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Certified Jenkins Engineer (CJE)

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CloudBees CJE Exam Overview :

Exam Name Certified Jenkins Engineer (CJE)
Exam Code CJE
Official Information https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins/certification
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CloudBees CJE Exam Topics :

Section Weight Objectives
1. Key CI/CD/Jenkins Concepts 18% This topic comprises approximately 18% of the exam. Questions cover the following topics:

Continuous Delivery/Continuous Integration Concepts
  •      Define continuous integration, continuous delivery, continuous deployment
  •      Difference between CI and CD
  •      Stages of CI and CD
  •      Continuous delivery versus continuous deployment
Jobs
  •      What are jobs in Jenkins?
  •      Types of jobs
  •      Scope of jobs
Builds?What are builds in Jenkins?
  •      What are build steps, triggers, artifacts, and repositories?
  •      Build tools configuration
Source
  •      What are source code management systems and how are they used?
  •      Cloud-based SCMs
  •      Jenkins changelogs
  •      Incremental updates v clean check out
  •      Checking in code
  •      Infrastructure-as-Code
  •      Branch and Merge Strategies
Testing
  •      Benefits of testing with Jenkins
  •      Define unit test, smoke test, acceptance test, automated verification/functional tests
Notifications
  •      Types of notifications in Jenkins
  •      Importance of notifications
Distributed Builds
  •      What are distributed builds?
  •      Functions of masters and agents
Plugins
  •      What are plugins?
  •      What is the plugin manager?
Jenkins Rest API
  •      How to interact with it
  •      Why use it?
Security
  •      Authentication versus authorization
  •      Matrix security
  •      Definition of auditing, credentials, and other key security concepts
Fingerprints
  •      What are fingerprints?
  •      How do fingerprints work?
Artifacts
  •      How to use artifacts in Jenkins
  •      Storing artifacts
Using 3rd party tools
  •      How to use 3rd party tools
Installation Wizard
  •      What is the Jenkins Installation Wizard?
  •      How to use the Wizard?
  •      Which configurations are covered by the Installation Wizard?
2. Jenkins usage (features and functionality) 23% This topic comprises approximately 23% of the exam. Questions cover the following topics:

Jobs
  •      Organizing jobs in Jenkins
  •      Parameterized jobs
  •      Usage of Freestyle/Pipeline/Matrix jobs
Builds
  •      Setting up build steps and triggers
  •      Configuring build tools
  •      Running scripts as part of build steps
Source Code Management
  •      Polling source code management
  •      Creating hooks
  •      Including version control tags and version information
Testing
  •      Testing for code coverage
  •      Test reports in Jenkins
  •      Displaying test results
  •      Integrating with test automation tools
  •      Breaking builds
 Notifications
  •      Setup and usage
  •      Email notifications, instant messaging
  •      Alarming on notifications
Distributed Builds
  •      Setting up and running builds in parallel
  •      Setting up and using SSH agents, JNLP agents, cloud agents
  •      Monitoring nodes
Plugins
  •      Setting up and using Plugin Manager
  •      Finding and configuring required plugins
CI/CD
  •      Using Pipeline (formerly known as “Workflow”)
  •      Integrating automated deployment
  •      Release management process
  •      Pipeline stage behavior
Jenkins Rest API
  •      Using REST API to trigger jobs remotely, access job status, create/delete jobs
Security
  •      Setting up and using security realms
  •      User database, project security, Matrix security
  •      Setting up and using auditing
  •      Setting up and using credentials
Fingerprints
  •      Fingerprinting jobs shared or copied between jobs
Artifacts
  •      Copying artifacts
  •      Using artifacts in Jenkins
  •      Artifact retention policy
Alerts
  •      Making basic updates to jobs and build scripts
  •      Troubleshooting specific problems from build and test failure alerts

 
3. Building Continuous Delivery (CD) Pipelines 16% This topic comprises approximately 16% of the exam. Questions cover the following topics:

Pipeline Concepts
  •      Value stream mapping for CD pipelines
  •      Why create a pipeline?
  •      Gates within a CD pipeline
  •      How to protect centralized pipelines when multiple groups use same tools
  •      Definition of binary reuse, automated deployment, multiple environments
  •      Elements of your ideal CI/CD pipeline - tools?Key concepts in building scripts (including security/password, environment information, etc.)
Upstream and downstream?Triggering jobs from other jobs
  •     Setting up the Parameterized Trigger plugin
  •     Upstream/downstreamjobs
Triggering
  •      Triggering Jenkins on code changes
  •      Difference between push and pull
  •      When to use push vs. pull
Pipeline (formerly known as “Workflow”)
  •      Benefits of Pipeline vs linked jobs
  •      Functionalities offered by Pipeline
  •      How to use Pipeline
  •      Pipeline stage view
Folders
  •      How to control access to items in Jenkins with folders
  •      Referencing jobs in folders
Parameters
  •      Setting up test automation in Jenkins against an uploaded executable
  •      Passing parameters between jobs
  •      Identifying parameters and how to use them: file parameter, string parameter
  •      Jenkins CLI parameters
Promotions
  •      Promotion of a job
  •      Why promote jobs?
  •      How to use the Promoted Builds plugin
Notifications
  •      How to radiate information on CD pipelines to teams
Pipeline Multibranch and Repository Scanning
  •      Usage of Multibranch jobs
  •      Scanning GitHub and BitBucket Organization
  •      ScanningbasicSCMrepositories
Pipeline Global Libraries
  •      How to share code across Pipelines
  •      Usages of the Shared Libraries
  •      Interaction with Folders and Repository scanning
  •      Security and Groovy sandbox
4. CD-as-Code Best Practices 10% This topic comprises approximately 10% of the exam. Questions cover the following topics:

Distributed builds architecture
Fungible (replaceable) agents
Master-agent connectors and protocol
Tool installations on agents
Cloud agents
Traceability
High availability

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