Red Hat Certified System Administrator in Red Hat OpenStack («EX210»)

An IT professional who passes the exam earns the RHCSA in Red Hat OpenStack certification.

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Candidates for the RHCSA in Red Hat OpenStack should be able to perform the following tasks:

• Manage an OpenStack undercloud and overcloud
  • Use the command line interface to manage an OpenStack environment
  • Use Red Hat OpenStack director to deploy additional nodes in an existing overcloud
  • Create a message queue and publish messages to it
  • Add additional compute nodes
  • Configure and manage networking
  • Monitor OpenStack service metrics and events
• Manage projects and resources
  • Create projects, users and roles
  • Create and manage security groups
  • Configure flavors
  • Set quotas
• Manage instances
  • Manage and customize images
  • Launch instances
  • Configure external access for instances
  • Configure images at deployment
  • Perform live migration of instances
• Manage and utilize storage
  • Configure and manage both block and object storage
  • Attach a block storage volume to an instance
  • Store objects in object storage containers
• Use OpenStack orchestration
  • Use orchestration templates to configure OpenStack services and resources
  • Use orchestration templates to deploy a multi-instance application

This exam is a performance-based evaluation of Red Hat OpenStack Platform skills and knowledge. Candidates perform a number of systems administration tasks focused on configuring and administering an OpenStack cloud and are evaluated on whether they have met specific objective criteria. Performance-based testing means that candidates must perform tasks similar to what they perform on the job.

• System administrators who want to demonstrate their use of Red Hat OpenStack Platform skills.
• Red Hat Certified Engineers (RHCE) who wish to pursue Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA).

• RHCSA or RHCE certification or comparable work experience and skills
• Take the following courses or have comparable work experience using Red Hat OpenStack Platform
• Review the RHCSA in Red Hat OpenStack exam (EX210) objectives

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