Exam description

The performance-based Red Hat Certified Specialist in Virtualization exam (EX318) tests your ability to create, deploy, and manage Linux® virtual machines using Red Hat® Virtualization Manager.

By passing this exam, you become a Red Hat Certified Specialist in Virtualization, which also counts toward becoming a Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA®).

This exam is based on Red Hat Virtualization 4.3.

Who this course is for:

• Anyone who wants to learn RedHat Virtualization Certification Exam faster

• Anyone preparing for the RedHat Virtualization Certification certification exam (covers all areas and concepts)

• Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, Project Managers, IT Professionals, Cloud Engineers

• Anyone who wants a reference to pass the RedHat Virtualization Certification exam

Prerequisites for this exam:

• Have experience using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

• Become a Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA®), or demonstrate equivalent experience

Study points for the exam

Red Hat recommends that you become a Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) before attempting this exam, but it is not required.

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 Virtualization Manager (RHVM) and Red Hat Virtualization
  Hypervisor (RHVH)

  • Install Red Hat Virtualization Manager and any dependencies

  • Configure Red Hat Virtualization Manager to authenticate against an external IPA service.

  • Install Red Hat Virtualization Hypervisor

  • Add one or more Red Hat Virtualization Hypervisor instances to Red Hat Virtualization Manager

  • Create and manage datacenters and clusters

• Manage storage

  • ​Configure NFS services

  • Configure storage domains

  • Import installation media into a storage domain

• Create and manage virtual machines

  • Install virtual machines

  • Access virtual machine consoles with SPICE and VNC

  • Start and stop virtual machines

  • Edit virtual machine hardware characteristics

  • Configure automatic migration for virtual machines

• Work with virtual machine images

  • Create snapshots

  • Create virtual machines from snapshots

  • Import existing virtual machine images into Red Hat Virtualization Manager

• Create and manage Red Hat Virtualization Manager users

  • Create internal users

  • Create external users

  • Configure roles and assign users to those roles

  • Configure access using roles

• Automatically deploy virtual machines

  • Create virtual machine templates

  • Deploy virtual machines using templates

  • Configure virtual machines using cloud-init

• Create and manage networking objects

  • Create logical networks

  • Assign hosts to logical networks

  • Create MAC address pools

  • Assign MAC address pools to clusters

• Create and manage cluster policies

  • Create scheduling and migration policies

  • Assign policies to clusters

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