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).

Audience for this exam

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

Linux system administrators who are responsible for, or seeking responsibility for, implementing and managing virtualization infrastructures

Any Red Hat Certified Engineers (RHCE®) who wishes to become a Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA).

Prerequisites for this exam

Experience using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

Red Hat Certified Systems Administrators or those with equivalent experience

Exam Perspective:

Candidate should able to perform following tasks

• Install Red Hat Virtualization Manager and Red Hat Virtualization Hypervisor
• 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.
• Configure storage domains.
• Import installation media into a storage domain.
• Create and manage datacentres and clusters.
• Install virtual machines.
• Start and stop virtual machines.
• Edit virtual machine hardware characteristics.
• Configure automatic migration for virtual machines.
• Create snapshots.
• Create virtual machines from snapshots.
• Import existing virtual machine images into Red Hat Virtualization Manager.
• Create internal users.
• Create external users.
• Configure roles and assign users to those roles.
• Configure access using roles.
• Create virtual machine templates.
• Deploy virtual machines using templates.
• Configure virtual machines using cloud-init.
• Create logical networks.
• Assign hosts to logical networks.

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