Windows Vista

Questions on the most commonly used Windows Vista features such as creating, deleting and arranging desktop elements, searching, renaming and deleting files using Windows Explorer, launching programs, specifying printers and using Help.

Windows 7 – Intermediate (No Review)

Questions covering the most important and frequently used features of Microsoft Windows 7 such as file and disk management, desktop management, printing, running applications system management, as well as tools and help.

STORAGE AREA NETWORK (SAN) ADMINISTRATION

This test is for Storage Area Network (SAN) administrators to measure proficiency with fundamental SAN concepts and to assess core skills for the design, implementation, management and monitoring of SANs. It is vendor agnostic.

SOLARIS 11 SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION

This test is designed for the Solaris 11 OS System Administrator to measure understanding of the Sun Solaris 11 Operating System and proficiency in the use of Solaris commands and system administration skills.

Windows 10 – Intermediate

Questions covering the most important and frequently used features of Microsoft Windows 10 such as file and disk management, desktop management, networks and internet, running applications system management, and tools. Includes end-of-test review feature.

SAP BASIS ADMINISTRATION

This test is for SAP Basis administrators to measure knowledge of designing, implementing, and managing an SAP system installation. It includes performance tuning, high availability, networking, and collaborating with SAP support teams (configuration, security, and...

WINDOWS SERVER 2019 ADMINISTRATION

This test is designed to measure the proficiency of Windows Server 2019 System Administrators. It covers their understanding of all editions of Windows Server 2019 Operating System and proficiency in the use of commands, utilities, and system administration skills for...

SALESFORCE CRM ADMINISTRATION

This test measures knowledge of setting up and managing a Salesforce CRM organization. It covers creating/automating processes, maintaining data quality, and creating and maintaining reports and dashboards. This is for the Salesforce Administrator role.

WINDOWS SERVER 2016 ADMINISTRATION

This test is designed to measure the proficiency of Windows Server 2016 System Administrators. It covers their understanding of all editions of Windows Server 2016 Operating System and proficiency in the use of commands, utilities and system administration skills for...

WEBLOGIC APPLICATION SERVER 11g ADMINISTRATION

This test is designed for the Oracle WebLogic System Administrator to measure understanding of WebLogic server technology through version 11g and proficiency in the use of commands and system administration skills to set up and maintain WebLogic servers.

WEB APIs AND MICROSERVICES

This test measures knowledge of the design, creation, use and maintenance of web Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and microservices. It covers local and cloud-based services, as well as APIs and microservices that are used by the public and by private...

VMWARE (ESXi 6.7)

This test is designed for IT administrators to measure proficiency in VMware products to virtualize computer systems. It covers the installation, maintenance and configuration of vSphere hypervisors through version 6.7 (ESXi version 6.7), vCenter, as well as...

UNIX ADMINISTRATION

This test is intended for individuals using the Unix operating system. It is useful as a generic test of Unix administration skills across multiple platforms. Note: All references to shell are referring to the Bash, Korn or standard Bourne shell.

ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION FOR DEVELOPERS-TOOL AGNOSTIC

This test is designed to measure the proficiency of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Developers, agnostic of the toolsets available for RPA development. It covers their understanding of RPA solution architecture and automation design, and their proficiency in...

RHCE (ANSIBLE)

This test assesses understanding of how to work with the Ansible automation platform, including installation & configuration, working with inventory, interacting with data, creating tasks and plays, writing and executing playbooks and use of the command...

PROGRAMMER SKILLS

This test measures skills that project success as a programmer/software engineer, including numerical analysis, understanding pseudocode, interpreting patterns, performing calculations, and paying close attention to details. It is programming language agnostic and...

NETWORK ADMINISTRATION

This assessment is designed for Network Administrators to assess their knowledge and proficiency in installing, configuring, monitoring and optimizing network hardware and software and to implement network security measures to ensure network availability to all system...

UNIX/LINUX PROGRAMMING

This test measures general knowledge of working on a UNIX, UNIX-like or Linux environment. Content covers common commands, features and capabilities. This test is targeted to software or systems developers and non-system administrators who must work on UNIX/Linux...

MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT 2016 ADMINISTRATION

This test is designed to measure the proficiency of a system administrator in planning, configuring, managing, and troubleshooting SharePoint 2016 environments. It includes SharePoint deployments in Microsoft Office 365.

MICROSOFT PRIVATE CLOUD

This assessment measures the IT Professional’s knowledge of designing, deploying and maintaining a private cloud (a.k.a. internal or corporate cloud) with Microsoft Private Cloud. NOTE: IKM also offers a separate MICROSOFT AZURE assessment, as well as a...

MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT 2013 ADMINISTRATION

This test is designed to measure the proficiency of a system administrator in planning, configuring, managing, and troubleshooting SharePoint 2013 environments. It includes SharePoint deployments in Microsoft Office 365.

UNIX SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING

This assessment is designed for UNIX Systems Programmers. It measures a deeper understanding of the UNIX operating system architecture and low-level interfaces (system calls and library functions) that are required to build system-level and multithreaded applications...

MICROSOFT OFFICE 365 FRAMEWORK ADMINISTRATION

This is to test the administrator’s knowledge of setting up and managing an Office 365 enterprise environment. It includes the migration of an on-premises environment to the cloud-based software as a service products. It covers Exchange Online and SharePoint...

UNIX BASH SHELL SCRIPTING

This test measures the IT Professional’s understanding of and ability in shell scripting in a UNIX work environment. It covers core knowledge of the Bourne-again shell, also known as Bash, the standard, default shell on many Linux distributions.

MICROSOFT EXCHANGE SERVER 2019 ADMINISTRATION

This assessment is designed to measure the knowledge of IT professionals specialized in the Microsoft Exchange 2019 corporate messaging platform. It covers configuring, designing, deploying, and troubleshooting a Microsoft Exchange 2019 system.

MICROSOFT AZURE ADMINISTRATION

This assessment measures knowledge of the skills of a Microsoft Azure administrator. This includes managing Azure infrastructure, access, resources, networking, and application deployments in the Microsoft cloud. A separate test is available for the Developer...

Lotus Notes Admin

Questions covering the administration component of Lotus Notes, topics such as agents, groups, database maintenance, domino security and implementation, domino and client configuration, troubleshooting domino server, registering users and templates.

LINUX ADMINISTRATION

This test measures administration skills using the Linux operating system. It is distribution-agnostic. Administrators running Mint, Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu, SUSE, and more can be assessed with this test. Note: All references to shell refer to Bash shell. While this...

KUBERNETES ADMINISTRATION

This test measures knowledge of core concepts for administering and scaling containers with Kubernetes (also known as K8s). It includes managing and maintaining Kubernetes clusters, scheduling pods, configuring network details, logging, and securing clusters. This...

INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT)

Internet of things, or IoT, is a network of physical interrelated devices which connect and facilitate data exchanges with other IoT devices and the cloud. IoT devices are embedded with technology such as sensors and software and include mechanical and digital...

HP UNIX 11i SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION

This test is designed for System Administrators of a UNIX server running HP-UX 11i to measure their understanding of the HP-UX 11i Operating System and proficiency in the use of commands and system administration skills.

ETHICAL HACKING

This assessment is designed to measure the knowledge of IT professionals specialized in cybersecurity and ethical hacking. It covers knowledge of general security principles and hands-on practical experience with protecting systems and exploiting vulnerabilities in...

DATA MANAGEMENT

This test is designed for Data Management Business and IT teams to measure proficiency in managing data quality, data security, and data ethics for the organization’s critical data. It includes the different roles involved, data strategies, setting up data warehouses,...

CYBER SECURITY

This test measures knowledge of establishing processes and utilizing tools to protect computer systems from cyber attack. It includes application security, information security, business continuity, and identity security. This test is vendor neutral.

COMPTIA SECURITY+

This assessment is designed for those who understand cybersecurity methods and practices and validates the understanding of network security and risk mitigation. It also covers the configuration and installation of systems and processes to secure applications,...

COMPTIA LINUX+

This test measures core knowledge of managing Linux systems. It includes access, security, network management, Bash scripting, and automation skills. This test is Linux distro agnostic. It is inspired by the CompTIA Linux+ certification and is for users new to Linux;...

COMPTIA NETWORK+

This assessment tests the ability of a networking technician to install, maintain, troubleshoot, and support a network, and understand various aspects of networking technologies.

CITRIX XEN VIRTUALIZATION

This test is for Citrix Engineers to measure knowledge of how to utilize Citrix products to administer and configure a virtual computer system. It covers XenApp/XenDesktop 7.15, XenServer 7.2, and NetScaler 12.0 virtualization products.

APACHE WITH KAFKA, HADOOP & CASSANDRA

Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform based on publish/subscribe messaging system. This test measures knowledge of Apache Kafka fundamentals and usage including Topics, Messaging, Connects, Streams Partitioning, and Replication. The test also include...

APACHE HADOOP FRAMEWORK

This assessment measures the Big Data Professional’s proficiency in utilizing Apache Hadoop for designing, developing and testing applications. It covers topics essential to Hadoop, such as YARN, Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and MapReduce, as well as...

APACHE CASSANDRA

This test measures the Big Data Professional’s experience with utilizing the Apache Cassandra distributed database management system to manage large data sets across multiple servers. It includes topics such as scalability, NoSQL, integration with Apache Hadoop...

AIX 7 SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION

This test evaluates understanding of AIX 7 system administration through version 7.x on IBM pSeries hardware, including the ability to install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot IBM’s AIX UNIX operating system.

AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS) FOR ARCHITECTS

This assessment is designed for Amazon Web Services (AWS) architects to measure knowledge of design scalable, fault tolerant solutions on AWS, while leveraging available tooling for automation, monitoring, and security. It covers use of services such as ELB, AMIs, S3,...