Puppet Professional Certification 2015 Resources

Online resources that will help you prepare for taking the Puppet Professional 2015 Certification exam. This is not likely a complete list - please make a pull request if there something that should be added here.

Exam Objectives

These are the exam objectives you review and understand in order to pass the test. The objectives are current as of April 13, 2015.

Language

Identify Style Guide recommendations

• The Puppet Language Style Guide

Describe language features

• Language: Basics
• Language: Reserved Words and Acceptable Names
• Language: Resources
• Language: Relationships and Ordering
• Langauge: Resource Defaults
• Language: Variables
• Language: Tags
• Language: Facts and Built-in Variables
• Language: Scope
• Language: Conditional Statements
• Language: Expressions
• Language: Functions

Identify the core resource types

• Type Reference

Demonstrate knowledge of classes and defines

• Language: Classes
• learning Puppet - Defined Types
• Language: Defined Resource Types

Modules

Describe how to use modules from the Forge

• Installing Modules

Demonstrate knowledge of module structure

• Module Fundamentals
• Documenting Modules

Identify module authoring best practices

• Beginner's Guide to Modules
• Best Practices for Building Puppet Modules

Using Puppet

Describe environments in Puppet

• About Environments
• Configuring Directory Environments
• Enabling Directory Environments in Puppet Enterprise
• Config-file Environments
• Assigning Nodes to Environments
• Environments: Suggestions for Use
• Git Workflow and Puppet Environments
• Environments: Limitations of Environments
• Environments and Puppet's HTTPS Interface

Describe the lifecycle of a Puppet run

• Learning Puppet — Basic Agent/Master Puppet

Describe Puppet ecosystem component usage

• A New Era of Application Services at Puppet Labs
• Subsystems: Agent/Master HTTPS Communications
• Subsystems: Catalog Compilation
• PuppetDB 2.2 Overview

Describe how to configure a Puppet master

• Configuration: How Puppet is Configured
• Puppet Server: Configuration

Puppet Internals

Describe the purpose of types and providers

• Custom Types
• Provider Development

Describe Puppet’s use of SSL certificates

• Certificates and Security
• Puppet Server: External CA Configuration
• SSL Configuration: External CA Support
• SSL Configuration: Autosigning Certificate Requests

Classification

Describe classification

• Getting Started with Classification
• Puppet: Assigning Configurations to Nodes
• Grouping and Classifying Nodes

Console

Describe Node Manager

• Puppet: Assigning Configurations to Nodes
• Grouping and Classifying Nodes
• Making Changes in the Node Classifier

Describe RBAC

• Role-based Access Control
• Connecting PE to an External Directory Service
• RBAC Permissions
• Creating and Managing Users and User Roles

Demonstrate knowledge of how to troubleshoot PE Console

• Finding Common Problems
• The Log Blog: An Update on Debugging Puppet Enterprise

Describe reporting capabilities in PE Console

• Viewing Reports and Inventory Data

Ecosystem

Describe the purpose of PuppetDB

• PuppetDB Overview

Demonstrate knowledge of Hiera

• Hiera 1: Overview
• Hiera 1: installation
• Configuration and hiera.yaml
• Hierachies
• Lookup Types
• Writing Data Sources
• Interpolation Tokesn, Variables and Lookup Functions
• Usage with Puppet
• Complete Example
• Usage on the Commandline
• Writing New Backends

Describe the usage of MCollective

• Mcollective Collective
• Using Mcollective Command Line Applications

Demonstrate knowledge of Facter

• Facter 2.2
• Core Facts
• Custom Fact Overview/Reference
• Custom Fact Walkthrough
• External Facts

Puppet Courses

Here are courses you can enroll to get up to speed with Puppet.

• Learning Puppet DevOps Deployment (Puppet Professional Cert)
• Puppet Fundamentals for Systems Administrators