Certified Backstage Associate (CBA)

Internal development platforms are essential to fast developer & engineering onboarding, cross-team collaboration & product innovation. Earning your CBA proves you have the skills & the mindset to work with Backstage to advance your career, your team & your organization.

Earning the CBA certification validates your ability to leverage and build standardized developer platforms, demonstrates your dedication to boosting team productivity and cross-team collaboration, and fully equips you to pursue new roles and advance your long-term career.

Backstage Development Workflow - 24%

Build and run Backstage projects locally

Understand local development workflows

Compile a Backstage project with TypeScript

Download and install dependencies for a Backstage project with NPM/Yarn

Use Docker to build a container image of a Backstage project

Backstage Infrastructure - 22%

Understand the Backstage framework

Configure Backstage

Deploy Backstage to production

Understand Backstage client-server architecture

Backstage Catalog - 22%

Understand how/why to use Backstage Catalog

Populate Backstage Catalog

Using annotations

Working with manually registered entity locations

Troubleshooting entity ingestion

Working with automated ingestion

Customizing Backstage - 32%

Understand frontend versus backend plugins

Customizing Backstage plugins

Make changes to React code in Backstage App

Using Material UI components

How to register & take exam: TBC (Link to FAQ pages of the website)

Linux Foundation Global Certification & Confidentiality Agreement: https://docs.linuxfoundation.org/tc-docs/certification/lf-cert-agreement/

Candidate Handbook: https://training.linuxfoundation.org/go/LFCA-candidate-handbook

Important Instructions: https://docs.linuxfoundation.org/tc-docs/certification/important-instructions-mc

Frequently Asked Questions: https://docs.linuxfoundation.org/tc-docs/certification/faq-mc