So I attended Summit the past few years and each time sat on an education panel run by the head of Red Hat's education program. Most recently we discussed Red

So I attended Summit the past few years and each time sat on an education panel run by the head of Red Hat's education program. Most recently we discussed Red Hat Learning Subscription and the relative difficulty of the Red Hat Certified Architect track. RHCA requires the student complete certified sysadmin, certified engineer and then 5 more courses. In previous years RHCA required passing two gauntlet exams: Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting. These exams are no joke and will trip up senior sysadmins. Many RHCAs were upset that Red Hat lowered the bar by removing those two exams and not creating equivalent exams on the other tracks which are for development or devops concentrations instead of classic system administration. In my personal opinion Red Hat should have instead created multiple red hat certified engineer certifications for each of the various concentrations which could then feed into Red Hat certified architect certifications. Last year the head of the education program stated he wanted redhat certified architect to eventually be the equivalent of getting the notoriously difficult and rigorous CCIE. As a RHEL 6 and 7 RHCE with this move I feel like they've gone the other direction.