Red Hat Certified Datacenter Specialist(RHCDS)

An RHCDS has the skills and knowledge necessary to build reliable, available, scalable, and manageable solutions in mission-critical datacenter environments using fully-supported open source technologies from Red Hat.

Current RHCEs will obtain RHCDS certification upon successfully passing all three Expertise Exams:

• EX401 Deployment, Virtualization, and Systems Management
• EX436 Clustering and Storage Management
• EX423 Directory Services and Authentication
• OR EX318 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

These courses build on system administration skills covered in the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) program, which is a prerequisite.

All upper-level courses are all peer level, meaning each can be taken by someone with RHCE or equivalent skills. Any order is fine.

Curriculum and Expertise Exams

• Only current RHCEs are eligible to be certified as a Red Hat Certified Datacenter Specialist (RHCDS), while anyone can attend the courses in this track. Verify your RHCE.
• Current RHCEs will obtain RHCDS certification upon successfully passing all three Expertise Exams.
• The courses are not required as the tests can be taken separately but they are strongly recommended.