Foundation/ProfessionalCertification
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Professional Certification Working Group
Mission
The OpenStack Foundation is launching its inaugural OpenStack Certification Exam Program which will offer a career-path based Certification for OpenStack professionals. The Certification exam will be performance-based and focus on basic skills required to operate an OpenStack cloud: Certified OpenStack Administrator (COA).
Initially, a sub-group of Subject Matter Experts has formed a Job Task Analysis Committee (JTAC) tasked with developing an appropriate examination blueprint to be used in the preparation of the Certification. There will be additional sub-groups for question writing and governance.
Members
- Satoshi Konno, ASANLABS, Inc., Tokyo, Japan
- Anil Bidari, Cloud Enabled, Bangalore, India
- Heidi Bretz, OpenStack Foundation, San Francisco, USA
- Eren Türkay, Skyatlas, Istanbul, Turkey
- Andrew Boag, Catalyst IT, Sydney, Australia
- Ghe Rivero, HP, Salamanca, Spain
- Arturo Suarez, Canonical, London, UK
- Pranav Salunke, SUSE Linux GmbH, Nuremberg, Germany
- Amrith Kumar, Tesora, Boston, USA
- Susan Wu, Midokura, San Francisco, USA
- Michael Ford, Midokura, San Francisco, USA
- Seth Fox, Solinea, Inc., Tucson, USA
- Rick Evans, VMware, Sunnyvale, USA
- Sean Winn, EMC, San Jose, USA
- Phil Hopkins, Rackspace, San Antonio, USA
- Megan Rossetti, Comcast, Reston, USA
- Jeff Olson, Firefly, Milpitas, USA
- Lee Xie, Mirantis, Mountain View, USA
Meeting Minutes
Timeline
- October – Deliver exam blueprint
- Oct –Dec. – Item/question development and programming
- Jan-Feb –Internal pilot testing
- Feb – March – End user/volunteer pilot testing
- April – Publicly available test for Austin Summit
How to get involved
- Take the job task analysis survey! - ½ hour time commitment https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OpenStackJobAnalysisSurvey
- Volunteer to pilot the Test – 2-3 hours in Q1, email cert@openstack.org
- Volunteer to be an item/question writer – 20 + hours, email cert@openstack.org (training for item writing will be provided). Experience writing testing questions is helpful.