The following audiences may be interested in earning the RHCSA in Red Hat OpenStack:

• System administrators who want to demonstrate their use of Red Hat OpenStack Platform skills.
• Red Hat Certified Engineers (RHCE) who wish to pursue Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA).

• Have a RHCSA or RHCE certification or have comparable work experience and skills.
• Take the Red Hat OpenStack Administration I (CL110) and Red Hat OpenStack Administration II (CL210) courses or have comparable work experience using Red Hat OpenStack Platform.
• Review the RHCSA in Red Hat OpenStack exam (EX210) objectives.

Candidates for the RHCSA in Red Hat OpenStack should be able to perform the following tasks:

• Manage an OpenStack undercloud and overcloud
  • Use the command line interface to manage an OpenStack environment
  • Use Red Hat OpenStack director to deploy additional nodes in an existing overcloud
  • Create a message queue and publish messages to it
  • Add additional compute nodes
  • Configure and manage networking
  • Monitor OpenStack service metrics and events
• Manage projects and resources
  • Create projects, users and roles
  • Create and manage security groups
  • Configure flavors
  • Set quotas
• Manage instances
  • Manage and customize images
  • Launch instances
  • Configure external access for instances
  • Configure images at deployment
  • Perform live migration of instances
• Manage and utilize storage
  • Configure and manage both block and object storage
  • Attach a block storage volume to an instance
  • Store objects in object storage containers
• Use OpenStack orchestration
  • Use orchestration templates to configure OpenStack services and resources
  • Use orchestration templates to deploy a multi-instance application