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EX248 - Red Hat Certified Specialist in Enterprise Application Server Administration exam

Red Hat recommends that candidates earn Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) or Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) before attempting this exam, but neither is required. An understanding of core concepts in Java Enterprise Edition is useful, but candidates do not need to be developers nor does this exam involve application development tasks.

To help you prepare, the exam objectives highlight the task areas you can expect to see covered in the exam. These objectives apply to both JBoss EAP 7.

Duration: 4

Certification Overview
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The Red Hat Certified Specialist in Enterprise Application Server Administration exam (EX248) is a performance-based exam that tests your knowledge and skills to install, configure, monitor, manage, and deploy applications to Red Hat® JBoss® Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP).

A Red Hat Certified Specialist in Enterprise Application Server Administration is for system administrators or application developers whose responsibilities include the deployment, implementation, and management of JBoss EAP and its applications.

Audience pour cette certification
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IT professionals who want to earn a credential that shows they have the skills and knowledge needed to install, configure, monitor, manage, and deploy applications to Red Hat JBoss EAP:

Application server systems administrators
Application administrators
Application developers
Deployment managers
System architects
Quality assurance engineers

Prerequisites for this certification
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Exam candidates should:

Be a Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) or have comparable work experience and skills
Have taken the Red Hat JBoss Application Administration I (JB248) course or have work experience administering JBoss EAP and applications running on that platform

Recommended training
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Red Hat JBoss Application Administration I (JB248)

Points to study for the exam
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Using JBoss EAP, Red Hat Certified Specialist in Enterprise Application Server Administration exam candidates should be able to accomplish the tasks below without assistance. The tasks have been grouped into categories to assist your preparation.

Install and manage JBoss EAP

Install JBoss EAP to a specific location on a system
Configure minimal security requirements for accessing and managing JBoss EAP
Access and manage JBoss EAP using the provided tools
Configure and start a multi-node, multi-server JBoss EAP domain spanning at least two hosts with multiple servers per host

Configure JBoss EAP domains, hosts and servers

Create and remove JBoss EAP domains, hosts and servers
Start, monitor and stop individual JBoss EAP domains, hosts and servers
Configure Java^™ memory usage at the host, server group and server level

Configure JBoss EAP to support clustered and HA operation

Configure persistent network bindings for JBoss EAP services (both addresses and ports)
Configure high-availability clustering using TCP unicast networking
Secure the communications channels between clustered nodes

Monitoring and managing JBoss EAP

Create and restore configuration snapshots
Configure JBoss EAP logging

Configuring Java Messaging Service

Remove, create and configure JMS topics and queues
Secure access to JMS destinations

Manage applications

Select appropriate JBoss EAP server profiles based on application requirements
Configure DataSources (both XA and non-XA compliant)
Deploy and undeploy applications
Deploy and undeploy additional libraries and drivers
Deploy a web application to the root context

Configure JBoss Web Connectors

Tune and configure JBoss EAP web properties as requested
Configure an SSL encrypted connection

Configure JBoss EAP security

Create, modify, and use security domains
Connect JBoss EAP to specified external security sources such as LDAP and DBMS
Secure access to JBoss EAP services