DOFD: DevOps Foundation

DevOps Foundation (DOFD)

As DevOps adoption continues to grow and drive digital business success, organizations and their teams need to ensure they have the needed skills and knowledge to deliver high-quality software solutions quickly, exceed customer expectations and outpace competitors. To maintain the highest quality learning for our community, DevOps Institute Certifications expire two years from the date of completion. Members can maintain their certification by participating in the Continuing Education Program and earning Continuing Education Units through participation in learning opportunities.

What You'll Learn

◉ DevOps concepts and terminology

◉ Core DevOps Principles

◉ Key DevOps Practices

◉ Business and Technology Frameworks

◉ Culture, Behaviors and Operating Models

◉ Automation and Architecting DevOps Toolchains

◉ Measurement, Metrics, and Reporting

◉ Sharing, Shadowing and Evolving

Benefits for Organizations

◉ Shorter development cycles, faster innovation

◉ Reduced deployment failures, rollbacks, and time to recover

◉ Improved communication and collaboration

◉ Increased efficiencies

◉ Reduced costs and IT headcount

DevOps Foundation (DOFD)

Benefits for Individuals

◉ Common DevOps concepts and terminology

◉ Benefits to the business and IT

◉ Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, testing, security and the Three Ways

◉ DevOps relationship to Agile, Lean and ITSM

◉ Improved workflows, communication, and feedback loops

◉ Automation practices including deployment pipelines and DevOps toolchains

◉ Scaling DevOps for the enterprise

◉ Demonstrate entry-level of DevOps knowledge

DevOps Institute DOFD Exam Summary:

Exam Name	DevOps Foundation
Exam Code	DOFD
Exam Fee	USD $245
Exam Duration	60 Minutes
Number of Questions	40
Passing Score	65%
Format	Multiple Choice Questions
Books / Trainings	DevOps Institute
Sample Questions	DevOps Institute DevOps Foundation Exam Sample Questions and Answers
Practice Exam	DevOps Institute Certified DevOps Foundation (DOFD) Practice Test

DevOps Institute DevOps Foundation Syllabus Topics:

Topic	Details
CALMS Values	- C: Culture - emphasizes shared vision collaboration, communication, learning and continuous improvement. - A: Automation - CI/CD toolchains, and infrastructure-as-code enable automation, consistency, velocity and fast recovery. - L: Lean - Maximize customer value while minimizing waste and improving flow. - M: Measurement - Value-driven metrics for people, process and technology support trust and performance improvement. - S: Sharing - Leaders and teams share ideas, and skills, improve communication, collaboration and performance.
The Three Ways	- 1st Way: Continuous Flow - 2nd Way: Feedback - 3rd Way: Continuous Improvement (Experimenting and Learning)
Organization	- Cross-function teams focus on business goals. Ops work with Dev, supporting each other to improve flow towards production and monitor results.
Principles & Practices	- Frequent small releases using continuous integration, testing, delivery, deployments and monitoring reduce lead time, costs and risks.
Related Frameworks	- Agile: Lean Development - ITSM: Processes - Lean: Reduce Waste - Value Stream Management: End-to-End
Benefits	- Improved release cadence, velocity, throughput, efficiency and stability, quality, security and team satisfaction.