Ping Identity Certified Advanced System Administrator 

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

The exam covers the following knowledge about PingDirectory version 9 or later:

Advanced Configuration

• Create and/or manage an ACI

• Configure PingDirectoryProxy to balance entries between two instances of PingDirectory

• Configure PingDataSync to migrate data from another directory

• Update and manage certificates

• Manage setting up, purging, and restoring soft deletes

• Backup and restore data

• Configure and manage replication

• Configure a global index

• Use the makeldif command to generate an LDIF file based on a template

• Configure a mirrored subtree

• Add/Initialize/Remove a server in a replication topology

Basic Configuration

• Create/edit/delete a schema definition

• Create and use a sensitive attribute

• Create and use a virtual attribute

• Create and use a JSON attribute

• Apply constraints to a JSON attribute

• Create/export/import encryption settings definitions

• Use an encrypted LDIF file

• Create a password validator

• Create a password policy

• Create a log retention policy

• Create a log rotation policy

• Create a basic access log publisher

• Create a filtered log publisher

• Create result criteria

• Create request criteria

• Create a client connection policy

• Configure uncached entries and/or attributes

• Configure PingDirectoryProxy as a load balancer

• Configure PingDirectoryProxy to transform requested data

Troubleshooting

• Troubleshoot common issues

• Interpret log entries to resolve a problem

• Use cn=monitor analysis to troubleshoot a problem

• Diagnose and resolve a configuration issue

• Diagnose and resolve a search issue

• Diagnose and resolve a schema issue

• Diagnose and resolve an ACI issue

• Diagnose and resolve a replication issue

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

• ApacheDirectoryStudio

• PingDataConsole

• PingDirectory 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.