DevSecOps Practitioner (DSOP)® Training Course

OVERVIEW

Designed as the natural progression following the DevSecOps Foundation course, this practitioner-level program deepens technical understanding and moves beyond foundational concepts into practical implementation. The curriculum integrates new techniques with existing practices, highlighting useful metrics to measure progress. These modules provide strategies for resolving challenges related to people, processes, and technology to achieve superior DevSecOps results. Starting with a thorough examination of core concepts, the course guides learners in selecting existing metrics or crafting custom indicators tailored to their specific DevOps environments. The central portion of the training focuses on architectural evolution, infrastructure development, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines. Finally, it explores maximizing experimentation practices and predicts future trajectories in the DevSecOps landscape.

The DevSecOps Practitioner course presents advanced methodologies for deepening your organization's DevSecOps capabilities. Each module covers practical maturity frameworks and discusses how to synergize people, process, and technology to enhance business outcomes.

This course aims to equip participants with the practices, methods, and tools needed to engage cross-functional teams focused on reliability, utilizing real-world scenarios and case studies. Upon completion, participants will possess actionable takeaways to apply immediately in their roles, such as integrating DevSecOps practices into their organizational structure, refining pipelines within distributed systems, and establishing a unified technical language.

Developed through the synthesis of key DevSecOps resources, insights from industry thought leaders, and collaboration with organizations to extract real-world best practices, this course is engineered to impart the essential principles and practices required for DevSecOps success.

This program prepares learners to effectively pass the DevSecOps Practitioner certification exam.

Please note: Holding the DevOps Institute DevSecOps Foundation certification is a mandatory prerequisite for sitting the DevSecOps Practitioner exam.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Upon completing the course, participants are expected to have achieved the following learning objectives:

1. Grasp the fundamental principles underpinning DevSecOps
2. Differentiate the technical components utilized in DevSecOps practices
3. Demonstrate how practical maturity concepts can be expanded across various domains
4. Implement metric-based assessments specific to your organization
5. Identify modern architectural patterns, including transitions between microservices and monoliths
6. Recognize the languages and tools used to convey architectural concepts
7. Compare infrastructure building options such as Platform as a Service, Serverless architecture, and event-driven methods
8. Align hiring practices to identify the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary for mature DevSecOps roles
9. Identify the technical requirements for DevSecOps pipelines and understand their impact on people and process decisions
10. Examine various strategies for securing data repositories and pipelines
11. Analyze how monitoring and observability practices drive valuable business outcomes
12. Understand how to implement monitoring at critical points to facilitate actionable analysis
13. Evaluate how different experimental structures support the 3rd Way
14. Identify emerging trends that may influence the future of DevSecOps

LEARNER MATERIALS

• Three days of instructor-led training and facilitated exercises
• Learner Manual (serves as an excellent post-class reference)
• Participation in bespoke exercises designed to apply key concepts
• Sample documents, templates, tools, and techniques
• Access to additional value-added resources and professional communities

CERTIFICATION EXAM

Successfully passing the 90-minute examination, which consists of 40 multiple-choice questions with a 65% pass mark, results in the SRE Practitioner certificate. The certification is regulated and maintained by the DevOps Institute.