FinOps Certified Practitioner

The FinOps Certified Practitioner course allows individuals in a large variety of cloud, finance and technology roles to validate their FinOps knowledge and enhance their professional credibility.

The certification covers FinOps fundamentals and an overview of key concepts in each of the three sections of the FinOps lifecycle: Inform, Optimize and Operate.

• Understand the basics of how cloud computing works, know the key services on your cloud providers, including their common use cases, and have a basic understanding of billing and pricing models.
• Be able to describe the basic value proposition of running in cloud and understand the core concept of using a pay-as-you-go consumption model.
• Have a base level of knowledge of at least one of the three main public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud). For AWS, we recommend AWS Business Professional training or, even better, the AWS Cloud Practitioner certification. For Google, check out  Google Cloud Digital Leader course. For Azure, try the Azure Fundamentals learning path. Each can usually be completed in a full-day workshop.

• Live (virtual) 2 day instructor-led workshop
• Lead instructor is a real-world practicing FinOps leader in their organization
• Interactivity: the course features a number of group discussion and live activities to ensure interactivity. Please come prepared to share your knowledge and ask questions.

The certification is designed for those who plan to hold a position on a FinOps team or support FinOps or cloud financial management, or if you support FinOps teams as consultants, vendors, or trainers.

You will develop an understanding of FinOps, its practice areas, and how it’s applied to enhance business value from cloud spend.

Organizations undergoing a public cloud-first strategy or who are in the midst of a public cloud migration will also benefit greatly

1st Day

Module1 2h

What is FinOps?

• Key Aspects of FinOps
• The Business Value of FinOps
• Traditional IT vs Cloud
• Examples
• Q&A - Quiz

Module 2 2h

The FinOps Framework

• FinOps Principles
• FinOps Domains & Capabilities
• FinOps Personas
• FinOps Scopes
• FinOps Lifecycle: Inform, Optimize, Operate
• FinOps Maturity
• Examples
• Q&A - Quiz

Module 3 2h

Understand Usage and Cost

• Data ingestion
• On Premise, Cloud and Hybrid
• Cost Allocation: showback
• Reporting & Analytics
• Anomaly Management 
• Examples
• Q&A

Module 4 2h

4. Quantify Business Value

• Planning & estimating
• Forecasting
• Budgeting
• Benchmarking
• Unit Economics
• Examples
• Q&A - Quiz

2nd Day

Module 5 2h

5. Optimize Usage and Cost

• Architecture for cloud
• Rate Optimization
• Saving Plans, discounts, spot instances
• AWS, Azure Google Committed Base discounts
• Licensing & Saas
• Examples
• Q&A - Quiz

Module 6 2h

5. Optimize Usage and Cost

• Workload Optimization
• Resource Utilization & Efficiency
• Optimize Kubernetes
• Cloud Sustainability
• Examples
• Q&A - Quiz

Module 7 2h

6. Manage the FinOps Practice

• FinOps practice operations
• Policy & Governance
• FinOps Assessment
• FinOps Tool & Services
• Invoicing & chargeback
• Onboarding workloads
• FinOps Education enablement
• Intersecting Disciplines
• Q&A - Quiz

Module 8 2h

Exercise and Exam Tests

• FinOps Practitioner Exam
• FinOps Exam contents
• Exercises and tests
• Conclusion