Site Reliability Engineering Practitioner® (SREP) Certification Training

This Site Reliability Engineering Practitioner® (SREP) Certification course introduces ways to scale services economically and reliably in an organization. This SRE Practitioner training explores strategies to improve agility, cross-functional collaboration, and transparency of the health of services towards building resiliency by design, automation, and closed-loop remediations.

Site Reliability Engineering Practitioner® (SREP) Certification Training Benefits

• In this SRE Practitioner Training course, you will learn how to:

  • Successfully implement a flourishing SRE culture in your organization.
  • Manage the organizational impact of introducing SRE.
  • Build security and resilience by design in a distributed, zero-trust environment.
  • Prepare for the DevOps Institute SRE Practitioner certification exam.
  • Participation in unique exercises designed to apply concepts.
  • Get sample documents, templates, tools, and techniques.
  • Access to additional value-added resources and communities.
  • Continue learning and face new challenges with after-course one-on-one instructor coaching.

• SRE Practitioner Training Prerequisites 

  • It is highly recommended that learners attend Learning Tree course 3694, Site Reliability Engineering Foundation® (SREF) Certification Training, before attending the SRE Practitioner course.
  • An understanding and knowledge of common SRE terminology, concepts, principles, and related work experience are recommended.

• SRE Practitioner Certification Information

  • To earn the SRE Practitioner certificate, you must successfully pass (65%) of the 90-minute examination, consisting of 40 multiple-choice questions. 
  • The certification is governed and maintained by DevOps Institute.

SRE Practitioner Certification Training Outline

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

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 and 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

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
• Cultural and Behavioral Skills are key
• SRE Case study