Red Hat Certified Architect in Enterprise Applications (RHCA)

A Red Hat® Certified Architect (RHCA) is a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®), Red Hat Certified Enterprise Microservices Developer (RHCEMD), or Red Hat Certified JBoss® Developer (RHCJD) 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.

Prerequisites

An RHCA credential is a good fit for Red Hat Certified Enterprise Microservices Developers (RHCEMDs) and Red Hat Certified JBoss Developers (RHCJDs) who wish to demonstrate greater depth and breadth of knowledge and skills in our middleware and applications products.

RHCEMDs and RHCJDs may select any combination within the Enterprise Applications track, and those who earn five or more credentials from the developer list in the Skills tab become Red Hat Certified Architects in Enterprise Applications.

We highly recommend (but do not require) that all candidates for Red Hat Certified Architect in Enterprise Applications earn these certifications:

  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Application Development
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in Enterprise Application Server Administration

The recommended combinations of certifications that follow assume these two certifications have been earned.

Application acceleration and integration

Today’s enterprise applications must keep up with business demands that are changing faster than ever before. Earning three of these certifications will help speed the development cycle and the pace at which new applications and functionality are integrated and deployed:

  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in Fast-Cache Application Development
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in Camel Development
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in Data Virtualization
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in Messaging Administration
Application automation

When things must happen both faster and more reliably, automation is the key. Earning these certifications and one more from the developer list in the Skills tab can help streamline the way applications are developed and managed.

  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in Business Process Design
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in Business Rules
DevOps, containers, and OpenShift

DevOps is all about hastening the speed at which an idea or feature request ends up in the hands of an application’s users. Developers are now empowered to decide the environment in which their applications run and create continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines that make today’s checked-in changes tomorrow’s production code.

Earning these certifications plus three more from the developer list in the Skills tab can help organizations ramp up their production cycles.

  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in Configuration Management

To attain Red Hat Certified Architect in Enterprise Applications status, an RHCEMD or RHCJD must earn at least 5 certifications from this developers list:

  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in Enterprise Application Server Administration
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containerized Application Development
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in Persistence
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in Configuration Management
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in Camel Development
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in Data Virtualization
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in Fast-Cache Application Development
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in Business Rules
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in Business Process Design
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in Application Server Management (retired)

Exams and recommended training

To attain RHCA status, an RHCJD must pass any 5 of the following exams: