Course
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation («DEVSRE»)
Course facts
- Knowing the history of SRE at Google, its relationship to other popular frameworks and knowing the SRE principles
- Understanding and applying service level objectives, indicators and error budgets
- Understanding observability and anti-fragility
- Understanding how SRE can be implemented in your own organisation
Module 1: SRE Principles & Practices
- What is Site Reliability Engineering?
- SRE & DevOps: What is the Difference?
- SRE Principles & Practices
Module 2: Service Level Objectives & Error Budgets
- Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
- Error Budgets
- Error Budget Policies
Module 3: Reducing Toil
- What is Toil?
- Why is Toil bad?
- Doing something about Toil
Module 4: Monitoring & Service Level Indicators
- Service Level Indicators (SLIs)
- Monitoring
- Observability
Module 5: SRE Tools & Automation
- Automation Defined
- Automation Focus
- Hierarchy of Automation Types
- Secure Automation
- Automation Tools
Module 6: Anti-Fragility & Learning from Failure
- Why Learn from Failure
- Benefits of Anti-Fragility
- Shifting the Organizational Balance
Module 7: Organizational Impact of SRE
- Why Organizations Embrace SRE
- Patterns for SRE Adoption
- On-Call Necessities
- Blameless Post-Mortems
- SRE & Scale
Module 8: SRE, Other Frameworks, The Future
- SRE & Other Frameworks
- The Future
- Additional Sources of Information
You will receive interactive training from presentation and group exercises.
Participants are supported by well-founded and certified training material that also provides valuable support for everyday project work after the seminar.
This course is suitable for anyone who wants to improve reliability, resilience, maintainability and scalability of their services - whether as a site reliability engineer, SRE project manager, developer, IT operations professional or IT manager.
There are no formal prerequisites for this course.
You will receive a voucher for an online exam via email from PeopleCert a few days before the course starts. The exam voucher must be redeemed directly on PeopleCert, where you can register for an available exam date. The online exam is proctored by a PeopleCert proctor, which requires a device with a microphone and camera. We recommend taking the exam on a personal PC/notebook, as corporate notebooks are often subject to restrictions.
For more information about the exam, please visit the PeopleCert website here.
Exam format: Web-based, multiple-choice exam, number of questions: 40, passing score: 65%, duration: 60 minutes, open book
«Take2» option:
This option allows you to retake the exam at a lower price if you do not pass. The retake exam takes place online. If required, you can book this option independently in your PeopleCert candidate profile before booking the exam. You have up to 6 months from the date of the first exam to prepare and take the retake exam.
Under this link you will find more information about the complaint management of our certification partner and your rights.