The Certified Expert - PingFederate exam is targeted at IT professionals responsible for advanced administration and deployment of PingFederate solutions.
The exam validates your ability to perform advanced PingFederate configuration, troubleshooting, as well as more advanced instances of basic configuration operations covered in the Professional-level exam.
This exam is delivered as a proctored performance-based exam using a live environment, in which the candidate needs to perform system configuration and administration tasks. This exam consists of four main tasks with a number of subtasks in each main task. Once a candidate has moved on from a main task, they will not be able to return to a completed task. There is a time limit of 210 minutes (3.5 hours).
The exam environment is a CentOS 7 Linux-based desktop environment. All tools and information needed to complete the tasks are provided within the exam environment. Some tools that are available in the environment include:
- VSCode Text Editor
- Postman
- ApacheDirectoryStudio
- DBeaver
- PingFederate Product Documentation
Instructions for the tasks are open upon accessing the exam environment. There is also a shortcut on the Desktop to reopen the instructions if needed.
For more information about how our exams are delivered, please refer to the testing guide.
Prerequisites
- Awarded the Certified Professional - PingFederate certification.
- Minimum two years of experience working with PingFederate.
- (Optional) Successfully completed the Advanced PingFederate Administration instructor-led training course.
Objectives
The exam covers the following knowledge about PingFederate version 11 or later:
Objective 1: Advanced Configuration
- Configure attribute mappings from an external data store with failover.
- Configure attribute mappings from an external data store with failsafe mappings.
- Configure attribute mappings from an external data store using OGNL.
- Create custom attributes using OGNL.
- Customize the HTML Form Adapter.
- Self-service password reset.
- Self-service account recovery.
- Self-service username recovery.
- Advanced use of authentication policies.
