Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation Training Certification

The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation training program is aimed at:

• 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
• Anyone interested in modern IT leadership and organizational change approaches
• Anyone starting or leading a move towards increased reliability

There is no formal prerequisite for attending this course.

However, candidates must have a basic understanding of software development, DevOps and SDLC.

Course Introduction

○ Course Goals

○ Course Agenda

● Module 1: SRE Principles & Practices

○ What is Site Reliability Engineering?

○ SRE & DevOps: What is the Difference?

○ SRE Principles & Practices

● Module 2: Service Level Objectives & Error Budgets

○ Service Level Objectives (SLO’s)

○ Error Budgets

○ Error Budget Policies

● Module 3: Reducing Toil

○ What is Toil?

○ Why is Toil Bad?

○ Doing Something About Toil

● Module 4: Monitoring & Service Level Indicators

○ Service Level Indicators (SLI’s)

○ Monitoring

○ Observability

● Module 5: SRE Tools & Automation

○ Automation Defined

○ Automation Focus

○ Hierarchy of Automation Types

○ Secure Automation

○ Automation Tools

● Module 6: Anti-Fragility & Learning from Failure

o Why Learn from Failure

o Benefits of Anti-Fragility

o Shifting the Organizational Balance

● Module 7: Organizational Impact of SRE

○ Why Organizations Embrace SRE

○ Patterns for SRE Adoption

○ On-Call Necessities

○ Blameless Post-Mortems

○ SRE & Scale

● Module 8: SRE, Other Frameworks, The Future

○ SRE & Other Frameworks

○ The Future

● Additional Sources of Information

● Exam Preparations

○ Exam Requirements, Question Weighting, and Terminology List

○ Sample Exam Review Already present on our website.

In this course, candidates will be equipped with an 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

What does SRE stand for?

SRE is an abbreviation for Site Reliability Engineering. It deals with developing and implementing methods for maintaining reliable and scalable IT operations in complex environments.

Who administers the SRE Certification exam?

The SRE Foundation Exam is administered by DevOps Institute.

Will I get a certificate after completing this course?

Yes, Vinsys provides a course completion certificate once candidates successfully clear the SRE Foundation Exam which is conducted after the training is completed.

What are career prospects after pursuing this course?

With organizations realizing the need for having a sorted, fully-functional IT system with minimum risk of outages in complex environments, the hiring for professional Site Reliability Engineers have increased. So, candidates can expect a great career ahead after completing the SRE Foundation training course.

What is different with Vinsys training?

Vinsys focuses on creating skilled professionals. Our aim is to impart knowledge with maximum focus on training candidates with practical skills which is why one seeks a certification course. This is the major difference with our training. While we wish all candidates should clear the certification exams, our basic intent is to build their skills. Also, with industry-expert trainers and result-oriented training methods, Vinsys assures a satisfying course of training.

Exam Pattern: Multiple choice questions

Exam Type: Open book

No. of Questions: 40

Exam Duration: 60 minutes

Passing Criteria: 65%

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) has gained focus since modern organizations recognized the need to perform consistently in complex technical environments while minimizing the risk of major outages and failure incidents. The inclusion of automation and engineering solutions for reliable functioning of applications in complex IT environments is the core focus area of the SRE Foundation Training Course.

This training program highlights the methods, practices and tools required to engage people involved in reliability and stability by using real-world scenarios and case studies. Professionals attending this course will know how to anticipate and manage loopholes in operational systems making them more predictable, scalable and stable along with a scope for continual improvement.

The SRE Foundation Certification training at Vinsys aims at enabling attendees to thoroughly understand the fundamentals, principles, methods and tools for establishing a successful SRE system in place while also preparing them well to clear the SRE Foundation Exam in the first attempt.

The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) course is designed to enable candidates learn:

• Principles and practices of SRE and how they are used to improve developmental and operational activities
• Methods of re-aligning organizations as required by the SRE
• How SRE assists in scaling resources economically and reliably
• Evolution of SRE and its future
• Inter-relation between SRE and DevOps as well as other frameworks
• How to set, understand and track SLOs (Service Level Objectives)
• All that is required to successfully clear the SRE Foundation Exam

Vinsys is a leading training provider for professional course training globally. With a fully-equipped training infrastructure, exceptionally trained faculty, industry-expert facilitators, and result-oriented courseware, we ensure the best training to our candidates. Our training methodologies are highly focused on delivering practical skills and fundamental knowledge to students to prepare them well for the certification exams and be eligible to apply the acquired skills on the job when needed.

Our batches are conducted with professional conduct and our trainers pay attention to every single query raised by the students which leads to an interactive session and deeper understanding of concepts.

Key features of Vinsys trainings include:

• Scenario-based learning
• Highly experienced trainers
• Practical approach with real-world examples
• Accredited courseware
• Mock tests, practice exams, and complete exam preparation guidance
• Flexible training hours
• In-depth concept of learning
• Interactive training sessions
• 98.5% exam pass success rate in 1^st attempt