Anyone taken RHCSA recently?

celliott · 25 May 2012 at 11:51

Obviously we cant go into any detail due to the strict NDA, but did anyone else find it short / easy?

I took it this morning and found it a lot easier than I expected, had covered everything and double/triple checked around 45mins into the exam and was the first to leave. Its 2.5 hours total :eek:

In a bit worried now I may have missed some questions but I completed everything in there!

Djwayne · 25 May 2012 at 12:09

Did mine back in October did both my RHCSA and RHCE back to back the same day.

The exam wasn't particularly difficult but I did use the time to ensure that I had covered each question totally and probably left once I was 110% sure all my answers were right.

I did see a few people leave after 45-min to an hour but think a few of them failed. Easy to miss minor details when you are doing the exam and they do cost a lot of marks in some cases.

melvis · 26 May 2012 at 21:03

took mine start of this year, i did finish the actual work really early but i just kept thinking i mustve missed something and went checking everything for another hour, was a bit paranoid as was paying out of my own pocket so a resit wouldve hit my wallet hard!
did leave me wondering if i shouldve plumped straight for the RHCE if im honest

Djwayne · 28 May 2012 at 12:02

melvis said:
took mine start of this year, i did finish the actual work really early but i just kept thinking i mustve missed something and went checking everything for another hour, was a bit paranoid as was paying out of my own pocket so a resit wouldve hit my wallet hard!
did leave me wondering if i shouldve plumped straight for the RHCE if im honest

The RHCE is along similar lines but in a lot more detail with a shorter time limit so is a bit more of a mental challenge. Unfortunately you have to do RHCSA before you can do RHCE now as one validates the other.

memyselfandi · 29 May 2012 at 12:26

Did both the RHCSA and RHCE exams on the same day last June ... the RHCSA was quite easy (although I did have ~12 years Linux experience before sitting it) although I think some people who had just studied for that level did fail as they didn't really have the knowledge and experience for it.

The RHCE exam was more challenging but still wasn't as bad as I was expecting (but you do need to know the items published as being in the scope of it pretty well).

As Djwayne says, you can't be a RHCE without a RHCSA qualification as well (hence the RHCE intensive course with exam does the RHCSA exam too).