Elastic Certified Engineer Exam

The Elastic Certified Engineer exam is designed for IT professionals who have experience building and deploying Elasticsearch solutions.

Installation and Configuration

• Deploy and start an Elasticsearch cluster that satisfies a given set of requirements
• Configure the nodes of a cluster to satisfy a given set of requirements
• Secure a cluster using Elasticsearch Security
• Define role-based access control using Elasticsearch Security

Indexing Data

• Define an index that satisfies a given set of requirements
• Perform index, create, read, update, and delete operations on the documents of an index
• Define and use index aliases
• Define and use an index template for a given pattern that satisfies a given set of requirements
• Define and use a dynamic template that satisfies a given set of requirements
• Use the Reindex API and Update By Query API to reindex and/or update documents
• Define and use an ingest pipeline that satisfies a given set of requirements, including the use of Painless to modify documents

Queries

• Write and execute a search query for terms and/or phrases in one or more fields of an index
• Write and execute a search query that is a Boolean combination of multiple queries and filters
• Highlight the search terms in the response of a query
• Sort the results of a query by a given set of requirements
• Implement pagination of the results of a search query
• Apply fuzzy matching to a query
• Define and use a search template
• Write and execute a query that searches across multiple clusters

Aggregations

• Write and execute metric and bucket aggregations
• Write and execute aggregations that contain sub-aggregations

Mappings and Text Analysis

• Define a mapping that satisfies a given set of requirements
• Define and use a custom analyzer that satisfies a given set of requirements
• Define and use multi-fields with different data types and/or analyzers
• Configure an index so that it properly maintains the relationships of nested arrays of objects

Cluster Administration

• Allocate the shards of an index to specific nodes based on a given set of requirements
• Configure shard allocation awareness and forced awareness for an index
• Diagnose shard issues and repair a cluster's health
• Backup and restore a cluster and/or specific indices
• Configure a cluster for use with a hot/warm architecture
• Configure a cluster for cross cluster search

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People who have passed the Exam will receive a unique Elastic Certified Engineer URL badge to post on their social media or show their management.