Site Reliability Engineering Foundation (SREF)

Site Reliability Engineering Foundation® Certification Training Course Overview

Today’s organizations deal with a higher volume of change in a more complex tech environment leading to a higher risk of outages and incidents. IT teams must improve service reliability and system resiliency. With automation and observability becoming key factors for more efficient and rapid deployments, the SRE profile has become one of the fastest-growing job roles.

Benefits to Organization

  • Enhanced stability and reliability of services
  • Better understanding of how production services work
  • Increased balance between technical investment in reliability and customer experience
  • Greater appreciation of the operational impact of services in development teams
  • Improvements in staff morale and retention

 

Benefits to individuals

  • Improved work balance with ring-fenced time for improvement
  • Less stressful on-call experiences and a reduction in overall call-out volumes
  • Broader skills-based capabilities that leverage the latest in automation
  • Improvement in workplace culture
  • Opportunities for “shifting left” and helping to ensure development teams deliver more reliable services

 

Course Objectives

The learning goals for DevOps Foundation incorporate a comprehension of :

  • SRE Principles & Practices
  • Service Level Objectives & Error Budgets
  • Reducing Toil
  • Monitoring & Service Level Indicators
  • SRE Tools & Automation
  • Anti-Fragility & Learning from Failure
  • Organizational Impact of SRE
  • SRE, Other Frameworks, The Future

Who Would Benefit?

  • Anyone starting or leading a move towards increased reliability
  • Anyone interested in modern IT leadership and organizational change approaches
  • Business Managers
  • Business Stakeholders
  • Change Agents
  • Consultants
  • DevOps Practitioners
  • IT Directors
  • IT Managers
  • IT Team Leaders
  • Product Owners
  • Scrum Masters
  • Software Engineers
  • Site Reliability Engineers
  • System Integrators
  • Tool Providers

Prerequisites 

Familiarity with IT terminology and IT related work experience are recommended.

Course / Student Materials

Sixteen (16) hours of instructor-led training and exercise facilitation

  • SREF – The Basics (pre-class resource)
  • Learner Manual (excellent post-class reference)
  • Plenty of mock exercises that would reinforce learning and instil confidence in successfully passing the examination.
  • Participation in unique exercises designed to apply concepts
  • Sample documents, templates, tools and techniques 
  • Access to additional value-added resources and communities 

Certification Exam

  • Successfully passing (65%) the 60-minute examination, consisting of 40 multiple-choice questions, leads to the DevOps Foundation Certificate.
  • The certification is governed and maintained by the DevOps Institute. 
  • The fee is 30k+18%GST(includes exam voucher + soft copy of course material from DevOps Institute)