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which is better RHCE in RHEL7 or RHEL8
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I just completed my RHCSA exam. I'm a newbie to Linux worked mostly in windows environments but r/redhat
my new job starting from Jan 2019 is almost on the linux platform. Although I had prior knowledge
about Linux this is the first time in my 6 year career in working exclusively on the linux platform. Discussion for Red Hat and Red Hat
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I did RHCSA to enhance and further develop my Linux skills. now that I have passed the exam I want to
continue onto RHCE. I did the RHCSA in RHEL 7 but I was planning to do the RHCE in RHEL 8. But my 19.6k 67
instructor for RHCSA says that RHCE in RHEL 8 fully focussed on Ansible and it does not cover enough Members Online
parts like on RHEL 7 and told us it would be better if we do the RHCE in RHEL 7 that way we will learn
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As part of my job I'm already working with Ansible I have written some complex playbooks already and
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I was planning to take the ansible exam after completing RHCE. I don't have any issues on learning
Ansible but as I already have some basic understanding about Ansible what I really need is more Linux
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knowledge and skills.

What would be your recommendation for me RHCE in RHEL 7 or RHEL 8? COMMUNITY OPTIONS

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 Chiron_ 1 point · 1 year ago 3 Walk-In Shower for Small a

 The general thought is that for the moment, the best path is RHCE 7 followed by the Ansible
specialty test. This shows you understand the underlying servers/services being automated by the
Ansible specialty. Plus, it is one exam towards the Architect level cert AND buys you time for the 4 LBL Lighting Wall a
RHEL8 arena to flesh itself out with good exam study aides etc.
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 rowthrowie Red Hat Certified System Administrator 1 point · 1 year ago

 Your instructor is correct in terms of more Linux material in RHEL 7.

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However RedHat are going in the direction of Ansible, and the RHEL 7 exam will not be available
from 2020 I believe. So taking that into account I would say do RHEL 8 Exam. Its the way things are
going. Some topics on RHEL 7 are dated in my opinion, MariaDB, Apache are just third party
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installs and better alternatives such as nginx are available. Kerberos is a dated technology now,
etc... So RHEL 7 isnt the end all be all of Linux exams. RHEL 8 will probably still have you doing the
core items but doing them through Ansible.  MESSAGE THE MODS

I'm a huge fan of Ansible and use it everyday, but i'm not a fan of Redhat turning the RHEL exam u/ctowsley Red Hat Employee
into an Ansible exam. All they needed to do was update RHEL 7 with more relevant technology and
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keep Ansible separate as they currently have. But its the way they decided to go, so I would say do
RHEL 8. u/RheaAyase Red Hat Employee
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 Chiron_ 1 point · 1 year ago
 "Dated" in this context means >= current production environments in real world scenarios and u/AntiquatedLunacy Red Hat Employee
deployments in my experience.
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 rdbreak Red Hat Certified Engineer 2 points · 1 year ago ADVERTISEMENT

 Based on your situation, it sounds like going for RHCE7, then EX407 (then maybe even EX447)
would be the best route to take. That way you can get the knowledge of RHCE7 and get two
Ansible certifications towards your RHCA in the process.

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 swordgeek 4 points · 1 year ago

 I'm a newbie to Linux...

You should be focused on learning then, rather tham certifications.

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 hampmp 2 points · 1 year ago

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Certificates don't mean much to me, bootcamp teaching, even less so.

A nicely populated gitlab profile could be worth some points though.

Don't get me wrong, it counts, but not as much as demonstrating an investigative mind, so I
would put more weight on the learning part than on the certification part.

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 kur1j 2 points · 1 year ago

 The HR department filtering system does care though....
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 6c696e7578 1 point · 1 year ago

 It isn't normally that way. Normally an external recruiter may be told that some
qualifications are minimums, but often candidates with those specific qualifications
are not available in the time frames that the hiring manager wants. In these frequent
cases its open season.

Besides if the job is that narrow that the precious qualification for how to use one
specific AWS service is vital, then you probably don't want to do that job for very long.
Show you have transferable skills for engineering, operations or architecture that are
not product specific.

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 DirectedSoul 1 point · 1 year ago

 Since new RHCE is based ansible , in terms of learning I would suggest to for new Exam EX294
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 BrainSweetiesss Red Hat Certified System Administrator 3 points · 1 year ago

 I'm on the same boat here, so also looking for some answers. What is for sure : there's a lot of
resources for RHCE 7 (dummy exams, guides, tutorials, online courses) which gives you a good
idea what the exam will look like and know what to expect. On the other hand there's no more than
one course for RHCE 8 at the moment (Sander's) so you/we'd be going kinda blind for the exam.

If that wasn't enough... RHCE 8 focuses more on ansible also, which is silly cause there's a
certification for automation already. The problem is we only have time until July 2020 to pass RHCE
7, then it'll be removed and only 8 will be available, so time is running out. Lastly, seems like 8 is
taking over 7 already, by this I mean if you wanna take RHCE 7 you only have the chance of doing
the exam in a kiosk environment, and let me tell you that's HELL.

I took my RHCSA in a kiosk and it was extremely annoying. You have to keep moving this camera
around to show you're not cheating every half an hour and the laptops they provide are SLOW AS
HELL. Time management for RHCE is vital, so taking the exam in an old laptop doesn't seem like a
good idea... (except if you like wasting your money)

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 esc27 1 point · 1 year ago

 Try not having any A/C for the first half of the test or having your only mouse be the little eraser
nub on the keyboard...

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 2muchwork2littleplay Red Hat Certified System Administrator 3 points · 1 year ago

 I'll say this, you're damn right about the kiosk environment. It's pretty fucking horrible. The
system was slow, monitor small, and if you happened to have had a Venti coffee before going
in... good luck

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 _dsgnr Red Hat Certified System Administrator 1 point · 1 year ago

 I have to say, the kiosk environment that I use (can take the exams at work) was pretty
decent. New 17” laptop and was pretty quick. It all runs in a guacamole session anyway so
laptop speed isn’t all that important. I have booked my RHCE for RHEL 8 for the 11th.

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 BrainSweetiesss Red Hat Certified System Administrator 3 points · 1 year ago

 Honestly... It'd be impossible to pass RHCE using one of those, everything I was doing was
taking double the amount of time. You'd have to know everything 100% from the top of your
head without using any man pages to pass it I believe. Maybe I should say fuck it and go for
RHCE 8

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 rdbreak Red Hat Certified Engineer 2 points · 1 year ago

 I passed my RHCE via an individual exam just fine (using man pages and all). The laptop
performance was decent and the exam proctor didn’t bother me too much with
interruptions. I remember only being interrupted twice for security checks. It sucks you
had this experience with the individual exams. From what I’ve seen/read, everyone has
differing experiences based on the testing center.

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