PingAM Certified Professional

The Certified Professional - PingAM exam is targeted at IT professionals responsible for administering and deploying PingAM (AM) solutions.

The exam validates your ability to install, configure, administer, troubleshoot, and maintain components of AM.

The proctored exam consists of 100 questions that must be completed in 120 minutes.

  • Questions are multiple choice.
  • The minimum passing score for Ping Identity exams is generally 70% but varies based on the exam and form.

For more information about how remotely proctored exams are delivered, please refer to the testing guide.

Prerequisites

  • Successfully complete the AM-410 PingAM: Deep Dive course (required).
  • Successfully complete the AM-421 PingAM Customization and APIs course (recommended).
  • Thorough understanding of all AM documentation and Knowledge Base articles on Backstage.
  • Minimum of 3-6 months of experience installing and configuring AM.
  • Working knowledge of Java-based environments would be beneficial, but no programming experience is required.

Objectives

This exam is based on PingAM version 7.

Objective 1: Enhancing Intelligent Access

  • Exploring authentication mechanisms
  • Protecting a website with PingGateway
  • Controlling access

Objective 2: Improving Access Management Security

  • Increasing authentication security
  • Modifying a user's authentication experience based on context
  • Checking risk continuously

Objective 3: Extending Services Using OAuth2-Based Protocols

  • Integrating applications with OAuth 2.0 (OAuth2)
  • Integrating applications with OpenID Connect (OIDC)
  • Authenticating OAuth2 clients and using mutual TLS (mTLS) in OAuth2 for proof-of-possession (PoP)
  • Transforming OAuth2 tokens
  • Implementing social authentication

Objective 4: Federating Across Entities Using SAML2

  • Implementing single sign-on (SSO) using SAML v2.0 (SAML2)
  • Delegating authentication using SAML2

Objective 5: Installing and Deploying AM

  • Installing and upgrading AM
  • Hardening AM security
  • Clustering AM
  • Deploying PingOne Advanced Identity Platform to the Cloud