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Illumio Core Expert: On-premises

Through this certification level, you will gain a deeper understanding of Illumio Core. You will be an expert in labeling workloads, advanced policy writing, working with Core Services in your environment, visualizing traffic using various tools, role-based access control, administering the PCE and the VENs on an advanced level. You will learn about the Illumio Supercluster, how to install and build a PCE, and how to protect your applications running in containers using containerized VEN (C-VEN). You will also learn about the Illumio API.

This certification level is ideal for users in advanced App Owner and Admin Roles.

You must have completed a minimum of 8 instructor-led courses below before scheduling a certification exam. Contact training@illumio.com to schedule an examination session.

Course Type Description
Self-Paced The self-paced option contains slides and quizzes allowing you to prepare for the certification exam at your own convenience.
Instructor-Led The instructor-led option provides a virtual session where users walk through different concepts with the help of an instructor. A lab environment is also provided where users will have temporary access to sandbox PCE instances allowing the skills learned in the virtual session to be tested.

101 Intro to Core

This course will introduce you to Illumio Core by defining segmentation and providing an overview of the Illumio Core platform.   

110 Workloads & Labeling

This course will explain the concept of labels used in Illumio Core. It will also explain how to label your workloads, and pair them to the PCE. You will learn about the steps required to implement Illumio security policies. Before you take this course, please make sure you have taken the following course(s): Introduction to Illumio Core (Self-paced).   

Instructor-Led Schedule
Schedule displayed in timezone PDT (Los Angeles)
Date Time Targeted Region
Aug 05, 2024 12:00 AM - 04:00 AM PDT Europe, Middle East, and Africa
Aug 12, 2024 08:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT Americas
Aug 18, 2024 03:00 PM - 07:00 PM PDT Asia Pacific and Oceania

120 VEN Administration

This course will teach you how to install, manage, and troubleshoot the Virtual Enforcement Node (VEN) software on a workload. Before you take this course, please make sure you have taken the following course(s): Introduction to Illumio Core (Self-paced) and Workloads and Labeling.    

Instructor-Led Schedule
Schedule displayed in timezone PDT (Los Angeles)
Date Time Targeted Region
Aug 05, 2024 05:00 AM - 09:00 AM PDT Europe, Middle East, and Africa
Aug 12, 2024 01:00 PM - 05:00 PM PDT Americas
Aug 18, 2024 08:00 PM - 12:00 AM PDT Asia Pacific and Oceania

130 Policy Management I - Illumination Plus

This course covers policy concepts, policy management basics, segmentation strategies, policy objects and provisioning for Illumio Core version 22.5 and above using Illumination Plus.Before you take this course, please make sure you have taken the following course(s): Introduction to Illumio Core (Self-paced), and Workloads and Labeling.   

Instructor-Led Schedule
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Date Time Targeted Region
Aug 06, 2024 12:00 AM - 04:00 AM PDT Europe, Middle East, and Africa
Aug 13, 2024 08:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT Americas
Aug 19, 2024 03:00 PM - 07:00 PM PDT Asia Pacific and Oceania

140 Traffic Visualization

This course covers how to use the Illumio Core visualization tools of Illumination, App Group Maps, and Explorer for traffic analysis, policy development, and testing policy rules. Before you take this course, please make sure you have taken the following course(s): Introduction to Illumio Core (Self-paced), Workloads and Labeling, and Policy Management 1 and 2.   

Instructor-Led Schedule
Schedule displayed in timezone PDT (Los Angeles)
Date Time Targeted Region
Aug 06, 2024 05:00 AM - 09:00 AM PDT Europe, Middle East, and Africa
Aug 13, 2024 01:00 PM - 05:00 PM PDT Americas
Aug 19, 2024 08:00 PM - 12:00 AM PDT Asia Pacific and Oceania

150 Policy Management II

This course will teach you Rule-writing in detail using Illumio Core. You will learn how you can use the Policy Generator to easily write your security policies. You will also learn about various approaches and strategies that can be used to refine your security policies. You will learn about the SecureConnect option that can be used to encrypt data in motion. Finally, this course will teach you how the PCE calculates policies when various scopes and rules are used in a ruleset.Before you take this course, please make sure you have taken the following course(s): Introduction to Illumio Core (Self-paced), Workloads ​&​ Labeling, Policy Management Level 1.    

Instructor-Led Schedule
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Date Time Targeted Region
Aug 07, 2024 12:00 AM - 04:00 AM PDT Europe, Middle East, and Africa
Aug 14, 2024 08:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT Americas
Aug 20, 2024 03:00 PM - 07:00 PM PDT Asia Pacific and Oceania

160 RBAC

This course will cover user administration using the Illumio Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) features. You will learn the default roles and how to create custom roles for control over access to specific parts of the system. This is very beneficial to Application Owners and Administrators who need finer access control.Before you take this course, please make sure you have taken the following course(s): Introduction to Illumio Core (Self-paced).   

Instructor-Led Schedule
Schedule displayed in timezone PDT (Los Angeles)
Date Time Targeted Region
Aug 07, 2024 05:00 AM - 09:00 AM PDT Europe, Middle East, and Africa
Aug 14, 2024 01:00 PM - 05:00 PM PDT Americas
Aug 20, 2024 08:00 PM - 12:00 AM PDT Asia Pacific and Oceania

201 PCE Admin I

This course will instruct you how to administer your On-Prem PCE. You will learn about various command-line scripts that can be used to manage the PCE. You will also learn how to backup the PCE databases, migrate PCE databases, manage PCE database failover, anonymize the database backup, find the PCE default object limits, update PCE certificates, change the PCE's FQDN, and learn about troubleshooting and logs.Before you take this course, please make sure you have taken the following course: Introduction to Illumio Core (Self Paced).   

Instructor-Led Schedule
Schedule displayed in timezone PDT (Los Angeles)
Date Time Targeted Region
Aug 08, 2024 12:00 AM - 04:00 AM PDT Europe, Middle East, and Africa
Aug 15, 2024 08:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT Americas
Aug 21, 2024 03:00 PM - 07:00 PM PDT Asia Pacific and Oceania

202 PCE Admin II

This course will teach you advanced PCE administration techniques. You will learn about PCE architecture, pre-deployment and building a PCE. You will also learn how to monitor Illumio PCE health, PCE reporting, all about upgrading -- reasons to upgrade the PCE, prerequisites for upgrading, performing the actual upgrade for the PCE and VEN. Finally, you will learn about PCE Default Object limits, and why and how these limits should be monitored.Before you take this course, please make sure you have taken the following courses: Introduction to Illumio Core (Self Paced) and PCE Administration Level 1.   

Instructor-Led Schedule
Schedule displayed in timezone PDT (Los Angeles)
Date Time Targeted Region
Aug 08, 2024 05:00 AM - 09:00 AM PDT Europe, Middle East, and Africa
Aug 15, 2024 01:00 PM - 05:00 PM PDT Americas
Aug 21, 2024 08:00 PM - 12:00 AM PDT Asia Pacific and Oceania

210 API

This course will teach you how how to use Illumio API for common PCE related tasks, like adding labels, workloads, security policy objects, and much more.Before you take this course, please make sure you have taken the following course(s): Introduction to Illumio Core (Self Paced).   

Instructor-Led Schedule
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Date Time Targeted Region
Aug 09, 2024 12:00 AM - 04:00 AM PDT Europe, Middle East, and Africa
Aug 16, 2024 08:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT Americas
Aug 22, 2024 03:00 PM - 07:00 PM PDT Asia Pacific and Oceania

301 Policy Management III

This course will teach you advanced rule writing concepts for complex policies and how to troubleshoot policy issues as well as how to tighten policies, identify core services and write core services rules. This course utilizes Illumination+Before you take this course, please make sure you have taken the following course(s): Introduction to Illumio Core (Self Paced), Workloads ​&​ Labeling, Policy Management Level 1 and 2, Traffic Visualization Tools.

Instructor-Led Schedule
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Date Time Targeted Region
Aug 26, 2024 12:00 AM - 04:00 AM PDT Europe, Middle East, and Africa
Aug 26, 2024 08:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT Americas

320 Superclusters

This course will teach you about the Illumio Supercluster. You will learn about its architecture, design considerations for high availability and disaster recovery. You will also learn about Supercluster deployment, Supercluster administration and Supercluster troubleshooting.Before you take this course, please make sure you have taken the following course(s): Introduction to Illumio Core (Self-paced), VEN administration, PCE Administration 1 and 2.

330 Containers

This course will teach you the architecture, key concepts, and the integration requirements to use Illumio Core with Kubernetes or OpenShift.You will learn how Illumio Core provides visibility and segmentation for containerized applications. Before you take this course, please make sure you have taken the following course(s): Introduction to Illumio Core (Self-paced) before taking this course. 

Instructor-Led Schedule
Schedule displayed in timezone PDT (Los Angeles)
Date Time Targeted Region
Aug 30, 2024 12:00 AM - 04:00 AM PDT Europe, Middle East, and Africa
Aug 30, 2024 08:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT Americas

Illumio Core Expert: On-premises Certification Exam

Once you feel prepared, contact training@illumio.com to schedule an examination session.