{"id":434,"date":"2016-12-09T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/?p=434"},"modified":"2016-12-06T09:23:17","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T17:23:17","slug":"openstack-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/2016\/12\/09\/openstack-certification\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenStack certification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Dec 20th, I am scheduled to take my COA exam. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/coa\/requirements\">From the exam requirements page<\/a>, 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=pass+openstack+COA\">publicly available via YouTube videos<\/a> of the OpenStack summit sessions. <\/p>\n<p>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, &#8220;I know that,&#8221; 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/AJNOURI\/COA\">AJNOURI\/COA<\/a>. He also made a nifty <a href=\"https:\/\/ajnouri.github.io\/coa\/\">website<\/a> for his test prep questions.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[51,62,35,33],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}