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