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Red Hat Certified System Administrator

Standardize your team on Red Hat Certified System Administrator with a structured Red Hat training path — virtual labs and team admin reporting included on every CBT Nuggets Teams seat.

1
Course
8
Core skills
$400
Exam fee (Red Hat)
Linux systems administrators reviewing terminal output beside server racks
Difficulty
Difficulty: 3 of 5 (Moderate)
Moderate
Exam fee (Red Hat)
$400
Courses on path
1
Exam code
  • EX200

Exam datasheet

Format
Multiple-choice and performance-based questions
Prerequisites
None
Recommended experience
Experience working as a system administrator on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Recertification
3 years

Exams

Exams for this certification

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

Exam — Required

Every engineer on the Red Hat Certified System Administrator path takes EX200.

  1. EX200Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam
    Exam fee
    $400
    Exam length
    3 hours
    Questions
    20-25
    Passing score
    70%

    Exam blueprint: EX200

Skills your team builds

Linux administrationUser and group managementFile permissionsSELinuxNetworkingSystem monitoringStorage managementService management

Every certification course includes

  • Expert-led video training
  • Hands-on virtual labs
  • Per-team completion reporting

Red Hat career ladder

Where Red Hat Certified System Administrator 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

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Customer outcome

Build EX200 capability across the whole team, not one engineer

Assign the Red Hat Certified System Administrator 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.

Team capability

Make EX200 a number on your team capability sheet, not a single engineer’s certificate.

Standardizing your team on EX200 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 System Administrator

Exam
  • EX200

Frequently asked questions about Red Hat Certified System Administrator training

Common questions IT directors ask when evaluating Red Hat Certified System Administrator training for their team.

How does Red Hat Certified System Administrator fit into our internal compliance and governance program?

Teams often cite the RHCSA credential when documenting that the people with administrative access to Linux servers have validated skills in user and group management, file permissions, and SSH connections. Team reporting provides completion exports that can serve as training evidence, while the auditor's control crosswalk decides how the credential maps to any formal framework requirement.

Who on the team should hold Red Hat Certified System Administrator, and what can a certified team own?

The credential fits junior and mid-level systems administrators and the engineers who share on-call duty for Red Hat Linux hosts. Based on the linked EX200 course lessons, a certified team can own day-to-day administration: accounts, groups and shells, file permissions, partitions and mounting, LVM and Stratis storage, services and task scheduling, process monitoring, boot targets, basic networking, and shell scripting for routine work.

What does CBT Nuggets Red Hat Certified System Administrator training include for a team?

CBT Nuggets Red Hat Certified System Administrator 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 System Administrator training for my team?

From the admin console, managers assign the Red Hat Certified System Administrator 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 System Administrator?

The linked live courses contain about 20 hours of video, which gives IT leaders a planning baseline for assigning the EX200 training. Actual time to certify depends on each engineer's starting point with Linux administration and how much hands-on practice they need beyond the video lessons.

What if Red Hat updates the Red Hat Certified System Administrator 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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