Site Reliability Engineering Foundation

Dive into the fascinating field of Site Reliability Engineering and discover how to combine development and operations to deliver efficient, reliable and secure large-scale applications.

At a glance

What will you learn?

SRE Principles and Practices

Learn what SRE is, explore differences between SRE and DevOps, and discover key SRE principles and practices.

Service Level Objectives and Error Budgets

Gain a deeper understanding of service level objectives (SLOs), error budgets, and error budget policies.

Reducing Toil

Understand the negative effects of toil and explore human and organisational opportunities to diminish it.

Monitoring and Service Level Indicators

Discover Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and how they relate to Service Level Objectives (SLOs), the monitoring landscape, observability and setting measurable service objectives.

SRE Tools and Automation

Learn what automation is, explore DevOps and SRE automation focus, discover types of SRE automation, automation for security, progressive deployments, AIOps, VSM Platforms, Platform Engineering, Generative AI use cases, and gain an overview of the tooling landscape.

Anti-Fragility and Learning from Failure

Discover the benefits of learning from failure, explore the concepts of anti-fragility, chaos engineering, and shifting organizational balance.

Organisational Impact of SRE

Learn the benefits of embracing SRE for organisations, explore SRE adoption patterns, the organisational impact of SRE, sustainable incident response, blameless post-mortems and scaling SRE.

SRE, Other Frameworks, The Future

Explore SRE, DevOps, and related frameworks, including Agile, ITSM, VSM, and Platform Engineering. Learn about the evolution of SRE with spinoffs such as Network Reliability Engineering and Customer Reliability Engineering.

Certification Blueprint

Download the Certification Blueprint to learn more about the various topics, principles and practices covered in this certification.

Did you know?
Our DevOps certifications offer unmatched flexibility, with no prerequisites required. Unlike other providers, our certifications allow you to join and progress in your DevOps journey from any starting point.

Popular among professionals who have advanced to roles such as:

Business Managers

Business Stakeholders

Change Agents

Consultants

DevOps Practitioners

IT Directors

IT Managers

IT Team Leaders

Product Owners

Scrum Masters

Exam

40 questions

Multiple choice

60 minutes

Open book*

Minimum required score to pass: 65%

The exam is available in:

Chinese

English

French

Japanese

Portuguese (Brazil)

Spanish

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