Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator Exam (EX280)

Study points for the exam

As with all Red Hat performance-based exams, configurations must persist after reboot without intervention.

• Manage OpenShift Container Platform
  • Use the web console to manage and configure an OpenShift cluster
  • Use the command-line interface to manage and configure an OpenShift cluster
  • Query, format, and filter attributes of Kubernetes resources
  • Import, export, and configure Kubernetes resources
  • Locate and examine container images
  • Create and delete projects
  • Examine resources and cluster status
  • View logs
  • Monitor cluster events and alerts
  • Assess the health of an OpenShift cluster
  • Troubleshoot common container, pod, and cluster events and alerts
  • Use product documentation
• Deploy Applications
  • Deploy applications from resource manifests
  • Use Kustomize overlays to modify application configurations
  • Deploy applications from images, OpenShift templates, and Helm charts
  • Deploy jobs to perform one-time tasks
  • Manage application deployments
  • Work with replica sets
  • Work with labels and selectors
  • Configure services
  • Expose both HTTP and non-HTTP applications to external access
  • Work with operators such as MetalLB and Multus
• Manage Storage for Application Configuration and Data
  • Create and use secrets
  • Create and use configuration maps
  • Provision Persistent Storage volumes for block and file-based data
  • Use storage classes
  • Manage non-shared storage with StatefulSets
• Configure Applications for Reliability
  • Configure and use health probes
  • Reserve and limit application compute capacity
  • Scale applications to meet increased demand
• Manage Application Updates
  • Identify images using tags and digests
  • Roll back failed deployments
  • Manage image streams
  • Use triggers to manage images
• Manage Authentication and Authorization
  • Configure the HTPasswd identity provider for authentication
  • Create and delete users
  • Modify user passwords
  • Create and manage groups
  • Modify user and group permissions
• Configure Network Security
  • Configure networking components
  • Troubleshoot software defined networking
  • Create and edit external routes
  • Control cluster network ingress
  • Secure external and internal traffic using TLS certificates
  • Configure application network policies
• Enable Developer Self-Service
  • Configure cluster resource quotas
  • Configure project quotas
  • Configure project resource requirements
  • Configure project limit ranges
  • Configure project templates
• Manage OpenShift Operators
  • Install an operator
  • Delete an operator
• Configure Application Security
  • Configure and manage service accounts
  • Run privileged applications
  • Create service accounts
  • Manage and apply permissions using security context constraints
  • Create and apply secrets to manage sensitive information
  • Configure application access to Kubernetes APIs
  • Configure Kubernetes CronJobs

Exam format

This exam is a performance-based evaluation of skills and knowledge required to configure and manage a cloud application platform. Candidates perform routine configuration and administrative tasks using Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 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.

Scores and reporting

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