Red Hat / Ansible automation / EX294

Become a Red Hat Certified Engineer in Ansible

Advance from system administration to repeatable automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. A current RHCSA is required to earn RHCE, even if you pass EX294 first.

Required certification foundation

Build on EX200

Complete this milestone as part of the official credential progression.

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Core learning

Follow the current official objectives

  1. 1.Inventories and managed nodes
  2. 2.Playbooks, variables, facts, and loops
  3. 3.Roles and reusable content
  4. 4.Templates, files, packages, services, and storage
  5. 5.Security, users, firewall, and SELinux automation
  6. 6.Troubleshooting, validation, and idempotency
Official exam objectives and preparation ↗Current certification requirements ↗

Hands-on consolidation

Perform the work in an isolated lab

Build a version-controlled Ansible project for at least four disposable RHEL nodes. Use inventories, variables, roles, templates, handlers, Vault-protected secrets, error handling, and validation to configure services securely. Run it repeatedly and prove idempotency and recovery from a failed node.

Ready when…

You can automate an unfamiliar requirement from documentation, keep secrets out of source control, diagnose a failed task, and prove the resulting fleet state is correct and repeatable.

Knowledge check · not an exam simulator

Find gaps with our EX294 test

75 original, source-backed questions; the first 7 are free. Red Hat's official exam is performance-based, so complete the practical lab as well.

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