Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Automation and Integration Exam - Remote («EX380R»)

By passing this exam, you become a Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Automation and Integration that also counts towards earning a Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA®).

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. 

As part of this exam, you should be able to perform these tasks:

Deploy Kubernetes applications on OpenShift

• Assemble an application from Kubernetes components
• Understand and use Kustomize
• Use an image stream with a Kubernetes deployment

Configure and automate OpenShift tasks

• Create a simple script to automate a task
• Deploy an existing script to automate a task
• Troubleshoot and correct a script
• Understand and query the REST API using CLI tools
• Create a custom role
• Create a cron job
• Create a simple Ansible playbook

Work with and manage OpenShift Operators

• Install an operator
• Update an operator
• Delete an operator
• Subscribe an operator
• Troubleshoot an operator

Work with registries

• Pull/push content from remote registries
• Tag images in remote registries

Implement GitOps with Jenkins

• Deploy a Jenkins master
• Create a Jenkins pipeline to remediate configuration drift

Configure Enterprise Authentication

• Configure an LDAP identity provider
• Configure RBAC for an LDAP provided user account
• Synchronize OpenShift groups with LDAP

Understand and manage ingress

• Use the oc route command to expose services
• Understand how ingress components relate to OpenShift deployments and projects
• Configure trusted TLS Certificates
• Work with certificates using the web and CLI interfaces
• Renew and apply a certificate

Work with machine configurations

• Understand MachineConfig object structure
• Create custom machine configurations

Configure Dedicated Node Pools

• Add a worker node
• Create custom machine config pools

Configure Persistent Storage

• Provision shared storage for applications
• Provision block storage
• Configure and use storage quotas, classes, and policies
• Troubleshoot storage issues

Manage Cluster Monitoring and Metrics

• Manage OpenShift alerts
• Use monitoring to troubleshoot cluster issues

Provision and Inspect Cluster Logging

• Deploy cluster logging
• Query cluster logs
• Diagnose cluster logging problems

Recover Failed Worker Nodes

• Diagnose worker node failures
• Recover a node that has failed

• Cluster engineers (systems administrators, cloud administrators, or cloud engineers) focused on planning, designing, and implementing production-grade OpenShift clusters. Cluster engineers require automation skills to scale their manpower to provision and manage an increasing population of clusters, applications, and users, at the same time ensuring these clusters remain in compliance with corporate standards.
• Site reliability engineers (SREs) focused on keeping OpenShift clusters and applications running without disruption. SREs are interested in troubleshooting infrastructure and application issues with OpenShift clusters and require automation skills to reduce the time to identify, diagnose, and remediate issues.

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Notice:

Each remote exam includes a second free attempt within the next 365 days, if you fail at the first attempt.