FinOps Certified Professional
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FinOps Certified Professional
The FinOps Certified Professional course is the most in-depth and hands-on FinOps training available. It is designed for experienced FinOps practitioners who want to move to the next level to further their careers, further their knowledge in their current practice, and round out their FinOps knowledge with other professionals who have similar and varied backgrounds.
Is FinOps Certified Professional Right for Me?
Let's start by setting expectations. FinOps Certified Professional isn't for everyone. You read that correctly - it isn't for everyone. This course is for the experienced FinOps practitioner who wants to take their FinOps knowledge to the next level. It's designed for current and future leaders of FinOps. This is an intensive course with 40-50 hours of anticipated work over several weeks. Much of the work will be self-paced but you will also be required to attend two virtual instructor-led trainings.
About the FinOps Certified Professional Course
The course is a hybrid model with virtual instructor-led and self-paced training.
You are required to attend two virtual instructor-led sessions, one at the beginning and one at the end of the program. The first session covers the building, managing, and evolving a FinOps team. Whereas the last one will be the strategy session where you will work with other learners on a business case to solve FinOps challenges at a sample organization. Class dates and times for the virtual instructor-led sessions by selecting the FinOps Team and Strategy modules. You register for the sessions after purchasing the course and completing prerequisite work.
In between the live sessions, there are multiple self-paced modules covering every FinOps capability, as well as some special topics. There are required and optional modules to earn the certification. The required modules are set but you are able to choose which optional modules you are most interested in completing.
The FinOps Certified Professional also requires service and content contribution requirements. Some of the things you can do to meet those requirements are to add or update modules in the course, contribute content to the FinOps framework, assist with FinOps Foundation training certification classes, or mentor students in future cohorts.
Required Prerequisites - Must be met to register for the course
- FinOps Certified Practitioner
- 6+ months of FinOps work experience
Note: Failure to meet prerequisites may result in removal from the course and a refund.
Recommended Prerequisites
- Understand the basics of how cloud computing works, know the key services on your cloud providers, including their common use cases, and have a basic understanding of billing and pricing models.
- Be able to describe the basic value proposition of running in cloud and understand the core concept of using a pay-as-you-go consumption model.
- Have a base level of knowledge of at least one of the three main public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud). For AWS, we recommend AWS Business Professional training or, even better, the AWS Cloud Practitioner certification. For Google, check out Google Cloud Digital Leader course. For Azure, try the Azure Fundamentals learning path. Each can usually be completed in a full-day workshop.
- Be a FinOps Foundation community member
- Have access to Google Workspace (used for shared work during training sessions)
Requirements for Certification
- Attend two live sessions
- Complete required self-paced modules
- Successfully pass the FinOps Certified Professional exam
- Fulfill service and content contribution requirements
By completing the modules in the course, collaborating with other FinOps professionals, and contributing content to the FinOps community, you’ll not only be prepared to build or lead a FinOps team, but you’ll deepen your FinOps expertise and be able to add more value in any FinOps related roles you currently perform.
What You Get With This Course
- Self-paced training modules and virtual instructor-led training sessions
- Access to a private Slack channel to collaborate with other student while in the course (12 months)
- 12 Months of access to online course materials and classes
- FinOps Certified Professional exam
The FinOps Certified Professional Certification is valid for 36 months once earned.