Duration
3 days
SCOPE AND PURPOSE OF THIS DOCUMENT
The purpose of this document is to inform all parties interested in the DevOps Fundamentals course of the areas covered in the course.
THE DASA DEVOPS COMPETENCE MODEL
The DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA) competence framework identifies 8 knowledge areas (depicted in redcolored text) and 4 skills (depicted in blue-colored text) that are relevant in DevOps, as shown in the following figure.
Every individual operating in a DevOps team requires to be competent at all 8 knowledge areas and proficient at the 4 skill levels. In order for DevOps teams to be effective, they require all 12 areas to be at the Expert level. Individual team members can specialize in specific areas, in order for teams to achieve these capabilities.
DASA DEVOPS FUNDAMENTALS
Up to 200 times faster software deployment, 30 times increased deployment frequency, and 60 times higher change success rates, organizations such as Netflix, Spotify, and Facebook are revolutionizing the IT game by successfully implementing DevOps principles. The data does not lie. You do not have to be a hot Web company or a monster enterprise to be a DevOps leader. Companies, large or small and young or old, have magnificently made the transition and have the proof of success in their pockets.
DevOps training is the starting point for an organization going on the DevOps journey. Improved workflows and faster deployment starts with a core understanding of DevOps fundamental concepts by anyone involved in an Agile and/or DevOps team.
DASA develops and evangelizes a vendor neutral DevOps qualification program for professionals, generates interest and awareness for the need for knowledge and skill development, promotes open source certification for DevOps knowledge and skills, and ensures quality of training for the market through a logical and threshold-driven qualification program.
Anyone can participate in defining role-based competences, learning paths, and qualification schemes. All existing learning content that maps against the DASA knowledge and skill areas has value. DASA will map content and demonstrate relevance and will maintain an open and logical operating model for training delivery, as shown in the following figure.
DASA DevOps Fundamentals provides an extensive introduction to the core Agile DevOps principles covering the essential knowledge and skill competences that have been defined by DASA.
The DevOps Fundamentals qualification is designed to provide the core education necessary to build your DevOps vocabulary and to understand its principles and practices. With the help of key DevOps concepts and terminology, reallife case studies, examples and interactive group discussions and extensive exercises in each module you will acquire a fundamental understanding of DevOps.
QUALIFICATION OBJECTIVES
When you have acquired the required knowledge from this course, you will be able to:
- Explain the drivers responsible for the emergence of DevOps.
- Define and discuss the key concepts and principles of DevOps.
- List and explain the business benefits of DevOps and continuous delivery.
- Describe the Service Delivery process.
- Explain the concepts of test automation, infrastructure automation, and build and deployment automation.
- Describe how DevOps relates to Lean and Agile methodologies.
- Summarize case studies of IT organizations that are making the transformation to Adaptive IT and DevOps models.
- List the most common and popular DevOps tools.
- Discuss the critical success factors for DevOps implementation.
HOW DOES DEVOPS FUNDAMENTALS FIT INTO THE DASA COMPETENCE FRAMEWORK?
After completing this course, you will cover the area marked as DevOps Fundamentals in the following figure of the DASA qualification scheme. As a result, you will reach the “Competent” level of the scheme.
TARGET AUDIENCE
The DevOps Fundamentals qualification is primarily aimed at:
- Individuals involved in IT development, IT operations, or IT service management
- Individuals whose role are touched by DevOps and continuous delivery, such as the following IT roles:
- DevOps engineers
- Product owners
- Integration specialists
- Operations managers
- Incident and change managers
- System administrators
- Network administrators
- Business managers
- Automation architects
- Enterprise architects
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
Basic familiarity with Agile, Scrum, Lean, and ITSM principles is beneficial.
CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
You will receive the required certification from DASA on successful completion of the DASA DevOps Fundamentals exam.
EXAM DETAILS
The characteristics of the DASA DevOps Fundamentals exam are:
Exam Format:
- Closed-book format
- Web-Based
- Participants may bring scratch paper
Questions:
- 40 multiple choice questions
Passing Score:
- 65%
Exam Duration:
- 60 minutes
- 15 minutes extra time for non-native English speakers.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
A classification widely used when designing assessments for certification and education is the Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. This classifies learning objectives into six ascending learning levels, each defining a higher degree of competencies and skills. (Bloom et al, 1956, Taxonomy of Educational Objectives).
This structured approach helps to ensure:
- A clear delineation in learning level content between different qualification levels
- Learning outcomes are documented consistently across different areas of the guidance
- Exam questions and papers are consistent and are created to a similar level of difficulty.
The Fundamentals qualification examines learning outcomes at levels 1 (knowledge) and 2 (comprehension).
SYLLABUS AREAS
The following syllabus areas are identified.
SYLLABUS
In the following tables, the key aspects of the DevOps Fundamentals Syllabus are described.
NOTE: Statements at Learning Level 2 do not have references. These are meant as areas for discussion and exercises to increase comprehension beyond basic understanding and recall of terminology.
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.