Technical assessments
Certification preparation and knowledge assessments. Choose an area, check availability, and build your path.
Linux administration for operations
Diagnose Linux services, permissions, disk, memory, networking, and scripts using evidence. Practice support and recovery decisions in production scenarios.
Middleware: understand and operate the chain
Investigate request paths, JVMs, pools, TLS, and messaging. Practice capacity, retry, observability, and release decisions in production scenarios.
Production Support L3: investigate and recover
Investigate incidents, recover batch and file flows, and confirm business outcomes. Practice communication, escalation, reconciliation, and bounded automation.
Ansible: automate changes and recover services
Six lessons, 30 questions, and six cases on Ansible inventory, tasks, validation, handlers, batches, secrets, and recovery.
Application Production Support
Six lessons, 24 questions, and eight APS cases: priorities, observability, incidents, batch, changes, recovery, and RUN handover.
Change management: production decisions
Plan, authorize, and track production changes. Practice dependencies, artifacts, recovery, canary, incidents, and validation through original technical scenarios.
CI/CD: build, validate, and deliver
Six lessons, 30 questions, and six cases on integration, jobs, artifacts, tests, identity, trust, and pipeline recovery.
Disaster Recovery: prepare, recover, and validate
Six lessons, 30 questions, and six cases on RTO/RPO, recoverable backups, recovery-site configuration, isolated exercises, and failback.
DNS: understand and diagnose resolution
Investigate resolution, aliases, caching, DNS responses, transport, and DNSSEC through queries and production decisions.
Docker: run and diagnose containers
Six lessons, 30 questions, and six cases on Docker processes, images, builds, networking, data, Compose, privileges, and diagnosis.
Git: team decisions and recovery
Practice change selection, branch integration, publication, reversal, and regression diagnosis with Git.
High Availability: design, failures, and recovery
Six lessons, 30 questions, and six cases on availability objectives, capacity, quorum, fencing, replication, probes, and maintenance.
HTTP/HTTPS: applications and diagnosis
Six lessons, 30 questions, and six HTTP/HTTPS cases: requests, methods, caching, framing, TLS, and production diagnosis.
Incident Management: coordinate and recover
Six lessons, 30 questions, and six cases on triage, coordination, mitigation, communication, handover, and post-incident learning.
Kubernetes: operate workloads and recover services
Six lessons, 30 questions, and six cases on Kubernetes workloads, Services, probes, resources, configuration, volumes, access, and operations.
L2 Support: diagnose, mitigate, and escalate
Six lessons, 30 questions, and nine cases to practice triage, diagnosis, mitigation, escalation, and L2 support continuity.
Load balancing: traffic and resilience
Six lessons, 30 questions, and six cases on load balancing, affinity, health, capacity, and production maintenance.
Microservices: design boundaries and operate distributed systems
Six lessons, 30 questions, and six cases on microservice boundaries, data, resilience, messaging, diagnosis, and migration.
Independent preparation. Tests on bigsavant.com do not award official certifications. Paths in preparation do not yet have published tests.