Study points for the exam

To help you prepare, review the exam objectives, which highlight the task areas you can expect to see on the exam.

Being able to manage Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine (CFME) requires some level of skill with one or more of the underlying cloud and virtualization technologies supported by CFME. In order to provide a defined and manageable scope for the exam, the Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Hybrid Cloud Management exam is based on Red Hat Virtualization Management, one of the several that CFME supports.

Therefore, you should also be able to perform these ancillary tasks with Red Hat Virtualization Management:

• Import virtual machine template images into a pre-configured Red Hat Virtualization Management environment
• Import ISO image files and template VM images into Red Hat Virtualization Management
• Create virtual machine images from templates and customize various attributes of the virtual machine

Candidates will not be directly evaluated on the skills above, but the inability to perform these tasks will prevent a candidate from being able to perform the actual exam tasks.

Candidates should be able to perform the following CloudForms Management Engine tasks:

• Perform initial CloudForms management engine configuration via virtual machine console
• Add Red Hat Virtualization as a cloud service provider
• Configure basic CFME settings
• Create new CFME roles
• Add CFME users and groups
• Create and apply smart tags
• Configure CFME to be able to provision virtual systems via all supported mechanisms
• Use CFME to provision virtual systems
• Configure control policies
• Configure chargeback reporting
• Configure reporting
• Perform drift analyses
• Configure alerts
• Configure life cycle management provisioning request default values
• Save the output from reporting and analyses in an external format that can be parsed by other tools

Exam format

This exam is a performance-based evaluation of Red Hat CloudForms skills and knowledge. Candidates perform a number of routine CloudForms management tasks and are evaluated on whether they have met specific objective criteria. Performance-based testing means that candidates must perform tasks similar to what they perform on the job.

Prospective employers of people with the Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Hybrid Cloud Management credential should verify any and all claims by people claiming to hold this credential by requesting their certificate number and verifying it using the Red Hat certification verification tool.

This exam consists of one section lasting 3 hours.

Scores and reporting

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Exam results are reported as total scores. Red Hat does not report performance on individual items, nor will it provide additional information upon request.