A Red Hat® Certified Architect (RHCA) is a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®), Red Hat Certified Enterprise Microservices Developer (RHCEMD), or Red Hat Certified Cloud-native Developer (RHCCD) who has attained our highest level of certification by passing—and keeping current—five additional certifications chosen from the system administrator and developer lists.

Red Hat provides the opportunity to earn two different kinds of Red Hat Certified Architect certifications: Red Hat Certified Architect in Infrastructure and Red Hat Certified Architect in Enterprise Applications. Candidates can choose to follow both paths or earn credentials that might not be on the RHCA path they are pursuing.

Consider our recommended certification combinations

RHCA program requirements are flexible and can adapt to a wide variety of interests and needs. Organizations that use Red Hat technologies and the IT professionals who work for them are the best judges of which certifications address their needs.

However, many IT professionals and organizations seek guidance from Red Hat on which certifications might best be applied to unique needs, so we have suggested combinations of certifications that can help chart the journey to becoming an RHCA or to assist recruiters and managers in finding the skills they need to build out their teams.

Our recommended combinations are subject to change as technologies evolve and emerge, and keep in mind that pursuing a specific combination does not confer a different certification. Of course, all certifications listed can be earned independently, regardless of whether a candidate is an RHCE, RHCEMD, RHCCD, or has none of those certifications.*

Be sure to view the For RHCEs and For RHCEMDs & RHCCDs tabs to see combinations of certifications that align with and supplement existing certifications.

*Please note that becoming a Red Hat Certified Specialist in Enterprise Microservices Development requires an RHCCD credential.

Recommended Training for Certificate

To become an RHCA, an RHCE must earn at least 5 of these Red Hat Certified Specialist and keep them current:

• RH342: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Diagnostics and Troubleshooting
• RH358: Red Hat Services Management and Automation
• RH362: Red Hat Security: Identity Management and Authentication
• RH403: Red Hat Satellite 6 Administration
• RH415: Red Hat Security: Linux in Physical, Virtual, and Cloud
• RH436: Red Hat High Availability Clustering
• RH442: Red Hat Enterprise Performance Tuning: Linux in Physical, Virtual, and Cloud
• RH445: Red Hat High Availability Clustering for SAP Solutions

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