Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
The RHCE (EX294) is a performance-based exam focused on automating RHEL system administration with Ansible: installing and configuring a control node, writing and running playbooks, managing inventories and variables, using roles and collections (including Red Hat certified content), templating with Jinja2, and automating common administration tasks.
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Start EX294 examSkills measured
Ansible Installation and Configuration
15%Installing Ansible, ansible.cfg, privilege escalation, managed-node requirements, and ad hoc commands.
Core Components and Playbooks
25%Play and task structure, modules for packages, services, files and users, handlers, loops, conditionals, and error handling.
Inventories and Execution
15%Static and dynamic inventories, host groups, host and group variables, ansible-vault, and limiting and tagging.
Roles and Collections
20%Role directory structure, creating and using roles, Ansible Galaxy, collections, and the redhat.rhel_system_roles content.
Automating System Administration Tasks
15%Software repositories, scheduled jobs, security and users, storage and LVM, and networking via playbooks.
Templating and Troubleshooting
10%Jinja2 templates and filters, facts and magic variables, register and debug, and check mode.