UPDATED COURSE AVAILABLE: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Automation with Ansible (RH294)

[James_Mighion]

Red Hat Training & Certification is pleased to announce the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Automation with Ansible (RH294) for RHEL 8.4 and Ansible Automation Platform 1.2. This release resolved over 50 issues and added introductory training on Ansible Content Collections. We also moved the dynamic inventory training to a new course that will be out later this year.

This course is designed for Linux system administrators and developers planning to automate provisioning, configuration, application deployment, and orchestration. Students will gain the skills to automate your workflows, build the foundation for DevOps practices, and learn how to leverage the Ansible Automation Platform for developmental efficiencies.

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank the team full team who helped update this course:
Thanks to the curriculum developers Herve Quatremain, Michael Phillips, and George Hacker who updated the course content.
Thank you Dan Kolepp for providing lab engineering and thank you Steve Bonneville for the architectural design and review.

Thanks to David O’Brien and Nicole Muller of the Content Services team for the editing and render reviews.
Thanks to Ashish Lingayat, Carlos Manuel Arias Moreno, and Hemant Chauhan for the LX reviews and quality assurance they provided.
Thanks to Greg Hosler and Henry Maine from the Certification Team who coordinated with Curriculum to ensure proper alignment of objectives between the course and the exam.

[ratadeagua]

I was trying to buy the voucher for the EX294 exam and noticed that there are now two different versions, EX294V83K which I understand corresponds to the update announced in this post, and the old one, EX294V8K. The new exam version is based on Ansible Automation Platform 1.2 (instead of the Ansible Engine 2.8).

As far as I understand, the outcome of any of the exam versions will be achieving the RHCE, so is it recommended to get the new exam version? Why?

And, besides the update from the Ansible Engine to the Ansible Automation Platform, are there important changes in the content of both exam versions?

[James_Mighion]

Both version of the exam will get you the RHCE if you pass. The new version is always recommended so you're trained on the latest version.

The important changes are the introductory training on Ansible Content Collections and the move of dynamic inventory to a future course.

[Tdmund]

To get more clarification sincerely about this exam update, someone who is trained on the old version of ex294 exam i mean on ansible 2.8/2.9 can go for the new ansible release version (1.2) ??

[James_Mighion]

I cannot speak to what's on the exam, but the only net new content for the course was the introduction of content collections (other than the update from Ansible Engine 2.8 to 2.9).

[Tdmund]

Ok , I understand .

Thanks You

[techy]

Hi,

Yesterday I checked on Red Hat website, Exam version was RHEL 8.4 and Red Hat Ansible Engine 1.2 which was confusing because 1.2 is not version of Red Hat Ansible Engine but Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform which uses Ansible Version 2.9.x.

Today I checked again, I see correction made by RedHat - They changes Red Hat Ansible Engine Version 1.2 to Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 1.2 which makes sense. Also RHEL version is now updated to 8.3 instead of 8.4.

Could someone provide exact information about the exam version. Even Red Hat does not seem to know about exam version yet ?

Thanks

[James_Mighion]

The exam is on AAP 1.2 and RHEL 8.3. The minor version difference on RHEL will not cause any impacts and will be updated next quarter to match the course.

[williamlui_00]

Hello,

Is the exam EX294V83K based on Ansible Tower? I mean all the tests must handle on the web UI? 

[techy]

Hi,
It does not seem the case because there is no change in exam objectives
since previous version(Ansible Version 2.8) . Also nothing specific to
Ansible Tower or Ansible Automation Platform is mentioned in objectives.

If RedHat wants you to do all the tasks with Ansible Tower, they must
specific this on exam objectives list.

So I think , only change from exam point of view is from Ansible version
2.8 to Ansible version 2.9.

But this is my opinion and most likely this is the case at least at
present.In future they might have plans to change it.

I would suggest to check with RedHat about this.They must tell if they want
you to do tasks using web UI of Ansible Tower for this exam.

Thanks,

[williamlui_00]

Thanks, @techy

[James_Mighion]

@williamlui_00I cannot speak to the exam, but the course specifically only updated from Ansible 2.8 to 2.9 (via Ansible Automation Platform 1.2) and a minor update to RHEL. Nothing about Tower in this course.

[williamlui_00]

@James_Mighion and @techy  Thank you again.