Overview
The necessity of DevOps in organizations:
Adoption of DevOps within organizations large and small is racing at breakneck speeds with the promises of better productivity and more efficient processes. DevOps processes are gaining popularity due to complex changes in software across diverse sets of operating systems and platforms. Enterprises today, are aware that the trending technology of DevOps will bring modern productive environments in its wake.
This move to implement the DevOps approach is not based solely on any trend or fad but on the real results seen by the implementing organizations. The key drivers of this approach are primarily the demands placed on IT teams to increase productivity and to deliver more products faster in a bid to keep pace with the fierce competition.
Why you should get DevOps Foundation certified?
“The DevOps industry is expected to grow six times by the year 2022" according to Gartner. Additionally, “DevOps and Cloud jobs are going to be among the highest paying jobs in the coming years” according to Forbes.
The current demand in the job market for certified DevOps professionals is increasing exponentially. This is evidently due to global organizational success brought about by these professionals implementing DevOps practices. Business enterprises that employ DevOps certified professionals have experienced greater returns in comparisons to companies that have not yet created DevOps teams. DevOps tactics are changing the ways in which IT organizations innovate, and this has led to a growing demand for skilled DevOps professionals. This is the right time to make a career in the DevOps space, and this course will provide the perfect launchpad.
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- Course Fee + GST
Unfunded Course Fee with GST
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Singapore Citizens & Permanent Residents
(39 years and below)
- $850.00
- $76.50
- $926.50
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Singapore Citizens & Permanent Residents
(40 years and above)
- $850.00
- $76.50
- $926.50
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- UTAP funding for NTUC Union Members is capped at $250 for 39 years and below and at $500 for 40 years and above.
- UTAP support amount to be paid to training provider first and claimed after end of class by learner.
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DevOps Certification
Individuals
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Singapore Citizens & Permanent Residents
(39 years and below)
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Course Fee (Before GST)
$850.00 -
GST (Full Course Fee, 9%)
$76.50 -
Course Fee + GST
$926.50 -
Unfunded Course Fee with GST
$926.50
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Singapore Citizens & Permanent Residents
(40 years and above)
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Course Fee (Before GST)
$850.00 -
GST (Full Course Fee, 9%)
$76.50 -
Course Fee + GST
$926.50 -
Unfunded Course Fee with GST
$926.50
* Note:
- UTAP funding for NTUC Union Members is capped at $250 for 39 years and below and at $500 for 40 years and above.
- UTAP support amount to be paid to training provider first and claimed after end of class by learner.
- Singaporeans aged 25 and above can use their SkillsFuture Credit (SFC) to pay. For more details, visit www.skillsfuture.gov.sg/credit.
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KNOWLEDGEHUT EXPERIENCE
Experiential Workshops
Engaging activities, exercises, practical case studies: High energy workshops with hands-on learning.
DevOps Resources and Community
Access additional resources from DevOps Institute and join one of the largest active DevOps communities.
Elite Panel of Experienced Trainers
Get trained by an elite panel of DevOps trainers who have successfully managed enterprise software development.
Mentorship by Industry Experts
One-to-one mentorship, real-world tips, and time-tested techniques from experienced industry experts.
Continual Learning Support
Webinars, e-books, tutorials, articles, and interview questions - we are right by you in your learning journey!
Exclusive Post-Training Sessions
Six months of post-training mentor guidance to overcome challenges in your DevOps career.
Steps to Certification
Steps to Get DevOps Foundation® Certification
Enrol for an upcoming DevOps Foundation course through KnowledgeHut—a Premier Partner of the DevOps Institute
Attend the 16-hour training
Take the 40 multiple-choice-question, open-book, 60-minute online exam
Clear the exam by scoring at least 65%
Download the DevOps Foundation certification and gear up to accelerate your DevOps career
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites to attend this course. But, it is recommended that aspirants be familiar with IT terminology and have some IT related work experience.
What you will learn in the DevOps Foundation certification course
1. Philosophy behind DevOps
How DevOps removes barriers between two traditionally siloed teams: development and operations.
2. DevOps Concepts and Terminology
The key terms to help you be on the same page as your teams with basic definitions, key concepts, and terminologies.
3. Core DevOps Principles
Use of continuous integration, testing, delivery, deployments, and monitoring to reduce lead time, costs, and risks.
4. Key DevOps Practices
Development, testing, and operations directed towards a common goal and working with inputs from each other.
5. Business Frameworks
Learn how DevOps promotes closer collaboration between lines of business, development, and IT frameworks.
6. Technology Frameworks
Agile (Lean Development), ITSM (Processes), Lean (Reduce Waste) and Value Stream Management (End-to-End).
7. CALMS Framework
Leverage CALMS (Culture, Automation, Lean, Measurement, and Sharing) to assess and measure your progress.
8. Culture, Behaviors and Operating Models
Cultivate a shared vision collaboration, communication, learning and continuous improvement across teams.
9. Automation & Architecting DevOps Toolchains
How DevOps toolchain enables development and operations teams to collaborate across the entire software lifecycle.
10. Implementing DevOps
Using measurement, metrics, and reporting including critical success factors and key performance indicators.
11. Sharing, Shadowing and Evolving
Learn about collaborative platforms, immersive and experiential learning, DevOps leadership and evolving change.
WHO CAN ATTEND DEVOPS FOUNDATION TRAINING
- Application Developers
- Automation Architects
- Business Analysts
- Business Managers
- Business Stakeholders
- Change Agents
- Consultants
- DevOps Consultants
- Infrastructure Architects
- Integration Specialists
- IT Directors
- IT Managers
- IT Team Leaders
- Lean Coaches
- Network Administrators
- Operations Managers
- Project Managers
- QA professionals
- Release Engineers
- Software Developers
- Software Testers/QA
- System Administrators
- Systems Engineers
- System Integrators
- Testing professionals
- Tool Providers
- New DevOps practitioners
- Professionals seeking an understanding of DevOps
- Professionals who are a part of DevOps toolchain
Curriculum
- Defining DevOps
- Why Does DevOps Matter?
- The Three Ways
- The First Way
- The Theory of Constraints
- The Second Way
- The Third Way
- Chaos Engineering
- Learning Organizations
- Continuous Delivery
- Site Reliability & Resilience Engineering
- DevSecOps
- ChatOps
- Kanban
- Agile
- ITSM
- Lean
- Safety Culture
- Learning Organizations
- Sociocracy/Holacracy
- Continuous Funding
- Defining Culture
- Behavioral Models
- Organizational maturity models
- Target Operating Models
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Containers
- Kubernetes
- DevOps Toolchain
- The Importance of Metrics
- Technical Metrics
- Business Metrics
- Measuring & Reporting Metrics
- Collaborative platforms
- Immersive, experiential learning
- DevOps leadership
- Evolving change
Frequently Asked Questions
DevOps Foundation Training
The DevOps Foundation course has been thoughtfully designed to introduce you to the world of DevOps and equip you with the skills to get teams across the IT organization to work together to reduce lead time, deploy more frequently, and produce higher-quality software.
By the end of this course, you’ll be equipped with the skills to:
- Enable fast flow, feedback, and continuous improvement of planned work into production, while achieving quality, stability, reliability, availability, security, and team satisfaction.
- Support business objectives in support of digital transformation initiatives
- Apply DevOps to real world-organizations, regardless of their size, location, sector, or industry.
- Enable regularly released code, products, and services.
- Create automated processes, resulting in lower costs and increased reliability.
- You’ll articulate DevOps objectives and vocabulary.
- You’ll explore principles and practices including CI, CD, testing, security and the Three Ways
- You’ll align DevOps with other frameworks like Agile, Lean and ITSM.
- You’ll optimize improved workflows, communication and feedback loops.
- Identify automation practices including deployment pipelines and DevOps toolchains.
- You’ll understand critical success factors and key performance indicators.
- You’ll use real-world examples to understand ROI of DevOps initiative.
- You’ll identify how best to scale DevOps for the enterprise.
- You’ll learn everything needed to pass the official DevOps Foundation exam and accelerate your career with the certification.
This blog will help you understand more about the benefits of the DevOps Foundation certification.
The DevOps Foundation credential will help you:
- Drive efficiency and reliability in businesses in any IT organization irrespective of geography or project complexity.
- Contribute meaningfully to build a DevOps culture of continuous improvement.
- Lead your team to release code, products, and services much faster than your competitors.
- Shorten development cycles and faster innovation at reduced costs.
- Certified DevOps professionals earn higher than their non-certified peers.
- DevOps professionals are amongst the most sought-after technology professionals in 2021.
Our comprehensive DevOps Foundation training aims to equip you with all the skills to be an effective DevOps Professional. You will develop practical skills to:
- Remove barriers between the traditionally siloed teams of development and operations.
- Speak the same language as your teams across Dev and Ops.
- Deliver frequent small releases using continuous integration, testing, delivery, deployments, and monitoring reduce lead time, costs, and risks.
- Ensure fewer deployment failures and rollbacks.
- Adopt key DevOps practices including development, testing, and operations directed towards a common goal and working with inputs from each other.
- Improve workflows and feedback loops.
- Employ business and technology frameworks like Agile, ITSM, Lean, and Value Stream Management.
- Leverage the CALMS Framework to assess your ability and measure progress on your DevOps journey.
- Cultivate a shared vision collaboration, communication, learning and continuous improvement across teams.
- Use the DevOps toolchain to collaborate across the entire software lifecycle.
- Implement DevOps for measurement, metrics, and reporting including the use of critical success factors and key performance indicators.
- To leverage collaborative platforms and immersive and experiential learning.
- Encourage adoption of DevOps in the enterprise.
Not at all. The DevOps course is for anyone interested in learning a better and faster way to come up with awesome innovations, particularly by improving collaboration between development and operations teams.
Anyone interested to discover DevOps as a culture and philosophy that helps reduce lead time, deploy more frequently, and produce higher-quality software, will benefit.
There are no prerequisites for attending this course, however having a basic awareness of IT and IT frameworks such as Agile Lean and ITSM would prove to be handy.
Once you have completed the DevOps Foundation credential, you can further enhance your skills by pursuing the following credentials:
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Certification
- CI/CD Pipelines with Jenkins Certification
- Docker Certified Associate (DCA) Certification
- Puppet and Ansible Certification
- DevOps Engineer Certification
You earn 16 SEUs and 16 PDUs by participating in KnowledgeHut’s DevOps Foundation training program.
DevOps Foundation Certification
The DevOps Foundation certification is offered by DevOps Institute, an internationally acclaimed association of DevOps professionals working to advance the human elements of DevOps.
Yes, DevOps Institute offers the self-study option to anyone who feels prepared to demonstrate their knowledge by taking the exam directly. The exam voucher can be purchased here.
Step 1: Register for the DevOps Foundation Training
Attend the online or classroom training provided by an accredited training organization such as KnowledgeHut.
Step 2: Access the Exam
Use the un-proctored, web-based exam voucher that you receive (along with the courseware) to schedule an exam at your convenient date and time and from the comfort of your home or office.
Step 3: Take the Exam
A multiple-choice exam with 40 questions. The exam duration will be 60 minutes. It will be an open book, un-proctored, web-based exam.
Step 4: Pass the Test
Score a minimum of 65% to pass the test.
Step 5: Get Certified
Successfully passing the test will make you eligible for the certification. You will receive your certificate and digital badge by email with your confirmed exam results shortly after completing the exam.
Yes, you will receive a course completion certificate from KnowledgeHut on successfully completing the course.
You will have to attend a 16-hour (2-day) DevOps Foundation training under certified trainers. Following the training, you can attempt the exam. An exam voucher will be ordered for you along with the courseware for the program. You will receive the access keys for both from DevOps Institute sent through CustomerService@LogicalOperations.com or CustomerService@DevOpsInstitute.com.
The email will have the instructions on how to schedule and give the un-proctored, web-based exam. This exam could be scheduled at your own convenience. It is an un-proctored web-based open book exam. Please note that your exam voucher will only be valid for 3 months from the date of purchase. Once you clear the exam, you are declared DevOps Foundation certified and can download your certificate instantly. For further information, please refer DevOps Institute Exam FAQs.
No, the DevOps Foundation certification is valid for a lifelong time period and does not require renewal.
No, your certificate will not mention the course was held online. It will look the same as the in-person certificates.
Yes, the exam fee is included in the course fee.
Follow these steps to add your digital badge to your LinkedIn profile:
- Go to your LinkedIn profile
- Select ‘Add Profile Section’
- Select ‘Licenses & Certifications’ and enter in your certification information
DevOps Foundation Examination
DevOps Foundation is the entry-level certification from DevOps Institute. The examination is an open-book exam and is easy to pass. With our comprehensive course and your diligent approach toward acquiring the necessary knowledge and skills, you will be well positioned to pass the exam on your first attempt.
The DevOps Foundation certification exam will be in a multiple-choice format. There would be 40 questions in it, and you will have to score 65% to pass. The duration of the exam would be 60 minutes. It will be an open book exam.
As there’s a time limit of 60 minutes, you will not be permitted to pause the test. In case you accidentally close the window, you can reopen it immediately. In case you face any issues and lose access to the test for an extended time, please inform DevOps Institute via email: CustomerService@DevOpsInstitute.com.
If you fail the DevOps test, you can retake the exam as many times as you want. You may attempt any number of times, but charges will be applicable each time.
Re-evaluation is not available for this exam.
No, you cannot retake the test in case you score poorly in the first attempt.
You can see the provisional results immediately after you finish the exam. The official results will be available within 2 business days.
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