OpenStack certification

On Dec 20th, I am scheduled to take my COA exam. From the exam requirements page, it appears to be a somewhat moderately difficult exam. The few points I need work on are heat templates and swift object administration. A few things I know about the exam are what are publicly available via YouTube videos of the OpenStack summit sessions.

One of my troubles of studying for exams is creating content to test myself on the objectives of the exam. I look at the requirements and say to myself, “I know that,” and nothing gets written for that aspect. One thing I have done in the past is to search Github for exam prep questions. One I have found for OpenStack is AJNOURI/COA. He also made a nifty website for his test prep questions.

A key aspect that has helped me pass all of my open book exams is to recall the locations of my troubled areas. Looking at the docs/reading the manual has often come a best practice of mine. Most of the time, exam questions are covered in the docs as the exams expect you to have read them.