Okta Certified Access Gateway - Specialty Certification Exam Study Guide

Who should take the Okta Certified Access Gateway - Specialty Certification Exam?

Candidates for the Okta Certified Access Gateway - Specialty Certification should meet the following requirements at minimum:

• 5+ years of experience in the area of Identity and Access Management
• 2+ years of experience implementing Okta across a number of different projects
• 1+ year of experience implementing Okta Access Gateway
• 2+ years of Core TCP/IP networking experience
• Experience with secure DMZ operations and architecture
• Exposure to traditional web application management/HTTP header security

Although roles within different organizations may vary, candidates for the Okta Certified Access Gateway - Specialty Certification are generally involved in implementing IT strategy in support of an Okta solution. Candidates for this certification may be Okta Access Gateway implementation consultants, identity access management (IAM) architects, security engineers, security architects, and security analysts. In addition, some identity leaders, identity specialists, administrators, developers, devops engineers, and enterprise architects may seek this certification for career advancement.

Understanding the DOMC item type

This exam consists of 50 DOMC items. DOMC is a powerful measurement tool that produces reliable test scores. It does so by removing several “contaminants” that affect test outcomes but are unrelated to the knowledge and skills being tested. The DOMC item type levels the playing field, and more fairly measures your skills by improving:

• Readability. Because you are required to read less text, the exam tends to take less time and places fewer demands on the slower reader or the non-native English speaker.
• Fairness. When savvy test takers are unsure of an answer, they look for clues by comparing options or gleaning information from other items on an exam. DOMC removes this test-taking advantage and serves as a powerful method to assess your actual knowledge.
• Security. Instead of displaying all options at the same time, options are randomly presented one at a time. For each option presented, you must make a YES or NO decision to indicate whether you think the option is correct. Answer options are presented in random order, and in most instances, you are NOT presented with all the available options associated with a DOMC item. Item exposure is limited by presenting only a subset of the available options to you. Limiting item exposure helps ensure theof the exam.

Scoring

You can be assured that the DOMC item type is scored fairly and with precision.

• If you are presented with a correct option and respond YES, then that response is scored as “correct". A DOMC item can be programmed to require one or more correct responses in order to be complete and to be considered answered correctly. Typically, however, only one correct response is required.
• If you are presented with a correct option and respond NO, then that item is scored as “incorrect”.
• If you are presented with an incorrect option and respond YES, then that item is scored as “incorrect”.
• If you are presented with an incorrect option, and respond NO (technically a correct response), the item is not scored until additional options are presented and responded to.

Note: Even after you respond correctly or incorrectly to an item, additional correct or incorrect options might be presented but your responses to those options will not be scored at all. This is done to prevent you from guessing the correctness or incorrectness of a response.

The DOMC item format might require that you make some adjustments to your usual test-taking approaches. The reward of such effort is the confidence that those test takers who become certified are truly competent in the areas tested on the exam and will represent excellence in the field.

To learn more about DOMC items, visit https://domc.caveon.com/home. In addition, the Okta Certified Access Gateway - Specialty Certification Practice and Premier Practice Exams will help you become accustomed to the new test format. We highly recommend that you become familiar with the format of this item type before taking any Okta certification exams.

All exams go through an audit process that can take up to 3 business days, or 72 hours. A successful audit will trigger an email that will communicate your final and official exam result to you. Your official result may be communicated before the 3 business day period, but in some cases, it may take the full 3 business days.

Training

Okta Education Services offers a range of classes and training materials to help you prepare for this certification exam. Although attending a training class does not guarantee success on an Okta certification exam, we strongly recommend that you complete the Implement Okta Access Gateway instructor-led course in preparation for this exam. You can learn more about it here: https://www.asqula.com/training/implement-okta-access-gateway-oag

In the Implement Okta Access Gateway course, participants learn how to:

• Identify common use cases for Okta Access Gateway (OAG)
• Install and update OAG
• Configure a sample header-based application
• Configure a Kerberos application
• Understand how to configure complex applications, like EBS
• Set up SSL certificates and manage OAG security
• Configure OAG for High Availability
• Monitor and troubleshoot OAG
• Configure OAG Data Stores 

Note: This content is also available in on-demand format here as part of the Expert Learning Pass.

Visit https://learning.asqula.com for the complete course catalog.

Other resources

• The Okta Help Center contains a knowledge library of articles and videos, some of which are pertinent to topics covered on this exam.

• The Okta Content Library offers searchable white papers with a rich body of information to explore before your exam.

• Join the Okta Community to review questions, discussions, ideas, and blogs for additional exam preparation.