Overview

The DASA DevOps Fundamentals™ certification provides the core education necessary to build your DevOps vocabulary and understand its principles and practices. It’s the ideal starting point for DevOps journeys, whether you’re already familiar with working with Agile and/or DevOps teams or not.

Faster software deployment, increased deployment frequency, and higher change success rate are only some of the visible outcomes of practicing DevOps. Organizations such as Netflix, Spotify, and Facebook are transforming IT by successfully implementing DevOps principles. But you don’t have to be big to be a DevOps leader. Companies large and small, young and old, have smoothly made the transition and have the proof of success in their pockets.

This course will inspire you to serve as a change champion by sharing and using what you learned, and continue to learn, about DevOps to lead and mentor others. A solid understanding of DevOps Fundamentals has helped numerous professionals and organizations how to approach a DevOps journey, not only from a tool and automation perspective but also by looking in-depth at the softer side of things.

This course provides learners with an extensive introduction to the core Agile DevOps principles. It covers all 12 key knowledge and skill competencies defined by DASA to ensure you acquire a solid knowledge of DevOps concepts and terminology. Multiple cases or scenarios, group discussions, and examples are included in the course to enhance your learning experience.

Course Information

This course provides learners with an extensive introduction to the core Agile DevOps principles. It covers all 12 key knowledge and skill competencies that have been defined by the DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA). DevOps Fundamentals is the starting point for anyone involved in an Agile and/or DevOps team. Improved workflows and faster deployment start with a core understanding of DevOps fundamentals by all team members. This course is designed to provide the core education necessary to build your DevOps vocabulary and understand its principles and practices. The course will inspire you to serve as a change champion by sharing and using what you have learned, and continue to learn, about DevOps to lead and mentor others.

Certification: DASA DevOps Fundamentals

Domain: Solution Development & Deployment

Delivery Method: Classroom-based

Accreditor: DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA)

Available Languages: English

Purchase Options: Pay per Use

Exam Information

Exam Description

The DevOps Fundamentals exams are delivered by APMG and iSQI. The participants and training organizations can attain the vouchers for the exam through DASA.

Exam Facts

• Delivery – Online and Paper-based
• Format – Closed-book format, participants can bring scratch paper
• Proctoring – Live/Webcam
• Duration – 60 minutes, 15-minutes additional time for non-native candidates
• # of questions – 40, simple multiple-choice  (1 mark per question)
• Pass Grade – 65%

Exam Prerequisites

While there are no formal prerequisites, it is recommended that the participant has completed the DASA DevOps Fundamentals training.

Exam Location

Remote, at any approved location with a webcam (home/office)

Exam Planning

Exams can be taken on the last day of the course or later. DASA recommends you to attempt the final exam later but within 10 days after the completion of the course to go through the concepts. 10 days is considered to be the best retention time to prepare for the exam and score high marks.

Accreditor

The course is accredited by DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA)

Target Audience

• Anyone interested in DevOps strategies and automation
• DevOps Engineers
• Anyone part of Continuous Delivery toolchain architectures
• Delivery Staff
• IT Managers
• IT Security Professionals, Practitioners, and Managers
• Maintenance and support staff
• Managed Service Providers
• Project & Product Managers
• Quality Assurance Teams
• Release Managers
• Scrum Masters
• Site Reliability Engineers
• Software Engineers
• Testers
• Compliance Team
• Product owner

Learning Objectives

DASA DevOps Fundamentals-certified professionals are able to:

• Explain the drivers responsible for the emergence of DevOps.
• Define and discuss the key concepts and principles of DevOps.
• List and explain the business benefits of DevOps and continuous delivery.
• Know how teams can translate DevOps principles into tangible practices.
• Learn about modern operations in a DevOps context.
• Explain the concepts of test automation, infrastructure automation, and build and deployment automation.
• Describe how DevOps relates to Lean and Agile methodologies.
• Get insight into the various organizational DevOps models and architectures.
• Identify how Cloud and Delivery pipeline automation optimizes and accelerates the ways of working.
• Discuss the critical success factors for DevOps transformation.