Training-Certification: Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating System

Red Hat is one of linux operating system created by Red Hat, Inc. RHL (Red Hat Linux) is linux operating system are popular until production ceased in 2004.

Since 2003, Red Hat Has discontinued production of Red Hat Linux (RHL), but issued a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for enterprise environment (not free).

About certification, Red Hat certification was ranked as one of the top 3 skills needed many IT vendors. Red Hat certification also important like another certification: Cisco, Microsoft, or Mikrotik. If the highest certification in Red Hat is RHCA and have to take exams RHCSA (Red Hat Certified System Administrator) at the first. RHCSA is skill practice for a System Administrator (sysadmin). Then after graduation from RHCSA we can take the RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer) is a professional certification, then to the expert certification is RHCA (Red Hat Certified Architect).

A Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) is a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) who has attained Red Hat's highest level of certification. An RHCA is a professional whose certification status with Red Hat is current and who has earned thee following Red Hat Certificates of Expertise:

• Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Deployment and Systems Management.
• Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Directory Services and Authentication or Red Hat Certified Virtualization Administrator.
• Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Clustering and Storage Management.
• Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Security: Network Services or Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Server Hardening.
• Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Performance Tuning.

Prerequisites:
To become certified, an RHCA will have demonstrated knowledge and skills in a number of areas beyond RHCE, such as those related to systems deployment, systems management, clustering, and storage management.

However, the RHCA certification offers the flexibility to demonstrate additional skills in either directory services and authentication or in managing virtualized systems. Consequently, an RHCA will have many, but not necessarily all, of the following skills:

• Installing and configuring a Red Hat Network Satellite server.
• Configuring users, groups, administrators, and activation keys on a Satellite.
• Creating base and child channels on a Satellite.
• Using Cobbler and Satellite to install, configure, and manage systems.
• Managing data using logical volumes and snapshots.
• Configuring high-availability clusters using physical or virtual systems.
• Configuring a GFS file system to meet performance, size, and quota objectives.
• Configuring iSCSI targets and initiators.
• Configuring a Kerberos realm.
• Configuring Red Hat Directory Server to provide a centralized directory with access control.
• Configuring Red Hat Enterprise Linux® clients to authenticate using various mechanisms, including Kerberos, LDAP, and Microsoft Active Directory.
• Configuring and managing hypervisors and virtual hosts using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.
• Analyzing system performance and behavior using tools such as vmstat, iostat, mpstat, and sar.
• Configuring systems to provide information using SNMP.
• Configuring runtime kernel parameters.
• Analyzing system and application behavior using ps, strace, top, Oprofile, and Valgrind.
• Configuring disk subsystems and scheduling algorithms and network buffers for optimal performance for specific requirements.RHCSA > RHCE > RHCA (Red Hat Enterprise Security: Network Services + Red Hat Enterprise Deployment and Systems + Red Hat Enterprise Directory Services and + Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Exam + Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage + Red Hat Enterprise System Monitoring and Performance Tuning Expertise Exam)

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