FinOps - Certified Practitioner

Duration

Duration:

Just 2 Days

Method

Method:

Classroom / Online / Hybrid

Next date

Next date:

24/6/2024 (Monday)

Overview

This accelerated FinOps Certified Practitioner course, allows individuals in a large variety of cloud, finance and technology roles to validate their FinOps knowledge and enhance their professional credibility.

You will develop an understanding of FinOps, its practice areas, and how it’s applied to enhance business value from cloud spend. Organizations undergoing a public cloud-first strategy or who are in the midst of a public cloud migration will also benefit greatly.

At the end of this course, you’ll achieve your FinOps Certified Practitioner certification.

Through Firebrand’s Lecture | Lab | Review methodology you’ll certify at twice the speed of traditional training and get access to courseware, learn from certified instructors, and train in a distraction-free environment.

40% faster

Distraction-free environment

Audience

This course is ideal for those who plan to hold a position on a FinOps team or support FinOps or cloud financial management, or if you support FinOps teams as consultants, vendors, or trainers.

This course is suitable if you are any of the following:

  • Cloud Budget Owner
  • FinOps practitioners, such as a FinOps Analyst, Director of Cloud Optimization, Manager of Cloud Operations or Cloud Cost Optimization
  • Data Analyst
  • Principal Systems Engineer, Cloud Architect, Service Delivery Manager, Engineering
  • Manager or Director of Platform Engineering, Senior Enterprise Architect (EA) or EA Leader Finance and Procurement team members, including Technology Procurement Manager, Global Technology Procurement, Manager Cloud Cost Optimization, Financial Planning and Analyst Manager, and Financial Business Advisor IT Program and Portfolio Management Leader
  • Technology leaders, such as a Head of Infrastructure, Head of Cloud Center of Excellence, CTO or CIO Head of IT Finance (CFO of IT, VP/Dir. IT finance) or FP&A professional supporting cloud
  • Four reasons why you should sit your course with Firebrand Training

    1. You'll be trained and certified faster. Learn more on this 2-day accelerated course. You'll get at least 12 hours a day of quality learning time in a distraction-free environment
    2. Your course is all-inclusive. One simple price covers all course materials, exams, accommodation and meals – so you can focus on learning
    3. Pass first time or train again for free. Your expert instructor will deliver our unique accelerated learning methods, allowing you to learn faster and be in the best possible position to pass first time. In the unlikely event that you don't, it's covered by your Certification Guarantee
    4. Study with an award-winning training provider. We've won the Learning and Performance Institute's "Training Company of the Year" three times. Firebrand is your fastest way to learn, with 134.561 students saving more than one million hours since 2001

Curriculum

FinOps Certified Practitioner

  • FinOps Certified Practitioner Introduction

This module covers how to locate resource materials and identify the mission of FinOps.

  • Cloud Changes IT

This module covers why companies have adopted cloud.

  • What is FinOps

This module introduces the practice of FinOps.

  • FinOps Framework & Principles

This module focuses on important operational concepts related to FinOps practice.

  • FinOps Personas & Teams

In this module, you will learn about the different stakeholders a FinOps team works with.

  • FinOps Domains & Capabilities

This module covers the six domains of FinOps capabilities.

  • Motivations & Common Language

FinOps capabilities are the WHAT of FinOps. In this section we cover the six categories of FinOps capabilities and how the match up to the FinOps lifecycle.

  • Anatomy of a Cloud Bill

In this module, you will learn about the massive amount of information presented in the Cloud Bill.

  • Running a FinOps Team

This module covers the basic elements of running a FinOps team.

  • FinOps Inform Phase

In the Inform Phase, we create and use the tags/labels, account hierarchy and other taxonomy we created to allocate all costs in order to get a near-real time view of our current cloud usage.

  • FinOps Optimize Phase

In the optimize phase we target, define, and document optimization opportunities.

  • FinOps Operate Phase

The Operate Phase is where we take action to achieve the goals (from Optimize) and the company’s internal processes are engaged.

  • Maturing FinOps

At the end of this lesson you will be able to describe methods to build success in a FinOps practice.

Exam Track

At the end of this accelerated course, you’ll sit the following exam at the Firebrand Training centre, covered by your Certification Guarantee:

FinOps Certified Practitioner

  • Duration: 1 hour
  • Format: 50 multiple choice questions, not proctored
  • Passing score: 75%

What's Included

Your accelerated course includes:

  • Accommodation *
  • Meals, unlimited snacks, beverages, tea and coffee *
  • On-site exams **
  • Exam vouchers **
  • Practice tests **
  • Certification Guarantee ***
  • Courseware
  • Up-to 12 hours of instructor-led training each day
  • 24-hour lab access
  • Digital courseware **
  • * For residential training only. Accommodation is included from the night before the course starts. This doesn't apply for online courses.
  • ** Some exceptions apply. Please refer to the Exam Track or speak with our experts
  • *** Pass first time or train again free as many times as it takes, unlimited for 1 year. Just pay for accommodation, exams, and incidental costs.

Prerequisites

Before attending this accelerated course, you should:

  • Understand the basics of how cloud computing works, know the key services on your cloud providers, including their common use cases, and have a basic understanding of billing and pricing models.
  • Be able to describe the basic value proposition of running in cloud and understand the core concept of using a pay-as-you-go consumption model.
  • Have a base level of knowledge of at least one of the three main public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud). For AWS, we recommend AWS Business Professional training or, even better, the AWS Cloud Practitioner certification.

Are you ready to get certified in record time?

We interview all applicants for the course on their technical background, degrees and certifications held, and general suitability. If you get through this screening process, it means you stand a great chance of passing.

Firebrand Training is an immersive training environment. You must be committed to the course. The above prerequisites are guidelines, but many students with less experience have other background or traits that have enabled their success in accelerated training through Firebrand Training.

If you have any doubts as to whether you meet the pre-requisites please call (0)8 44 68 27 85 and speak to one of our enrolment consultants, who can help you with a training plan.

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