The TrueNAS SCALE Knowledge Exam Badge Level 1 exists to allow users to take a test and receive a badge. The description says: “Completed the TrueNAS SCALE Knowledge Exam scoring 80% or higher.”
I have a few suggestions regarding this:
They should be better advertised - encouraging forum members to become more knowledgeable about the software that they use is IMO a good thing.
When people take the certification tests, the results should be processed and badges awarded and feedback given. AFAICT the process for awarding this badge may have stalled. (Disclosure: This overall post is a general one made for positive reasons, but it was prompted by noticing that I didn’t receive this badge despite having successfully completed the test some months ago. I just took the test again so hopefully the badge will now appear.)
It would be great to have additional levels of expertise and further more advanced tests defined.
The TrueNAS documentation is great, but it seems to be designed to be reference or help material when someone has a specific task to do rather than curated training material to help people build a knowledge base. Creating course material is time-consuming and therefore expensive, but even a set of curated reading lists to point people at other sources of training material would be beneficial.
The closest thing to this at the moment seems to be (the partially updated/partially complete) Uncle Fester’s Basic TrueNAS Configuration Guide. (Disclosure: I am the author of some parts of this.)
This is the area most subject to ongoing change in new versions of TrueNAS
TrueNAS SCALE Knowledge Exam - Advanced Expert
The most challenging and highly detailed set of questions which can only be answered by the community members who have deep expertise in diagnosing and fixing the most obscure TrueNAS configuration or operational issues. The sort of test that perhaps only @kris and @honeybadger could pass, but the rest of us mere mortals could aspire to achieving.
My suggestion would be for you to come up with a Multi-Report test for a Multi-Report badge as I suspect that you will be able to pass that test and get the badge yourself.
That is funny. Even I’m not sure I could pass it. Permissions kicking me in the shorts. Also, it really isn’t part of TrueNAS.
A few good questions could be about recognizing errors and what category to place them in. For example, ZFS error or Drive failure?
But I do learn from those exams like questions about replication. I don’t know that stuff, but that is because i just do not use it. So even if I fail an exam, it still help me learn something.
