Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Network Automation

IT leaders often cite EX457 when documenting that the engineers who push automated changes to switches and routers have validated skills in playbooks, encryption, authentication and configuration backups. CBT Nuggets team reporting supplies per-learner completion exports as audit evidence, while the auditor's control crosswalk decides the formal mapping to any framework the organization follows.

The credential suits network engineers and administrators who maintain multi-vendor gear and want configuration work moved into version-controlled Ansible playbooks. The linked course prepares a team to automate Arista, Juniper and VyOS devices, manage VLANs, SNMP and syslog, and handle OSPF and BGP configuration using variables, Jinja2 templates, handlers and roles. A certified team can own repeatable configuration backups, error handling and Git-tracked network changes instead of device-by-device manual edits.

CBT Nuggets Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Network Automation 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.

From the admin console, managers assign the Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Network Automation 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.

The linked training totals about 16 hours of video across the live courses. Actual time to certify depends on the team's starting point, especially existing comfort with Linux, Git and YAML-based playbooks, so Team Leads with experienced automation engineers may move faster than teams new to Ansible.

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.