Illumio Platform Associate
The Illumio Associates Certification delivers a high-impact introduction to Illumio, giving learners the confidence to champion Zero Trust Segmentation from day one.
In this fast-paced program, participants discover how easily Illumio onboards cloud and datacenter environments - agentless or VEN-powered - while quickly organizing assets with intuitive labels, definitions, and policy objects. The course covers Illumio's powerful visualization and Insights capabilities, revealing real-time application flows and risk hotspots with unmatched clarity. Learners finish with a strong grasp of segmentation policy essentials and provisioning workflows, empowering them to help drive secure, scalable Illumio deployments across any environment.
Exam pre-requisites:
- Completed all courses in the certification track or attended an Illumio 3-day or 5-day private class.
Exam format:
- Non-proctored, online (75 minutes) exam with 50 multiple-choice questions.
| 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 Illumio
This introductory self-paced course offers a comprehensive overview of the Illumio Breach Containment Platform. You’ll gain insight into Illumio as a company, explore key concepts such as Illumio Insights and Illumio Segmentation, and discover how the platform secures networks across cloud environments and data centers. The course also introduces the platform’s core components and their functions, providing you with a solid foundation for understanding how Illumio helps contain breaches and protect critical infrastructure.
111 Onboarding
This self-paced course introduces the process of onboarding and managing workloads in the Illumio Console across both data center and cloud environments. Learners will explore how to deploy and manage Virtual Enforcement Nodes (VENs) and connect assets from AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). For the videos on Onboarding Cloud Assets: AWS, Azure, OCI, GCP, watch the video(s) that apply to your infrastructure. If you are taking the Certification exam, you will need to complete all of the videos.
121 Identify Assets
This series provides a step-by-step guide to identifying and organizing both data center and cloud assets using Illumio’s labeling and policy framework. You’ll learn how to create and manage labels, map cloud tags, define applications, and build foundational policy objects to enable effective segmentation and visibility.
133 Insights & Visibility
This course shows you how to use Illumio’s visibility and Insights features to understand your environment and traffic flows. You’ll learn how to map workloads with labels, use services and IP lists, and explore key views like Map, Traffic, and Mesh. You’ll also get an introduction to Illumio Insights and Insights Agent, and then finish with a short Knowledge Check to confirm what you’ve learned.
211 Segmentation Policy Intro
This introductory course provides a foundational understanding of segmentation policy in Illumio. Learners will explore core policy concepts, including application and organizational policies, allow and deny rules, and how segmentation rules are structured, evaluated, and enforced across data center and cloud environments. Through practical explanations and console-based examples, the course demonstrates how to design effective segmentation strategies, develop policies in phases, and use deny rules to establish strong security boundaries while allowing approved communications. Learners will also gain insight into the provisioning process and how policy changes are prepared, versioned, and delivered to workloads.
Illumio Platform Associate Certification Exam
Once you feel prepared, contact training@illumio.com to schedule an examination session.
Once you feel prepared, contact training@illumio.com to schedule an examination session.