Key takeaways
The DevOps Institute roadmap offers seven competency-based certifications that build capability across culture, delivery, testing, security, and service management.Save preferences
- DevOps Foundation gives a broad entry point into DevOps principles, practices, terminology, and ways of working.
- Practitioner certifications extend Foundation into specialist skills such as testing, continuous delivery architecture, security engineering, and leading cultural change.
- DevOps Test Engineering focuses on test practices, metrics, and analysis to strengthen DevOps pipelines.View preferences
- Continuous Delivery Architecture develops skills to design automated deployment pipelines with supporting processes and measures.{title}
- DevSecOps Engineering covers integrating security through IAM, governance, risk, compliance, and monitoring.{title}
- Agile Service Management certifications apply agile thinking to ITSM, with preparation required before attending.{title}
Introduction
Read on to find out more about these 7 certificates.
The DevOps Institute has developed a DevOps certification model consisting of 7 competency-based qualifications. These focus on equipping IT personnel with the knowledge and skills needed to work in a DevOps environment.
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The CDA certification highlights underpinning processes, metrics and cultural considerations with continuous delivery. It equips IT professionals with the broad-based competencies necessary in architecting automated deployment pipelines.
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- Continuous Delivery Architect (CDA) concepts
- CDA culture
- Design practices for continuous delivery
- Continuous integration
Exam format:
- 40 multiple choice questions
- 90 minutes duration
- 26 or more (65%) correct answers to pass
- Closed-book.
DevOps Leader (DOL)®
DOL is for individuals who are leading/will lead a DevOps cultural transformation programme. You will study for this qualification the human dynamics of cultural change. It will equip you with practices, methods, and tools to engage people across the DevOps department.
This certification covers:
- DevOps and time
- Companies doing DevOps
- Key differences between DevOps IT and traditional IT
- Becoming a DevOps organisation
- Transformational leadership
- Redesigning an organization for DevOps
- Design principles
- Value Stream Mapping
- Squad organisational model
- Managing cultural change
- Culture and its impact on performance
- Popular DevOps tools and practices.
Exam format:
- 40 multiple choice questions
- 90 minutes duration
- 26 or more (65%) correct answers to pass
- Closed-book.
Agile Service Management® certifications
The DevOps institute has special certifications for Agile Service Management. A prerequisite for these certifications is the completion of a pre-class assignment.
Certified Agile Service Manager®
CASM introduces you to Agile Service Management, the application, and integration of agile thinking into service management processes and process design projects. It is suitable for anyone requiring an overview of agile service management.
The certification covers:
- The Agile Manifesto
- Agile principles
- Agile practices like Scrum, Lean and Kanban
- Agile Service Management
- Process design basics
- Agile Service Management technologies.
Exam format:
- 40 multiple choice questions
- 60 minutes duration
- 26 or more (65%) correct answers to pass
- Closed-book.
Certified Agile Process Owner®
The CAPO certification provides guidance into the process owner responsibilities such as overseeing the design, re-engineering and improving of IT Service Management (ITSM) processes. It is suitable for process owners/managers, and anyone responsible for designing, improving or engineering processes.
The certification covers:
- The importance of processes, Agility and the role of the Process Owner
- Process design basics
- Process Owner knowledge, skills and attributes
- Selecting a Process Owner
- Related roles like Process Manager and Global Process Owner
- The characteristics of an Agile process
- Process improvement tools and technologies.
Exam format:
- 40 multiple choice questions
- 60 minutes duration
- 26 or more (65%) correct answers to pass
- Closed-book.
DevOps Practitioner®, DevOps Leader (DOL)®, DevOps Test Engineering (DTE)®, Agile Service Management®, Certified Agile Service Manager® and Certified Agile Process Owner® are registered marks of the DevOps Institute.DevSecOps Engineering (DSOE)℠ and Continuous Delivery Architecture (CDA)℠ are trademarks of the DevOps Institute.