Certified DeVops Architect

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Certified DevOps Architect
Master the art of orchestrating innovative
solutions for Continuous Delivery Do you wish to
be a certified DevOps Architect? Are you keen to
learn how to deploy effective and efficient
automated pipelines to deliver high quality
softwares, reduce risk and costs, and enhance
business value? Well.. The DevOps Architect
certification equips IT professionals with a
sound understanding of the DevOps landscape and
empowers you to lead the transformation of the
organizations architecture from traditional
waterfall or agile to DevOps. A DevOps Architect
owns the product architecture and is in charge of
defining loosely coupled services. An architect
ensures that updating services or environments
has minimal effect on the end-users. DevOps
Architects have an extremely critical role to
play in the success of Dev Ops organizations and
teams. Its their responsibility to provide a
highly reliable, automated, hurdle-free
environment to facilitate seamless releases. In
the traditional waterfall approach, each team
member had to handle tough situations and
obstacles related to design and infrastructure,
along their path to delivery, but in a
collaborative DevOps team, DevOps Architects take
ownership to build a no-barrier highway to
continuous delivery which others can reap
benefits of.
Benefits for Employees, IT professionals

• Build competence around DevOps and broaden your
  perspective on delivery

• management
• Understanding of various tools and technologies
  to transform a project into DevOps model
• Distinguished job opportunity compared to peers
• End to end understanding of DevOps architecture
  and its implementation

• Benefits for Employers/Organizations
• Cost reduction due to efficient processes and
  streamlined workflow.
• With qualified DevOps professionals in the team,
  productivity is higher.
• Better quality deliverables and higher customer
  satisfaction.

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• It will be your Official Proof of Competence and
  up-to-date Knowhow in DevOps Architecture.
• Targeted Audience
• Anyone who is keen in learning about the
  principles of Continuous Integration and
  Continuous Delivery, should go for this
  certification
• Build Engineers
• Enterprise Architects
• Project Managers
• QA Managers
• Software Testers
• Maintenance and Support Staff
• Operations and Infrastructure Teams
• Release Managers and Engineers
• Software Developers
• Security Professionals

TOPICS COVERED

• Identifying DevOps goals, history, key
  terminologies and CICD pipeline
• The importance, practices, and transformation of
  a DevOps collaborative culture
• Why is design integral to Continuous Delivery and
  what are the design
• principles?
• What is the role of an architect in CD design?
• Best CD Design practices, such as modular design
  and microservices
• Understand associations between CD, Waterfall,
  Agile, ITIL, and DevOps
• Appreciate key benefits of continuous delivery
• Define Git Branching And build strategies
• Impact of DevOps culture and how an architect can
  foster DevOps culture and practices?
• Importance of Continuous Integration (Cl)
• What role an architect plays to orchestrate CI?
• Tenets and best practices of Continuous Testing
  (CT)
• How does an architect handle environmental
  inconsistencies?
• What is the difference between Continuous
  Delivery and Continuous Deployment and what are
  the benefits of each approach?
• How can an architect enforce CD best practices?
• Understanding packaging, containers, and release
• What is Continuous Monitoring and its importance
  in DevOps cycle?v

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• How can an architect participate in CM and
  monitor build progress?
• How to design an effective Continuous Feedback
  Loop?
• How tools to build a DevOps toolchain?
• What are the commonly used infrastructure
  frameworks in DevOps?
• Decipher IaC infrastructure as code
• Importance of security in a pipeline
• Defining application security testing DevSecOps
• How can an architect apply security best
  practices?
• Certification Exam
• Your Certified DevOps Architect Exam is a
  multiple-choice online test examination in which
  you can participate from your own PC from
  anywhere around the world.
• Your test contains 40 questions and you have 60
  minutes in a single session to answer your
  questions. There are no other hidden costs or
  fees involved.
• In order to pass your certification examination
  and obtain your Official Certified DevOps
  Architect Certificate, you need to correctly
  answer at least 70 of your test questions. The
  certification is governed and maintained by the
  DevOps University.
• How to Prepare for the Exam?
• The candidates who wish to appear for this
  certification can find all topics and study
  material available in the Certified DevOps
  Professional courses, offered by DevOps
  University. The training is exhaustive and
  rigorous and covers all key topics of
  certification exam.

Exam Details

• Language English
• Number of questions 40
• Passing score 70 (21 questions)
• Duration 60 minutes
• Format MCQ, True/False
• Online Yes
• Maximum Attempts 1
• Certificate validation Lifetime

• Cost 95