Course description:

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)
• SRE Foundation mock exam
• Exam tips and tricks
• Course summary

During the training, participants perform practical assignments to facilitate understanding of the topics discussed.

Additional information:

In the price of the training, the participant receives

• A set of accredited SRE Practitioner training materials
• DevOps dictionary
• Value added resource: videos, case studies, articles, books
• Exam specification
• SRE Practitioner sample exams with answers and rationales

Mandatory addition:

• Voucher for SRE Practitioner exam.

Participants can choose the language of the exam, the official eBook, and the training manual. Several languages other than English are available.

Electronic materials are available on the PeopleCert portal after logging in and entering the voucher number.

The exam voucher can be redeemed by taking the exam in Poland or in another country in PeopleCert Region 3. If the exam voucher is redeemed outside PeopleCert Region 3, Asseco Academy has the right to issue the customer an invoice for the difference in price between the region of purchase and the region of use. This is in accordance with PeopleCert’s voucher redemption policy.

Promotion Terms and Conditions: Receive a PLN 200 discount on all DevOps exams.

• If you hold an ITIL 3 or 4 certificate, each of your DevOps exams will cost less. The exam voucher is valid for 12 months from the order date. Prerequisite: Your ITIL 3 or 4 certificate must be registered in your PeopleCert account.
• Others will receive a discount on each DevOps exam, but the exam must take place by December 31, 2025. Participants set their own exam dates with PeopleCert. Due to the holiday season and the availability of exam sessions, we recommend setting the exam date no later than 1-2 weeks before the end of the year.

In any case, you are entitled to a discount!

You can now get a discount on all ITIL, DevOps, PRINCE2 Agile, and M_o_R exams. Check our training calendar and claim your discount.

Training organization

• Type of training: public or in-house
• Form of delivery: on-site or remote (instructor-led live online classes)
• Training language: English
• Material language: English
• Group size: up to 14 participants

On-site training organization

• The workday will run from 9:00am to 5:00pm CET
• A set of accredited training materials is distributed electronically

Remote training organization

• Each participant should register for a remote training session between 8:30-8:50am CET
• The workday will run from 9:00am to 3:30pm CET
• There will be several breaks during the working day, including a 60-minute lunch break and 10-minute coffee breaks after each hour of training
• A set of accredited training materials is distributed electronically

Accreditation granted to Asseco Data Systems S.A. (Asseco Academy) by DevOps Institute & PeopleCert.