SRE Foundation (SREF)℠
Course Description
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation℠ is a freestanding certification from DevOps Institute. The purpose of this certification and its associated course is to impart, test and validate knowledge of SRE basic vocabulary, principles and practices. SRE Foundation is intended to provide individuals an understanding of basic SRE concepts and how SRE may be used to improve operational activities by applying Site Reliability Engineering principles and engineering practices.

Training Method | Schedule | Duration | Delivery Format | Register & Pay | |
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Instructor Led | On-demand | 8 hours | On-Site Classroom / VILT (Virtual Instructor Lead Training) | CAD 1250 | |
Instructor Led | January 9th – 10th | 10 hours | On-Site Classroom / VILT (Virtual Instructor Lead Training) | CAD 1250 | |
Instructor Led | March 29th – April 1st | 16 hours | On-Site Classroom / VILT (Virtual Instructor Lead Training) | CAD 2074 |
Course Description
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation℠ is a freestanding certification from DevOps Institute. The purpose of this certification and its associated course is to impart, test and validate knowledge of SRE basic vocabulary, principles and practices. SRE Foundation is intended to provide individuals an understanding of basic SRE concepts and how SRE may be used to improve operational activities by applying Site Reliability Engineering principles and engineering practices.
Course Outline
The learning objectives for the SRE Foundation course include a practical understanding of:
- The history of SRE and its emergence at Google
- The inter-relationship of SRE with DevOps and other popular frameworks
- The underlying principles behind SRE
- Service Level Objectives (SLO’s) and their user focus
- Service Level Indicators (SLI’s) and the modern monitoring landscape
- Error budgets and the associated error budget policies
- Toil and its effect on an organization’s productivity
- Some practical steps that can help to eliminate toil
- Observability as something to indicate the health of a service
- SRE tools, automation techniques and the importance of security
- Anti-fragility, our approach to failure and failure testing
- The organizational impact that introducing SRE brings
Benefits
# instructor-led training and exercise facilitation
# SRE– The Basics (pre-class resource)
# Learner Manual (excellent post-class reference)
# Participation in unique exercises designed to apply concepts
# Sample documents, templates, tools and techniques
# Access to additional sources of information and communities
Exams
Successfully passing (65%) the 60-minute examination, consisting of 40 multiple choice questions, leads to the SRE Foundation Certificate. The certification is governed and maintained by the DevOps Institute.