🔧 Part 2 of 6 · Configuration

Instance
Configuration

Understand how administrative security and core structural properties are defined. Learn User/Role inheritance hierarchies, customize dictionary fields, extend database tables, and configure High Security properties.

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💡 Why Instance Configuration Matters

Configuring the instance structure correctly is key to long-term instance health. The exam tests your expertise in creating sys_user records, defining security_admin elevation privileges, structuring reference fields inside the System Dictionary, mapping database schema diagrams, and evaluating ACL conditional and script expressions.

Part 2 Study Modules

Users, Groups & Roles

Understand user authentication, groups containment, and role mapping. Learn the impersonation utility to test security flows, and how inherited roles operate.

sys_user Impersonate Role Inheritance

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Tables & System Dictionary

Examine tables architecture. Study the System Dictionary (sys_dictionary), reference field characteristics, schema diagram structures, and the Task table class inheritance tree.

sys_dictionary Reference Fields Task Table

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Security & Access Controls

Implement instance security policies. Learn how High Security settings, security_admin session elevation, and Access Control Lists (ACL) secure tables and fields.

ACL security_admin High Security

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What You'll Master

🟢 Role-based access controls (RBAC) and role nesting best practices.

🟢 System Dictionary metadata configuration and task record extension.

🟢 Elevating privileges to security_admin to design Access Control Rules.

🟢 Contextual security checks at the table level (.None) and field level.

Ready to Test Your Part 2 Knowledge?

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