EX180

Exam description

The Red Hat Certified Technologist in OpenShift exam (EX180) tests the knowledge, skills, and ability to plan, deploy, and manage applications in a Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform environment.

By passing this exam, you become a Red Hat Certified Technologist in OpenShift.

This exam is based on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18.

Audience for this exam

• Platform engineers, system administrators moving into container orchestration, cloud administrators, enterprise architects, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), DevOps engineers, and anyone tasked with ensuring the availability and health of containerized applications.

Prerequisites for this exam

• Red Hat System Administration I (RH124) and Red Hat System Administration II (RH134) or equivalent experience recommended.
• Red Hat OpenShift Administration I: Operating a Production Cluster or equivalent experience.

In preparation 

Study points for the exam

To help you prepare, the exam objectives highlight the task areas you can expect to see covered in the exam. Red Hat reserves the right to add, modify, and remove exam objectives. Such changes will be made public in advance. 

Candidates for this exam should be able to perform the following  tasks:

• Manage OpenShift Container Platform
  • Install the OpenShift CLI tool
  • Inspect Kubernetes resources using both the CLI and the Web UI
• Deploy applications on OpenShift
  • Create Linux containers and Kubernetes pods
  • Find and inspect container images
  • Deploy applications from an image and from a template
  • Scale and expose applications to external access
• Manage storage for application configuration and data
  • Externalize the configuration of applications
  • Provision persistent data volumes
• Configure applications for reliability
  • Configure application health probes
  • Reserve and limit compute capacity for applications
  • Configure application autoscaling

Preparation

Red Hat encourages you to consider taking Red Hat OpenShift Administration I: Operating a Production Cluster to help prepare for this exam.  Attendance in these classes is not required; students can choose to take just the exam.

While attending Red Hat classes can be an important part of your preparation, attending class does not guarantee success on the exam. Previous experience, practice, and native aptitude are also important determinants of success.

Many books and other resources on system administration for Red Hat products are available. Red Hat does not endorse any of these materials as preparation guides for exams. Nevertheless, you may find additional reading helpful to deepen your understanding.

Exam format

This exam consists of a single section lasting two hours.  The exam is a performance-based evaluation of candidates' abilities to operate a Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform cluster.  Candidates perform a number of routine tasks similar to those they would be expected to perform in a large-scale environment and are evaluated on whether those tasks meet specific objective criteria. Internet access is not provided during the exam, and you will not be permitted to bring any hard copy or electronic documentation into the exam. This prohibition includes notes, books, or any other materials. The documentation that ships with the product is available during the exam.

Scores and reporting    

Official scores for exams come exclusively from Red Hat Certification Central. Red Hat does not authorize examiners or training partners to report results to candidates directly. Scores on the exam are usually reported within 3 U.S. business days.

Exam results are reported as total scores. Red Hat does not report performance on individual items, nor will it provide additional information upon request