LEARN. PRACTICE. GROW.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
Twelve lessons, 100 questions and 20 Ansible cases: inventory, roles, precedence, batch execution, handlers and evidence-based 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
Eight lessons, 55 questions and eleven DNS cases: messages, delegations, caching, transport and rollback decisions.
Docker®: run and diagnose containers
Twelve lessons, 100 questions and 20 Docker cases: builds, cache, secrets, images, Compose, operations, recovery and evidence-based promotion.
Git: team decisions and recovery
Eight lessons, 55 questions, and eleven Git cases: collaboration, urgent fixes, backports, and recovery.
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
Eight lessons, 50 questions and ten HTTP/HTTPS cases: semantics, TLS, proxies, conditional writes and transfers.
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
Eleven lessons, 80 questions and 20 L2 cases: diagnosis, queues and retention, runbooks, acceptance by journey and operational continuity.
Load balancing: traffic and resilience
Eight lessons, 50 questions and ten load-balancing cases: routing, health, retries, capacity and changes with NGINX.
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.