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Internal Developer Portal - Developer

Product version: Harness IDP Enterprise Plan

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Assesses the fundamental skills to manage your applications with IDP projects.

Topic	Material
1: Introduction to Harness IDP
Understand the features and benefits of Harness IDP	Get started with IDP
Navigate the Harness IDP interface	Harness IDP Overview
Identify user roles and permissions within Harness IDP	IDP Role-based access control (RBAC)
2: Creating and Managing Service Onboarding Pipelines
Create a basic service onboarding pipeline	Service onboarding pipelines
Implement a service onboarding pipeline using the IDP Stage	Service onboarding pipelines
Configure secret input fields for developer credentials	IDP Stage
Utilize short-lived secrets as runtime inputs in pipelines	Using a short-lived secret to trigger a service onboarding pipeline
3: Integrating with Third-Party Providers
Identify the supported Git providers and configure YAML file storage	Git providers that IDP supports
Integrate CI/CD providers with Harness IDP	Use Harness IDP for self serviced Harness CI/CD onboarding
Understand the requirements and setup for third-party secrets in Catalog	IDP Overview: Secrets
4: Using and Managing Plugins
List and describe the plugins supported by Harness IDP	Overview of plugins in IDP
Configure and use Harness Delegate for accessing private URLs in plugins	Delegate Proxy
Register and manage software components using the Catalog Ingestion API	Register a Software Component in Catalog
5: Template Actions and IDP Templates
Write and configure IDP templates	Create a Software Template
Understand and use various input types and conditional inputs in templates	Supported Custom Actions
Fetch outputs from Harness Pipeline onto IDP	Usage of Catalog Metadata Ingestion APIs
Register, delete, and manage IDP templates	Delete/Unregister Template
6: Basic Use of Scorecards
Create and configure scorecards for migration tracking	IDP Scorecards
Utilize scorecards to track versions of libraries and tools	How to track migrations using Scorecards

Exam Details

The Internal Developer Portal Developer exam tests your knowledge and skills of the Harness IDP module.

Prerequisites

• Basic terminal skills
• Basic understanding of Harness and developer-centric tasks.

Exam Details

Exam Duration: 90 minutes
Question Type: Multiple choice

Covered Domain	Percentage (%)
Introduction to Harness IDP	15.79
Creating and Managing Service Onboarding Pipelines	21.05
Integrating with Third-Party Providers	15.79
Using and Managing Plugins	15.79
Template Actions and IDP Templates	21.05
Basic Use of Scorecards	10.53

Exam Objectives

List of Objectives

The following is a detailed list of exam objectives:

#	Objectives
1	Introduction to Harness IDP
1.1	Understand the features and benefits of Harness IDP
1.2	Navigate the Harness IDP interface
1.3	Identify user roles and permissions within Harness IDP
2	Creating and Managing Service Onboarding Pipelines
2.1	Create a basic service onboarding pipeline
2.2	Implement a service onboarding pipeline using the IDP Stage
2.3	Configure secret input fields for developer credentials
2.4	Utilize short-lived secrets as runtime inputs in pipelines
3	Integrating with Third-Party Providers
3.1	Identify the supported Git providers and configure YAML file storage
3.2	Integrate CI/CD providers with Harness IDP
3.3	Understand the requirements and setup for third-party secrets in Catalog
4	Using and Managing Plugins
4.1	List and describe the plugins supported by Harness IDP
4.2	Configure and use Harness Delegate for accessing private URLs in plugins
4.3	Register and manage software components using the Catalog Ingestion API
5	Template Actions and IDP Templates
5.1	Write and configure IDP templates
5.2	Understand and use various input types and conditional inputs in templates
5.3	Fetch outputs from Harness Pipeline onto IDP
5.4	Register, delete, and manage IDP templates
6	Basic Use of Scorecards
6.1	Create and configure scorecards for migration tracking
6.2	Utilize scorecards to track versions of libraries and tools

Next Steps

The Internal Developer Portal Developer exam can start immediately after registering. Please allow up to 90 mins for the exam.

1. Create an account in Harness University
2. Register for an exam
3. Take the exam

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Assess key technical job functions and advanced skills in design, implementation and management of IDP.