DASA DevOps Professional –Specify and Verify™

This two-day course is tailored for professionals aiming to master the integration of customer requirements into IT products or services, ensuring these needs are accurately understood and met by the team.

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Avoid Missed Targets and Poor Product Quality

With the lack of clear specifications and effective verification, your team risks delivering products that don’t meet customer needs or business goals. Poor requirements lead to rework, delays, and low-quality outcomes. Without proper communication and feedback loops, misunderstandings can arise, causing missed opportunities for improvement and harming your product’s success.

Don’t Let That Happen

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Ensure Your Teams Deliver
What Matters

The DASA DevOps Specify and Verify certification equips you with the tools to bridge the gap between customer expectations and product delivery. You’ll learn how to clarify requirements, streamline verification processes, and make data-driven decisions that lead to better outcomes.

Ensure Clear Communication

Create accurate specifications that align with customer needs and business goals.

Improve Product Quality

Implement effective verification processes to ensure your product meets high-quality standards.

Optimize Feedback Loops

Establish and utilize continuous feedback to refine and improve product outcomes.

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Learning Objectives

After completing this program, you will be able to:

Understand how the tasks covering specification and verification fit into a DevOps environment.
Take end-to-end responsibility for your product – from concept to grave.
Truly understand your customers and validate whether the product fits their needs.
Find good ways to communicate with everyone involved, from customers to stakeholders and developers.
Describe and visualize your product in a format that fits your specific situation.
Understand what software quality means and how to achieve adequate quality with your product.
Decide adequately which kind of tests the product needs, and understand what you gain from them.
Set up useful feedback loops, and use them meaningfully.
Understand which architectural considerations are important in a DevOps environment.

Certification Details

Prerequisites
Required: DASA DevOps Fundamentals certificate
Beneficial: Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, Lean, and basic knowledge of specification and testing.

Audience

The DASA DevOps Professional – Specify and Verify certification is primarily aimed at:

Individuals involved in IT development, IT operations, or IT Service Management
Individuals whose role are affected by DevOps and continuous delivery, such as:
- DevOps engineers
- Business Analysts
- Testers
- Architects
- UX and Interaction Designers
- (aspiring) Product Owners
- Integration Specialists
- Operations Managers
- Incident and Change Managers
- System and Network Administrators
- Business Managers

Course Curriculum

Welcome and Introduction

Welcome
Icebreaker
Let’s Get To Know Each Other
Best Practices for a Good Online Training How Will We Interact?

Course Introduction

DASA DevOps Professional: Specify and Verify Course
Course Learning Outcomes
DevOps Professional: Specify and Verify and the DASA Competence
Framework Module Structure
Course Agenda
DASA DevOps Certification Scheme

Module 1: Thinking About Quality and Value

Intent and Context
Module Objectives
Topics Covered
Quality and Value
DevOps View on Quality Assurance DevOps Approach to Quality Assurance
Human-Technical Systems
Key Takeaways
Module-End Questions

Module 2: Delivering Value

Intent and Context
Module Objectives
Topics Covered
The Product Lifecycle
Taking an Economic Perspective Value Stream Mapping
Key Takeaways
Module-End Questions

Module 3: Understanding Your Customers

Intent and Context
Module Objectives
Topics Covered
Customers and Stakeholders
Identifying and Interacting With Customers Gathering Requirements From
Stakeholders Key Takeaways
Module-End Questions

Module 4: Designing the Right Product

Intent and Context
Module Objectives
Topics Covered
The Right Product
Lean User Experience
Structuring Requirements for Products Key Takeaways
Module-End Questions

Module 5: Architecting for DevOps

Intent and Context
Module Objectives
Topics Covered
Introduction to Architecture
Architecture and Teams
Fundamental Considerations About Architecture Practical Architecture Work
Key Takeaways
Module-End Questions

Module 6: Practical Value Assurance in DevOps

Intent and Context
Module Objectives
Topics Covered
Testing and Other VA Techniques
How to Test Well
Common Testing Practices and Approaches Value Assurance in DevOps
Testing in DevOps
Key Takeaways
Module-End Questions

Module 7: Monitoring and Testing in Production

Intent and Context
Module Objectives
Topics Covered
What Is Monitoring
Value Assurance in Production Monitoring and Testing Postmortems
DevOps Approach to Monitoring Key Takeaways
Module-End Questions

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Certification and Duration

Certificate	DASA DevOps Professional – Specify and Verify
Duration in hours	16 hours

Exam Details

DASA delivers the DevOps Fundamentals exams. The participants and training organizations can attain the vouchers for the exam through DASA.

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	25 Multiple Choice Questions
Pass Grade	60%

Please note that if an exam voucher is included, you are able to schedule your exam for up to twelve months.

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.

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Here’s How to Get Certified in Specify and Verify

In 3 steps, you can gain the skills you need to lead the future.

Step 1

Enroll in the DASA DevOps Specify and Verify Certification Course

Sign up for this two-day course to gain the skills needed to specify product requirements accurately and verify outcomes effectively, ensuring your team delivers high-quality results that meet customer and business expectations.

Step 2

Ensure Clear Specifications for Smooth, Successful Delivery

Understand your role in product development by mastering the processes of specification and verification, ensuring clear communication, and seamless collaboration between stakeholders, teams, and customers.

Step 3

Pass the Exam to Earn Your Certification

Complete the certification exam to validate your skills in specification and verification. Passing the exam confirms your ability to ensure high-quality product outcomes, marking the final step toward becoming a certified expert.

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We Understand the Challenges of Staying Ahead

We understand how challenging it can be to ensure clear requirements and verify successful outcomes, especially when precision and quality are critical. 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.

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Team Competence Model

How Does the Certification Map to the Team Competence Model?

After completing this course, you will cover the area marked as DevOps Professional – Specify and Verify in the following figure of the Team Competence Model. As a result, you will reach the “Proficient” level of the scheme.

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