D01 · Identity Fundamentals

Key knowledge areasCopy Anchor Link

• Digital Identity
• Identity Subjects
• Human Identity vs Non-Human Identity
• Principals, Accounts, and Credentials
• Identity Attributes and Identifiers
• Identity Types and Contexts
• Identity Lifecycle
• Trust Boundaries
• Identity Ownership

Career alignmentCopy Anchor Link

• TRACK A — Identity Platform & CIAM Engineering: Core domain. View track
• TRACK B — Enterprise IAM / PAM / IGA Engineering: Core domain. View track

Suggested learning outcomesCopy Anchor Link

• Distinguish identities, accounts, credentials and principals.
• Model identity lifecycles and trust boundaries.

These prompts are editorial learning aids retained from the earlier textbook. They are not additional requirements in v0.4.

Connected questionsCopy Anchor Link

• What really happens when you sign in to a workstation?
• Who owns the identity connecting to your database?

Build competency evidenceCopy Anchor Link

Explain a mechanism, analyze an implementation or failure, build a tested lab, and justify an architecture. Keep shared technical explanations in the Knowledge Base and link to them from research.

Domain name, scope, knowledge areas and representative technologies follow the authoritative Framework v0.4. Questions may span multiple domains.