The Red Hat Certified Specialist in Decision Management exam (EX364) is a performance-based test of the skills and knowledge needed to implement and manage business decisions and rules using Red Hat® Decision Manager.

You will be asked to perform a number of tasks, ranging in complexity from implementing very simple decision and business rules to creating relatively complex business logic flows that require the use of conflict resolution techniques to ensure that the various rules fire in the correct order. You will be evaluated on how well your implementations meet objective criteria, such as producing a specific output given a specific set of inputs.

By passing this exam, you become a Red Hat Certified Specialist in Decision Management, which also counts toward becoming a Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA®).

This exam is based on Red Hat Decision Manager 7.8.

To help you prepare, review the exam objectives that highlight the task areas you can expect to see covered in the exam.

Red Hat reserves the right to add, modify, and remove exam objectives. Such changes will be made public in advance.

You should be able to perform these tasks:

Design business rules:

• Create and use an intermediate Drools model with associated facts.
• Organize rules and manage facts.
• Understand and use effective rule design patterns.

Business Rules Authoring:

• Basic rules
• Calendars
• Decision tables
• Rule templates

Designing a decision service using DMN models:

• Input, output definition
• Data types
• Decision design and implementation

Conflict resolution:

• Prioritize and order rule execution.
• Group rules appropriately to avoid conflicts.
• Use rule flow groups.

Session management:

• Build a common object.
• Understand stateless KIE sessions.
• Understand stateful KIE sessions.
• Add, remove, and update facts.

Test and maintain:

• Understand JUnit test for testing rules.
• Identify potential issues, including poorly designed rules.

Performance:

• Understand the impacts of different rule designs and implementations.
• Identify and avoid common, inefficient results, such as Cartesian products.

There are no prerequisites to take this exam but it is recommended that an individual take Developing Application Business Rules with Red Hat Decision Manager (AD364). Also, experience with VSCodium and its DRL / DMN editor extensions are strongly recommended.

Attendance in these classes is not required; students can choose to take just the exam.

While attending Red Hat classes can be an important part of your preparation, attending class does not guarantee success on the exam. Previous experience, practice, and native aptitude are also important determinants of success.

Many books and other resources on system administration for Red Hat products are available. Red Hat does not endorse any of these materials as preparation guides for exams. Nevertheless, you may find additional reading helpful to deepen your understanding.

This exam is a performance-based evaluation of implementation and management skills and knowledge of Red Hat Decision Manager. You will perform a number of tasks and will be evaluated on whether you have met specific objective criteria. Performance-based testing means that you must perform tasks similar to what you perform on your job.

Prospective employers of people with the Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Business Rules should verify any and all claims by people claiming to hold this credential by requesting their certification ID and verifying it using the Red Hat certification verification tool.

• Experienced enterprise Java™ developers who are familiar with service-oriented architecture principles
• Enterprise architects with some Java development experience and knowledge of business service implementation