Red Hat Certified Specialists in Identity Management Exam

These audiences may be interested in becoming a Red Hat Certified Specialist in Directory Services and Authentication:

• Any Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) who wishes to become a Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA).
• System administrators who want to demonstrate the ability to configure authentication services and link other products to those services.

To help you prepare, these 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 perform these tasks:

• Install Red Hat Identity Management (IdM) in a scalable, fault-tolerant environment
• Create users/groups/policies
• Install and configure IdM clients
• Configure roaming/automounted home directories
• Use REST apis to query IdM
• Configure Kerberized services
• Create trust relationships with Active Directory
• Configure/control policies and user access
• Configure and manage a certificate authority
• Back up an IdM infrastructure
• Configure IdM as LDAP backend for external services such as Red Hat Satellite Server or Red Hat Ansible Tower
• Implement a SSO

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

• Be a Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) or have comparable work experience and skills (Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification recommended)
• Take the Red Hat Security: Identity Management and Active Directory Integration (RH362) course or have comparable work experience
• Take Automation with Ansible II: Ansible Tower (DO409)
• Take Red Hat Satellite 6 Administration (RH403)
• Review the Red Hat Certified Specialist in Directory Services and Authentication exam objectives
• While not required, experience with these products is also recommended:
  - Red Hat Satellite Server 6.3
  - Red Hat Ansible Tower
  - Microsoft Active Directory Server 2016

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