Puppet-Professional-Certification-Study-Guide
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Online resources for Puppet Professional Certification
Puppet Professional Certification Resources
Online resources that will help you prepare for taking the Puppet Professional Certification exam.
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Exam Objectives
These are the exam objectives you review and understand in order to pass the test.
Language
Identify Style Guide recommendations
Describe language features
- Language: Basics
- Language: Visual Index
- Language: Reserved Words and Acceptable Names
- Language: Resources
- Language: Relationships and Ordering
- Langauge: Resource Defaults
- Language: Variables
- Language: Tags
- Language: Facts and Built-in Variables
- Language: Scope
- Language: Conditional Statements
- Language: Iteration and loops
- Language: Lambdas
- Language: Resource collectors
- Language: Virtual resources
- Language: Expressions
- Language: Functions
- ntp-puppet-4-language-update
Identify the core resource types
Demonstrate knowledge of classes and defines
- Language: Visual index
- Language: Puppet Language Style Guide
- Language: Classes
- Language: Defined Resource Types
Modules
Describe how to use modules from the Forge
Demonstrate knowledge of module structure
Identify module authoring best practices
Using Puppet
Describe environments in Puppet
- About Environments
- Configuring Directory Environments
- Enabling Directory Environments in Puppet Enterprise
- Config-file Environments
- Assigning Nodes to Environments
- Environments: Suggestions for Use
- Git Workflow and Puppet Environments
- Environments: Limitations of Environments
- Environments and Puppet's HTTPS Interface
Describe the lifecycle of a Puppet run
Describe Puppet ecosystem component usage
- A New Era of Application Services at Puppet Labs
- Subsystems: Agent/Master HTTPS Communications
- Subsystems: Catalog Compilation
- PuppetDB Overview
Describe how to configure a Puppet master
Puppet Internals
Describe the purpose of types and providers
Describe Puppet’s use of SSL certificates
- Certificates and Security
- Puppet Server: External CA Configuration
- SSL Configuration: External CA Support
- SSL Configuration: Autosigning Certificate Requests
Classification
Describe classification
- Getting Started with Classification
- Puppet: Assigning Configurations to Nodes
- Grouping and Classifying Nodes
Console
Describe Node Manager
- Puppet: Assigning Configurations to Nodes
- Grouping and Classifying Nodes
- Making Changes in the Node Classifier
Describe RBAC
- Role-based Access Control
- Connecting PE to an External Directory Service
- RBAC Permissions
- Creating and Managing Users and User Roles
Describe reporting capabilities in PE Console
Ecosystem
Describe the purpose of PuppetDB
Demonstrate knowledge of Hiera
- Hiera 1: Overview
- Hiera 1: installation
- Configuration and hiera.yaml
- Hierachies
- Lookup Types
- Writing Data Sources
- Interpolation Tokesn, Variables and Lookup Functions
- Usage with Puppet
- Complete Example
- Usage on the Commandline
- Writing New Backends
Describe the usage of MCollective
Demonstrate knowledge of Facter
Describe the purpose of Code Manager
Puppet Courses and Training
Here are courses you can enroll to get up to speed with Puppet.
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