Ping Identity Certified Advanced System Administrator

The Ping Identity Certified Advanced System Administrator - PingAccess certification measures the candidate’s ability to perform advanced PingAccess configuration, troubleshooting, and more advanced instances of basic configuration operations covered in the Professional-level exam.

The exam covers the following knowledge about PingAccess version 7 or later:

Advanced Configuration

• Create a Web+API application object in the admin console

• Create an Application

• Create a Virtual Host

• Create a Web Session

• Create a Web Identity Mapping

• Create a Site

• Create a Site Authenticator

• Configure POST Preservation

• Confiture redirects (e.g. from port 80 to port 443)

• Create an Authentication Requirements Rule

• Create a Groovy Script Rule

• Create an HTTP Request Header Rule

• Create an HTTP Request Parameter Rule

• Create a Network Range Rule

• Create an OAuth Attribute Rule

• Create an OAuth Groovy Script (for API) Rule

• Create an OAuth Scope Rule

• Create a One-Time Authorization Rule

• Create a Rate Limiting Rule

• Create a Redirect Rule

• Create a Rejection Rule

• Create a Time Range Rule

• Create a Web Session Attribute Rule

• Create a Web Session Scope Rule

• Create a WebSocket Handshake Rule

• Create a CORS Rule

• Create an OAuth Token Cache Time to Live Rule

• Create a Rewrite Content Rule

• Create a Rewrite Cookie Domain Rule

• Create a Rewrite Cookie Path Rule

• Create a Rewrite Response Header Rule

• Create a Rewrite URL Rule

• Create Rule Sets and Rule Set Groups

• Configure a Header Identity Mapping

• Configure a JWT Identity Mapping

• Configure a Basic Authentication  Site Authenticator

• Configure Token Mediator Site Authenticator

• Configure Redirects

• Configure rejection handlers & rules

• Configure server-side cipher ordering

• Configure global unprotected resources

• Configure anonymous resources

• Configure application unprotected resources

• Configure manual resource ordering

• Configure token validation

Agent Deployment

• Create an agent in the admin console

• Configure an agent using an agent.properties configuration file for Apache

Clustering

• Add a replica administrative node to an existing cluster

• Configure runtime state clustering

• Configure Sticky Sessions

• Configure admin console SSO

• Configure an on-premise cluster

Troubleshooting

• Configure Logging

• Configure Resource Auditing

• Troubleshoot common issues

Exam Delivery

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 4 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 approximately 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

• PingAccess 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 exams are delivered, please refer to our testing guide.