Exam objectives
Let's a take a look at the Heat exam objectives.
Figure 9.4 breaks down various Heat-related objectives you should be responsible for knowing in the COA exam. As you can see, all of these tasks can be completed on both the Horizon dashboard and CLI. Remember that time is of the essence during the exam, and in many cases, it can be much faster to tackle a task on the dashboard.

Figure 9.4: Heat exam objectives can be performed on the Horizon Dashboard or CLI
Exam objective - managing stacks
When you create a heat template, you are creating a stack. The stack is owned by the project to which the user was scoped at the time of creation. Creating a stack is fairly simple on the Horizon dashboard and CLI. Let's try the dashboard first.
Note
This chapter assumes you have performed the exam objective exercises in Chapter 6. If you have not completed Chapter 6, Neutron Networking Service, go back and ensure that you have created a tenant-network1-dashboard
and tenant-network1-cli
.
A user...