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Red Hat Certified Engineer in Ansible

Standardize your team on Red Hat Certified Engineer in Ansible with a structured Red Hat training path — team admin reporting included on every CBT Nuggets Teams seat.

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Linux systems administrators reviewing terminal output beside server racks
Difficulty
Difficulty: 4 of 5 (Advanced)
Advanced
Exam fee (Red Hat)
$400
Courses on path
1
Official source
Red Hat’s official exam page
Exam code
  • EX294

Exam datasheet

Format
Hands-on, performance-based exam
Prerequisites
Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
Recommended experience
1-3 years of experience in Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments
Recertification
3 years
Testing center

Exams

Exams for this certification

Exam fees per engineer, paid to the exam vendor$400

Exam — Required

Every engineer on the Red Hat Certified Engineer in Ansible path takes EX294.

  1. EX294Red Hat Certified Advanced System Administrator in Ansible Exam
    Exam fee
    $400
    Exam length
    4 hours
    Questions
    20
    Passing score
    70%

    Exam blueprint: EX294

Skills your team builds

Ansible AutomationLinux System AdministrationShell ScriptingNetwork Services ConfigurationSecurity Management

Training path

Your team's training path

One CBT Nuggets course covers the full Red Hat Certified Engineer in Ansible path. Your team can start today and have admin reporting visible from day one.

  1. Start here · primary course

    RHCE

    This Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) EX294 training helps you get RHCE-certified fast with expert-led, hands-on instruction. You’ll learn to automate key Red Hat Enterprise Linux tasks using Ansible, working with playbooks, roles, modules, content collections, and more. Designed for RHCSA-certified or experienced sysadmins, this course covers everything the RHCE exam tests for: system deployment, storage, user management, security, and Ansible-based automation. Gain the practical skills you need to pass the RHCE exam and level up your Linux automation game.

    John McGovern
    179 videos19h
    Open course

Every certification course includes

  • Expert-led video training
  • Per-team completion reporting

Red Hat career ladder

Where Red Hat Certified Engineer in Ansible sits in your team's Red Hat progression

The cert your team is on now, plus the levels above and below. Use this to map an engineer's next-step credential or to plan headcount coverage across tiers.

  1. Associate level

    1 cert

    Red Hat Certified System Administrator

    EX200

  2. Professional level

    1 cert

    Red Hat Certified Engineer in Ansible

    EX294

    You are here

  3. Specialist level

    2 certs

    Red Hat Certified Developer in Cloud-native Applications

    EX188

    Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Network Automation

    EX457

Customer outcome

Build EX294 capability across the whole team, not one engineer

Assign the Red Hat Certified Engineer in Ansible course to the engineers who need it, and the team report shows who has started, who has finished — the view leadership uses to see Red Hat skills coverage across the team and where the gaps are.

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Team capability

Make EX294 a number on your team capability sheet, not a single engineer’s certificate.

Standardizing your team on EX294 gives leadership a clear picture of Red Hat skills coverage — who has completed the training, who is still on the path, and where the gaps are — so staffing and escalation plans rest on known capability instead of on one engineer.

Credential: Red Hat Certified Engineer in Ansible

Exam
  • EX294

Frequently asked questions about Red Hat Certified Engineer in Ansible training

Common questions IT directors ask when evaluating Red Hat Certified Engineer in Ansible training for their team.

How does Red Hat Certified Engineer in Ansible fit into our internal compliance or governance program?

IT leaders often cite this credential when documenting that the engineers who automate Red Hat Enterprise Linux configuration, user access, secrets handling and storage encryption have validated skills. Team reporting supports that record with per-learner progress, completion and completion exports for audit evidence. The auditor's control crosswalk decides how the certification maps to any formal framework.

Who on the team should hold Red Hat Certified Engineer in Ansible, and what can a certified team own?

It suits senior Linux system administrators and automation engineers who manage fleets of Red Hat Enterprise Linux hosts. The linked training prepares them to own Ansible playbooks and roles, variables and secrets, Jinja-rendered configurations, user management, scheduled tasks and services, networking, storage, file system mounting, RAID and encryption. A certified team can also troubleshoot playbook runs and work from Ansible Navigator and its documentation.

What does CBT Nuggets Red Hat Certified Engineer in Ansible training include for a team?

CBT Nuggets Red Hat Certified Engineer in Ansible courses are built by named expert trainers. Where a course includes hands-on virtual labs or a practice exam mapped to Red Hat's published exam objectives, the course list on this page says so. Team admin reporting tracks assignment, completion and exam readiness per engineer — the view managers use to run a team training program.

How do I assign and track Red Hat Certified Engineer in Ansible training for my team?

From the admin console, managers assign the Red Hat Certified Engineer in Ansible courses directly to specific engineers or role groups and track completion and practice-exam scores per learner. Team-wide reporting rolls up to a single dashboard you can review or export for leadership reviews or compliance reporting.

How long does it take to certify a team on Red Hat Certified Engineer in Ansible?

The linked courses total about 19 hours of video for EX294 preparation. How long the full team takes depends on each engineer's starting point with Linux administration and Ansible, plus the hands-on practice time added around those hours.

What if Red Hat updates the Red Hat Certified Engineer in Ansible exam objectives?

CBT Nuggets updates Red Hat course content as exam objectives refresh, and this page shows the current exam's status and any retirement date the vendor has announced. When Red Hat restructures or renames a track, the assigned training stays aligned with the same team training plan, and the training stays current without anyone losing their progress mid-stream.

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