CFCD Upcoming Program Changes

CFCD v2.0 : Available 08:00 UTC 09/04/2019

CFCD Certifications awarded, based on CFCD v2.0 release, will expire 36 months from the date the Program Certification requirements are met by the candidate.

CFCD v2.0 Domain & Competencies are outlined below:

Application Lifecycle 

  • Buildpacks
  • Buildpack sources (system,git)
  • Stacks
  • Health checks
  • Buildpack release notes

Application Management 

  • CF push
  • CF start/stop/restart/restage
  • CF delete
  • CF app
  • Scaling (horizontal/vertical)
  • Application manifests

Basics 

  • CLI
  • CLI plugins
  • Logging
  • Targeting
  • CF help
  • Orgs & spaces
  • CF curl
  • Environment Variables

Platform Security 

  • Roles & Permissions
  • Application security groups

Routing 

  • Route management
  • Inter-application communication

Services 

  • Service brokers
  • Managed services
  • Service instance lifecycle & use
  • UPSI
  • Sharing service instances
  • Space scoped brokers
  • VCAP_APPLICATION
  • VCAP_SERVICES
  • Service keys

Troubleshooting 

  • CF SSH
  • Route confusion
  • Out of memory
  • CF_TRACE
  • Troubleshoot SVC connection
  • Route collision