Puppet Professional Certification Exam Objectives

Exam Objectives

Installation and Configuration

• Describe installation and configuration of Puppet Enterprise, Master and Agent

Puppet Components

• Identify how to recognize Puppet environments
• Describe a Puppet Agent run
• Identify the concepts of certificate management
• Describe how resource relationships work

Resources

• Demonstrate knowledge of Puppet resource types
• Describe a node, class, and defined type

Puppet Language

• Describe how to use a function
• Describe idempotence in the context of infrastructure administration
• Describe variables and variable scope
• Demonstrate knowledge of logic constructs
• Identify the purpose of inheritance

Modules

• Describe a Puppet module
• Describe how to manage a module using module tool

Classification

• Identify what classifies a node
• Describe how to create and manage nodes in the Puppet Enterprise Console

Puppet Data Library

• Describe facter functionality
• Identify the role of compliance
• Identify the report life cycle
• Identify report handlers

Live Management

• Describe how to gather inventory information with Live Management
• Describe how to interact with resources in your infrastructure

Maintenance and Troubleshooting

• Demonstrate knowledge of how to maintain Puppet
• Demonstrate knowledge of how to troubleshoot Puppet

ref: http://puppetlabs.com/services/certification/puppet-professional/