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Continuous Integration - Developer
Product version: Harness CI Free/Team PlansReview Study Guide
Assesses the fundamental skills to deploy CI projects.
| Topic | Material |
|---|---|
| 1. Harness Basics, Platform Entities, and Key Concepts | |
| Describe Continuous Integration Fundamentals | Harness CI |
| Understand Artifacts And Packages | Harness CI Concepts |
| Utilize The "Pipeline, Stages, Step Groups, Steps" Schema | Harness Key Concepts |
| Illistruate Harness Hierarchy "Account, Organizations, Projects" | Connect to an Artifact Repo |
| Describe Artifact Repos | Connect to an Artifact Repo |
| Configure Artifact Repos | Connect to an Artifact Repo |
| Describe Build Infrastructures and Platforms | Which build infrastructure is right for me |
| Configure Build Infrastructures and Platforms | Which build infrastructure is right for me |
| Describe Different Options For CI Build Infrastructures | Which build infrastructure is right for me |
| Harness Cloud - Describe Supported Platform And Os (Linux, Mac, Windows) | Which build infrastructure is right for me |
| Harness Cloud - Test Build Infrastructure On Harness Cloud | Get started with Harness Cloud |
| Describe Available Connectors | Connectors |
| Configure a Git Connector | Add a GitHub Connector |
| Configure a Docker Hub Connector | Connect to Harness Container Image Registry Using Docker Connector |
| Understand Harness Delegate Role For The CI Capability | CI pipeline basics |
| Secrets Management - Describe Possible Usages For Harness CI | Add and Reference Text Secrets |
| Secrets Management - How To Retrieve And Render Secrets Using Harness Expressions | Add and Reference Text Secrets |
| Describe Harness Variables And Expressions | Built-in and Custom Harness Variables Reference |
| Configure And Use Variables And Expressions | Built-in CI codebase variables reference |
| Describe Built-In Variables | Built-in and Custom Harness Variables Reference |
| Describe Built-In CI Codebase Variables | Built-in CI codebase variables reference |
| Describe Default Settings | Default Settings |
| Configure Default Settings | Default Settings |
| Identify Types Of Artifacts | Build and Upload Artifacts |
| Describe the Harness Manager | Harness Platform architecture |
| Describe the Harness Delegate | Harness Platform architecture |
| 2. Harness CI Pipelines and its Features | |
| Describe Harness Step Library For CI Stages | CI Technical Reference |
| Describe Codebase Configuration | Create and Configure a Codebase |
| Utilize Codebase Configuration | Create and Configure a Codebase |
| Describe Shared Paths | Share CI Data Across Steps and Stages |
| Configure Shared Paths | Share CI Data Across Steps and Stages |
| Describe Drone/CI Plugins | Plugin step settings |
| Identify Common Drone/CI Plugins | Drone Plugins |
| Configure A Plugin Step | Plugin step settings |
| Describe Caching and Caching Intelligence | Cache Intelligence |
| Configure Caching and Caching Intelligence (Save and Restore in a Stage, probably) | Share and Cache CI Data |
| Describe Remote Docker Layer Caching | Optimizing CI Build Times |
| Configure Remote Docker Layer Caching | Optimizing CI Build Times |
| Describe Harness Test Intelligence | Enable Test Intelligence |
| Configure Harness Test Intelligence | Test Intelligence |
| Describe Triggers for CI | Trigger Pipelines using Git Events |
| Configure Triggers for CI | Configure Triggers for CI |
| Configure Custom Webhook Triggers | Trigger deployments using custom triggers |
| Describe Input Sets and Overlays | Input Sets and Overlays |
| Configure Input Sets and Overlays | Input Sets and Overlays |
| Describe Failure Strategies | |
| Configure Failure Strategies | |
| Describe Conditional Execution | Stage and Step Conditional Execution Settings |
| Perform a Conditional Execution | Stage and Step Conditional Execution Settings |
| Describe Looping Strategies (Matrix, Repeat, Parallelism) | Looping Strategies Overview -- Matrix, Repeat, and Parallelism |
| Configure Looping Strategies (Matrix, Repeat, Parallelism) | Looping Strategies Overview -- Matrix, Repeat, and Parallelism |
| Advanced Options - Describe Timeout Settings | Define a Failure Strategy on Stages and Steps |
| Advanced Options - Describe Selective Stage(s) Executions | Run Specific Stages in Pipeline |
| Describe Notifications - Based on Pipeline Events | Add a Pipeline Notification Strategy |
| Configure Notifications - Based on Pipeline Events | Add a Pipeline Notification Strategy |
| Describe How To Run Steps on Host vs Containers | Harness CI concepts |
| Configure To Send PR Status Updates | - |
| Describe How To Test For Swimlanes With Harness Run Test Step | Build, test, and publish a Docker Image for a Java application |
| Configure Run Test Step | Build, test, and publish a Docker Image for a Java application |
| Configure Outputs From One Step To Another | Run Tests step settings |
| Step Library - Describe Save And Restore Cache In The Pipeline | Share and Cache CI Data |
| Step Library - Configure Save And Restore Cache In The Pipeline | Share and Cache CI Data |
| Step Library - Describe Background Steps | Background step settings |
Configure A Background Stepconfigure Service Dependencies | |
| Step Library - Describe Git Clone Step (versus the Codebase one) | Git Clone step settings |
| Step Library - Configure a Git Clone Step | Git Clone step settings |
| Build an Artifact and send to an Artifact Repo | Build and push an artifact |
| Build a Container Image and send it to a Container Registry (such as Docker Hub) | Build and push an artifact |
| Perform Integration Test From Host Versus From A Container | Port Bindings |
| Describe Chained Pipelines | Pipeline chaining in Harness |
| Configure Chained Pipelines | Pipeline chaining in Harness |
| Describe GitHub Actions Support | Run GitHub Actions in CI pipelines |
| Configure a GitHub Actions Step | Run GitHub Actions in CI pipelines |
| 3. Harness User Interface Features for CI | |
| Describe the Overview Tab | Harness UI Overview |
| Describe the Build and Pipelines Tabs | Harness UI Overview |
| Describe and Configure Tags (use it to filter entities in the UI and API) | Tags Reference |
| Pipeline Studio - Describe the Execution History Tab | View and Compare Pipeline Executions |
| Step - Describe Details, Inputs, Outputs | Runtime Inputs |
| 4. RBAC, best practices, and small configuration tasks | |
| Elaborate on Anonymous Docker Image pulls and Their Risks | Use a Docker Connector |
| Utilize Images When Shells Are Not Available | - |
| Debug A Pipeline Step By Running The Step Locally (Troubleshooting) | Troubleshoot Continuous Integration |
| Describe Harness Cloud Characteristics And Its Advantages | Hosted Builds on VM Quickstart |
| Configure Git Experience for CI (pipeline) | Harness Git Experience Quickstart |
| Credentials And Permissions - Configure Or Elaborate On User And Groups For Acc, Org, And Project Levels | Role-based Access Control |
| Do a Basic Delegate Installation | Install Delegate on Kubernetes or Docker |
| Set Container Resources - Limit Memory and Limit CPU | Run Step Settings |
Exam Details
The Continuous Integration Developer exam tests your knowledge and skills of the Harness Integration Delivery module.
Prerequisites
- Basic terminal skills
- Basic understanding of on-premise or cloud architecture
Exam Details
Exam Duration: 90 minutes
Question Type: Multiple choice
| Covered Domain | Coverage |
|---|---|
| CI Domain | 65% |
| Hosted Builds | 15% |
| Test Intelligence | 10% |
| Code Configuration | 10% |
Exam Objectives
List of Objectives
The following is a detailed list of exam objectives:
| # | Objectives |
|---|---|
| 1 | Harness Basics, Platform Entities, And Key Concepts |
| 1.1 | Describe Continuous Integration Fundamentals |
| 1.2 | Understand Artifacts And Packages |
| 1.3 | Utilize The "Pipeline, Stages, Step Groups, Steps" Schema |
| 1.4 | Illistruate Harness Hierarchy "Account, Organizations, Projects" |
| 1.5 | Describe Artifact Repos |
| 1.6 | Configure Artifact Repos |
| 1.7 | Describe Build Infrastructures And Platforms |
| 1.8 | Configure Build Infrastructures And Platforms |
| 1.9 | Describe Different Options For CI Build Infrastructures |
| 1.10 | Harness Cloud - Describe the Supported Platform And Os (Linux, Mac, Windows) |
| 1.11 | Harness Cloud - Test Build Infrastructure On Harness Cloud |
| 1.12 | Define Connectors (You Can Use Source Providers, Artifact Repos, Cloud Providers, Etc) |
| 1.13 | Configure A Git Connector |
| 1.14 | Configure A Docker Hub Connector |
| 1.15 | Understand the Harness Delegate Role For The CI Capability |
| 1.16 | Describe Pipeline Studio Vs Yaml Structure |
| 1.17 | Secrets Management - Describe Possible Usages For Harness CI |
| 1.18 | Secrets Management - How To Retrieve And Render Secrets Using Harness Expressions |
| 1.19 | Describe Harness Variables And Expressions |
| 1.20 | Configure And Use Variables And Expressions |
| 1.21 | Describe Built-In Variables |
| 1.22 | Describe Built-In CI Codebase Variables |
| 1.23 | Describe Default Settings |
| 1.24 | Configure Default Settings |
| 1.25 | Identify Types Of Artifacts |
| 1.26 | Identify Scanning Options |
| 1.27 | Describe The Harness Manager |
| 1.28 | Describe The Harness Delegate |
| 2 | Harness CI Pipelines And Their Features |
| 2.1 | Describe Harness Step Library For CI Stages |
| 2.2 | Describe Codebase Configuration |
| 2.3 | Utilize Codebase Configuration |
| 2.4 | Describe Shared Paths |
| 2.5 | Configure Shared Paths |
| 2.6 | Describe Drone/CI Plugins |
| 2.7 | Identify Common Drone/CI Plugins |
| 2.8 | Configure A Plugin Step |
| 2.9 | Describe Caching And Caching Intelligence |
| 2.10 | Configure Caching And Caching Intelligence |
| 2.11 | Describe Remote Docker Layer Caching |
| 2.12 | Configure Remote Docker Layer Caching |
| 2.13 | Describe Harness Test Intelligence |
| 2.14 | Utilize Harness Test Intelligence |
| 2.15 | Describe Triggers For CI |
| 2.16 | Configure Triggers For CI |
| 2.17 | Configure Custom Webhook Triggers |
| 2.18 | Describe Input Sets And Overlays |
| 2.19 | Configure Input Sets And Overlays |
| 2.20 | Describe Failure Strategies |
| 2.21 | Configure Failure Strategies |
| 2.22 | Describe Conditional Execution |
| 2.23 | Perform A Conditional Execution |
| 2.24 | Describe Looping Strategies (Matrix, Repeat, Parallelism) |
| 2.25 | Configure Looping Strategies (Matrix, Repeat, Parallelism) |
| 2.26 | Advanced Options - Describe Timeout Settings |
| 2.27 | Advanced Options - Describe Selective Stage(S) Executions |
| 2.28 | Describe Notifications - Based On Pipeline Events |
| 2.29 | Configure Notifications - Based On Pipeline Events |
| 2.30 | Describe How To Run Steps On Host Vs Containers |
| 2.31 | Configure To Send Pr Status Updates |
| 2.32 | Describe How To Test For Swimlanes With Harness Run Test Step |
| 2.33 | Configure Run Test Step |
| 2.34 | Configure Outputs From One Step To Another |
| 2.35 | Step Library - Describe Save And Restore Cache In The Pipeline |
| 2.36 | Step Library - Configure Save And Restore Cache In The Pipeline |
| 2.37 | Step Library - Describe Background Steps |
| 2.38 | Step Library - Configure A Background Stepconfigure Service Dependencies (SQL Instances, Elasticsearch, Dind, Etc.) - Adding Steps To A Stage |
| 2.39 | Step Library - Describe Git Clone Step |
| 2.40 | Step Library - Configure A Git Clone Step |
| 2.41 | Build An Artifact And Send To An Artifact Repo |
| 2.42 | Build A Container Image And Send It To A Container Registry |
| 2.43 | Perform Integration Test From Host Versus From A Container |
| 2.44 | Describe Chained Pipelines |
| 2.45 | Configure Chained Pipelines |
| 2.46 | Describe Github Actions Support |
| 2.47 | Configure A Github Actions Step |
| 3 | Harness User Interface Features For CI |
| 3.1 | Describe The Overview Tab |
| 3.2 | Describe The Build And Pipelines Tabs |
| 3.3 | Describe And Configure Tags |
| 3.4 | Pipeline Studio - Describe The Execution History Tab |
| 3.5 | Step - Describe Details, Inputs, Outputs |
| 4 | Rbac, Best Practices, And Small Configuration Tasks |
| 4.1 | Elaborate On Anonymous Docker Image Pulls And Their Risks |
| 4.2 | Utilize Images When Shells Are Not Available |
| 4.3 | Debug A Pipeline Step By Running The Step Locally (Troubleshooting) |
| 4.4 | Describe Harness Cloud Characteristics And Its Advantages |
| 4.5 | Configure Git Experience For CI (Pipeline) |
| 4.6 | Credentials And Permissions - Configure Or Elaborate On User And Groups For Acc, Org, And Project Levels |
| 4.7 | Do A Basic Delegate Installation |
| 4.8 | Set Container Resources - Limit Memory And Limit CPU |
Next Steps
The Continuous Integration Developer exam can start immediately after registering. Please allow 90 mins for the exam.
- Create an account in Harness University
- Register for an exam
- Take the exam
Prepare for the Exam
Get Certified | Harness Expert
Continuous Integration - Administrator (BETA COMING SOON)
Product version: Harness CI Enterprise PlanReview Study Guide - Coming Soon
Assesses the fundamental skills to deploy and maintain CI projects and the overall Harness Platform. This exam builds upon the CI Developer Certification.
| Topic | Material |
|---|---|
| 1. Harness Basics, Platform Entities, and Key Concepts | |
| Describe continuous integration fundamentals (important stages or steps) | Harness CI |
| Describe Artifacts and Packages (from jar to container image, helm, etc) | Harness CI concepts |
| Describe and explain the "Pipeline, Stages, Step Groups, Steps" schema | Key concepts |
| Describe Harness hierarchy "Account, Organizations, Projects" | Key concepts |
| Trigger the build pipeline via API - With or without inputset | Harness API quickstart |
| Configure Artifact Repos - can be cont registry, object store, jfrog, nexus, etc. | Connect to an Artifact Repo |
| Describe Build Infrastructures and Platforms | Which build infrastructure is right for me? |
| Configure Build Infrastructures and Platforms | Which build infrastructure is right for me? |
| CI Build Infrastructures & Different Options Available | Which build infrastructure is right for me? |
| Harness Cloud - Describe Supported platform and OS (Linux, Mac, Windows) | Which build infrastructure is right for me? |
| Describe Ephemeral Environments | Get started with Harness Cloud |
| Describe Harness Cloud Build Infrastructure | Get started with Harness Cloud |
| Describe Connectors (you can use Source Providers, Artifact Repos, Cloud Providers, etc) | Connectors |
| Configure a Git Connector | Add a GitHub Connector |
| Configure a DockerHub Connector | Connect to Harness container image registry Using Docker connector |
| Describe Harness Delegate role for the CI capability | CI Pipeline Basics |
| Secrets Management - How to retrieve and render secrets using Harness Expressions | Add/Use Text Secrets |
| Configure and use Variables and Expressions - JEXL String methods | Built-in CI codebase variables reference |
| Describe built-in variables | Harness Variables |
| Describe built-in CI codebase variables. | Built-in CI codebase variables reference |
| Describe the Harness Manager | Platform Architecture |
| Install a Harness Delegate | Platform Architecture |
| Describe Delegate Task Selection | Delegate Overview |
| Describe what's required for a K8s Build environment | Kubernetes deployments basics |
| Describe what Stage and Step represents in a K8s build env | Stage and step conditional execution settings |
| Describe how Stage steps share network context and workdir (via volumes and shared paths) | Stage and step conditional execution settings |
| Project Variables | Add a Variable |
| Install software on the delegate with initialization scripts (INIT_SCRIPT) or build your own Delegate | Docker delegate environment variables |
| 2. Harness CI Pipelines and its Features | |
| Perform Codebase configuration | Create and configure a codebase |
| Describe Shared Paths in depth (what is, how Harness does via volumes) | Share CI data across steps and stages |
| Configure Shared Paths | Share CI data across steps and stages |
| Step Library - Configure a Plugin Step | Plugin step settings |
| Describe Caching and Caching Intelligence | Cache Intelligence |
| Configure Caching and Caching Intelligence (Save and Restore in a Stage, probably) | Cache Intelligence |
| Describe Harness Test Intelligence | Get started with Test Intelligence |
| Configure Harness Test Intelligence | Enable Test Intelligence |
| Configure Triggers for CI (git-based, etc) including elaborating on Trigger Conditions | Trigger pipelines using Git events |
| Configure custom webhook triggers | Trigger deployments using custom triggers |
| Configure Input Sets and Overlays | Input Sets |
| Configure Failure Strategies | Define a failure strategy on stages and steps |
| Perform a Conditonal Execution | Stage and step conditional execution settings |
| Describe Looping Strategies (Matrix, Repeat, Parallelism) | Looping strategies overview -- matrix, repeat, and parallelism |
| Configure Looping Strategies (Matrix, Repeat, Parallelism) | Best Practices for Looping Strategies |
| Describe Flow Control and Barriers | Controlling resource usage with Barriers, Resource Constraints, and Queue steps |
| Configure Flow Control and Barriers | Controlling resource usage with Barriers, Resource Constraints, and Queue steps |
| Advanced Options - Describe Timeout Settings | Define a failure strategy on stages and steps |
| Advanced Options - Describe selective stage(s) executions | Run specific stages in pipeline |
| Configure Notifications - Based on Pipeline Events | Add a pipeline notification strategy |
| Describe how to run Steps on Host vs Containers (can use Harness Cloud to make it simpler) | CI Concepts |
| Configure to send PR Status updates | Harness GitOps ApplicationSet and PR pipeline tutorial |
| Configure outputs from one step to another | Run Tests step settings |
| Step Library - Describe Save and Restore Cache in the Pipeline | Share and cache CI data |
| Step Library - Configure Save and Restore Cache in the Pipeline | Share and cache CI data |
| Step Library - Describe Background Steps | Background step settings |
| Step Library - Configure a Background Step) - adding steps to a stage | Background step settings |
| Step Library - Describe Git Clone Step (versus the Codebase one) | CI Git Clone Step |
| Step Library - Configure a Git Clone Step | CI Git Clone Step |
| Perform Integration test from Host versus from a Container | Port Bindings |
| Describe Chained Pipelines | Pipeline Chaining |
| Configure Chained Pipelines | Pipeline Chaining |
| Describe GitHub Actions support | Use the GitHub Actions Drone plugin |
| Configure a GitHub Actions Step | Use the GitHub Actions Drone plugin |
| Understand How to Parallel Steps in a Stage - K8s infra - Describe Limit vs Requests | Speed up CI test pipelines using parallelism |
| 3. RBAC, Best Practices, and Small Configuration Tasks | |
| Elaborate on Anonymous Docker Image pulls and its risks. | Connect to Harness container image registry Using Docker connector |
| Debug a Pipeline step by running the step locally (troubleshooting) | Troubleshooting CI |
| Configure Git Experience for CI (pipeline) | Harness Git Experience quickstart |
| Credentials and Permissions - Configure or Elaborate on User and Groups for Acc, Org, Project levels | Role Based Access Control |
| Describe Set Container Resources - Limit Memory and Limit CPU | Set Container Resources |
| Descibe What Security Actions Are Available | Authentication overview |
| Describe OAuth and SAML Integrations | Single Sign-On (SSO) with SAML |
| Describe SAML + SCIM (automatic provisioning) | Provision users and groups using Azure AD (SCIM) |
| Describe RBAC in User Groups X Roles (Role Bindings) | Role-based access control overview |
| Describe RBAC and Role Bindings for Service Account | Harness RBAC components |
| Describe Resource Groups | Harness RBAC components |
| Configure Resource Groups | Harness RBAC components |
| RBAC - Describe Roles | Harness RBAC components |
| RBAC - Configure Roles | Harness RBAC components |
| Describe and Configure Tags (use it to filter entities in the UI and API) | Tags reference |
| Pipeline Studio - Describe the Execution History Tab | View and compare pipeline executions |
| 4. Enterprise - Policy-based Governance (OPA), Dashboards, and Pipeline Templatization | |
| Describe Templates for Harness CI | Templates |
| Configure Templates for Harness CI | Templates |
| Describe Policy as Code (OPA, Rego) | Harness Policy As Code overview |
| Configure Policy as Code - Apply in any common use case (OPA, Rego) | Harness Policy As Code overview |
| Enforce Gov in a Pipeline with a Step (OPA) | Harness Policy As Code overview |
| Account Audit Trail - Describe Use Cases | Audit Trail |
| Describe Custom Dashboards (Looker, Enterprise) | Dashboards Overview |
Exam Details
(BETA Coming Soon) The Continuous Integration Administrator exam tests your knowledge and skills of the Harness Continuous Integration module.
Prerequisites
- Intermediate terminal skills
- Basic understanding of on-premise or cloud architecture
- This exam builds upon the CI Developer Exam
Exam Details
| Exam Type | Duration |
|---|---|
| Knowledge Exam | 90 minutes |
| Hands On Exam | 90 minutes |
| Covered Domain | Coverage |
|---|---|
| Harness Basics, Platform Entities, and Key Concepts | 60% |
| Harness CI Pipelines and its Features | 20% |
| RBAC, Best Practices, and Small Config Tasks | 10% |
| Enterprise - Policy-based Governance (OPA), Dashboards, and Pipeline Templatization | 10% |
Exam Objectives
List of Objectives
The following is a detailed list of exam objectives:
| # | Objectives |
|---|---|
| 1 | Harness Basics, Platform Entities, and Key Concepts |
| 1.1 | Describe continuous integration fundamentals (important stages or steps) |
| 1.2 | Describe Artifacts and Packages (from jar to container image, helm, etc) |
| 1.3 | Describe and explain the "Pipeline, Stages, Step Groups, Steps" schema |
| 1.4 | Describe Harness hierarchy "Account, Organizations, Projects" |
| 1.5 | Trigger the build pipeline via API - With or without inputset |
| 1.6 | Configure Artifact Repos |
| 1.7 | Describe Build Infrastructures and Platforms |
| 1.8 | Configure Build Infrastructures and Platforms |
| 1.9 | CI Build Infrastructures & Different Options Available |
| 1.10 | Harness Cloud - Describe Supported platform and OS (Linux, Mac, Windows) |
| 1.11 | Describe Ephemeral Environments |
| 1.12 | Describe Harness Cloud Build Infrastructure |
| 1.13 | Describe Connectors (you can use Source Providers, Artifact Repos, Cloud Providers, etc) |
| 1.14 | Configure a Git Connector |
| 1.15 | Configure a DockerHub Connector |
| 1.16 | Describe Harness Delegate role for the CI capability |
| 1.17 | Secrets Management - How to retrieve and render secrets using Harness Expressions |
| 1.18 | Configure and use Variables and Expressions - JEXL String methods |
| 1.19 | Describe built-in variables |
| 1.20 | Describe built-in CI codebase variables. |
| 1.21 | Describe the Harness Manager |
| 1.22 | Install a Harness Delegate |
| 1.23 | Describe Delegate Task Selection |
| 1.24 | Describe what's required for a K8s Build environment |
| 1.25 | Describe what Stage and Step represents in a K8s build env |
| 1.26 | Describe how Stage steps share network context and workdir (via volumes and shared paths) |
| 1.27 | Project Variables |
| 1.28 | Install software on the delegate with initialization scripts (INIT_SCRIPT) or build your own Delegate |
| 2 | Harness CI Pipelines and its Features |
| 2.1 | Perform Codebase configuration |
| 2.2 | Describe Shared Paths in depth (what is, how Harness does via volumes) |
| 2.3 | Configure Shared Paths |
| 2.4 | Step Library - Configure a Plugin Step |
| 2.5 | Describe Caching and Caching Intelligence |
| 2.6 | Configure Caching and Caching Intelligence (Save and Restore in a Stage, probably) |
| 2.7 | Describe Harness Test Intelligence |
| 2.8 | Configure Harness Test Intelligence |
| 2.9 | Configure Triggers for CI (git-based, etc) including elaborating on Trigger Conditions |
| 2.10 | Configure custom webhook triggers |
| 2.11 | Configure Input Sets and Overlays |
| 2.12 | Configure Failure Strategies |
| 2.13 | Perform a Conditional Execution |
| 2.14 | Describe Looping Strategies (Matrix, Repeat, Parallelism) |
| 2.15 | Configure Looping Strategies (Matrix, Repeat, Parallelism) |
| 2.16 | Describe Flow Control and Barriers |
| 2.17 | Configure Flow Control and Barriers |
| 2.18 | Advanced Options - Describe Timeout Settings |
| 2.19 | Advanced Options - Describe selective stage(s) executions |
| 2.20 | Configure Notifications - Based on Pipeline Events |
| 2.21 | Describe how to run Steps on Host vs Containers (can use Harness Cloud to make it simpler) |
| 2.22 | Configure to send PR Status updates |
| 2.23 | Configure outputs from one step to another |
| 2.24 | Step Library - Describe Save and Restore Cache in the Pipeline |
| 2.25 | Step Library - Configure Save and Restore Cache in the Pipeline |
| 2.26 | Step Library - Describe Background Steps |
| 2.27 | Step Library - Configure a Background Step) - adding steps to a stage |
| 2.28 | Step Library - Describe Git Clone Step (versus the Codebase one) |
| 2.29 | Step Library - Configure a Git Clone Step |
| 2.30 | Perform Integration test from Host versus from a Container |
| 2.31 | Describe Chained Pipelines |
| 2.32 | Configure Chained Pipelines |
| 2.33 | Describe GitHub Actions support |
| 2.34 | Configure a GitHub Actions Step |
| 2.35 | Understand How to Parallel Steps in a Stage - K8s infra - Describe Limit vs Requests |
| 3 | RBAC, Best Practices, and Small Configuration Tasks |
| 3.1 | Elaborate on Anonymous Docker Image pulls and its risks. |
| 3.2 | Debug a Pipeline step by running the step locally (troubleshooting) |
| 3.3 | Configure Git Experience for CI (pipeline) |
| 3.4 | Credentials and Permissions - Configure or Elaborate on User and Groups for Acc, Org, Project levels |
| 3.5 | Describe Set Container Resources - Limit Memory and Limit CPU |
| 3.6 | Descibe What Security Actions Are Available |
| 3.7 | Describe OAuth and SAML Integrations |
| 3.8 | Describe SAML + SCIM (automatic provisioning) |
| 3.9 | Describe RBAC in User Groups X Roles (Role Bindings) |
| 3.10 | Describe RBAC and Role Bindings for Service Account |
| 3.11 | Describe Resource Groups |
| 3.12 | Configure Resource Groups |
| 3.13 | RBAC - Describe Roles |
| 3.14 | RBAC - Configure Roles |
| 3.15 | Describe and Configure Tags (use it to filter entities in the UI and API) |
| 3.16 | Pipeline Studio - Describe the Execution History Tab |
| 4 | Policy-based Governance (OPA), Dashboards, and Pipeline Templatization |
| 4.1 | Describe Templates for Harness CI |
| 4.2 | Configure Templates for Harness CI |
| 4.3 | Describe Policy as Code (OPA, Rego) |
| 4.4 | Configure Policy as Code - Apply in any common use case (OPA, Rego) |
| 4.5 | Enforce Gov in a Pipeline with a Step (OPA) |
| 4.6 | Account Audit Trail - Describe Use Cases |
| 4.7 | Describe Custom Dashboards (Looker, Enterprise) |
Next Steps
The Continuous Integration Administrator exam can start immediately after registering. Please allow 90 mins for the knowledge exam and approximately 90 minutes for the hands on exam.
- Create an account in Harness University
- Register for an exams
- Review the instructions for the Hands On Exam
- Take the exams
- There will be a knowledge and hands on portion.
Prepare for the Exam
Get Certified | Harness Expert
Continuous Integration - Architect (BETA COMING SOON)
Product version: Harness CI Enterprise PlanComing Soon...
Assess key technical job functions and advanced skills in design, implementation and management of CI.