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I'm aware that there's a couple of methods to check your CentOS release version but if I want to check using the release files I see there's two options.

cat /etc/centos-release or cat /etc/redhat-release

is there any reason to choose one over the other?

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No difference at all.

/etc/redhat-release is a symbolic link to /etc/centos-release

From the terminal, execute the following and note the output:

$ ls -l /etc/redhat-release
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 14 Dec 10  2019 /etc/redhat-release -> centos-release
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