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How LinuxCert.Guru compares

The honest version. Every option below can get you through the RHCSA. They differ in what you pay, whether you get hosted labs, whether anyone grades your work, and what happens the week before the exam.

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Option Format Hands-on labs Grading Mock exam Price Refund Checked
$_ LinuxCert.Guru Task-based labs on real RHEL machines, PDF slides, mock tests, a proctored-style Mock Exam. No video lectures. Yes. 45 RHCSA labs on real RHEL 10 machines in the browser, plus RHCE, LFCS, LPIC-1 and Linux+ tracks. Yes. Every task is checked against the machine's real state when you submit. Yes. Five in-course mock tests, plus a separate 3-hour, two-node RHCSA Mock Exam reviewed by a person with a report within 72 hours. Free tier. Premium $29/month or $200/year. Premium+ $39/month or $250/year. RHCSA Fast Track $99 for 2 months. Mock Exam $49 per attempt. Prorated for the unused part of your plan after the payment-gateway fee is deducted; no refund is for the full amount. Mock Exam attempts are non-refundable. 2026-09-19
Red Hat TrainingOfficial vendor training Instructor-led or self-paced official courses with metered lab hours, sold as Red Hat Learning Subscription tiers. Yes. Hosted course labs with a lab-hour allowance per subscription tier. Guided exercises with solutions; not graded task-by-task. Practice material inside the subscription tiers; no standalone mock exam. EX200 exam $500. Single courses are sold as a one-year "Course" learning subscription; the Standard subscription is roughly $5,500 to $6,000 per year. Handled by Red Hat or the training partner you bought from; enterprise terms. 2026-09-19
Udemy RHCSA coursesVideo course marketplace Recorded video lectures with downloadable notes. Practice-exam courses ship task lists with worked solutions. Not hosted. Courses walk you through building your own virtual machines (VirtualBox or VMware); some ship a downloadable OVA. No. You compare your work with the instructor's solution. Practice-exam packs with written solutions; untimed and ungraded. Individual courses list around $89.99 and are regularly discounted to roughly $15 to $25. Personal Plan subscription $20 to $32 a month in the US, depending on promotion. 30-day refund on individual course purchases. Personal Plan subscriptions are not refundable unless local law requires it. 2026-09-19
Sander van Vugt's RHCSA coursesAuthor-led video courses and books Recorded video lessons with an exercise per lesson, a self-grading practice-exam engine you run on your own VM, printed and e-book Cert Guides, and paid personal support packages. On your own virtual machines. The course includes a lesson on building them. Partly. The practice exam ships with a self-grading script that reports pass or fail per task on your VM. Lesson exercises are not graded. Yes. A sample exam modelled on the real one, graded by the included script. "Red Hat RHCSA RHEL 10 with Exam Labs" video course $559.99 (list $699.99). "RHCSA Exam Labs" on its own $239.99. Also included in an O'Reilly subscription at $49 a month or $499 a year. Pearson and O'Reilly digital-purchase terms apply. 2026-09-19

Prices and features as of 2026-09-19. Competitor details are checked against the vendor's own site on that date and can change without notice; verify on the vendor's site before you buy. LinuxCert.Guru is not affiliated with any vendor named on this page.

Official vendor training LinuxCert.Guru vs Red Hat Training The official RH124, RH134 and RH199 courses and the EX200 exam itself. Read the comparison → Video course marketplace LinuxCert.Guru vs Udemy RHCSA courses Dozens of independent RHCSA video courses and practice-exam packs, sold one course at a time or through a Personal Plan subscription. Read the comparison → Author-led video courses and books LinuxCert.Guru vs Sander van Vugt's RHCSA courses The RHCSA Cert Guide author's video courses and Exam Labs, sold through Pearson IT Certification and O'Reilly. Read the comparison →

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Free labs run on the same real RHEL machines as paid ones. No card, no time limit.