Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers (EX188) – Kiosk exam (partnercourse)

During the exam you may be required to work with one or more pre-written applications. You will not be required to modify application code however in some cases you may need to utilize supplied documentation in order to produce a new deployment of a given application.
You should be able to demonstrate these skills and abilities:

• Implement images using Podman
  • Understand and use FROM (the concept of a base image) instruction.
  • Understand and use RUN instruction.
  • Understand and use ADD instruction.
  • Understand and use COPY instruction.
  • Understand the difference between ADD and COPY instructions.
  • Understand and use WORKDIR and USER instructions.
  • Understand security-related topics.
  • Understand the differences and applicability of CMD vs. ENTRYPOINT instructions.
  • Understand ENTRYPOINT instruction with param.
  • Understand when and how to expose ports from a Containerfile.
  • Understand and use environment variables inside images.
  • Understand ENV instruction.
  • Understand container volume.
  • Mount a host directory as a data volume.
  • Understand security and permissions requirements related to this approach.
  • Understand the lifecycle and cleanup requirements of this approach.
• Manage images
  • Understand private registry security.
  • Interact with many different registries.
  • Understand and use image tags
  • Push and pull images from and to registries.
  • Back up an image with its layers and meta data vs. backup a container state.
• Run containers locally using Podman
  • Run containers locally using Podman
  • Get container logs.
  • Listen to container events on the container host.
  • Use Podman inspect.
  • Specifying environment parameters.
  • Expose public applications.
  • Get application logs.
  • Inspect running applications.

• Run multi-container applications with Podman
  • Create application stacks
  • Understand container dependencies
  • Working with environment variables
  • Working with secrets
  • Working with volumes
  • Working with configuration
• Troubleshoot containerized applications
  • Understand the description of application resources
  • Get application logs
  • Inspect running applications
  • Connecting to running containers
  • As with all Red Hat performance-based exams, configurations must persist after reboot without intervention.