Consulting companies, VARs, and resellers with RHCEs on staff are able to make a better business case to their customers, and RHCEs themselves report greater confidence, greater success with their Linux implementations for customers or their employers. To pass, you must score an average of 80 or higher, with no single score lower than 50 pts. Since its inception in January 1999, the RHCE Exam has been delivered to thousands of persons in a consistent and equivalent fashion, in training rooms around the world, by Red Hat and by Red Hat Certified Training Partners. The RHCE Exam failure rate is not set in stone. It is a simple percentage compiled each quarter of all the persons who do not pass the RHCE Exam worldwide, divided by all the persons who attempt the RHCE Exam worldwide.
Exam are successful on their second try.
The results of the RHCE Exam will be emailed to you within 2 or 3 business days. Please be accurate in completing the participant data sheet so your mailing address, phone, and email address are correct. Please do not ask or expect your RHCE Examiner to tabulate results and informally notify you on the day of the Exam. They are not allowed to issue informal notifications. If you pass the RHCE Exam then within 8-10 weeks you should receive an official paper RHCE Certificate, with a unique RHCE certification number on it.