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Preparing for Red Hat Certified System Administrator in Red Hat OpenStack Certification Exam (EX210)

OpenStack has become the de-facto private cloud solution in today’s market. OpenStack Certified Professionals are in high demand, but for an average IT infrastructure engineer, OpenStack is not simple. The amount of moving parts that are involved in maintaining and operating an OpenStack Cloud infrastructure, makes life difficult.

To become acquainted with OpenStack you can begin by trying it out, taking courses and joining the communities. There are several OpenStack Certifications available, one of which is Red Hat Certification in OpenStack Cloud.

Red Hat OpenStack Certification Exam Levels

Red Hat has two levels of certification available to learn and test your skills in OpenStack.

About Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) in Red Hat OpenStack Exam (EX210)

This exam tests the candidate’s skills, knowledge and abilities that areneeded to create, configure and manage private clouds, using the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.

Pre-requisites

Exam Overview

This exam is performance-based exam. Candidates need to perform tasks on a live system, rather than answering questions about how one might perform those tasks.

It tests your skills for:

Exam Contents

The certification exam is very comprehensive. It ensures you have a complete hands-on understanding of OpenStack installation and basic operations. All the installation and configuration commands need to be memorized to start with the first task.

After installation is complete either Command Line Interface or Horizon Dashboard can be used to perform the following administrative tasks:

Summary

Overall the exam is comprehensive and hands-on experience with OpenStack is a must.

Here are some additional tips that can help while planning for this exam:

The hands-on nature of this exam makes real-world experiences a critical facet of preparation. Duration of this exam is 3 hours. Exam results are emailed within 3 US business days following the exam.

CloudThat Technologies offers a course to help with preparation for this certification click here to know more.

Good luck!

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I will soon write an article on Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) in Red Hat OpenStack Exam (EX310). Stay connected.

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  1. Pablo

    Jul 23, 2019

    Reply

    Hi Mamta Jha,

    Congratulations!
    I have a query about what method is used to deploy openstack. So on the exam the method that you deployed openstack was using director and not Packstack?

    Thanks,
    Pablo

  2. prabhakar

    Feb 6, 2019

    Reply

    Hi Mamta, can you create one page for Preparing for Red Hat Certified System Administrator in Red Hat OpenStack Certification Exam (EX310)

  3. Martinchery

    Apr 26, 2018

    Reply

    Hi All im noob here. Good article! Thx! Love your stories!

  4. prabhas

    Apr 10, 2018

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    Nice post, Good for them who are preparing CL210 exam.
    I have some doubts on exam.
    Q1: what are pre-requirements before start exam
    Q2: Is it required to use vxlan if they don’t ask in exam for overcloud deployment

    • Punit

      Sep 21, 2019

      Reply

      Hey Prabhas, I am also preparing for 210 exam.

  5. satish

    Jan 4, 2018

    Reply

    great mamta

  6. maze

    Dec 28, 2017

    Reply

    Great Work. Redhat is the world’s leading open source application and technology solutions provider whose core product is the Linux operating system. I wish you luck as you continue to follow that passion.

  7. Venkatesan

    Jun 9, 2017

    Reply

    good

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