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PingDirectory Advanced Administration
This course deepens your PingDirectory platform knowledge by diving into advanced concepts and exploring specific topics to expand your administrator capabilities. This course consists of lectures...
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$3,750 USD
Duration
4 days
Course Code
PDAA-400
Available Formats
Classroom, Virtual
Overview
Course Description
This course deepens your PingDirectory platform knowledge by diving into advanced concepts and exploring specific topics to expand your administrator capabilities.
This course consists of lectures and hands-on lab exercises which reference real-world scenarios driven by recurring use cases. Each student is required to provide their own laptop that has an SSH client and configuration allowing connections to WiFi and access to external servers.
Prerequisites
The following are the prerequisites for successfully completing this course:
- Completion of the PingDirectory Administration course, or
- Equivalent experience with PingDirectory
Course Details
Course Details
Day 1
- Overview: Course structure and general housekeeping
- Advanced configuration
- Dsconfig options
- Lab 1: Configure PingDirectory to run on server setup
- Lab 2: Using soft deletes
- Lab 3: Creating custom data
- Lab 4: Creating client connection policies
- PingDirectory and JVM Heap
- Lab 5: Alarms, Alerts, and Gauges
- Lab 6: Managing Certificates
Day 2
- Lab 7: The consent API
- Lab 8: Advanced schema and entry management
- Lab 9: Advanced logging
- Lab 10: Working with ACIs
- Lab 11: Working with indexes
Day 3
- Lab 12: Reverting an upgrade
- The topology registry
- Lab 13: Managing the topology and replication
- Remove a defunct server from the topology
- Manually initialize a server
- Lab 14: Advanced PingDirectoryProxy Server
- Entry balancing
- Global indexes
- Groups and entry balancing
- Replication and entry balancing
- Entry balancing monitoring
- Dynamic rebalancing
Day 4
- Lab 15: PingDataSync and Active Directory
- Lab 16: PingDataSync and PingOne
- View the PingOne configuration
- Using PingOne as a sync destination
- Setting up pass-through authentication to PingOne
Schedule
2 options available
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Jun 22, 2026 - Jun 25, 2026 (4 days)
Live Virtual | 9:00AM – 5:00PM EDT Language English Select from 1 option(s) below Live Virtual | 9:00AM – 5:00PM EDT- Enroll
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Sep 14, 2026 - Sep 17, 2026 (4 days)
Live Virtual | 9:00AM – 5:00PM EDT Language English Select from 1 option(s) below Live Virtual | 9:00AM – 5:00PM EDT- Enroll
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FAQ
Does the course schedule include a Lunchbreak?
Classes typically include a 1-hour lunch break around midday. However, the exact break times and duration can vary depending on the specific class. Your instructor will provide detailed information at the start of the course.
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As a vendor-authorized training partner, we offer a curriculum that our partners have vetted. We use the same course materials and facilitate the same labs as our vendor-delivered training. These courses are considered the gold standard and, as such, are priced accordingly.
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Ascendient Learning instructors have an average of 27 years of practical IT experience and have also served as consultants for an average of 15 years. To stay current, instructors spend at least 25 percent of their time learning new, emerging technologies and courses.
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Reviews
I liked the pace of the course. I like that I have more than instance to use the lab.
Very interactive and in-depth course that really got me ready for the industry
Good Course. We covered a lot of material in a short amount of time. This course had useful labs that built upon each other.
the interface was super easy to use and the instructions to get ready for the course was also very simple and easy to understand.
Overall experiance is very nice. the online training plateform is very advance.
