Course description
DevOps Foundation (DOFD)® Certification - eLearning (exam included)
DevOps has become an essential and widely-utilized cultural and professional movement for optimizing development and operations practices. In organizations weighed down by inefficient, siloed project teams, DevOps can provide incredible boosts to productivity, collaboration, reliability, speed, and ROIs. Studying the approach is also a fantastic way for development, operations, testing, quality assurance (QA), and IT management staff to become highly-employable DevOps engineers.
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Who is this course aimed at?
- Businesses and other organizations wishing to adopt the DevOps approach
- IT staff seeking to become part of DevOps teams or projects
- IT managers, project managers, and senior staff who wish to become certified in a world-class and highly recognized approach
- Experienced and prospective DevOps practitioners who wish to prove their knowledge by becoming certified
What will you learn by taking this course?
- The benefits of DevOps for managing IT development and operations
- How to apply the approach to real world-organizations, regardless of their size, location, sector, or industry
- How the approach can lead to higher-quality and more regularly-released code, products, and services
- How DevOps tools can be used to create automated operations and development processes, resulting in lower costs and increased reliability
- Everything needed to pass the official DevOps Foundation exam
Why should you take this course?
- DevOps is used to drive efficiency and reliability in businesses all over the world.
- Team members who collaborate and share knowledge from different departments can create DevOps cultures of continuous improvement.
- The tools and processes of the approach can help you release code, products, and services much faster than your competitors.
- This DevOps training course was built with unique input and insight from highly experienced practitioners.
- This DevOps certification course offers a practice exam simulator, regular knowledge checks, and fully qualified support to help students prepare for the exam.
- Worried about DevOps certification costs? Each student can enjoy 6 months access and a FREE exam voucher.
- The course is fully accredited by the DevOps Institute.
Course plan
An Introduction to DevOps Foundation®
This module introduces learners to the DevOps online training course, giving them a clear idea of what to expect from the beginning up until the examination.
Module 1: Exploring DevOps
This module will give learners a clear introduction to the core concepts and fundamentals of DevOps, along with its purpose and how what DevOps costs to implement can quickly be outweighed by the advantages it can offer software-driven organizations.
By the end of the module, learners will be able to:
- Define DevOps
- Describe why it matters
- Describe the business relationship
- Describe the IT perspective
Module 2: Core Principles and Practices
Moving on from the introduction, this module will educate learners on DevOps’ practices and principles.
By the end of the module, learners will be able to:
- Identify the three DevOps principles
- Describe the Theory of Constraints
- Describe the Second Way
- Describe the Third Way
- Identify DevOps practices
- List the continuous process
- Describe site reliability
- Describe DevSecOps
- Describe ChatOps and KanBan
Module 3: Business and Technology Frameworks
This module looks at the importance of business and technology frameworks for effective IT service management. It will also describe popular examples like Agile and Lean.
By the end of the module, learners will be able to describe:
- Frameworks
- Agile
- ITSM
- Lean
- Safety culture
- Learning organizations
- Types of funding
Module 4: Culture, Behavior, and Operating Models
This module examines the roles that organizational culture and behavior play in the successful use of operating models.
By the end of this module, learners will be able to describe:
- Culture, behavior and operating models
- The impact of organizational culture
Module 5: Automation and Architecting DevOps Toolchains
Automation and toolchains are both essential for using DevOps successfully. This module will examine the benefits that each of them has to offer.
By the end of this module, learners will be able to describe:
- DevOps automation and architecting toolchains
- DevOps toolchains
Module 6: Measures, Metrics and Reporting
This module looks at how to track and report on the metrics relating to DevOps.
By the end of the module, learners will be able to:
- Describe measures, metrics, and reporting
- Define lead/ cycle times
Module 7: Sharing, Shadowing and Evolving
This module looks at the various roles associated with DevOps, as well as leadership, cultures, and the most important factors for ensuring success.
By the end of the module, learners will be able to:
- Describe sharing, shadowing, and evolving
- List types of DevOps days
- Identify roles
- Describe DevOps leadership
- Describe organizational culture
- Define “start where you are”
- Describe critical success factors
Practice Exam Simulators
These practice exams are designed to simulate the conditions that learners will face when taking the official DevOps Foundation examination. It will be well worth testing your knowledge before booking your exam, as it will give you the chance to highlight and revise any modules which you have been struggling with.
Be sure to spend enough time going through our DevOps online training resources to prepare yourself for the exam.
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