A Red Hat® Certified Architect (RHCA) is a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®)
who has attained Red Hat's highest level of certification. RHCA
certification represents a depth of knowledge in Red Hat Enterprise
Linux® and breadth of knowledge across other Red Hat technologies.
To earn RHCA, one must attain RHCE status and acquire at least 5 of the following credentials:
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator in Red Hat OpenStack
- Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Hybrid Cloud Storage
- Red Hat Certified JBoss Administrator
- Red Hat Certified Virtualization Administrator
- Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Security: Network Services
- Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Deployment and Systems Management
- Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Directory Services and Authentication
- Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in SElinux Policy Administration
- Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Clustering and Storage Management
- Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Performance Tuning
- Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Server Hardening
- Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Platform-as-a-Service
- Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Data Virtualization