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Preparing for the Certified OpenStack Administrator Exam

By : Matt Dorn
Book Image

Preparing for the Certified OpenStack Administrator Exam

By: Matt Dorn

Overview of this book

This book provides you with a specific strategy to pass the OpenStack Foundation’s first professional certification: the Certified OpenStack Administrator. In a recent survey, 78% of respondents said the OpenStack skills shortage had deterred them from adopting OpenStack. Consider this an opportunity to increase employer and customer confidence by proving you have the skills required to administrate real-world OpenStack clouds. You will begin your journey by getting well-versed with the OpenStack environment, understanding the benefits of taking the exam, and installing an included OpenStack All-in-One Virtual Appliance to work through objectives covered throughout the book. After exploring the basics of the individual services, you will be introduced to strategies to accomplish the exam objectives relevant to Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat, and troubleshooting. Finally, you’ll benefit from the special tips section and a practice exam to put your knowledge to the test. By the end of the journey, you will be ready to become a Certified OpenStack Administrator!
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Exam objectives

Now that we have a good idea of how to authenticate and scope ourselves to a specific project with Keystone via the Horizon dashboard and CLI, let's take a look at the exam objectives.

Figure 3.12 breaks down various objectives from the official objective list shown in Chapter 1, Introducing OpenStack and the Certified OpenStack Administrator Exam, and are available at http://www.openstack.org/coa/requirements. As you can see, a majority of the tasks can be completed via the Horizon dashboard, but there are still some that must be done via the CLI. You will find that many of the dashboard objectives are extremely intuitive, while some of the CLI objectives require a little more research.

Figure 3.12: Some Keystone-related objectives must be completed via the CLI
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