FinOps Certified Practitioner (FOCP) Course With Practice Questions/Answers
Jan 11, 2022Join in on the new course to help you learn about FinOps and get certified!
FinOps Certified Practitioner – Crash Course
Learn the fundamentals of FinOps and prepare for the Linux Foundation’s FinOps Certified Practitioner Exam.
The FinOps certification allows individuals in a large variety of cloud, finance and technology roles to validate their FinOps knowledge and enhance their professional credibility.
This course covers the full objectives of the certification to help you prepare and pass the exam.
Course Overview
And if you’re interested in taking the FinOps exam, you’ll also get a concise reference guide and practice questions to help you prepare.
What’s Included?
- 7 hours on-demand video with demos/whiteboards
- 4 downloadable resources
- FinOps Certified Practitioner Practice Exam Questions with Answer EBook
- Accredible Certificate of Completion
Who is This Course For?
- Cloud Computing Professionals
- IT Professionals that manage cloud.
- C-Level Executives
- Business Unit Leads, Application Stakeholders, etc
- Procurement Professionals
What You’ll Learn
✔ Understand why FinOps is a cultural practice and the operating model is the most efficient way for teams to manage their cloud costs.
✔ How to understand and control your cloud spending but also use the data collected to make money.
✔ Identify the proper tools to use in major cloud providers for managing costs.
✔ How cloud spending can drive more revenue, signal customer base growth, enable more product and feature release velocity, or even help shut down a data center.
✔ Understanding Cloud Usage and Cost Modeling, Cost Allocation and Resource Planning.
✔Understand how the organization acts and automates to manage cloud use within the context of other IT Finance activities, and integrates FinOps capabilities with existing organizational processes, organizational units, and technology.
✔ Understand how the organization works to define its pricing model goals, uses historical data to make pricing model adjustments by buying commitment based discounts, and works to manage the pricing aspects of services it is using in the cloud.
Requirements
- Participants should have cloud accounts to run and collect data on cloud spending.
Course Topics Covered
| Course and Instructor Intro Overview |
| Cloud FinOps Certification Overview |
| Course PreReqs |
| Cloud Computing Fundamentals |
| Intro to Cloud Computing |
| Cloud Computing Characteristics |
| Cloud Computing Service Models |
| Cloud Computing Deployment Models |
| Comparing On Premises to Cloud |
| Challenges of Cloud Computing |
| Section Summary |
| Section Review Questions |
| FinOps Fundamentals |
| What is FinOps |
| Why Use Finops |
| FinOps History |
| FinOps Six Principles |
| FinOps Lifecycle |
| CAPEX and OPEX |
| ROI and TCO Fundamentals |
| Chargeback |
| Cost Optimization Challenges |
| FinOps Terminology |
| Cloud Language/Business Language |
| Section Summary |
| Section Review Questions |
| FinOps Teams and Motivation |
| What is a FinOps Team |
| FinOps Team Roles |
| Centralized Teams or Decentralized? |
| Organization Changes and Adoption |
| Culture of FinOps |
| Motivations |
| FinOps Triangle |
| Section Summary |
| Section Review Questions |
| FinOps Capabilities |
| What are FinOps Domains & Capabilities |
| Six Pillars of FinOps |
| Best Practices |
| Aligning Teams to Resouces |
| Section Summary |
| Section Review Questions |
| FinOps Lifecycles |
| The FinOps Lifecyle |
| Lifecycle Phase – Inform |
| Lifecycle Phase – Optimize |
| Lifecycle Phase – Operate |
| Whiteboard Discussion |
| Section Summary |
| Section Review Questions |
| Cloud Resource Pricing and Billing |
| Cloud Economics and Pricing |
| Capacity Reservations and Reserved Instances |
| Cloud Billing |
| Demo – Allocation Techniques(Metadata/Tagging) |
| Cloud Spend Management AWS |
| AWS Pricing Models |
| Demo – AWS Tools |
| Whiteboard- AWS FinOps Use Case |
| Azure Pricing Models |
| Azure Demo |
| GCP Pricing Models |
| Demo – GCP Billing Demo |
| Section Summary |
| Section Review Questions |
| Exam Preparation and Closeout |
| Exam Preparation |
| Additional Resources |
| Course Closeout |
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