Continuous Testing Foundation (CTF)® Training Course

This course is tailored for professionals involved in the design, implementation, and management of DevOps deployment pipelines and toolchains that facilitate Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Testing, and potentially Continuous Deployment. It emphasizes the core processes, metrics, APIs, and cultural aspects underlying Continuous Delivery.

Learn what DevOps Engineering is, why DevOps engineering is important, and how DevOps is engineered for success.

The course opens with a short review of DevOps foundational principles and then transitions into implementing DevOps. It is designed from an engineering point of view and covers topics such as DevOps in relation to other frameworks, technologies,
application design practices, continuous integration practices, continuous delivery and deployment, continuous testing, elastic infrastructures, monitoring, metrics, observability, governance, human aspects, and future trends of DevOps engineering.

The DevOps Foundation course establishes a foundational understanding of key DevOps terminology, ensuring that everyone shares a common language, and highlights the benefits of DevOps to support organizational success.

The course highlights the human dynamics of cultural change, equipping participants with practices, methods, and tools to engage people across the DevOps spectrum through the use of real-life scenarios and case studies. Upon completion of the course, participants will have tangible takeaways to leverage when back in the office such as understanding Value Stream Mapping.

An introduction to value stream management principles, practices, and tools. Designed to optimize value flow and realization in digital value streams and develop individuals’ skills. Digital value streams include the software applications and services in addition to the platforms that support them e.g., cloud infrastructure or DevOps toolchains.

Course topics include how DevSecOps provides business value, enhances business opportunities, and improves corporate value. The core DevSecOps principles taught can support organizational transformation, increase productivity, reduce risk, and optimize resource usage.

The DevSecOps Practitioner course introduces a range of practices to advance to a more comprehensive understanding of DevSecOps. Explore practical outcomes by finding the right mix of people, building processes to accelerate value, and comparing available technological options. This course is tailored for recently transformed organizations looking to enhance their DevSecOps skills and awareness.

This course is designed for anyone who needs an understanding of IT Service Management to help deliver better value to customers. It is appropriate for all IT staff and management, as well as customers who work closely with IT to support business requirements. This course is also designed for students who are seeking the ITIL® 4 Foundation certification and who want to prepare for ITIL® 4 Foundation exam.

ITIL 4® Foundation enables candidates to look at IT Service Management through an end-to-end operating model for the creation, delivery and continual improvement of tech-enabled products and services.

ITIL 4® Foundation equips candidates with:

• A holistic approach to the facilitation of co-creation of value with customers and other stakeholders in the form of products and services
• The guiding principles of ITIL 4®
• The four dimensions of Service Management
• Key concepts from Lean, Agile, DevOps, and why these are important to deliver business value
• How ITIL practices described in ITIL 4® will maintain the value and importance provided by the current ITIL® processes, whilst at the same time expand to be integrated to different areas of service management and IT, from demand to value.

Who is ITIL 4® Foundation for:

ITIL 4® Foundation is suitable for individuals who require a basic understanding of the ITIL® framework and how it may be used to enhance the quality of IT service management within an organization. The certification also applies to IT professionals who work within an organization that has adopted ITIL® and so need to be aware of and contribute to the overall service improvement programme.

ITIL 4® continues to support the ITSM community while expanding to a wider range of professionals working in the digital world, guiding how IT interfaces with, and leads the wider business strategy.

The SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) Foundation course serves as an introduction to the principles and practices that allow an organization to scale critical services reliably and economically. Incorporating a site-reliability perspective requires re-aligning the organization, shifting the focus toward engineering and automation, and adopting a variety of new work paradigms.