What's involved with RHCSA certification?

dudwell

Hi,
Just wondering if anyone can provide some feedback on what's involved in passing the Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator (RHCSA) certification? Specifically, how long does it take to work through the course work for someone with zero exposure to Linux? Also, is there a requirement to sit a training course with an authorised trainer before the exams can be attempted ( like VMware)? Any info is much appreciated

AstraMonti

dudwell wrote: »

Hi,
Just wondering if anyone can provide some feedback on what's involved in passing the Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator (RHCSA) certification? Specifically, how long does it take to work through the course work for someone with zero exposure to Linux? Also, is there a requirement to sit a training course with an authorised trainer before the exams can be attempted ( like VMware)? Any info is much appreciated

Hiya,

I wouldn't recommend RHCSA If you have completely zero knowledge of the basics in linux. RHCSA assumes that you already know a lot stuff and it guides you to a more advanced direction. Saying this though I have to add that for someone who knows his way around Linux the exam is very easy. There is no requirement to sit for a course, you can study yourself but there are specific dates to give the exam that fill up very fast months earlier.

Maybe the best thing to do is to check the LPI essentials first and also the comptia Linux and then move on to redhat.

Of course nothing stops you from setting Linux at home and start messing with it like its your main computer. It can get frustrating at times if you are used to windows logic but there is a massive community out there willing to help.

Good luck whatever you do.

Stuxnet

As I said to you yesterday it could takes years of experience in the production environment before you could get RedHat certified :-) RH is the Holy Grail
real life hands on experience out-ways what you could learn and hold from a book

You dont need a RH cert to be a linux sysadmin, experience is the key, most start out as interns, or junior sysadmins (me included,..sysadmin intern )...and take it from there
most companies will actually pay for your training and cert exams if they like you

Khannie

dudwell wrote: »

Specifically, how long does it take to work through the course work for someone with zero exposure to Linux?

As the others have said - years. It depends how much time you are capable of devoting to it though.