DASA DevOps Fundamentals™
This two-day course provides a comprehensive introduction to the DevOps as defined by DASA. Learn the core principles and practices of DevOps to drive collaboration, efficiency, and innovation 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.
A Holistic Approach to DevOps
Gain a comprehensive understanding of DevOps by integrating cultural, technical, Lean, and Agile practices, ensuring a more cohesive and successful transformation.
Strategic Focus for True Transformation
Master not only the technical aspects of DevOps but also learn how to align DevOps initiatives with business objectives, driving impactful change across your organization.
Measure the Success of Your Initiatives
Learn how to track key metrics and success factors, enabling you to measure the value of your DevOps strategies and demonstrate tangible impact within your organization.
Join a Movement of Professionals Driving Change
Future-Proof Your Career
Stay relevant and competitive by mastering DevOps principles.
Boost Your Impact
Help streamline workflows and accelerate innovation.
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.
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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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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