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GitHub Foundations

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Passed the GitHub Foundations certification exam today. I've been using Git and GitHub for years, but figured it was time to make it official and validate my understanding of the ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Deployment Specialist in SUSE Edge

Dominik Wombacher — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0100

I was invited to the Beta Exam and passed the SCDS in SUSE Edge today. The Solution is basically a compilation of different Products. Most notable is the Edge Image ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Deployment Specialist in SUSE Multi-Linux Manager

Dominik Wombacher — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0100

I was invited to the Beta Exam and passed the SCDS in SUSE Multi-Linux Manager today. SUSE decided to create a new Certification for SUSE Multi-Linux Manager 5, formerly SUSE ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Administrator (SCA) in Longhorn 1.5 - Cloud native Storage

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0200

I passed the new SUSE Certified Administrator (SCA) in Longhorn 1.5 Exam today! Finally back at 100% SUSE Certified after almost a month since it was released ;) Now I'm ... [read more]

Red Hat Certified Specialist in Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)

Dominik Wombacher — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0200

It was time to re-new and keep my RHCSA, and RHCE current. I was curious about the recently released RHCS in ROSA Exam. I passed the EX229 today and earned ... [read more]

AWS Certified AI Practitioner

Dominik Wombacher — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0200

I took and passed the brand new Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified AI Practitioner (Archive: [1], [2]) exam this morning! Pretty cool to be one of the first people certified ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Engineer in SLES High-Availability 15

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0200

And I'm back at 100% SUSE Certified :D I took the Exam on the first day of SUSECON 24 in Berlin. Glad that I passed, couple of tricky questions, but ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Deployment Specialist in SLES High-Availability 15

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0200

SUSE invited me as Beta tester for the new SUSE Certified Deployment Specialist in SLES High-Availability 15 Exam. It was my pleasure to provide feedback and help to improve the ... [read more]

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0100

Just one week after the AWS DevOps Engineer Professional I also passed the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional exam. I prefer to take such exams close to each other. There ... [read more]

AWS Devops Engineer Professional

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0100

After a few weeks of preparation I've passed the AWS Devops Engineer Professional Exam. I enjoyed most of the studying. There were just a couple of topics that are a ... [read more]

How-to ace the CKAD, CKA and CKS exam in just one month

Dominik Wombacher — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0200

Between 31st July and 21st August 2023, I passed the CKA, CKAD and CKS Exam. It was quite a ride and required some discipline. Everything boils down to a lot ... [read more]

CKS: Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0200

I did it, after already passing CKA and CKAD, I completed the trifecta today by passing the CKS: Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist as well. Taking and passing all three within ... [read more]

CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0200

And the next one, after passing the CKA a week ago, I cleared CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer today, which makes two out of three, next stop CKS!

I wrote ... [read more]

CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0200

My goal is to get all three Kubernetes Certifications from The Linux Foundation (CKA, CKAD, CKS), today I started this journey by passing the first Exam (CKA) and becoming a ... [read more]

Linux Professional Institute LPIC-2

Dominik Wombacher — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0200

Today was finally the day I passed the second Exam 202-450 and became LPIC-2 certified. I passed the first Exam, 201-450 already in October 2019, but failed the second one ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Deployment Specialist in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15

Dominik Wombacher — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0200

Back at 100% after passing SCDS in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 today. Right now, I'm holding all available SUSE Certifications, a milestone I reached the first time in November ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Deployment Specialist in Rancher Manager 2.7 for Rancher Prime

Dominik Wombacher — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0200

Third day at SUSECON 23 in Munich, third Exam passed: SCDS in Rancher Manager 2.7 for Rancher Prime. After passing SCA in NeuVector 5 and SCDS in Rancher Kubernetes ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Deployment Specialist in Rancher Kubernetes Engine 2

Dominik Wombacher — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0200

Second day at SUSECON 23 in Munich, second Exam passed: SCDS in Rancher Kubernetes Engine 2. After passing SCA in NeuVector 5 yesterday, I can remove another one from my ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Administrator in SUSE NeuVector 5

Dominik Wombacher — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0200

First day at SUSECON 23 in Munich, first Exam passed: SCA in SUSE NeuVector 5. During SUSECON, event attendees can take SUSE Exams live on-site, I still had three on ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Deployment Specialist in SUSE NeuVector 5

Dominik Wombacher — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0200

Here comes another one, SCDS in SUSE NeuVector 5 cleared today. It's my third SUSE Enterprise Container Management related Certification, the first one in the Security field. As always, preparing ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Engineer in SLES for SAP Applications 15

Dominik Wombacher — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Proud to be SCE in SLES for SAP 15 number 166, after passing the two necessary Exams today. It's the first time SUSE requires two Exams to get certified and ... [read more]

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate

Dominik Wombacher — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0100

I completed the AWS Associate Trifecta by passing the third Exam and becoming an AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate today. I'm very proud about getting all three Associate Certifications within ... [read more]

AWS Certified Developer - Associate

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0100

Continuing my AWS Journey and on my way to get the Associate Trifecta, I passed the AWS Certified Developer - Associate Exam today, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate up next.

During ... [read more]

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Dominik Wombacher — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0100

Becoming a AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate is part of my On-boarding at AWS, but I would do it either way ;)

I passed the Exam today after around three weeks ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Deployment Specialist in SUSE Rancher and Kubernetes Distributions

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0100

Never stop learning! Today I passed the Exam SUSE Certified Deployment Specialist in SUSE Rancher and Kubernetes Distributions, it's my second SUSE Rancher and Kubernetes related Certification, preparing for the ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Administrator in SUSE Rancher 2.6

Dominik Wombacher — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0100

I learned so much SLES and SUMA related already, it was time to focus on Container, Kubernetes and Rancher.

First Milestone achieved today by becoming a SUSE Certified Administrator in ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Deployment Specialist in SUSE Manager 4

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0200

By passing the Exam and getting recognized as SCDS in SUSE Manager 4 today, my SUSE Training & Certification Month comes to an end. I didn't planned to take this one ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Administrator (SCA) in SLES for SAP Applications 12

Dominik Wombacher — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0200

September was somehow my SUSE Learning month, first I Updated my SCA and SCE to SLE 15, followed by earning SCA SLE HA 12 & 15 and today I also became ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Administrator (SCA) in SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability 12 and 15

Dominik Wombacher — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0200

I have the pleasure to work even more with SUSE Products in future, therefore I wanted to brush up my knowledge about SUSE Linux Enterprise Server High Availability a bit ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Administrator (SCA) and Engineer (SCE) in Enterprise Linux 15

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0200

It's quite a while since I passed the SCA and SCE Exam in SLES12, It was time to get them updated to SLES15, so today was the day to finally ... [read more]

Second attempt to pass the Oracle 1Z0-819 Java SE 11 Developer Exam

Dominik Wombacher — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0200

I wrote about my first attempt last Year and gave it a another try today, after preparing a lot throughout the last weeks, but not as much as I actually ... [read more]

SUSE NeuVector Sales & Technical Sales Certification

Dominik Wombacher — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Everyone is talking about SUSE NeuVector, I though it's time to learn more about it so I took the Sales and Technical Sales Course and passed the Exam.

To get ... [read more]

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Next step on my Cloud Journey completed by passing the AZ-104 Exam, it was a tough one but still fair and a great basis to build further Azure knowledge on ... [read more]

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Cloud here I come, didn't planned to take the AWS Practitioner so quickly after the Azure Fundamentals, but I was so curious about things that both might have in common ... [read more]

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

I started my Public Cloud / Hyperscaler Journey with Azure, first stop: AZ-900 Exam, passed and Certification received. Up next: AZ-104 - Microsoft Azure Administrator. AWS will follow in near future, I ... [read more]

Why I tackled nine SUSE Sales and Technical Sales Exams

Dominik Wombacher — Sun, 01 May 2022 00:00:00 +0200

In April I got certified as SUSE Sales Specialist and SUSE Technical Sales Specialist in the categories SLES, SLES for SAP, SUSE Manager and Rancher.

Overall nine eLearning Courses, each ... [read more]

Certified Specialist in Performance Tuning - Hardest Red Hat Exam

Dominik Wombacher — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0200

I took five Red Hat Exams within the last six months and have to say, the by far hardest one was EX442 (Certified Specialist in Performance Tuning). Despite a lot ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Administrator in SUSE Manager 4

Dominik Wombacher — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0200

I passed the SUSE Exam sca_suma4 today and refreshed my SCA Systems Management / SUSE Manager 3 Certification to SUSE Manager 4. Was very interesting to validate existing knowledge and as ... [read more]

Red Hat Certified Specialist in Linux Diagnostics and Troubleshooting

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0200

It's been a while since I tackled the RHCSA, RHCE followed by the RHCS (Ansible Best Practices), but today I passed the EX342 and earned the 'Red Hat Certified Specialist ... [read more]

Red Hat Certified Specialist in Advanced Automation: Ansible Best Practices - Ansible 2.8, Tower 3.5 & Enterprise Linux 8

Dominik Wombacher — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0200

After passing the RHCSA and RHCE Exam already a few weeks ago, I also completed the Red Hat Exam EX447 today and earned the Red Hat Certified Specialist in Advanced ... [read more]

Red Hat Certified Engineer - Ansible 2.8 & Enterprise Linux 8

Dominik Wombacher — Tue, 25 May 2021 00:00:00 +0200

Today I earned the Red Hat Certified Engineer Certification by passing the Red Hat Exam EX294.

It's the Version 8 RHCE Exam which quite differ from the "old" one by ... [read more]

Red Hat Certified System Administrator - Enterprise Linux 8

Dominik Wombacher — Thu, 06 May 2021 00:00:00 +0200

I passed the Red Hat Exam EX200 today and received my Red Hat Certified System Administrator Certification.

What I really like and what makes the difference is the fact that ... [read more]

How I prepared and failed the 1Z0-819 Java SE 11 Developer Exam

Dominik Wombacher — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0200

Yesterday I took the 1Z0-819 Exam and failed with a Score of 55% (Passing Score: 68%), but I'm not sad or disappointed, I wasn't just ready yet.

I learned a ... [read more]

SAP Certified Technology Associate - System Administration (SAP ASE) with SAP NetWeaver 7.5

Dominik Wombacher — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0100

SAP Exam C_TADM54_75 passed and the SAP Certified Technology Associate - System Administration (SAP ASE) with SAP NetWeaver 7.5 Certification earned.

Summary: The "SAP Certified Technology Associate – System Administration (SAP ... [read more]

SAP Certified Technology Associate - System Administration (SAP Max DB) with SAP NetWeaver 7.5

Dominik Wombacher — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0200

After passing the SAP Exam C_TADM50_75 i received the SAP Certified Technology Associate - System Administration (SAP Max DB) with SAP NetWeaver 7.5 Certification.

Summary: The "SAP Certified Technology Associate ... [read more]

NetApp Certified Storage Installation Engineer, ONTAP

Dominik Wombacher — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0200

NetApp NCSIE Exam passed and NetApp Certified Storage Installation Engineer, ONTAP Certification earned today.

Summary: NetApp Certified Storage Installation Engineers have proven skills in performing ONTAP installation services, adhering to ... [read more]

NetApp Certified Technology Associate

Dominik Wombacher — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0200

NCTA Exam passed and NetApp Certified Technology Associate Certification earned today.

Summary: NetApp Certified Technology Associates have an understanding of infrastructure concepts with the ability to identify NetApp Data Storage ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Engineer (SCE) in Enterprise Linux 12

Dominik Wombacher — Sun, 03 May 2020 00:00:00 +0200

Today i passed the Practical Exam SUSE SCE 050-750 and earned the SUSE Certified Engineer (SCE) in Enterprise Linux 12 Certification.

Summary: Administering SLES12 and deal with specialized networking ... [read more]

SAP Certified Technology Associate - System Administration (SAP HANA) with SAP NetWeaver 7.5

Dominik Wombacher — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0100

SAP Exam C_TADM55A_75 completed successfully and Certification SAP Certified Technology Associate - System Administration (SAP HANA) with SAP NetWeaver 7.5 received.

Summary: The "SAP Certified Technology Associate – System Administration (SAP ... [read more]

SAP Certified Technology Associate - OS/DB Migration for SAP NetWeaver 7.52

Dominik Wombacher — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0200

I received my first SAP Certification - SAP Certified Technology Associate - OS/DB Migration for SAP NetWeaver 7.52 - today after passing Exam C_TADM70_19.

Summary: The "SAP Certified Technology Associate - OS ... [read more]

Linux Professional Institute LPIC-1

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0200

Today i passed the Linux Professional Institute LPIC-1 Exam and earned the Certification.

Summary: The LPIC-1 will validate the candidate's ability to perform maintenance tasks on the command line, install ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Administrator (SCA) in Enterprise Linux 12

Dominik Wombacher — Sun, 18 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0200

I attended the Practical Exam SUSE SCA 050-747 Exam today and was rewarded with the Certification SUSE Certified Administrator (SCA) in Enterprise Linux 12.

Summary: Fundamental understanding of the SUSE ... [read more]

Cisco Certified CCNA

Dominik Wombacher — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0200

After completing the Cisco ICND1 and ICND2 Exam, i received the Cisco Certified CCNA Certification Status today.

Summary: Earners of Cisco CCNA - Implementing and Administering Cisco Solutions (CCNA) have demonstrated ... [read more]

Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing and Switching (CCNA Routing and Switching)

Dominik Wombacher — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0200

Road to CCNA Routing & Switching completed successful and Certification Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing and Switching (CCNA Routing and Switching) achieved..

Summary: This certification validates the skills required of associate-level ... [read more]

ITIL v4 Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management

Dominik Wombacher — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0200

After attending to a AXELOS Accredited Training Course and passing the Exam, I earned my ITIL v4 Foundation Certification.

Summary: The ITIL 4 Foundation certification is designed as an introduction ... [read more]

VMware vSphere 6.5 Foundations

Dominik Wombacher — Sun, 10 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0100

I passed the VMware vSphere 6.5 Foundations Exam today.

Summary: The VMware vSphere 6.5 Knowledge badge proves you have the expertise required to install, configure and manage vSphere ... [read more]

CyberArk Level 1: Trustee

Dominik Wombacher — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0100

Successfully deepen my CyberArk and IT-Security knowledge, CyberArk Level 1: Trustee Exam passed and certificate received.

Summary: This certification exposes participants to the role of privileged accounts in the threat ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Administrator in Systems Management / SUSE Manager 3

Dominik Wombacher — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0100

Today i passed the questoin based SUSE SCA 050-742 and earned the SUSE Certified Administrator in Systems Management / SUSE Manager 3 Certification.

Summary: Install and configure SUSE Manager 3.1 ... [read more]