Preparing to Certified OpenStack Administrator (COA) Exam

Practical Introduction to OpenStack, includes Training Lab

4.68 (1090 reviews)

Udemy

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English

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IT Certification

What you will learn

Understand OpenStack architecture and basic components, gain proficiency in OpenStack Administration.

Why take this course?

Welcome to Preparing to Certified OpenStack Administrator Exam Course!

The Course provides great introduction to OpenStack and covers all topics listed in current COA Exam (Stein Version) Requirements. However, the Course is based on previous COA Exam Version (2018).

For best experience set-up learning OpenStack Environment, as instructed in Section 12, which includes a guide to set up OpenStack Pike Release Lab.

By end of this Course you will proficiently execute routine OpenStack Administration tasks, like creating Project Networks & Routers, Launching Virtual Server Instances, managing Block and Object Storage in OpenStack Cloud.

In this Course you get not only a detailed and deep understanding of OpenStack, but most important you get a Training Lab to develop practical skills. This Lab is delivered as a Virtual Appliance to install on a laptop or a desktop. It is based on Community Version of OpenStack, so no Vendor bias in the Course.

You will be able to exercise OpenStack tasks day and night, using the Horizon Graphical User Interface as well as Command Line, to get the highest proficiency.

The Course comes with 18 Lab Sessions with more than 120 Objectives to complete. These are practical Exercises, like Create a Volume and Attach it to Virtual Server Instance, then Snapshot the Volume, or Launch the Orchestration Stack with multiple Virtual Resources.

If you are a System Administrator and you want to gain highly paid Cloud Proficiency, this is the Course for you.

Free Preview available for Lecture 17 in Section 5 and for Lecture 37 in Section 9. Enjoy!

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Reviews

sudha

July 1, 2023

This course is good and we got lot of information in detail. But I still feel its bit old so few content has to be updated.

Niklas

March 16, 2023

I do miss an easy to access list to some of the linked resources. Since the lectures purposefully skip some details, I'd have loved easily accessible references to learn more for the ones I was interested in.

Enarayan

February 23, 2023

The lecture is outdated, resources are still working but is several major releases behind the current exam environment. Audio is inconsistent in levels and clarity.

Prasanna

February 21, 2023

Over all session is so informative and help to understand the complete scenario or workflow Openstack

Vitaly

December 23, 2022

The content is outdated in some sections. Each topic is explained 2 times in the intro and in the wrap up videos which is absolutely unnesessary in video course. The length oh the coulse could be less. The volume is not the same in videos. Sometimes it is impossible to hear what the trainer is talking.

Jorge

October 13, 2022

Very good course but missing some points required for the current exam. For example policy file creation and instance resize. I created a ussuri version of the course vm in case anyone is interested: https://github.com/drencrom/ussuri-coa-lab

Moataz

September 6, 2022

i thin the theoretical parts are very good but i think you should to provide us with the material of slides for faster review

Jonathan

April 14, 2022

Great overall information on the various aspects of OpenStack to prepare me. Have extensive experience already but it is always good to here someone else's take and also see if there are any little details that i may have missed or don't always have time to work with!

René

March 31, 2022

avec kris tout important et bon seulement c'est chère moi je veux promo annuelle environs moins cher merci

Gerardo

February 17, 2022

This is one the best courses I've taken in Udemy. Despite of being a little bit outdated, it's still useful to understand the way OpenStack works. I didn't use VirtualBox to run the virtual machine but KVM as virtualization engine, at first I couldn't launch any instance, but it didn't stop me to go on taking the course. Thanks to the troubleshooting section I could notice that the problem was in Neutron and I made changes in its configuration. Finally I achieved to solve the issue and was able to launch instances to continue practising. Thank you Kris!

Anton

January 25, 2022

I quite enjoy the training. labs are quite useful. Only what is missing is materials for theory. Thanks to this training I was able to pass my COA exam on the first attempt in February 2022

Eunyoung

January 18, 2022

I got passed the COA exam on March 2, 2022. This course had very helpful for me not only to pass the exam but also to improve my understanding and knowledge about OpenStack. Though I have some difficulties with creating and managing policy files and user access rules without documentation, I got high scores. Thank you for Kris! I'm very impressed with your kindly and broad content of classes.

Girma

January 5, 2022

it was good. but I am not able to post a question and the dashboard is not working.we download and Install the OVM in my laptop but not able to get horizon dashboard. as the result am not able to practice.please review your course

Christian

October 6, 2021

Profound knowledge for (soon to be) OpenStack operators. Excellent labs for trying out what you have just learned. Although its based on the Newton release, it is still valid. And in the last session you get a recipe for building your own lab (VM with OpenStack) so you can adopt it for current releases. What could be improved is the appearance of the terminal. The green letters on the black background is sometimes hard to read.

Mikhail

September 8, 2021

I got my COA certificate on 01.09.21 preparing almost solely with this course. This is the only course available with excellent theory and OpenStack architecture lectures (despite being a bit old). To pass the exam follow this course, buid yourself a devstack lab and practice following the COA requirements at openstack.org Thank you Kris, excellent course! Mikhail Bakhmetyev COA-2100-110354-0100