About SRE Certification
Overview
Site Reliability Engineering Training and Certification
Benefits of SRE Certification
For Individuals
- Learn how to get started in enhancing system reliability and resilience.
- Gain deep insights into the principles, practices and benefits of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
- Practice and master tools used in SRE to design and implement a reliable and resilient system.
- Effectively implement SRE practices within your organization to elevate performance.
- Understand what to measure, monitor and how to create meaningful reliability objectives.
For Organizations
- Having trained staff applying SRE practices will mean fewer outages, faster recovery times, and more resilient systems that maintain service availability.
- SRE will break down silos between development and operations, supporting a stronger DevOps culture.
- Teams are equipped with best practices in observability, root cause analysis, and proactive monitoring resulting in faster incident response.
- Increased customer trust and satisfaction through delivery of reliable systems and greater uptime.
- Offering SRE training shows commitment to technical excellence and career development, which will help to retain staff.
Useful links
Useful links
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SRE Fundamentals training
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SRE Certification levels
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Videos
Videos
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) - A mediator between two worlds
What is SRE Site Reliability Engineering - How developers look at operations - Midday Mentors
SFIA
This APMG certification has been informally mapped against the SFIA Framework to indicate the skills that are addressed and referenced by the certification. Although it is not yet possible to claim this digital badge, the indicative skills can be used to plan your professional development through assessing the skills you have and the skills you need for the role you want.
knowledge
Fundamentals
Generic attribute Knowledge up to level 3
Same as above plus IT infrastructure up to level 4, Systems and Software Life Cycle Engineering level 4
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FAQs
Today most companies can’t operate without IT. The systems and processes they support are so critical, their IT landscape has to be reliable. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a method developed by Google to manage services. Thanks to this approach, systems are more reliable and resilient.
The SRE Fundamentals training course gets participants acquainted with the basic principles of SRE, learn how SRE relates to DevOps and what business benefits come with the use of SRE.
Topics include:
- Monitoring, testing, infrastructure, build, and deployment automation within SRE.
- Measure the right points in the value stream.
- Conduct blameless post-mortems.
- Encourage feedback and transparency.
- Identify key characteristics of the operational and organizational model for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
- Apply SRE best practices Continuous Improvement.
- Promote a Safe-to-Fail environment within your organization.
The SRE Fundamentals exam is available in English.
SRE Fundamentals courses are generally delivered over 3 days.
The structure of the SRE Fundamentals exam is:
- 60 minutes
- 45 multiple choice questions
- Pass mark: 30 out of 45
- Closed book (no reference materials permitted)
The SRE Fundamentals exam does not expire and there are no on-going maintenance requirements.
- Provisional results: After completing the Foundation examination, candidates may receive provisional results either orally from the invigilator or on-screen at the end of an online exam.
- Official results: Once processed, official results, including a PDF breakdown of marks by syllabus area, are available in the APMG Candidate Portal. Results are issued as the total number of marks achieved.
- Processing time: Exam papers are usually marked immediately after the exam. APMG formally processes and confirms results via the Candidate Portal within 2 working days of receiving completed papers.
- Outstanding payments: In exceptional cases, results may be withheld until full payment has been received.
Once you’ve been notified that you’ve passed your exam, you will have the option to create a digital badge in APMG's Candidate Portal.
Visit APMG's Candidate Portal, view your exam results and select 'Create Badge'.
This takes you to the Credly website where the digital badges are hosted. You will be guided through the Credly account creation process.
Once you have created an account with Credly, log into the account and accept your pending badge.
Candidates will be able to claim their digital badge and electronic certificate from the APMG Candidate Portal within two business days of their exam result being issued.
If you are sitting the examination through an Accredited Training Organization, the cost of the exam is generally included in the course fee. Please ensure you confirm with your training provider that the exam is included in these costs.
If you have selected a self-study option, please note that APMG-International uses a global pricing model for all exams. The examination fees for candidates attending a public exam centre are determined by the location where the exams are administered.
To find out the costs in your region, please refer to our examination portal or contact the APMG-International Service Desk (servicedesk@apmg-international.com).
Most, if not all, of our certifications come with at least one Sample Exam to help participants prepare for their exam. Access to the Sample Exams can be located on our website.