BCS Foundation Level Certificate in DevOps
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What you’ll learn
On this BCS Foundation Certificate in DevOps course, you’ll learn how to build tools and select best practices to help your business deliver applications and services more efficiently.
With Firebrand, you'll build knowledge on how applying DevOps will support the culture of your business' departments and the teamwork between your employees.
At the end of your course, you’ll sit the official BCS Foundation Certificate in DevOps exam and get certified.
At Firebrand, we're proud to be a BCS Accredited Training Partner. Through our Lecture | Lab | Review method, you’ll access official courseware, learn from certified instructors, and train in a distraction-free environment.
Upon successfully completing your first examination of any BCS qualification, you will qualify for a free one-year Professional BCS Membership.
Audience
This course is ideal if you're involved in implementing the DevOps process in your business.
Roles include:
DevOps evangelists
Automation architects
Cloud infrastructure engineers
Software developers
Software testers
Security engineers
Database administrators
Product owners
Curriculum
Section 1: Introducing DevOps
Module 1: Understand the traditional IT challenges that exist, which have allowed DevOps to emerge as the most logical way to operate in an IT environment
Module 2: Recall the history of DevOps and associated key events
Module 3: Understand what is involved when an organisation embarks on an Agile and DevOps transformation journey
Module 4: Understand what the business case justification is for a DevOps transformation
Section 2: Benefits of DevOps
Module 1: Show understanding of the various Agile practices that compliment a DevOps way of working
Module 2: Understand why an organisation should focus on products and services and how DevOps allows the benefits of these to thrive
Module 3: Understand why autonomous teamwork is vital for DevOps to be successful, relying on teams to deliver sustainable value
Module 4: Understand the CALMS model and the impact it has on a DevOps transformation
Section 3: Culture
Module 1: Understand the various models that explain how teams operate differently, depending on the circumstances and context, and how teams may be better equipped to succeed within the right culture
Module 2: Explain that team agility is a mindset: a common understanding within a team of how to operate in as lean a way as possible, which should not become a set of processes
Module 3: Explain why cross-functional teams are mandatory to allow for commitment-based delivery and fully autonomous teams
Module 4: Understand the key differences between motivators and de-motivators that ultimately lead to job satisfaction
Module 5: Explain the differences between servant leadership and traditional management techniques, understanding which is more appropriate for modern IT delivery
Section 4: Automation
Module 1: Explain what Continuous Integration (CI) is and why it is vital for any organisation looking to reduce their time to market, with a regular cadence of deliverable working software
Module 2: Improve agility and automation via the application of various environmental management practices and techniques
Module 3: Understand how to apply critical release management activities; planning, scheduling and controlling a software build through different stages and environments
Module 4: Explain that test automation is the use of software to control the execution of tests, allowing for the comparison of actual outcomes with predicted outcomes
Module 5: Explain how deployments in DevOps allow changes to travel the entire pipeline and get promoted into production automatically, resulting in multiple deployments daily
Module 6: Understand how to use data and data management to ensure code is ready for production
Section 5: Lean
Module 1: Apply techniques to maximise flow optimisation within a team
Module 2: Understand why Work In Progress (WIP) is potentially extremely wasteful and apply various techniques to help to limit WIP, allowing for a better workflow
Module 3: Know the Theory of Constraints (TOC) and recall basic constraint management practices
Module 4: Explain the 8 Types of Waste according to Lean guidelines and why each type may be considered to have a negative effect on productivity
Module 5: Understand that a customer focus, which provides the customer with a better product or service, should always be the driving factor of a DevOps team
Section 6: Measurement
Module 1: Understand how product goals should be clearly aligned with business goals, to ensure that value is being added
Module 2: Understand the different metrics that can be used to determine a successful delivery
Module 3: Understand the different metrics that can be used to ensure the business operations are working as effectively as possible
Module 4: Understand how captured metrics may be analysed to ensure that feedback is used appropriately and efficiently
Module 5: Explain the differences between Lead Time and Cycle Time; specifically, that Lead Time ends at delivery, whereas Cycle Time is when the item is ready for delivery
Section 7: Sharing
Module 1: Explain why collaboration is vital for DevOps success and what can be done to ensure that collaboration remains consistent throughout a product delivery
Module 2: Explain the reasons for implementing feedback loops wherever possible, focusing on the key benefits around agility and flexibility, to build the right product which is fit for purpose
Module 3: Explain the benefits of visualising aspects such as work, workflow and blockers and be able to highlight why visualising encourages further ad-hoc collaboration
Module 4: Understand why the Business and IT teams must work together daily, to ensure that all goals are clearly aligned
Module 5: Understand why high performing teams are always looking for opportunities to crosslearn and develop new skills
Section 8: Common DevOps Roles
Module 1: Understand the key duties and responsibilities of the following distinct roes within a DevOps team
Module 2: DevOps Evangelist
Module 3: Automation Architect
Module 4: Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Module 5: Software Developer
Module 6: Software Tester
Module 7: Security Engineer
Module 8: Database Administrator
Module 9: Product Owner
Section 9: Common DevOps Practices and Techniques
Module 1: Explain the practices of both Continuous Integration (CI) and Testing and Deployment, detailing how they work together to formulate the technical excellence required for DevOps delivery teams
Module 2: Explain that Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the process of managing and provisioning data centres through definition files, rather than physical hardware configuration tools
Module 3: Explain the importance of Test Driven Development (TDD) and why this practice allows delivery teams to focus on developing the simplest, most robust solutions possible
Module 4: Understand that a toolchain is a combined set of programming tools, which can be used to perform a complex software development task
Module 5: Understand that distributed version control is a form of version control, where the complete codebase is mirrored on every engineer’s machine
Module 6: Understand the various tools that can be used to ensure effective production monitoring
Module 7: Understand the key differences between public, private and hybrid cloud technologies
Section 10: Relevant Methods and Approaches for DevOps Teams
Module 1: Explain what DevOps topologies and Target Operating Models (TOM) are and why an organisation might use them as part of their DevOps transformation
Module 2: Explain what scrum development delivery is and why this Agile development framework is particularly appropriate for delivery teams within a DevOps-focused organisation
Module 3: Explain how Kanban workflow can be used to identify bottlenecks, improve the overall delivery process and visualise the workflow
Module 4: Understand that transformational leadership is required at all levels of the organisation to successfully transform to a DevOps environment
Module 5: Explain what full-stack engineering is and understand the benefits of building delivery teams consisting of full-stack engineers
Module 6: Understand how collective ownership can form strong teams with focused, shared goals
Module 7: Understand why Continuous Experimentation is vital to ensure that creative solutions are always sought to solve problems presented by the business and that Continuous Experimentation allows for early and safe failure
Prerequisites
There are no formal prerequisites for this course.
Exam info
As part of your course, you’ll sit the following exam at the Firebrand Training Centre, covered by your Certification Guarantee:
BCS Foundation Certificate in DevOps exam
Format: Multiple-choice
Duration: 60 minutes
Number of questions: 40
Passing score: 65% (26/40)
Domains:
Introducing DevOps (5%)
Benefits of DevOps (10%)
Culture (15%)
Automation (15%)
Lean (10%)
Measurement (10%)
Sharing (10%)
Common DevOps Roles (5%)
Common DevOps Practices and Techniques (10%)
Relevant Methods and Approaches for DevOps Teams (10%)
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