DevOps certification roadmap

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The DevOps Institute roadmap offers seven competency-based certifications that build capability across culture, delivery, testing, security, and service management.

  • 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.
  • Continuous Delivery Architecture develops skills to design automated deployment pipelines with supporting processes and measures.+44 (0)207 148 5985
  • DevSecOps Engineering covers integrating security through IAM, governance, risk, compliance, and monitoring.
  • Agile Service Management certifications apply agile thinking to ITSM, with preparation required before attending.[email protected]

DevOps Institute Certifications

Austria® certificationBelgium

DevOps Foundation certificationBulgaria demonstrates your understanding of core DevOps principles and practices, terminology and culture. It’s an introductory certification and there is no prerequisite.Croatia

DevOps Foundation is suitable for anyone who needs an overview of CyprusDevOpsCzech Republic, especially those who deliver software or IT solutions, and current/aspiring DevOps engineers.Denmark

To gain this certificate, you will need to study and sit an exam. You can either book a training course, or study it online. Some of the topics you will study are:Estonia

  • Core DevOps principlesFinland
  • Key DevOps practices including KanbanFrance
  • Business and technology frameworks like GermanyAgileGreece & ITSMIreland
  • Culture, behaviors & operating modelsItaly
  • Automation & architecting DevOps toolchainsLatvia
  • Measurement, metrics, and reportingLithuania
  • Sharing, shadowing and evolvingLuxemburg
  • DevOps Leadership.Malta

DevOps PractitionerNetherlands®Poland certificationsPortugal

These certifications are for individuals who want to continue with the DevOps certification path. Once you achieve the foundation certificate, you would be eligible to sit the exams of the following qualifications:Romania

DevOps Test Engineering (DTE)Slovakia®Slovenia

Test engineering is crucial for SpainDevOpsSweden. It’s a primary key for a successful DevOps pipeline to support digital transformation.Other countries

The certification covers:Home

  • Relation of DevOps testing to other test methodologiesProgramme Management
  • DevOps testing best practicesProgrammes
  • DevOps pipeline
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  • Principles of DevOps management
  • DevOps test management metrics
  • DevOps management tool
  • DevOps test results analysisProgrammes
  • Integrating DevOps results analysis
  • Test management exerciseSimon Buehring
  • Fictitious product test requirements.27 Apr 2026

Exam format:

  • 40 multiple choice questions
  • 90 minutes duration
  • 26 or more (65%) correct answers to pass
  • Closed-book.

Continuous Delivery Architecture (CDA)

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.

This certification covers:

  • Continuous Delivery Architect (CDA) concepts
  • CDA culture
  • Design practices for continuous delivery
  • Continuous integration

  • DevOps
  • Design principlesprogrammes
  • Value Stream Mapping gravitate towards the realization of strategic outcomes and benefits. Generally, programmes boast a broader view than
  • Squad organisational modelprojects
  • Managing cultural change, overseeing a suite of interlinked projects all aimed at a common goal.
  • Culture and its impact on performanceTake, for instance, the 2012 London Olympics. It was steered as a holistic programme, where individual endeavours, from stadium constructions and opening ceremonies to infrastructure development, were integrated projects within this expansive programme.
  • Popular DevOps tools and practices.Importance of programmes

Exam format:Programmes

  • 40 multiple choice questions serve as the bridge between organizational strategy and individual projects, playing a pivotal role in converting strategic goals into actionable projects. They ensure that these projects align with and achieve the envisaged strategic results.
  • 90 minutes durationProgrammes manage the interrelations, potential risks, and possible discord among the related
  • 26 or more (65%) correct answers to passprojects
  • Closed-book., thereby heightening the probability of meeting strategic aims. Furthermore, they oversee the recognition and quantification of benefits as projects come to fruition.

Agile Service ManagementThus, programme management is paramount in driving strategic change and transformation within organizations.®Programmes and portfolios certificationsEach programme within a

The DevOps institute has special certifications for Agile Service Management. A prerequisite for these certifications is the completion of a pre-class assignment.portfolio

Certified Agile Service Manager must align with the organization’s overarching strategic objectives. The cumulative success of the portfolio hinges on the collective performance of its constituent programmes and projects. By fulfilling their distinct deliverables and outcomes, they collectively further the strategic aims embodied in the ®portfolio

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:Enhance your skills with our expert-led courses

  • The Agile Manifesto
  • Agile principles
  • Agile practices like ScrumInstructor-led, Lean and KanbanMSP Practitioner (with Foundation) course
  • Agile Service Management
  • Process design basics£1,899 +vat
  • Agile Service Management technologies.

Exam format:See all dates

  • 40 multiple choice questions
  • 60 minutes duration
  • 26 or more (65%) correct answers to pass
  • Closed-book.Self-paced

Certified Agile Process Owner

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