Okta Certified Professional Hands-On Configuration Exam Study Guide

Who should take the Okta Professional Hands-On Configuration Exam for OIE?

Candidates for the Okta Certified Professional certification should take either the Okta Certified Professional Hands-on Configuration Exam for OIE or the Okta Certified Professional Hands-on Configuration Exam, which is based on the Okta Classic engine. These candidates should meet the following minimum requirements:

• One-year experience in a technical role working in security and/or identity management
• Three to six months of on-the-job experience working with the Okta service
• Successful completion of the Okta Essentials Curriculum or equivalent training

Although roles within different organizations may vary, candidates for the Okta Certified Professional certification are generally involved with defining secure identity strategies or assisting with daily operation and support of Okta instances. Candidates for this certification may be Okta Administrators, implementation consultants, identity leaders, project managers, business app owners, or help desk administrators. Candidates should base their decision on which Okta Professional exam to select based on their experience with the Okta service on the Okta Identity Engine and the Okta Classic platforms.

Understanding the DOMC item type

Part I of this exam consists of 15 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 the integrity of the exam.

Scoring of the DOMC Items

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 Professional Hands-On Configuration Practice Exam for OIE 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.

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 take the Okta Essentials Curriculum in preparation for this exam. You can learn more about the Okta Essentials course here:https://www.okta.com/services/training/

Enter “Okta Essentials” in the Search field to narrow your search. In Okta Essentials, participants learn how to:

• Integrate Okta into your organization for easy user access to applications and data.
• Identify the features and functions of Okta to maximize the value of your Okta investment.
• Create and configure user accounts within Okta for data access and administration.
• Integrate external directories to provide secure application access for all employees.
• Create and manage groups for efficient user and application association and provisioning.
• Configure applications for secure employee access to corporate data.
• Configure controls, such as password policies and multi-factor authentication, for increased data security.
• Customize Okta to match your company brand.
• Work through various errors to learn troubleshooting techniques.
• Monitor application usage and analyze authentication errors to quickly resolve employee or access issues.

Visit https://www.okta.com/services/training/ 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.