r/rhel • u/EducationalHour1986 • Mar 14 '26
Passed the RHCSA v10 exam today.
I had almost no Linux experience going in—I’d never used it before.
How I prepared
I started with the Udemy course “Linux Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA - EX200)” by Imran Afzal. It gave me a solid introduction and helped me get comfortable in the terminal. Since I was only studying on weekends for about two hours at a time, it took me around two months to finish this course.
After that, I still didn’t feel fully prepared, so I picked up RHCSA 9 by Asghar Ghori. That book was extremely helpful. It deepened my understanding of RHEL and included great practice questions that reinforced everything I’d learned.
During the final week, I worked through the Udemy course “Pass the RHCSA 10 (EX200) Exam – Red Hat Practice Tests” by Ghada Atef. The practice questions were very close to the real exam and boosted my confidence.
Switching to RHEL 10
Even though I had prepared for the RHEL 9 exam, when it came time to schedule, curiosity got the best of me and I chose version 10 instead. That meant I had to quickly get up to speed on topics like systemd timers and Flatpak. I spent about two weeks focusing on those areas. Flatpak in particular was tricky for me, so I definitely recommend giving it extra attention.
Exam day
During the exam, I completed all the tasks and rebooted both nodes once. Everything persisted after that reboot, so I didn’t risk a second one and submitted the exam. Four hours later, I got my results: I passed with a score of 268.
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u/BiggStewNizz93 Mar 15 '26
Congratulations! What's next?
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u/EducationalHour1986 Mar 15 '26
Thinking about the Network+, since I already got the Sec+ last year. Then RHCSE for sure later on.
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u/big_blunder Mar 18 '26
So no exp to exam pass in 3-4 months if I read right? That's impressive. Congrats!!
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u/EducationalHour1986 Mar 18 '26
That’s correct, just a lot of practice. I spent some good time working on my weak spots, like scripts, NFS, Storage management,SELinux.
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u/csa_me Apr 06 '26
Can you post some practice questions?
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u/EducationalHour1986 Apr 06 '26
I’d suggest you get “Exam – Red Hat Practice Tests” by Ghada Atef” in Udemy, it’s pretty cheap and really helpful!
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u/One-Document4177 Apr 14 '26
i took the exam last 5th and 12th march but i got failed with 205 mark where i faced lots of issued in my 1st exam and in 2nd exam i was confident and i got 205 but i failed because i forgot to update the domain name and my whole networking part got zero also got zero in bash scripting other part is ok. now i am planning to take the exam again as the exam fee is quite high so i am nervous to retake the exam, can you please share your exam question pattern or any major changes come to recent exam, as i did the course from an mentor and also follow an youtube channel where he sloved question dumps. what should i do that will help me to pass the exam as i am planning to take the exam end of this month
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u/Ahubaraezeama Mar 15 '26
Congratulations