DASA DevOps Fundamentals™
This two-day course provides a comprehensive introduction to the core principles of DevOps as defined by DASA. It covers the key concepts, practices, and tools necessary to facilitate collaboration and efficiency between software development and IT operations teams.
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Certification Options
You can choose between live classes and self-paced content, featuring assessments and real-world case studies.
DASA DevOps Fundamentals Enables Organizations, Teams, and Individuals to Build Their Capabilities in DevOps
The certification program is a capability-building block for organizations looking to transform themselves, preparing them for the DevOps mindset, which encompasses people, processes, and culture. It encompasses the latest thinking and best practices in DevOps transformation, including current technology trends and successful case studies.
Where Will DASA DevOps
Fundamentals Take You?
How to Get Certified
Choose the approach to certification that makes sense for you. Study directly through DASA via e-learning, in classroom settings at our training providers, or through tailored team training with our transformation partners.
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Test Your Foundational Skills
This quiz enables the understanding of the core principles and practices that define DevOps.
Learning Objectives
After completing this program, you will be able to:
- Participate successfully in the DevOps transformation within the organization by sharing a common understanding and vocabulary required for DevOps ways of working.
- Define and discuss the key concepts and principles of DevOps.
- Explain the core elements of a DevOps culture and its importance.
- Discuss the importance of automation and ways to implement it in the product life cycle.
- Describe how DevOps relates to Lean and Agile methodologies.
- Discuss metrics and success factors for DevOps transformations.
- Get insight into the various organizational DevOps models and related architectures.
- Explain the importance of sharing responsibility, knowledge and ways of working to enable successful collaboration.
- Identify the available resources of DASA guidance as an enabler of your DevOps implementation plan.
Certification Details
Prerequisites
Possessing some basic knowledge of Agile, Scrum, Lean, and ITSM principle is recommended but not required for the completion of the certification.
Certification
The course aims to standardize the team’s knowledge and skills required to function effectively and helps you communicate with the team by understanding the common DevOps vocabulary such as CI/CD, test-driven development, cross-functional teams, and iterative development.
Audience
The DASA DevOps Fundamentals certification adds value to individuals involved in IT development, operations, or service management. It’s target audience includes but is not limited to:
Development & Operations
- Software Developers, Engineers and Architects
- Quality Engineers and Testers
- System and Network Engineers and Administrators
- Automation Architects
- Dev, Sec & Ops Engineers
- Enterprise Architects
- Incident and Change Managers
- Integration Specialists
Business & Leadership
- Product Owners
- Business Analysts
- Business Managers
- Operations Managers
- Product Managers
- Team Leads
- Scrum Masters
- Agile Coaches
- Senior Management and C-Suite
Support & Enablement
- Support Engineers
- Service Managers
- Business users who are working with IT in getting business value created
- HR
- Finance
- Governance
- Legal
Course Curriculum
Building DevOps Context
- Why DevOps?
- DevOps Definition
- DASA DevOps Principles
Culture
- Introduction To DevOps Culture
- DevOps Culture For Teams
- DevOps Leadership
Automation
- Why Automate?
- Automation Enables Continuous Delivery
- Modern Infrastructure & Cloud Computing
Lean
- Lean
- Agile
- Product Management
- Service Management
- Site Reliability Engineering
- Value & Experience Management
Measurement
- Basics of Measurement
- Measuring Value
- Typical DevOps Metrics
- Monitoring & Analytics
Sharing
- Organizational Models That Enable Sharing
- T-Shape Profiles Enable Sharing
- DevOps Teams
- Team Autonomy
- IT Architecture That Supports Sharing
- DevOps At Scale
DASA Guidance
- DASA Big Picture
- Talent Portfolio
- Guidance Portfolio
- Community
- Recognition
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Certification and Duration
| Certificate | DASA DevOps Fundamentals |
| Duration in hours | 16 hours |
Exam Details
| Delivery | Online and Paper-based |
| Format | Closed-book format, participants can bring scratch paper |
| Proctoring | Live/Webcam |
| Duration | 60 minutes, 15-minute additional time for non-native candidates |
| Questions | 40, simple multiple choice (1 mark per question) |
| Pass Grade | 65% |
Scheduling Your Exam
Generally, your training partner will book the certification exam for you. If you have chosen an online self-study certification option you will be able to use the voucher provided with the training material.
Mock Exam
Certification courses include a mock exam. You can download the mock exam from your learning profile.
Accessing Your Certificate
All certificates and badges are issues through Accredible. You will receive an email with your download link in the days following your exam.
Team Competence Model
How Does the Certification Map to the Team Competence Model?
After completing this program, you will cover the area marked as DASA DevOps Fundamentals in the following figure of the Team Competence Model. As a result, you will reach the “Competent” level of the scheme.
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