Detailed Course Outline
Understanding Identity Management and Identity Governance
- Explaining the importance of identity management
- Discussing identity management benefits, values, terminology, and functional aspects
- Describing the Identity Governance infrastructure
- Discussing the suite of Oracle Identity Management products
- Explaining the relationship that Oracle Identity Manager has with several Oracle Identity Management products
- Describing the tiers of the Oracle Identity Manager architecture
Launching Oracle Identity Manager
- Comparing Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle Identity Manager Server, and SOA Server
- Discussing the Oracle Identity Manager interfaces
- Starting the Oracle Identity Manager Web-based consoles
- Starting the Design Console
- Starting the Oracle SOA Web-based consoles
- Identifying the differences among the consoles available from Oracle Identity Manager and Oracle SOA
Understanding Organizations, Roles, and Users
- Explaining users, roles, and organizations
- Comparing organizations and child organizations, and parent roles and child roles
- Grouping roles into a category
- Comparing types of Oracle Identity Manager users
- Discussing Oracle Identity Manager user membership in organizations and roles
- Discussing dynamic organizations and parametric roles
- Explaining the Bulk Load Utility and discussing its benefits
- Discussing customized search results
Installing and Configuring Predefined Connectors
- Identifying an Oracle Identity Manager connector
- Listing the connectors in the Oracle Identity Manager Connector Pack
- Describing the ways to transfer connectors from one environment to another
- Explaining the advantages of and best practices for transferring connectors
- Identifying two tools used to import and export connectors: Manage Connector and Deployment Manager
- Explaining how the Manage Connector tool is used to import connectors for external resources
- Configuring a connector to make it operable
Understanding Application Instances
- Identifying an Oracle Identity Manager application instance
- Describing how application instances relate to connector objects
- Providing examples of application instances
- Identifying entitlements for application instances
- Discussing complex entitlements for application instances
- Creating and managing sandboxes
- Describing how to create an application instance
- Managing entitlements for application instances
Using the Request Access Catalog
- Identifying the Request Access Catalog
- Describing the business challenges solved by the Request Access Catalog
- Understanding the concepts and terminology associated with the Request Access Catalog
- Describing how to manage the Catalog
Understanding Policy-Based Provisioning
- Identifying and comparing resources and Oracle Identity Manager connectors
- Describing how connectors are used to assign resources to users
- Explaining how assigning resources to users differs from provisioning resources to users
- Discussing ways to assign and provision a resource to an Oracle Identity Manager user
- Comparing manual provisioning and autoprovisioning
- Assigning a resource to an Oracle Identity Manager user through user membership rules and access policies
- Autoprovisioning the user with this resource (for this lesson, Oracle Unified Directory)
Understanding Advanced Request Functionality
- Explaining the types of requests you can create and manage
- Discussing how to create draft versions of requests
- Describing the two types of approval workflows associated with requests: request-level and operational-level approval workflows
- Explaining the stages of a request throughout a request’s lifecycle
- Discussing the role that users, entities, approval policies, email notifications, and SOA composites play in requests
- Deploying SOA composites
- Associating approval policies with request-level and operational-level approval workflows
- Completing request-level and operational-level approval workflows
Understanding Application Instances for Disconnected Resources
- Identifying application instances
- Describing disconnected resources
- Creating and managing application instances for disconnected resources
Understanding Reconciliation
- Defining reconciliation
- Identifying and comparing two types of reconciliation associated with Oracle Identity Manager: authoritative and account reconciliation
- Discussing reconciliation events that Oracle Identity Manager can perform with a resource
- Discussing the role that reconciliation plays in designating user accounts as primary accounts
- Explaining authoritative reconciliation and account reconciliation conceptually
- Identifying scheduled tasks, including the role that scheduled tasks have with authoritative reconciliation and account reconciliation
- Explaining how to implement authoritative reconciliation and account reconciliation workflows
- Identifying access policy harvesting, and discussing the role that access policy harvesting plays in a reconciliation workflow
Understanding Oracle Identity Manager Security
- Comparing authorization and authentication
- Identifying authorization policies and administrative roles
- Explaining how to define authorization policies that control access rights that users have in Oracle Identity Manager
- Discussing how to use authorization policies to determine whether a user can perform a specific action in Oracle Identity Manager
- Describing the relationship between authorization policies and administrative roles in Oracle Identity Manager
- Examining types of administrative roles available in Oracle Identity Manager
- Discussing administrative roles in Oracle Identity Manager and the authorization policies associated with the roles
- Managing administrative roles
Managing Reports
- Identifying and comparing types of reports that an administrator can create for Oracle Identity Manager organizations, roles, and users
- Listing different reports available with Oracle Identity Manager
- Identifying Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Publisher, the reporting tool for Oracle Identity Manager
Understanding Identity Auditor
- Describing identity certification and attestation
- Identifying the business drivers for certification
- Configuring certification in Oracle Identity Manager
- Creating and managing certification definitions
- Explaining how risk summaries are calculated
- Describing closed-loop remediation and remediation tracking
- Describing event listeners
- Describing and configuring multi-phased reviews for user certifications
Transferring Oracle Identity Manager Configurations
- Identifying the Deployment Manager and the sandbox
- Listing the objects that you can import or export by using the Deployment Manager
- Discussing the advantages and best practices of using the Deployment Manager
- Listing other operations you can perform with sandboxes
Integrating the Oracle Identity Governance Suite
- Discussing the three Oracle Identity Management products that comprise the Oracle Identity Governance Suite: Oracle Identity Manager, Oracle Identity Analytics, and Oracle Privileged Account Manager
- Describing the features of the Oracle Identity Governance Suite
- Explaining how Oracle Identity Manager, Oracle Identity Analytics, and Oracle Privileged Account Manager work together as part of an integrated solution