SRE Foundation (SREF)℠

Learn to fully optimize your IT culture with this SRE Foundation (SREF) course from Good e-Learning!

Site Reliability Engineers fulfill many of the roles associated with Operations, supporting Development teams and driving productivity and efficiency. This course also demonstrates how site reliability engineers make systems more stable, predictable, and scalable while also tracking essential metrics to enable continuous improvement. Kickstart your SRE training today!

An Introduction to SRE Foundation (SREF)

Learning Objectives

This module provides an introduction to the course, explaining its rationale, introducing the subject matter and providing an overview of the ‘SRE Foundation’ syllabus.

This module also provides students with a toolkit:

Table of contents
Glossary
Further resources
Diagram pack

Module 1: SRE Principles & Practices

Learning Objectives

The first module of this SRE online course introduces students to the discipline of SRE and compares it with DevOps. It also offers an introduction to the principles and practices of site reliability engineering.

Topics include:

What is Site Reliability Engineering?
SRE & DevOps: What is the Difference?
SRE Principles & Practices

Module 2: Service Level Objectives & Error Budgets

Learning Objectives

This module looks at service levels, service level objectives (SLOs), error budgets, and error budget policies.

Topics include:

Service Level Objectives (SLO’s)
Error Budgets
Error Budget Policies

Module 3: Reducing Toil

Learning Objectives

This module looks at the ‘Toil’ concept, why it is a problem, and how it can be managed.

Topics include:

What is Toil?
Why is Toil Bad?
Doing Something About Toil

Module 4: Monitoring & Service Level Indicators

Learning Objectives

This module introduces service level indicators (SLIs), monitoring, and observability.

Topics include:

Service Level Indicators (SLI’s)
Monitoring
Observability

Module 5: SRE Tools & Automation

Learning Objectives

This module looks at automation, defining it in terms of DevOps and SRE. It also introduces different types of automation, as well as a number of automation tools.

Topics include:

Automation Defined
Automation Focus
Hierarchy of Automation Types
Secure Automation
Automation Tools

Module 6: Anti-Fragility & Learning from Failure

Learning Objectives

This module examines the principle of learning from failure, and how it can be used for anti-fragility and chaos engineering.

Topics include:

Why Learn from Failure
Benefits of Anti-Fragility
Shifting the Organizational Balance

Module 7: Organizational Impact of SRE

Learning Objectives

This module introduces how site reliability engineering is managed at an organizational level, as well as how it can be implemented.

Topics include:

Why Organizations Embrace SRE
Patterns for SRE Adoption
Sustainable Incident Response
Blameless Post-Mortems
SRE & Scale

Module 8: SRE, Other Frameworks, Trends

Learning Objectives

This module looks at how SRE can incorporate frameworks such as ITIL, Agile, and IT4IT. It also examines emerging trends that will define the future of SRE, including ‘customer reliability engineering’.

Topics include:

SRE & Other Frameworks
SRE Evolution
Exam Simulator

This SRE course is designed to fully prepare students to sit the official SRE Foundation (SREF) examination. This includes providing official practice exams to help students test themselves and get used to examination conditions.

This course comes with mock exams to help students prepare for the real thing, as well as a FREE exam voucher. (T&Cs apply)

Before booking your exam, it will be a good idea to make sure that your device meets the technical requirements. Please visit the DevOps Institute website for more information and guidance.

When you are ready to use your free exam voucher, simply contact [email protected]. Exam voucher requests are typically processed within 2 working days but please allow up to 5. Students must request their exam voucher within the course access period which starts from the date of purchase. For more information, please visit our Support & FAQs page.

SRE Foundation (SREF) exam:

  • This is a multiple choice exam consisting of 40 questions
  • There is a time limit of 60 minutes to complete the exam
  • The exam is open book, with only the provided materials being permitted for use
  • The pass mark for the exam is 65%: you must score at least 26 out of 40 questions correct
  • Candidates can take the exam online or in person with an invigilator

What is SRE?

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is the process of continuously testing the ‘reliability’ of a new product in development. This enables developers to better understand and adapt to the needs of operations teams.

How does SRE work?

There are several elements to SRE, including:

A ‘Service Level Agreement (SLA)’ is outlined to define reliable has to be for end-users
An ‘Error Budget’ is established to show how much can be spent on fixing errors before production must stop
Site reliability engineers make themselves available to help with development team workloads and vice versa
Site reliability engineers actively find and repair problems during the development stage
Developers take on Operations tasks if necessary
Site reliability engineers create automation wherever possible for the sake of efficiency and reliability

What is a site reliability engineer?

A ‘site reliability engineer’ is an automation/ coding specialist whose job it is to find and solve problems within Development and Operations.

How can SRE benefit businesses?

An SRE team can not only make a DevOps pipeline more reliable, but also far more efficient and scalable. It can also free Development and Operations team members to focus on improving services elsewhere, boosting the quality of releases. Incorporating SRE will also further improve existing DevOps cultures by encouraging greater communication, clarity, and understanding between teams.

Finally, site reliability engineers are specialists in considering and conveying concerns in relation to the wider organization and can extract metrics that can prove extremely valuable for other departments.

Does SRE complement DevOps?

DevOps and SRE work extremely well together. This is largely because both are designed with automation, inter-team collaboration, and communication in mind, as well as boosting efficiency and reliability within IT pipelines. The SRE Foundation qualification even comes from the DevOps Institute.

What do I need to study site reliability engineering?

There are no prerequisites for taking this course. However, it can be helpful to have pre-existing knowledge of SRE, as well as DevOps.

Why is SRE necessary?

SRE was originally developed by Google. Its purpose is to quantify the relationship between Development and Operations teams, ensuring that code is created efficiently, reliably, and with operational factors in mind. This is particularly valuable in organizations where IT departments and teams have become siloed from one another.

Who can benefit from studying SRE?

SRE is ideal for organizations that rely on developing and releasing code. It works particularly well in DevOps environments and is a popular choice with DevOps engineers and DevOps Leaders. Given the growing popularity of SRE, a qualified and experienced practitioner will often find it easier to take the next step in their career.

Who is this course aimed at?

  • IT and business managers, directors, team leaders, stakeholders, software engineers, and anyone else seeking an understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and how it relates to DevOps
  • DevOps practitioners who wish to specialize in site reliability engineering
  • Organizations wishing to incorporate the vocabulary, principles, concepts, and practices of Site Reliability Engineeringy
  • Anyone looking to pass the official SRE Foundation (SREF) examination

What will you learn by taking this course?

  • The principles and practices of site reliability engineering and how they are used to improve developmental and operational activities
  • How SRE helps organizations to scale services reliably and economically
  • How to realign organizations for the purpose of site reliability engineering
  • How SRE has evolved, and how it will continue to do so
  • How to understand, set, and track service level objectives (SLOs)
  • How SRE relates to DevOps and other frameworks
  • Everything needed to pass the official SRE Foundation (SREF) exam

Why should you take this course?

  • Site reliability engineering is in high demand, even outside of DevOps
  • Studying SRE can help established DevOps leaders take their understanding of and ability to apply the methodology to the next level
  • SRE can help companies to guarantee higher levels of communication, collaboration, reliability, and scalability
  • This SRE certification course offers over 16 hours’ worth of training content
  • Good e-Learning is an award-winning online training provider and a Trusted Education Partner for the DevOps Institute
  • This SRE online training course comes with several online training assets, including instructor-led videos, knowledge checks, mock exams, and scenarios and case studies
  • Good e-Learning also provides other SRE e-learning content, such as webinars and downloadable materials
  • The Good e-Learning support team is fully qualified to answer questions on course content
  • Worried about SRE certification costs? Good e-Learning offers a FREE exam voucher with this course (T&Cs apply)
  • The course is fully accredited by the DevOps Institute

This course is accredited by:

Self-Paced eLearning

Includes exam voucher

$649.00

  • Fully accredited:
  • Exam voucher included:
  • Course duration: 16+ hours
  • Access period: 6 months
  • Tutor support:
  • Quizzes & practice exams:
  • Mobile compatible:

COURSE IS ALSO available in A virtual instructor-led format

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