The Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration exam (EX280) tests the knowledge, skills, and ability to create, configure, and manage a cloud application platform using Red Hat® OpenShift Container Platform.By passing this exam, you earn a Red Hat Certified Specialist credential that also counts toward you becoming a Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA®).

These audiences may be interested in becoming a Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration:

• System administrators who want to demonstrate their OpenShift Container Platform skills.
• Red Hat Certified Engineers who wish to become a Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA).
• System administrators or developers who are working in a DevOps environment using OpenShift Container Platform.

Candidates for this exam should:

• Be a Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) or Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), or have comparable work experience and skills.
• Have taken the Red Hat OpenShift Administration I (DO280) course, or have comparable work experience using OpenShift Container Platform.
• Review the Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration exam (EX280) objectives.

• Introduction to Containers, Kubernetes, and Red Hat OpenShift (DO180)
• Red Hat OpenShift Administration I (DO280)

To help you prepare, the exam objectives highlight the task areas you can expect to see in the exam. Red Hat reserves the right to add, modify, and remove exam objectives. Such changes will be made public in advance.

To become a Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration, you should be able to perform these tasks:

• Install and configure Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform master and node hosts.
• Configure OpenShift Container Platform so that applications can be securely accessed by external clients.
• Configure OpenShift Container Platform node properties.
• Create a simple OpenShift Container Platform project.
• Configure resource limits for projects.
• Configure persistent storage for registry use.
• Deploy an application from a Git repository.
• Edit and import application templates.
• Assemble an application from existing components.