How to pass GitLab Certified Professional Services Engineer
In this article I will explain to you how I prepared for the GitLab Certified Professional Services Engineer.
In August 2022 GitLab had announced their new learning platform called Level Up. It is a new platform allows customization of your learning experience by adding courses, micro-learning, and other resources to create a unique learning journey. You can access training, accreditation, and certification exams in a centralized streamlined platform designed.
The exam preparation
I only prepared with the contents of the bundle and make sure to do hands-on exercises.
GitLab Certified Professional Services Engineer Pathway
There are 6 certifications that needed to get the GitLab Certified Professional Services Engineer
1. GitLab Certified Git Associate
- GitLab Overview
- Git Basics
- Basic Code Creation in GitLab
- GitLab CI/CD Functions
- GitLab Package and Release Functions
- GitLab Security Scanning
2. GitLab Certified Project Management Associate
- Set up projects by creating issues, labels, milestones, and groups
- Manage projects using GitLab boards, epics, and roadmaps
3. GitLab Certified CI/CD Associate
- Architecture and Runners
- Anatomy of a pipeline
- Common Job Keywords
- Job Policy Patterns
- Registries, Deployments and Security Scanning
4. GitLab Certified Security Specialist
- SAST and DAST
- Secret Detection
- Dependency Scanning
- Container Scanning
- License Scanning
- Fuzz Testing
5. GitLab Certified Implementation Services Specialist
- GitLab Application Architecture
- Installing GitLab
6. GitLab Certified Migration Services Specialist
- GitLab Migration Basics️
- Migrating GitLab with Professional Services
How the exam was?
You need to pass the Knowledge Exam which is multiple choice exam and pass 80% marks to proceed to hands-on exam (don’t worry you can take as many as you like if you failed). You will have a Gitlab account provided to do exercises and hands-on exam.
So, you have a lab to do and a Google Form to fill out each time you complete a hands-on exam for each certification. Upon your successful completion of both exams, GitLab will send you a digital verification badge to confirm your achievement of GitLab certification and within 7 days, a Gitlab instructor will verify your work and return the result to you.
For the GitLab Certified Implementation Services Specialist, the hands-on exam will be different from previous certification. You need to complete the workshop (The detail will be provided on the guide). The environment for the workshop is very complex, you have to create many nodes or instances, and you must have AWS to run the environment. You can check the workshop here Implementation Workshop.
For the GitLab Certified I Migration Services Specialist, you also need to complete the workshop. The environment for the workshop you only need 1 VM but with decent specification (I used 8 vCPUs to complete the workshop). You can check the workshop here Congregate Workshop.
Tips for the Exam:
- For the exam you don’t need to memorize everything, because you can check the documentation or by googling freely
- Make sure to complete all the hands-on exercises, because the hands-on exam is very similar to the hands-on exercise
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Conclusion
There you go, a straightforward approach to getting GitLab Certified Professional Services Engineer. Depending on your time availability and knowledge of DevOps, this program will take you between 2–3 weeks to complete.
The exam is quite easy because you can do unlimited retake for the exam and you can google or look for the documentation freely.
I hope this article will help you get GitLab Certified Professional Services Engineer.
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Author:
Calvin Rahmat , DevOps Specialist Btech | Linkedln
