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EX436 Clustering and Storage Management Expertise
Required for the RHCA (Red Hat Certified Architect) and RHCDS (Red Hat Certified Datacenter Specialist) certifications or can be taken independently as a stand-alone credential in its own right.
The Clustering and Storage Management Expertise exam is only available to current RHCE’s and consists of the following exam:
- Clustering and Storage Management: 4.0 hours
In order to earn the EX436 Clustering and Storagement Management Certificate of Expertise, one must earn a score of 70 or higher.
Candidates who earn this certification should be able to carry out the following objectives:
- configure a high-availability cluster, using either physical or virtual systems, that:
- provides a service fail-over between the nodes
- provides a preferred node for the service
- selectively fails over based on node characteristics
- configure a GFS filesystem to:
- meet specified size, layout, and performance objectives
- support filesystem quotas
- configure SNMP to provide cluster monitoring
- configure iSCSI targets and initiators.
- Manage software RAID and LVM to provide:
- metadevices of specified RAID type, size, and characteristics
- monitoring and notification of RAID status
- LVM snapshots
