EX407 Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation exam

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The Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation exam (EX407) tests your ability to use Ansible to automate the configuration of systems and applications. 

This exam is based on Red Hat^® Enterprise Linux^® 7.5 and Ansible 2.7.

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By passing this exam, you become a Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation, which also count towards becoming a Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA).

Grupa docelowa:

• System administrators who need to manage large numbers of systems
• System administrators who work in a DevOps environment and who wish to automate a large part of their day-to-day workload
• Developers who have some basic systems administration background and who wish to incorporate automation into their development process
• A Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) interested in becoming a Red Hat Certified Specialist or Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)

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Duration: 4.00 hours

Preparation
Red Hat encourages all candidates  for the Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Ansible Automation exam to consider taking the Cloud Automation with Ansible course (DO407). Attendance in this class is not required to take 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 its exams. Nevertheless, you may find additional reading deepens understanding and can prove helpful.

Exam Format
This exam is a performance-based evaluation of a candidate’s ability to use Ansible to automate system configuration and application deployment.  Candidates will be required to develop Ansible playbooks that configure systems for specific roles and then apply those playbooks to systems to implement those roles.  Candidates will also be asked to demonstrate their ability to run Ansible playbooks and configure an Ansible environment for specific behaviors. Candidates will be 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.
 
This exam consists of one section lasting 3 hours.

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 U.S. 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:

• Successfully complete Automation with Ansible (DO407), or demonstrate equivalent experience working with Ansible to configure systems
• Being a Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) or higher or having equivalent systems administration experience is recommended, but not required

Konspekt

We recommend that candidates become a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE^®)  or, at a minimum, a Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA^®)  before attempting this exam, but neither is required.

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.

You should be able to:

1. Understand core components of Ansible
   • Inventories
   • Modules
   • Variables
   • Facts
   • Plays
   • Playbooks
   • Configuration files
2. Install and configure an Ansible control node
   • Install required packages
   • Create a static host inventory file
   • Create a configuration file
3. Configure Ansible managed nodes
   • Create and distribute SSH keys to managed nodes
   • Configure privilege escalation on managed nodes
   • Validate a working configuration using ad-hoc Ansible commands
4. Create simple shell scripts that run ad hoc Ansible commands
5. Use both static and dynamic inventories to define groups of hosts
6. Utilize an existing dynamic inventory script
7. Create Ansible plays and playbooks
   • Know how to work with commonly used Ansible modules
   • Use variables to retrieve the results of running commands
   • Use conditionals to control play execution
   • Configure error handling
   • Create playbooks to configure systems to a specified state
8. Use Ansible modules for system administration tasks that work with:
   • Software packages and repositories
   • Services
   • Firewall rules
   • File systems
   • Storage devices
   • File content
   • Archiving
   • Scheduled tasks
   • Security
   • Users and groups
9. Create and use templates to create customized configuration files
10. Work with Ansible variables and facts
11. Create and work with roles
12. Download roles from an Ansible Galaxy and use them
13. Manage parallelism
14. Use Ansible Vault in playbooks to protect sensitive data
15. Use provided documentation to look up specific information about Ansible modules and commands

As with all Red Hat performance-based exams, configurations must persist after reboot without intervention.