After this course you can explain what DevOps changes in daily work and judge where your team stands. You know principles such as the Three Ways, understand where practices like CI/CD, SRE and DevSecOps fit, and can pick metrics that truly reflect speed, quality and stability. The course suits you if you work in development, operations, testing or architecture, or between IT and the business, and want a solid overview. Hands-on pipeline building is not the focus here.
What you’ll take away.
- Explain the purpose and core principles of DevOps, including the Three Ways
- Explain where practices such as continuous delivery, SRE and DevSecOps fit
- Assess how culture and behaviour affect delivery
- Choose meaningful metrics for speed, quality and stability
Your training in detail
- Who is it for?
- People in development, operations, QA, architecture, consulting and IT business roles who want to understand DevOps and put it into practice with other teams.
- Prerequisites
- PeopleCert lists no prerequisites on the certification page. A basic understanding of how software is built and run helps you get started.
- Format & planning
- Standard length: 2 training days. A different length can be arranged for companies.
Agenda: from understanding to application
Our independently developed agenda proposal. Focus areas, lab environment and scope are agreed before booking.
Why DevOps matters and what it aims to achieve
Core principles: the Three Ways, Theory of Constraints, chaos engineering
Key practices: CI/CD, SRE, DevSecOps and observability
How Agile, Lean, ITSM and value stream management fit together
Culture, behaviour and maturity models
Automation and toolchains, platform engineering and AI use cases
Measuring, reporting and exam practice
You map the path of a change from commit to production, mark the biggest bottleneck and choose two metrics that would show an improvement.
Exams, licences & credentials
This course prepares you for the DevOps Foundation (DOFD) exam. The exam and its fees are included only if your offer confirms this. The certificate comes from DevOps Institute/PeopleCert. This is not an official DevOps Institute/PeopleCert course unless the offer says so.
Vendor references & review date
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Your learning content
These objectives describe the training topic. The specific syllabus, dates and trainer are agreed before booking; the written offer is binding.
Frequently asked questions
What is the exam like?
PeopleCert lists 40 multiple-choice questions in 60 minutes, with a 65% pass mark. The exam is open book: you may refer to the Official Training Materials.
Do I need to be able to code?
PeopleCert does not require it. The course covers concepts, culture and practices, and also suits roles without development duties.
How long is the certificate valid?
It must be renewed every three years, with 60 CPD points or a pass in another exam from the same product suite.
Does DevOps Foundation (DOFD): principles, practices and culture include a certificate?
This course prepares you for the DevOps Foundation (DOFD) exam. The exam and its fees are included only if your offer confirms this. The certificate comes from DevOps Institute/PeopleCert. This is not an official DevOps Institute/PeopleCert course unless the offer says so.