Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Advanced Cluster Security Exam

What you'll learn

• Candidates for the Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Advanced Cluster Security should be able to accomplish the tasks below without assistance
• 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.
• Import secured clusters into Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes (RHACS): Investigate the architecture of RHACS and its components; Deploy the RHACS operator; Configure RHACS Central and its components so RHACS can monitor and audit them
• Manage Vulnerabilities with RHACS: Manage vulnerability data sources and scanning, Detect Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE), Understand CVE Categories, Understand the vulnerability deferral process, Generate vulnerability reports, Interpret vulnerability results, Manage vulnerability notifications, Assess risk in deployments
• Manage Policies with RHACS: Manage default security policies, Examine policy violations, Understand the admission controller enforcement, Enforce deploy-time policies on a secured cluster, Enforce runtime policies on a secured cluster
• Manage network segmentation with RHACS: Analyze network traffic with the network graph, Manage network baselines, Audit listening endpoints, Manage network policies, Manage build-time policy generation and enforcement
• Manage compliance to industry standards with RHACS: Deploy the Compliance Operator on a secured cluster, Manage compliance, Manipulate compliance reports, Configure tailored profiles
• Apply third-party integrations with RHACS: Integrate external private image registries, Troubleshoot common issues with integration, Integrate an OIDC provider for authentication, Integrate object storage for managing backups, Use s3cmd tool to consult buckets, Backup and restore custom deployment

Prerequisites

• ›Experience with importing secured clusters into Red Hat Advanced Cluster security for Kubernetes
• ›Experience with monitoring and managing vulnerabilities with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes
• ›Experience with Implementing deploy-time and runtime policies with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes
• ›Experience with managing network segmentation with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes
• ›Experience with managing compliance to industry standards with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes
• ›Experience with integrating Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes with third parties
• ›Red Hat OpenShift Administration II: Configuring a Production Cluster (DO280) or equivalent experience
• ›Red Hat OpenShift Administration III: Scaling Deployments in the Enterprise or equivalent experience
• ›Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes 4.6 or equivalent experience

Who should attend

• ›Platform Engineers, Cloud Administrators, System Administrators, Security Administrators, and other infrastructure-related IT roles who are responsible for providing and supporting security for applications deployed on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
• ›Enterprise Architects, Site Reliability Engineers, DevOps Engineers, and other application-related IT roles who are responsible for designing secure infrastructure for applications deployed on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

Preparation

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