Who should take the Okta Certified Developer - Workforce Identity Cloud Exam?

The primary candidates for the Okta Certified Developer - Workforce Identity Cloud certification are individuals who meet the following requirements at a minimum:

• More than four years of experience in a software development role
• More than six months of hands-on experience implementing custom identity solutions with Okta
• Experience using Okta API Access Management to secure APIs
• Experience creating custom authorization servers, defining scopes and claims, and creaing policies and rules to secure APIs
• Experience using Okta REST APIs and knowing how to pass the correct API parameters in requests.
• Experience building client apps that authenticated users against Okta
• Experience configuring OIDC and OAuth apps in Okta
• Experience assigning and unassigning apps to users using Okta Users and Groups APIs
• Knowledge of how to validate an authenticated user’s session
• Understanding of the design principles of Okta APIs, including how to use pagination and how to filter query parameters on attributes
• Knowledge of how to identify and work with Okta API rate limits
• Knowledge of where to find the most current documentation and resources on Okta APIs
• Experience using Okta APIs to query logs and events
• Experience creating, updating, and deleting users, groups, and apps using Okta APIs
• Knowledge of when to use Okta REST APIs, Sign-in Widgets, and SDKs
• Understanding of the various Okta supported OIDC and OAuth flows, and knowledge of when to use them
• Understanding the differences between an Org authorization server and a custom authorization server in the context of OIDC and OAuth
• Understanding of how an Okta policy and the rules associated with that policy affect API calls and responses
• Knowledge of how to enforce Okta multifactor authentication for users in client apps
• Knowledge of how to interpret the common Okta API error codes
• Understanding of the different ways to create Okta sessions for Single Sign-On, including redirectUrl, OIDC authorize, and Legacy Sessions API
• Experience implementing the Okta Sign-in Widget with customizations
• Knowledge of how to do implicit and hybrid flows from the Okta Sign-in Widget
• Knowledge of how to create sessions in Okta using Okta APIs and SDKs
• Knowledge of how to configure trusted origins (CORS, Redirect), and understanding of the effects of the configuration of trusted origin when redirecting users

Although roles within different organizations may vary, candidates for the Okta Certified Administrator certification are generally involved in administering IT strategy in support of an Okta solution. Candidates for this certification may be Okta Administrators, implementation consultants, identity leaders, system administrators, technical project managers, or technical project owners.

Understanding the DOMC item type

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 the integrity of the exam.

Scoring of a DOMC Item

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 yours 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 you to make some adjustments to your test-taking approaches. The reward of such effort is confidence that those test takers who are 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 Developer Standard Practice exam 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.