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Outline

The Qlik Sense System Administrator certification exam measures your ability to identify requirements for environments, install and set up Qlik Sense Enterprise, manage environments, as well as monitor and troubleshoot. Exam content is based only on the client-managed edition of Qlik Sense. This exam does not cover the knowledge and skills required to administer Qlik Cloud.

Certification Exam details 
Duration: 120 minutes 
Number of questions: 50 
Passing score: 62% 

Exam content is updated periodically. The number and difficulty of questions may change. The passing score is adjusted to maintain a consistent standard. 

Recommended experience

  • Minimum of at least 6 months experience as an administrator of a Microsoft Windows Server-based environment  
  • Experience working with Qlik Sense sites and the Qlik Management Console, to provide data and application governance, library maintenance, as well as user and application security
  • Experience managing the policies and options that run the Qlik Sense servers and apps
  • Experience creating rules and managing the visualization streams
  • Knowledge of networking and Active Directory configuration, proxies, intermediate web servers, load balancers, and more
  • Familiarity with Windows tools and logs created (for example, Event Viewer, Services Console, DCOM Console, and Windows Registry)
  • Experience using NSLookUp, Telnet, Ping, NetStat, Fiddler, and other browser tools to troubleshoot connectivity, interoperability, configuration, performance, and more
  • Preparation

  • Instructor-Led Training: Deploy and Administer Qlik Sense 
  • Self-paced Training System Administrator
  • Free:   Qlik Sense System Administrator Certification Practice Questions
  • Badge 

    After passing this certification exam, you are awarded the Qlik Sense System Administrator certification badge. To learn more about the criteria for earning this badge, visit our Credly badging page.  

    Certification Exam topics

    Installation (30% of the exam)

  • Apply concepts to plan the infrastructure for the Qlik Sense Deployment.  
  • Determine how to install Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows using Shared Persistence.
  • Determine the appropriate methods to deploy single and multi-node configurations.
  • Configuration (32% of the exam)

  • Create and manage streams and applications based on the organization’s needs.
  • Create and manage automated tasks based on different triggers.
  • Create and manage load balancing rules.
  • Create and manage AD connections and synchronize users and groups.
  • Configure nodes to meet business needs.
  • Security and Licensing (16% of the exam)

  • Describe the Qlik Sense licensing model.
  • Determine how to configure user license access.
  • Apply Qlik Sense Enterprise security rules.
  • Monitor, Troubleshoot, and Maintenance (22% of the exam)

  • Identify how to monitor app issues.
  • Determine the appropriate methods to monitor and troubleshoot typical system issues.
  • Determine the appropriate methods to perform server maintenance.