red Hat recommends unique

configurations to achieve the RHCA.

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)

RED HAT CERTIFIED ARCHITECT

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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.

RHCA WITH DATACENTER

CONCENTRATION

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Training:

Examinations:

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)

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)

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Overview:

Audience:

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.

• 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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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:

Audience:

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.

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knowledge.

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Training:

In preparation to earn an RHCA certification, Red Hat recommends


• Red Hat CLoudForms Hybrid Cloud Management

• OpenShift Enterprise Administration (DO280)

• JBoss Administration I (JB248)

• Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization Development (JB450)

• Systems Management with Red Hat JBoss Operations Network

(JB234)

(CL220)

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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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.

RHCA WITH APPLICATION

DEVELOPMENT CONCENTRATION

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Overview:

Audience:

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.

• 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:

Examinations:

In preparation to earn this RHCA concentration, Red Hat recommends


• Red Hat JBoss Development: Persistence with Hibernate

• 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)

(JB297)

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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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.

RHCA WITH CLOUD CONCENTRATION

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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

• Red Hat OpenStack Administration III (CL310)

• Red Hat CloudForms Hybrid Cloud Management (CL220)


• Red Hat Gluster Storage Administration (RH236)

• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RH318)

• Red Hat Deployment and Systems Management (RH401)


(CL210)

Examinations:


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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Overview:

Audience:

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.




knowledge.

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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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Training:

Examinations:

In preparation to earn an RHCA certification with a DevOps

concentration, Red Hat recommends the following courses:

• Containerizing Software Applications (DO276)


• Managing Containers with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host

(RH270)^ • Cloud Automation with Ansible



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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Overview:

Audience:

DevOps concentration skills include:

• Multiple approaches to container management and automation.

• Multiple approaches to configuration management and automation.

Red Hat Certified Engineers who wish to demonstrate greater depth

and breadth of knowledge and skills in DevOps.

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