Red Hat Certification
Get certified. Hire certified.
Our certification program helps professionals prove their skills and build their careers. It also gives employers a meaningful way to find and develop qualified professionals.
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Build an effective team
Finding the best talent can be difficult. Our certification resources for employers will help you find Red Hat® Certified Professionals, verify that someone is certified by Red Hat, and match certifications with the skills you need.
Make your tech skills exceptional
Employers want to hire only the best IT professionals. That’s why a Red Hat certification isn’t just about answering test questions. You must pass a hands-on, practical exam using our technologies.
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Concentrate on the Red Hat Certified Architect skills you need
A Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA®) is a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®) or Red Hat Certified JBoss Developer (RHCJD) who has additionally attained Red Hat's highest level of certification. Earning RHCA is flexible. You can choose the set of eligible certifications beyond RHCE or RHCJD that best suit your professional needs, or you can follow one of our recommended concentrations below.
- Datacenter
- Prove your skills with tasks common in an on-premise datacenter.
- Application platform
- Focus your skills on tasks common for building and managing tools and applications.
- DevOps
- Prove the skills that help build more efficient delivery from development to production.
- Cloud
- Demonstrate your skills with tasks common to cloud infrastructure.
- Enterprise application development
- Demonstrate knowledge of enterprise application development, integration, and architecture.
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Success stories
Nexor success with Red Hat Certification
Nexor, a UK market leader in secure information exchange and information assurance security, gets help from Red Hat hands-on training and certification to move from a proprietary set of operating systems to an open system.