Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) EX294 EXAM 2026

Transform your system administration skills into scalable automation expertise with the ultimate preparation guide for the RHCE EX294 exam.

In the modern IT landscape, manual administration is a bottleneck. The Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) credential is the industry benchmark for professionals who can automate the deployment, management, and support of multi-node environments. This course is meticulously designed to bridge the gap between managing a single server and orchestrating an entire enterprise infrastructure using the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

Based on RHEL 9/10 objectives, this course moves beyond basic playbooks. You will master the 2026 toolset—including ansible-navigator and Execution Environments—ensuring you are prepared for the specific performance-based environment of the 4-hour RHCE exam.

What You Will Master:

• Modern Tooling: Shift from legacy commands to ansible-navigator for running playbooks, inspecting documentation, and managing development containers.

• Complex Playbook Logic: Implement advanced task control using loops, conditional when statements, and failure handling with block/rescue/always.

• Dynamic Content: Use Jinja2 templates to deploy customized configuration files and manage variables with surgical precision.

• Security & Governance: Protect sensitive data (passwords, SSH keys) using Ansible Vault and implement role-based access for complex automation.

• Reusable Automation: Master the structure of Ansible Roles and leverage RHEL System Roles to automate storage, networking, and security consistently across your fleet.

• Standard RHEL Tasks: Automate daily RHCSA tasks—such as LVM storage, firewall rules, and user management—at a massive scale.

Why Choose This Course?

• Scenario-Based Labs: Every module includes a "Mini-Exam" lab that mimics the actual EX294 tasks (approx. 15-20 tasks).

• Speed & Efficiency: Learn the "shortcuts" of the ansible-navigator interface and how to use the built-in documentation to survive the exam without internet access.

• Idempotency Focus: We don't just teach you to run a playbook; we teach you to write resilient automation that ensures your systems stay in the desired state.

By the end of this course, you will not only be ready to earn your RHCE credential but will possess the skills to lead DevOps and automation initiatives within any global organization.