DASA DevOps Fundamentals Certification Program
Build a strong foundation in DevOps. The DASA DevOps Fundamentals Certification gives you a comprehensive understanding of DevOps principles, concepts, and culture. You’ll gain the skills, mindset, and behaviors needed to improve collaboration, increase agility, and accelerate digital transformation in your organization.
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Certification Options
You can choose between live classes and self-paced content, featuring assessments and real-world case studies.
The Risks of Not Building a Strong DevOps Foundation
Without a solid foundation in DevOps, you may face inefficient workflows, poor collaboration, and slower delivery times. Failing to adopt these core practices means more delays, higher costs, and missed opportunities to innovate. Ultimately, you’ll struggle to compete with teams that are able to streamline their processes and deliver faster, higher-quality results.
Build a Strong Foundation with DASA DevOps Fundamentals Certification
The DASA DevOps Fundamentals Certification equips you with the foundational skills necessary to understand and implement key DevOps principles. You’ll learn how to foster collaboration across teams, streamline workflows, and accelerate delivery cycles—all while ensuring your organization is prepared for long-term digital transformation.
Emphasizes Culture and Collaboration as Core Pillars, Not Afterthoughts
Goes beyond tools and automation by putting culture, collaboration, and shared responsibility at the heart of DevOps success. Because high performance starts with how people work together.
Built on the Proven Calms Model and Dasa’s Six DevOps Principles
Provides a structured, principle-based approach to DevOps that connects mindset, methods, and measurable outcomes anchored in the CALMS model and DASA’s six guiding principles.
Integrates Measurement and Success Metrics From Day One
Helps teams define and track the metrics that matter so they can demonstrate value, measure progress, and move beyond activity for activity’s sake.
Join a Movement of Professionals Driving Change
Future-Proof Your Career
Stay relevant and competitive by mastering DevOps.
Boost Your Impact
Lead your team toward faster product delivery, innovation, and security.
Gain an Industry-Recognized Certification
Earn a credential that is trusted worldwide and recognized by top organizations.
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.
We Understand the Challenges of Staying Ahead
It can be overwhelming to master DevOps, especially if you’re new to the practice. That’s why we’ve helped thousands of professionals just like you gain the skills they need to thrive. With our globally recognized certification, you can rest assured that you’ll be learning from the best.
Business Benefits
Establish DevOps Language
Equip teams and organizations with a shared understanding of DevOps principles, practices, and terminology.
Align Business and IT Goals
Provide foundational knowledge to align technical practices with organizational objectives for better outcomes.
Break Down Silos Across Teams
Help participants understand how collaboration and communication drive value across the entire organization.
Accelerate Delivery Speed
Lay the groundwork for faster, more efficient delivery by introducing key DevOps concepts like CI/CD and automation.
Improve Quality and Reliability
Introduce practices that minimize errors, reduce downtime, and enhance product and service quality.
Continuous Learning Culture
Promote a mindset of experimentation, learning, and adaptation at all levels of the organization.
Transformation Readiness
Prepare individuals and teams to adopt and adapt to DevOps practices, driving successful transformations.
Accountability & Ownership
Teach foundational practices that encourage shared responsibility for delivering value and solving problems.
Here’s How to Get Certified in DASA DevOps Fundamentals
In 3 steps, you can gain the skills you need to lead the future of DevOps.
Step 1
Enroll in the DASA DevOps Fundamentals Certification Course
Explore our instructor-led or self-paced DASA DevOps Fundamentals courses and choose the learning style that fits your needs.
Step 2
Learn and Apply DevOps Practices and Principles
Master the fundamentals of DevOps, including collaboration, automation, and continuous delivery, to help streamline workflows.
Step 3
Pass the DASA DevOps Fundamentals Certification Exam
Prove your expertise by passing the certification exam, ensuring you have the skills to contribute to successful DevOps initiatives.
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