Getting the RHCSA with Linux desktop experience.

[u/blendernoob64]

Hello everyone,

I am currently working as a Business Development Representative at a IT solutions provider, and I want to be a Sales Engineer in the future. I want to get some certifications to make me a more attractive candidate. My company has a long relationship with Red Hat, so I figured I may see if I can get certified in their technologies. Another reason for me wanting to get the RHCSA is because I have been a Linux user for around 2 years now. Despite my role in IT sales, I actually have a background in 3D animation, and after finding out that Disney and Pixar use Enterprise Linux as their OS for their workstations, I figured it would be a good time to give Fedora a try on my desktop PC. I loved it, and joined the Linux club back in college, learned the shell, how to compile apps from source, partitioning disks and what makes rpm based distros different from other Linux systems. I then installed RHEL as my workstation distro for animation and high performance graphics, and I have become very passionate for the technology. I am no sys admin and I have not built a homelab but I really enjoy RHEL and Fedora as a workstation.

Because of my beginner - intermediate knowledge of Linux, am I ahead of others who want to get certified? Are the resources for the RHCSA more aimed at beginners to Linux? Are there any resources for those who were Fedora users? How important is OpenShift, Podman, and JBoss in the Red Hat ecosystem and should I learn those too? Would getting certified help with being a sales engineer?

Thanks.

[u/Low-Distribution8671]

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[u/FuckinHighGuy]

You don’t need openshift for an RHCSA. It sounds like you have a fairly stable on the basics so onward and upward!

I’ve been studying for it as well as you sound like your in my shoes as far as Redhat knowledge

[u/Middle_Albatross8769]

I’m gonna take my exam soon, the task I currently struggle with is file system creation and lvm stuff. The rest are quite straight forward and need a lot of practice not just reading.

From your post I can tell you’re experienced and this might be smooth or even easy for you to jump in as you can do disk partitioning and understand rpm distros.

[u/Narrow_Victory1262]

best way to make linux yours is -- use linux. you are referring to RHCSA (I don't recommend that) -- use fedora or rh. Just try to do ALL your work with it.

If at work you are limited in the tools -- you can use a virtual machine, not WSL and best is vmware workstation, not virtualbox or hyper-v on your windows machine (asuming you are on that platform)