The SpatiumDDI Certified Operator credential shows that you can run SpatiumDDI day to day. You can build and maintain an address plan, DNS zones, DHCP scopes and reservations, administer who can do what, and keep the platform monitored, backed up and upgraded. This blueprint lists what the exam covers and how it’s weighted. Plan your study with it, and use it as a checklist before you sit the exam.
The exam is for the people who operate SpatiumDDI:
NOC technicians and help-desk leads who allocate addresses, publish records and answer “why doesn’t this resolve?”
LAN and network engineers who own the address plan, the zones and the scopes
System administrators who run the platform: access control, sign-in, backups and upgrades
MSP engineers who run SpatiumDDI for client networks
It assumes working networking knowledge, such as CIDR and subnetting, what DNS records and zones are, and how DHCP leases and options work. It doesn’t assume any knowledge of Kubernetes.
Single-select and multiple-select; a multiple-select question says so in the stem
Style
Mostly scenarios set on a single-campus network like Ridgeline College
Delivery
Online and proctored, closed-book on product specifics
Product version
SpatiumDDI 1.0.0-beta.3
“Closed-book on product specifics” means that during the exam you can’t use the SpatiumDDI docs, the UI, a lab, or this Academy. Questions test what an operator should know without looking it up: which setting controls what, what happens next, and what to check first.
Create forward and reverse zones and their records, and predict which reverse zones SpatiumDDI creates for a subnet (one per /24 it spans, whether its DNS is its own or inherited) and when you must create one yourself
Explain how record changes reach the servers without a restart (an RFC 2136 update in a group without views, a zone re-render in a group with views), and verify them with dig
Work through Parts 1 and 2 with their labs. The labs build the Ridgeline College network that the exam scenarios are modeled on.
Pass every knowledge check at 80% or better. Read each explanation, including for the questions you got right, and follow the module’s Go deeper links to the docs behind it.
Rebuild without the lab steps. In a fresh lab, set up a space, block and subnet, a zone, a DHCP scope with pools, a reservation, a scoped API token and a backup, and then restore something from Trash.
Read Part 3 for Domain 6, even if you only operate the platform.
Take the practice exam several times. Each attempt draws a different set. Aim for 80% or more consistently, and revisit any domain below 80% in the per-domain results.
The credential is valid for 2 years from the date you pass.
To recertify, pass the current version of the exam. It targets a newer SpatiumDDI release, so recertifying also confirms that you’ve kept up with the product.
Each exam version names the release it targets. This blueprint targets SpatiumDDI 1.0.0-beta.3.
SpatiumDDI Academy · course 2026.11 · recorded on SpatiumDDI 1.0.0-beta.3 · SpatiumDDI is open source (Apache-2.0)
