Course

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation («DEVSRE»)

Do you want reliable, scalable software systems? Then get to know Site Reliability Engineering. The principles and practices of this service management approach are closely related to DevOps and allow for combined application.
Duration 2 days
Price 2'500.–
Course documents Official courseware (digital) in English
Price information incl. exam voucher

Course facts

Key Learnings
  • 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
Content

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
Methodology & didactics

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.

Target audience

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.

Requirements

There are no formal prerequisites for this course.

Certification

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.

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Dec
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2025
Zürich
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Dec
2025
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Dec
2025
Berne
German
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16
Dec
2025
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Dec
2025
Basel
German
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15
Sep
2025
16
Sep
2025
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