Barcelona, Spain
October 25-28, 2016

Event Details

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The Operators’ View on the Certified OpenStack Administrator Exam

OpenStack has become a sought-after skillset for IT professionals. Now, more than ever, employers are looking to certifications for validation to ensure that they are hiring the right skill sets from the marketplace. However, with the plethora of vendor-specific certifications, it is a challenge to determine which job candidates have the necessarily skills to operate OpenStack clouds.


Enter the Certified OpenStack Administration (COA) program and exam: developed by a dozen companies from 10 countries who established a community working group to define skills and capabilities needed. The hands-on exam tests real ops skills, rather than delivering another paper certification.

Hear from a panel of operators that have already passed the COA and get their perspective on how best to prepare for the exam. No, we won’t divulge the test questions, but attendees will receive sage advice from those who have achieved certification so that they can improve their chances of passing.


What can I expect to learn?

Attendees will receive practical advice from panelists that have passed the exam, what it takes to achieve certification and the background experiences needed to improve their chances of passing.

Tuesday, October 25, 3:55pm-4:35pm (1:55pm - 2:35pm UTC)
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Midokura
Susan is the Director of Technical Marketing at Midokura. Member of the OpenStack Foundation Item Writing (IWC) and Job Task Analysis (JTAC) groups for Certified OpenStack Administrator (COA) exam. Contributing writer to the OpenStack: A Business Perspective booklet and to OpenStack: The Path to Cloud booklet Susan previously led product positions for Oracle/Sun, Citrix, AMD and Docker.... FULL PROFILE
Mr
Ron Terry has worked in the IT industry for close to 2 decades He has held positions ranging from Computer Technician to System Administrator to Technical Training Architect. Ron has been employed by SUSE since May of 2005 and is currently working as an Advanced Technical Training Engineer both developing and delivering Advanced Technical Training around Linux and OpenStack throughout the... FULL PROFILE
Kumulus Technologies
With over 20 years of experience as a systems reliability engineer, and a focus on automating not only application deployments but the underlying infrastructure as well, Robert brings a wealth of knowledge to the full application enablement stack. He has applied this knowledge in fields from high-performance computing to high-frequency trading environments, and everything in between. Robert... FULL PROFILE
Senior DevOps & System Engineer
In Line Corp. I try to close the distance between the traditional Service IT Infrastructure world and the contemporary trends of Anything & Everything as a Service. I provide an insight on how to overcome cultural IT gaps, and how to architect, design, develop and operate OpenStack based private cloud(s). * * * At Midokura, I take care about internal IT infrastructure, whose main... FULL PROFILE
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