DevOps Foundation® (DOFD) Certification Training
Course 3685
2 DAY COURSE

This DevOps Foundation® (DOFD) Certification training introduces DevOps, the cultural and professional movement that stresses communication, collaboration, integration, and automation to improve the flow of work between software developers and IT (Information Technology) operations professionals. Improved workflows will result in an improved ability to design, develop, deploy, and operate software and services faster. Likewise, improving the ability of IT to produce software faster improves the ability of the business to deliver value to customers faster.

The course includes an extensive collection of basic DevOps terms and concepts and highlights all aspects of DevOps (people, processes, and technology). In addition, it addresses the organizational change aspects of adopting a DevOps culture. Finally, the training reinforces learning through practical hands-on assignments.

DevOps Foundation® (DOFD) Certification Training Benefits

• In this DevOps foundation course, you will learn how to:

  • Articulate DevOps objectives and vocabulary.
  • Demonstrate the benefits to business and IT.
  • Explore principles and practices, including CI (Continuous Integration), CD (Continuous Delivery), testing, security, and the Three Ways.
  • Align DevOps with other frameworks like Agile, Lean, and ITSM.
  • Optimize improved workflows, communication, and feedback loops.
  • Identify automation practices, including deployment pipelines and DevOps toolchains.
  • Understand critical success factors and key performance indicators.
  • Use real-world examples to understand the ROI of the DevOps initiative.
  • Identify how best to scale DevOps for the enterprise.
  • Achieve the DevOps Institute Foundation Certification.
  • Participate in unique activities designed to apply training.
  • Take sample documents, templates, tools, and techniques with your post-training.
  • Access to DevOps Institute additional sources of information and communities.
  • Use Real-Life case studies weaved throughout the course.

• DOFD Certification Training Prerequisites

  Familiarity with IT software development and operations responsibilities.

• DOFD Certification Information

  The exam is: 

  • Included in the course tuition.
  • The duration is 60 minutes.
  • Open book.

  To maintain the certification's value and integrity, all candidates must attend approved DOI (DevOps Institute) classes through one of the DOI REPs (Registered Education Providers) to be eligible to sit the exam.

DevOps Foundation Training Outline

Module 1: What is DevOps?

• Definition, Goals, and Stakeholders
• Why Now?
• What’s driving the Business and IT
• Recent findings

Module 2: The Business Perspective & Outcome Economy

• The Golden Circle-Business ‘Why’
• Business Value of DevOps

Module 3: The IT Perspective

• Cultural and Technical Challenges
• Can IT be Bi-modal?

Module 4: DevOps Principles

• The Three Ways (Phoenix Project)

Module 5: DevOps Practices

• Continuous Integration
• Continuous Delivery and Deployment
• DevSecOps
• ChatOps
• Kanban

Module 6: Agile Frameworks

• Scrum
• SAFe
• ITIL
• Agile Service Management
• Lean
• Value Stream Mapping
• Improvement Kata

Module 7: DevOps Culture

• What is Culture?
• Cultural Debt
• Managing Culture Change
• Managing Conflict

Module 8: Automation

• Enablers, Benefits, Terms and First Steps for Getting Started
• DevOps Toolchains
• Deployment Pipeline

Module 9: Lean as a DevOps Value

• Measurement
• DevOps Metrics
• Sharing

Module 10: DevOps in the Enterprise

• Roles
• Organizational Considerations
• DevOps Teams

Module 11: Getting Started

• Challenges, Risks and Critical Success Factors

Module 12: Exam Review

• Exam Review