EX364 Red Hat Certified Specialist in Decision Management exam

Opis

The Red Hat Certified Specialist in Decision Management exam (EX364) is a performance-based test of the skills and knowledge needed to implement and manage business decisions and rules using Red Hat® Decision Manager.

You will be asked to perform a number of tasks, ranging in complexity from implementing very simple decision and business rules to creating relatively complex business logic flows that require the use of conflict resolution techniques to ensure that the various rules fire in the correct order. You will be evaluated on how well your implementations meet objective criteria, such as producing a specific output given a specific set of inputs.

This exam is based on Red Hat Decision Manager 7.8.

Cel

By passing this exam, you become a Red Hat Certified Specialist in Decision Management, which also counts toward becoming a Red Hat^® Certified Architect (RHCA^®).

Grupa docelowa:

• Experienced enterprise Java™ developers who are familiar with service-oriented architecture principles
• Enterprise architects with some Java development experience and knowledge of business service implementation

Uwagi:

Duration: 4 hours

Preparation

Red Hat encourages all candidates for Red Hat Certified Specialist in Directory Services and Authentication to consider taking Red Hat Security: Identity Management and Active Directory Integration (RH362) to help prepare. Attendance in these classes is not required; students can choose to take just the exam.

While attending Red Hat classes can be an important part of one's preparation to take this exam, attending class does not guarantee success on the exam. Previous experience, practice, and native aptitude are also important determinants of success.

Many books and other resources on system administration for Red Hat's products are available. Red Hat does not officially endorse any as preparation guides for this exam. Nevertheless, you may find additional reading deepens understanding and can prove helpful.

Exam format

This exam is a performance-based evaluation of skills and knowledge required to configure and manage Red Hat directory services. You perform the configuration and administrative tasks necessary to deploy Red Hat directory services and configure other products to use those services, and you 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

Official scores for exams come exclusively from Red Hat Certification Central. Red Hat does not authorize examiners or training partners to report results to candidates directly. Scores on the exam are usually reported within 3 US business days.

Exam results are reported as total scores. Red Hat does not report performance on individual items, nor will it provide additional information upon request.

Wymagania:

There are no prerequisites to take this exam but it is recommended that an individual take AD364 Developing Application Business Rules with Red Hat Decision Manager

Konspekt

Study points for the exam:

To help you prepare, review the exam objectives that 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.

You should be able to perform these tasks:

1. Design business rules:
   • Create and use an intermediate Drools model with associated facts.
   • Organize rules and manage facts.
   • Understand and use effective rule design patterns.
2. Business Rules Authoring:
   • Basic rules
   • Calendars
   • Decision tables
   • Rule templates
3. Designing a decision service using DMN models:
   • Input, output definition
   • Data types
   • Decision design and implementation
4. Conflict resolution:
   • Prioritize and order rule execution.
   • Group rules appropriately to avoid conflicts.
   • Use rule flow groups.
5. Session management:
   • Build a common object.
   • Understand stateless KIE sessions.
   • Understand stateful KIE sessions.
   • Add, remove, and update facts.
6. Test and maintain:
   • Understand JUnit test for testing rules.
   • Identify potential issues, including poorly designed rules.
7. Performance:
   • Understand the impacts of different rule designs and implementations.
   • Identify and avoid common, inefficient results, such as Cartesian products.