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Red Hat Certified System Administrator in OpenShift

Exam code: EX280Red Hat OpenShift Container Platformtask environment statement: 4.18
Red Hat
Credential
System Administrator
Exam duration
3 hours

credential overview

About this credential

Tests the knowledge, skills, and ability to create, configure, and manage a cloud application platform using Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.

Assessment

Exam details

EX280

Red Hat Certified System Administrator in OpenShift exam

Active
Duration
3 hours
Format
Hands-on practical

Exam blueprint

Skills measured

Manage OpenShift Container Platform14 topics
  • Use the web console to manage and configure an OpenShift cluster
  • Use the command-line interface to manage and configure an OpenShift cluster
  • Create and delete projects
  • Locate and examine container images
  • Identify images using tags and digests
  • Query, format, and filter attributes of Kubernetes resources
  • Import, export, and configure Kubernetes resources
  • Examine resources and cluster status
  • Monitor cluster events and alerts
  • View logs
  • Assess the health of an OpenShift cluster
  • Troubleshoot common container, pod, and cluster events and alerts
  • Use product documentation
  • Be prepared to perform all tasks of a Red Hat Certified Technologist in OpenShift
Declarative Resource Management7 topics
  • Work with resource manifests
  • Deploy applications from YAML resource manifests
  • Update application deployments
  • Deploy applications using Kustomize
  • Work with Kustomize overlays
  • Create and use secrets
  • Create and use configuration maps
Deploy applications6 topics
  • Deploy applications from templates and Helm charts
  • Manage application deployments
  • Work with replica sets
  • Work with labels and selectors
  • Configure services
  • Expose applications to external access
Manage authentication and authorization5 topics
  • 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 security9 topics
  • 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
  • Expose non-HTTP/SNI applications
  • Configure a load balancer service
  • Configure external application access
Enable developer self-service5 topics
  • Configure cluster resource quotas
  • Configure project quotas
  • Configure project resource requirements
  • Configure project limit ranges
  • Configure project templates
Manage OpenShift operators3 topics
  • Install an operator
  • Uninstall an operator
  • Delete an operator
Configure application security7 topics
  • Configure and manage service accounts
  • Run privileged applications
  • Manage and apply permissions using security context constraints
  • Create and apply secrets to manage sensitive information
  • Configure application access to Kubernetes APIs
  • Deploy jobs to perform one-time tasks
  • Configure Kubernetes cron jobs

Before you certify

Requirements and recommended experience

Required exam or pathway

Counts toward Red Hat Certified Architect in OpenShift.

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