Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration
The EX280 is a performance-based exam covering day-to-day administration of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform: managing clusters and Operators, configuring authentication and RBAC, networking and routes, pod scheduling and autoscaling, application storage, and application security with SCCs, secrets and network policies.
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Start EX280 examSkills measured
Manage OpenShift Clusters
25%The oc CLI and web console, cluster Operators and the OperatorHub, projects and quotas, and cluster updates and must-gather.
Configure Authentication and Authorization
20%Identity providers (HTPasswd), users and groups, default and custom RBAC roles and bindings, and the kubeadmin account.
Configure Networking
15%Services, Routes and edge/passthrough/re-encrypt TLS, Ingress, and DNS for applications.
Configure Pod Scheduling and Scaling
15%Labels and node selectors, taints and tolerations, resource requests and limits, and the horizontal pod autoscaler.
Manage Storage for Applications
15%Storage classes, persistent volume claims, attaching storage to applications, and stateful workloads.
Configure Application Security
10%Security context constraints, service accounts, secrets and config maps, and network policies.