Course description:

The 3-day Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Practitioner® course, accredited by DevOps Institute, introduces ways to scale IT and digital services economically and reliably. It explores strategies to improve agility, cross-functional collaboration, and transparency of health of services towards building resiliency by design, automation, and closed loop remediations.

The SRE Practitioner course aims to equip participants with the practices, methods, and tools to engage people across the organization involved in reliability using real-life scenarios and case stories. Upon completion of the course, participants will have tangible takeaways to leverage when back in the office such as implementing SRE models that fit their organizational context, building advanced observability in distributed systems, building resiliency by design and effective incident responses using SRE practices.

This course positions learners to successfully complete the SRE Practitioner certification exam.

Benefits:

At the end of the SRE Practitioner course, the following learning objectives are expected to be achieved:

• Practical view of how to successfully implement a flourishing SRE culture in your organization.
• The underlying principles of SRE and an understanding of what it is not in terms of anti-patterns, and how you become aware of them to avoid them.
• The organizational impact of introducing SRE.
• Acing the art of SLIs and SLOs in a distributed ecosystem and extending the usage of Error Budgets beyond the normal to innovate and avoid risks.
• Building security and resilience by design in a distributed, zero-trust environment.
• How do you implement full stack observability, distributed tracing and bring about an Observability-driven development culture?
• Curating data using AI to move from reactive to proactive and predictive incident management. Also, how you use DataOps to build clean data lineage.
• Why is Platform Engineering so important in building consistency and predictability of SRE culture?
• Implementing practical Chaos Engineering.
• Major incident response responsibilities for a SRE based on incident command framework, and examples of anatomy of unmanaged incidents.
• Perspective of why SRE can be considered as the purest implementation of DevOps.
• SRE Execution model
• Understanding the SRE role and understanding why reliability is everyone's problem.
• SRE success story learnings.

Target audience:

The target audience for the SRE Practitioner course are IT professionals and people cooperating with them, including:

• Anyone focused on large-scale service scalability and reliability
• Anyone interested in modern IT leadership and organizational change approaches
• Business Managers, Business Stakeholders, Change Agents, Consultants, DevOps Practitioners, IT Directors, IT Managers, IT Team Leaders, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Software Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, System Integrators, Tool Providers.

Prerequisites:

It is highly recommended that learners attend the SRE Foundation course prior to attending the SRE Practitioner course. An understanding and knowledge of common SRE terminology, concepts, principles, and related work experience are required.

Please note: the DevOps Institute SRE Foundation certification is a prerequisite to the SRE Practitioner exam.

Day 1:

• SRE Practitioner course introduction
• Module 1: SRE Anti-patterns (Rebranding Ops or DevOps or Dev as SRE; Users notice an issue before you do; Measuring until my Edge; False positives are worse than no alerts; Configuration management trap for snowflakes; The Dogpile: Mob incident response; Point fixing; Production Readiness Gatekeeper; Fail-Safe really?)
• Module 2: SLO is a Proxy for Customer Happiness (Define SLIs that meaningfully measure the reliability of a service from a user’s perspective; Defining System boundaries in a distributed ecosystem for defining correct SLIs; Use error budgets to help your team have better discussions and make better data-driven decisions; Overall, Reliability is only as good as the weakest link on your service graph; Error thresholds when 3rd party services are used)
• Module 3: Building Secure and Reliable Systems (SRE and their role in Building Secure and Reliable systems; Design for Changing Architecture; Fault tolerant Design; Design for Security; Design for Resiliency; Design for Scalability; Design for Performance; Design for Reliability; Ensuring Data Security and Privacy)

Day 2:

• Module 4: Full-Stack Observability (Modern Apps are Complex & Unpredictable; Slow is the new down; Pillars of Observability; Implementing Synthetic and End user monitoring; Observability driven development; Distributed Tracing; What happens to Monitoring? Instrumenting using Libraries an Agents)
• Module 5: Platform Engineering and AIOPs (Taking a Platform Centric View solves Organizational scalability challenges such as fragmentation, inconsistency, and unpredictability; How do you use AIOps to improve Resiliency? How can DataOps help you in the journey? A simple recipe to implement AIOps; Indicative measurement of AIOps)
• Module 6: SRE & Incident Response Management (SRE Key Responsibilities towards incident response; DevOps & SRE and ITIL; OODA and SRE Incident Response; Closed Loop Remediation and the Advantages; Swarming – Food for Thought; AI/ML for better incident management)

Day 3:

• Module 7: Chaos Engineering (Navigating Complexity; Chaos Engineering Defined; Quick Facts about Chaos Engineering; Chaos Monkey Origin Story; Who is adopting Chaos Engineering? Myths of Chaos; Chaos Engineering Experiments; GameDay Exercises; Security Chaos Engineering; Chaos Engineering Resources)
• Module 8: SRE is the Purest form of DevOps (Key Principles of SRE; SREs help increase Reliability across the product spectrum; Metrics for Success; Selection of Target areas; SRE Execution Model; Culture and Behavioral Skills are key; SRE Case study)
• Course review
• SRE Practitioner mock exam
• SRE Practitioner certification exam

Exam:

• Exam type: on-line multiple-choice test (1 correct answer out of 4)
• Exam duration: 90 minutes
• Number of questions: 40
• Pass mark: 65% (26/40)
• Exam language: English
• Open book.

Additional information:

Student pack includes:

• SRE Practitioner study guide with all slides
• Glossary
• SRE Practitioner exam requirements
• SRE Practitioner sample paper with answer key
• Post-course reading materials.

Organization of training:

• Type of training: Virtual class (Instructor-led live online class), On-site open group class, On-site closed group class; Training materials are distributed in electronic form
• Training language: English or Polish
• Material language: English
• Group size: 6 to 12 participants
• Prerequisites: SRE Foundation training completion is recommended. The DevOps Institute SRE Foundation certification is a prerequisite to the SRE Practitioner exam
• Accreditation granted to Asseco Data Systems by DevOps Institute.

Additional information regarding participation in the Virtual class:

• Each participant should register for the training session between 08:30-08:50
• The training is conducted between 09:00 am and 3:30 pm
• During the training day there will be several breaks, including one 1-hour lunch break and 10-minutes coffee breaks after each hour of training.
• Study guide and other training materials are distributed in a digital version.
• Exams are carried out in the form of vouchers.

SRE Foundation® and SRE Practitioner® are registered trademarks of DevOps Institute, Inc.