Red Hat Certified Technologist in OpenShift Virtualization exam (EX156)

Target group

• Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), cluster engineers, system administrators, cloud administrators or Engineers, virtual machine administrators (especially those looking to virtualize workloads from traditional hypervisors onto OpenShift Virtualization), any IT professional focused on the planning, design, and implementation of production-grade virtual machines within an OpenShift Container Platform environment.

Course structure

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:

• Create and manage virtual machines
  • Provision and manage virtual machines from the web interface
  • Provision and manage virtual machines from the command line interface (CLI)
• Configure virtual machine networking
  • Connect virtual machines to predefined networks, such as user-defined networks.
  • Configure multihomed virtual machines
  • Configure external access with load balancer services
• Manage virtual machine storage
  • Import previously exported virtual machines
  • Create and manage snapshots for virtual machines
  • Create clones for virtual machines
  • Attach storage to virtual machines

Certification

This exam consists of a single section lasting two hours.  The exam is a performance-based evaluation of candidates’ abilities to implement and manage virtual machines using Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization in an 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. For most exams, the documentation that ships with the product is available during the exam.