Hey everyone!

I passed EX467 (Managing Automation with Ansible Automation Platform) today, and honestly, I found it pretty easy.

My scores:

Manage Automation Content: 100%

Manage Access to Ansible Automation Platform: 100%

Manage Inventories and Credentials: 100%

Manage Ansible Automation Platform Projects: 100%

Manage Ansible Automation Platform Workflows: 80%

Manage Ansible Automation Platform Jobs: 73%

Interact with Ansible Automation Platform Programmatically: 100%

Maintain Ansible Automation Platform: 100%

Large-Scale Deployment of Ansible Automation Platform: 100%

I've already completed EX188 and EX200 as well.

I'm now planning to take EX280 next.

For those who have taken EX280 recently, how difficult did you find it compared to EX467? Is it relatively straightforward, or should I expect a significant jump in difficulty?

I'd appreciate any advice, preparation tips, or insights from people who have already passed it.

Thanks!

I would like to know if there's any additional time given to test takers and country where the test is being taken whose mother's tongue is not English. I plan to take the exam sometime before the end of the year in one of the Nordic countries.

From past experience I know Cisco gave additional time for those whose mother tongue is not English, wondering if Red-Hat does likewise.

Hi everyone,

I’m planning to take either the Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS) exam or the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam. I know some universities and partner programs provide discount codes or vouchers, and sometimes people end up with extras they don’t use.

If anyone has an unused code or voucher they’d be willing to share, I’d really appreciate it. The RHCSA exam is around $500, so any savings would help a lot.

Thanks in advance!

El que era RHCE pasó a llamarse “EX294 Red Hat Certified Advanced System Administrator in Ansible”.

Lo acabo de aprobar!!!

De momento es válido por tres años hasta el 14 de agosto de 2029.

I am practicing for the RHCSA exam but i ran into a problem that i am unsure of why it occurs. When i try to set an expiration date for a user account using chage like this:

chage -E 2026-10-25 exampleuser    

I always appear to get the wrong date in the "Account expires" field when i verify:

chage -l exampleuser
Last password change                                    : Jul 07, 2026
Password expires                                        : never
Password inactive                                       : never
Account expires                                         : Oct 24, 2026
Minimum number of days between password change          : 0
Maximum number of days between password change          : 99999
Number of days of warning before password expires       : 7

I set it to 25th but when verifying it is set to the 24th and it always ends up off by 1 day like this no matter the date. Does anyone know why this happens?

Some additional information that i doubt matters is that i am in UTC+2 and system's time settings seem completely fine. I am worried that this could lead to a point deduction on the exam.

I'm from Brazil and have been studying for the RHCSA since January. Last week, I started the RHCSA exam, but after 32 minutes I had to cancel it because the connection was so slow that I couldn't even open the first question.

I had run the system requirements test several times beforehand, and everything was fine.

During the exam, I first used a 500 Mbps Wi-Fi connection. After about 15 minutes, I restarted and tried again using a 5G smartphone hotspot. It was slightly better, but still far too slow to take the exam.

I opened a ticket with Red Hat Support, but they recommended doing the exam using a wired connection. I've now upgraded my internet to 1 Gbps and will take the next attempt using a CAT6 wired connection.

However, I'm honestly worried about the possibility of losing $300 if the same thing happens.

Is there any way to test the actual connection to the RHCSA exam environment beforehand and get some evidence that everything is stable and better? Can I schedule a test or experience session or otherwise verify that the connection is good enough before taking the exam again?

Any advice from people who have experienced something similar would be greatly appreciated.

This was the RHEL 10 version.

It was a doozy, mainly due to the exam environment. I took this one a couple months after EX200. It’s mainly a test of endurance due to how much the environment rage-baits you. This is probably the most frustrated I have ever been taking an exam.

Main prep:

- The official AU294 course, used about 40 hours of lab time there, and about 2 months to go through the content

- Homelab (ProxMox: 1 control node, 3 RHEL10 managed hosts)

- I currently work as a sysadmin and manage a decent amount of Ubuntu/RHEL machines

I finished with about 30 minutes to spare. I did not use ansible-navigator as it seemed to be broken. I wasted 20 minutes troubleshooting what ultimately seemed to be an issue with the exam environment.

I HIGHLY recommend taking this in person. Unfortunately the closest testing center was 8 hours away. I used a wired connection and the session would freeze every 10 seconds, and if you were typing while it froze it would send your input like 30 times. This happens CONSTANTLY.

For example, if you were backspacing a couple times and it froze, you would end up deleting 4 lines lol. I think I would have finished in 2 hours if it wasn’t for the constant Ctrl-Z’ing.

I recommend getting very comfortable with ansible_facts, conditional logic, and regex.

Good luck to the folks getting ready to take it. The official course is not completely adequate prep, especially regarding Jinja.

Hey, Im studying ex316 from RHLS, one thing Im noticing when configuring stuff via YAML, the course tell me to copy a YAML file. or gives me the YAML infront of me and tell to add stuff. my question is. do i have to know or memorize those YAML additions for the exam? or will it be the same where they'd tell me to just copy yaml from CLI?

Hey!
I’m a student living in France, and with the taxes/VAT added here, the total price ends up being quite a bit higher for me than the listed price.
I’m really interested in getting this, but the final cost is a little difficult to justify on a student budget. If anyone happens to have a discount code they’re not using, I’d really appreciate it.
Thanks in advance!

Hi can I choose the version I want for an exam like v9.3 or that exam by last version v10 only?

Hi I want to take the RHCSA v9.3 exam and I want to know in this version for the root password reset question do we use rb.break or init=/bin/bash

​Hey everyone!

​I just got certified last week (ex200)! To be honest, it wasn't my first or even second try. I never really took studying seriously because I wrongly assumed that having years of experience meant I didn't need to study (pretty dumb, right?).

​That was until this attempt, when I decided to switch things up and stumbled across this forum.

​A lot of people here recommended Sander van Vugt's book. On my previous tries, I attempted reading the official docs, but they just felt super long and dry.

​Now I'm looking for another book to help me prepare for the EX294. Does anyone have any recommendations or other solid study resources? I realized I much prefer reading a book over following video courses.

​Cheers!

Hello everybody

As the title says im having issues preping for ex380

I have the official docs since my rhls is now expired is sno the way to go ? I already did 3 exams on openshift ex280 ex316 and ex432 im going for rhca in openshift but my current env cannot handel full cluster openshift with ha any recommendations?

Also another question since the new cert system is live

Is there still a discount for RHCA ? On rhls

In the old system there was a discount of 50% for any rhca for rhls

Hey hi techies! I am a CS graduate and IT Hardware support professional with 6 months experience. I just need a suggestion from you guys! I need to clear RHCSA. I am in bangalore. Is that training required means institute coaching or else can we clear the exam without that? If that is possible Can you guys help with free resources? How long does it take to complete the objectives?! That' could be helpful!

I don't know if my question violates the exam NDA rules, but this has been bothering me a lot.

I've heard that after we finish the EX294 exam, all the managed nodes are deleted and new ones are installed from scratch. So my question is: how can our control node (the one where we saved all our playbooks) still connect to the managed nodes if those nodes are reinstalled from scratch with new SSH keys?

Hey guys, I've done some research regarding what distros are mostly used in enterprises and RHEL is something that seems common. My long term goal is helpdesk > sysadmin > network engineering or devops. The city I live in has a lot of opportunities in the mining industry.

For context, I am in university studying IT and since I have tons of free time, I'm trying to upskill as much as I can. I recently got my CCNA, MD-102 and now looking to get a linux cert. Is there anything you guys recommend other than RHCSA??

I am preparing for the ex288 certification of red hat.
Does someone of you have any exercises to do?

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Hi, I recently got my CCNA certification and my next step is to study the RHCSA content using the most up-to-date information possible. What are the best value-for-money resources in this area?