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FinOps Certified Practitioner
The FinOps Certified Practitioner certification allows individuals in a large variety of cloud, finance and technology roles to validate their FinOps knowledge and enhance their professional credibility. Self-Paced, Virtual Instructor-Led, and Exam only options available.
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FinOps Certified Engineer
The certification course is for engineers who design, construct, and operate solutions/infrastructure using public cloud and provides information on how to work with FinOps teams and other stakeholders to manage cloud use and cost efficiently to drive value from cloud.
$699
2 Modules
Intermediate
Self-Paced
FinOps Certified Engineer
FinOps Certified Professional
Select to learn more about the FinOps Certified Professional requirements, class structure, and to purchase.
$3,750
40 Modules
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
FinOps for Containers
FinOps for Containers provides a review of container environments that engineers are likely to work with in the public cloud, and examines ways that engineers can perform FinOps activities on that container spending.
$350
FinOps for Containers
Beginner
Intermediate
Self-Paced
2.5.3 Onboarding Workloads
The Onboarding Workloads capability is about establishing a process to migrate and develop applications in the cloud (included in the FinOps Professional course).
$100
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
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2.7.5 IT Asset Management Integration
ITAM integration is one of the areas of integration into the organization for FinOps. Organizations with an ITAM function will benefit from having a strong partnership between FinOps practice and ITAM functions.
FinOps Certified Professional
Self-Paced
2.6.1 Manage Commitment Based Discounts
Each cloud vendor has their own set of commitment based discount options, so the specifics of what you’re committing to and the discount you receive will vary depending on the vendor and what type of commitment you make.
FinOps Certified Professional
Self-Paced
2.8.1.1 Azure Billing Mechanics
An overview of Azure billing mechanics including billing hierarchy, billing organization, data structures, and optimizations mechanics.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.7.3 Establishing FinOps Culture
At its core, FinOps is a cultural movement because the practice of FinOps is more than a technology solution or a checklist you hand to your teams.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.7.2 Cloud Policy & Governance
Cloud Policy is a statement of intent to align cloud-related activity with a standard model designed to improve business value. Cloud Governance is a set of processes by which activity is controlled, so that cloud policy is implemented.
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.2.4 Data Ingestion & Normalization
Data Ingestion and Normalization is a capability that will be performed first in the Understanding Cloud Usage and Cost domain
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.7.0 Organizational Alignment Domain
Within this domain, the organization acts and automates to manage cloud use within the context of other IT Finance activities, and integrates FinOps capabilities with existing organizational processes, organizational units, and technology.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.1.0 The FinOps Framework
The FinOps Framework provides the operating model for how to practice it.
Self-Paced
American Airlines FinOps Training Subscription
A collection of FinOps Foundation training and certification curated for American Airlines
2.2.3 Data Analysis and Showback
Data analysis and showback is the ability to leverage data, along with metadata on cloud resources and resource hierarchies, to create a near “real time” reporting mechanism for stakeholders
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.3.1 Measuring Unit Costs
Unit Costs are a key way to communicate both the cost and the value of what an organization is doing in cloud.
FREE
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.7.1 Chargeback & IT Finance Integration
Chargeback and IT Finance Integration establishes financial accountability for cloud spend and IT Finance Integration is the ‘forward path’ of cloud spend data through to an organization’s financial management systems.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.7.4 FinOps Education & Enablement
FinOps Education & Enablement allows all those participating in FinOps practices to increase the business value of cloud by accelerating FinOps adoption.
$100
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
Fidelity Investments Training Subscription
A collection of FinOps Foundation training and certification curated for Fidelity Investments
2.8.2 FinOps Assessment
Define and establish the required scoping to execute a FinOps Assessment.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
FinOps Personas - Procurement Training
The FinOps Personas - Procurement course provides an overview of FinOps as well as information about how to collaborate and understand each of the FinOps personas.
$150
FinOps Persona Training
Beginner
Self-Paced
FinOps Personas - Product Owner Training
The FinOps Personas - Product Owner course provides an overview of FinOps as well as information about how to collaborate and understand each of the FinOps personas.
$150
FinOps Persona Training
Beginner
Self-Paced
FinOps Personas - Leader Training
The FinOps Personas - Leader course provides an overview of FinOps as well as information about how to collaborate and understand each of the FinOps personas.
$150
FinOps Persona Training
Beginner
Self-Paced
Bank of Montreal's FinOps Training Subscription
A collection of FinOps Foundation training and certification curated for Bank of Montreal
2.3.0 Performance Tracking & Benchmarking Domains
Within this domain, the organization sets and maps its usage and cost to budgets, uses historical information to forecast, and establishes and measures KPIs and other performance indicators, including benchmarking.
Advanced
Self-Paced
FinOps Personas - Engineer Training
The FinOps Personas - Engineers course provides an overview of FinOps as well as information about how to collaborate and understand each of the FinOps personas.
$150
FinOps Persona Training
Beginner
Self-Paced
2.2.4.1 Multi-Currency
Multi-Currency Normalization is a sub-capability within the capability Data Ingestion and Normalization.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
FinOps Certified Practitioner (Self-Paced)
The FinOps Certified Practitioner self-paced course includes all self-paced materials and the certification exam.
$599
2 Modules
FinOps Certified Practitioner
Intermediate
Self-Paced
Apple Training Subscription
A collection of FinOps Foundation training and certification curated for Apple
2.5.0 Cloud Usage Optimization Domain
Within this domain, the organization identifies and takes action to match running cloud resources to the actual demand of the workloads running at any given time.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.3.2 Forecasting
Forecasting is the practice of predicting future spending, usually based on a combination of historical spending and an evaluation of future plans. understanding how future cloud infrastructure and application lifecycle changes may impact current budgets and influence budget planning and future cloud investment decisions.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.5.1 Workload Management & Automation
This capability may be known by many different names, including elasticity, variable spending, dynamic resource pro/deprovisioning, and so on. No matter the name we associate to this capability, it is one of the primary benefits of cloud and a fundamental aspect of the FinOps practice.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.4.0 Real-Time Decision Making Domain
This Domain improves stakeholder enablement by curating data in stakeholder-specific contexts, iteratively improving decision velocity and aligning organizational processes to the realities of operating in the cloud.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.2.0 Understanding Cloud Usage & Cost
Within this Domain, the organization will work to gather all required information about its cloud usage and cost, normalize it, make it available for review, including circulating it to those personas that will use it in other Domains.
$100
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.8.0 Translating Services Across Cloud Providers
A look at specific FinOps terminology and tools per cloud provider.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.3.3 Budget Management
Why is Budget management important? It’s no surprise that budgets are used in just about every organization to manage spend. They have been shown to be effective and important over the years in ensuring organizations are managed responsibly.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.8.1 Cloud Billing Mechanics
Cloud Billing Mechanics describes how organizations incur charges for using cloud services, reconcile charges with cloud usage, pay suppliers, and use billing data to optimize the business value of cloud.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.5.2 Resource Utilization & Efficiency
In context to FinOps, resource utilization is about making sure you are getting sufficient business value for the cost. It is necessary to observe a resource’s utilization over time to understand if the performance, availability or other quality metrics are of value for the expense incurred.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
FinOps Personas - Finance Training
The FinOps Personas - Finance course provides an overview of FinOps as well as information about how to collaborate and understand each of the FinOps personas.
$150
FinOps Persona Training
Beginner
Self-Paced
2.2.2 Managing Shared Cost
This is one of the most important, impactful and central capabilities of any FinOps practice, and one that requires a lot of domain knowledge to do well with the volume and pace of data in cloud, and the consistency required by the end results
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
FinOps Professional Introduction
This module welcomes you to the course and includes a list of required pre-work.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.2.1 Cost Allocation
It's important to understand Cost Allocation because it is one of the most important of the capabilities within Understand Cloud Usage & Cost domain.
$100
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
Equifax Persona Training Subscription
A collection of all of the FinOps Persona courses
FinOps Persona Course Subscription
A collection of all of the FinOps Persona courses
AIA FinOps Training Subscription
A collection of FinOps Foundation training and certification curated for AIA
Capital One Training Subscription
A collection of FinOps Foundation training and certification curated for Capital One
Fannie Mae FinOps Training Subscription
A collection of FinOps Foundation training and certification curated for Fannie Mae
CME FinOps Training Subscription
A collection of FinOps Foundation training and certification curated for CME
Mastercard Training Subscription
A collection of FinOps Foundation training and certification curated for Mastercard
Walmart FinOps Training Subscription
A collection of FinOps Foundation training and certification curated for Walmart
FinOps Training Subscription
A collection of FinOps Foundation training and certification.
FinOps Certified Practitioner Course Materials
This section covers all of the course material from What is FinOps to Anatomy of a Cloud Bill to Maturing FinOps and more!
FinOps Certified Practitioner
Intermediate
Self-Paced
FinOps Certified Practitioner - Virtual Instructor Led
This course includes access to the two day virtual instructor-led FinOps Certified Practitioner course, all self-paced course materials, and the certification exam.
$1,500
FinOps Certified Practitioner
FOCP
Intermediate
Virtual Instructor-Led
FinOps Certified Practitioner Certification Exam
This course is the stand-alone FinOps Certified Practitioner certification exam.
$300
FinOps Certified Practitioner
Certification Exam
Intermediate
2.6.0 Cloud Rate Optimization Domain
Within this domain, the organization works to define its pricing model goals, uses historical data to make pricing model adjustments, and works to manage the pricing aspects of services.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
FinOps Team - Interactive Session One
The first virtual instructor-led session in the FinOps Certified Professional course. This session focuses on the FinOps vision, teams, roadmap, and creating a business case for change.
FinOps Certified Professional
Virtual Instructor-Led
Self-Paced
FinOps Strategy - Interactive Session Two
The second virtual instructor-led session in the FinOps Professional course. This session covers FinOps Strategy.
FinOps Certified Professional
Virtual Instructor-Led
FinOps Certified Professional Exam
Final exam for FinOps Professional Certification
FinOps Certified Professional
Certification Exam
Advanced
FinOps Certified Professional Certification Essay Questions
A collection of three essay questions required to earn FinOps Professional Certification.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.4.2 Managing Anomalies
Anomalies in the context of FinOps are unpredicted variations (usually increases) in cloud spending that are larger than would be expected given historical spending patterns.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
1.1.0 Team Building & Adoption
This module includes lessons on team building, adoption, and a business case for change.
FinOps Certified Professional
Self-Paced
FinOps Certified Professional Certification Service & Content Project
The FinOps Professional Certification requires you to fulfill a service and content project requirement.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
FinOps Certified Practitioner Certification Exam (self-paced)
This section contains the exam within the FinOps Certified Practitioner course
Limited availability
Certification Exam
2.8.1.2 GCP Billing Mechanics
An overview of Google Cloud Provider billing mechanics including GCP resource hierarchy, billing concepts, rate optimizations, detailed usage, and billing data.
Limited availability
37 min
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.5.2.1 Leverage Spot Resources
Spot resources are spare compute capacity offered by the cloud service providers.
Limited availability
33 min
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.7.2.1 Working with Cloud Service Providers
Understanding the relationships with cloud service providers.
Limited availability
30 min
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.5.3.1 Multi-Cloud
This module takes a look at Multi-Cloud.
Limited availability
33 min
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
FinOps Certified Engineer Certification Exam
This section contains the exam within the FinOps Certified Engineer course.
Certification Exam
FinOps Certified Engineer Course Materials
This section covers all of the course material from data to sustainability and more!
Intermediate
Self-Paced
FinOps Certified Engineer
FinOps Certified Practitioner Course Materials
This section covers all of the course material from What is FinOps to Anatomy of a Cloud Bill to Maturing FinOps and more!
FinOps Certified Practitioner
Intermediate
Self-Paced
FinOps Certified Practitioner Certification Exam (self-paced)
This section contains the exam within the FinOps Certified Practitioner course
Limited availability
Certification Exam
2.7.5 IT Asset Management Integration
ITAM integration is one of the areas of integration into the organization for FinOps. Organizations with an ITAM function will benefit from having a strong partnership between FinOps practice and ITAM functions.
FinOps Certified Professional
Self-Paced
2.8.1.1 Azure Billing Mechanics
An overview of Azure billing mechanics including billing hierarchy, billing organization, data structures, and optimizations mechanics.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.5.0 Cloud Usage Optimization Domain
Within this domain, the organization identifies and takes action to match running cloud resources to the actual demand of the workloads running at any given time.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.5.2 Resource Utilization & Efficiency
In context to FinOps, resource utilization is about making sure you are getting sufficient business value for the cost. It is necessary to observe a resource’s utilization over time to understand if the performance, availability or other quality metrics are of value for the expense incurred.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.8.1.2 GCP Billing Mechanics
An overview of Google Cloud Provider billing mechanics including GCP resource hierarchy, billing concepts, rate optimizations, detailed usage, and billing data.
Limited availability
37 min
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.2.4.1 Multi-Currency
Multi-Currency Normalization is a sub-capability within the capability Data Ingestion and Normalization.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.3.2 Forecasting
Forecasting is the practice of predicting future spending, usually based on a combination of historical spending and an evaluation of future plans. understanding how future cloud infrastructure and application lifecycle changes may impact current budgets and influence budget planning and future cloud investment decisions.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.2.2 Managing Shared Cost
This is one of the most important, impactful and central capabilities of any FinOps practice, and one that requires a lot of domain knowledge to do well with the volume and pace of data in cloud, and the consistency required by the end results
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.2.0 Understanding Cloud Usage & Cost
Within this Domain, the organization will work to gather all required information about its cloud usage and cost, normalize it, make it available for review, including circulating it to those personas that will use it in other Domains.
$100
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.2.4 Data Ingestion & Normalization
Data Ingestion and Normalization is a capability that will be performed first in the Understanding Cloud Usage and Cost domain
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.4.0 Real-Time Decision Making Domain
This Domain improves stakeholder enablement by curating data in stakeholder-specific contexts, iteratively improving decision velocity and aligning organizational processes to the realities of operating in the cloud.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.2.1 Cost Allocation
It's important to understand Cost Allocation because it is one of the most important of the capabilities within Understand Cloud Usage & Cost domain.
$100
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.2.3 Data Analysis and Showback
Data analysis and showback is the ability to leverage data, along with metadata on cloud resources and resource hierarchies, to create a near “real time” reporting mechanism for stakeholders
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
FinOps Professional Introduction
This module welcomes you to the course and includes a list of required pre-work.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.5.2.1 Leverage Spot Resources
Spot resources are spare compute capacity offered by the cloud service providers.
Limited availability
33 min
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.8.1 Cloud Billing Mechanics
Cloud Billing Mechanics describes how organizations incur charges for using cloud services, reconcile charges with cloud usage, pay suppliers, and use billing data to optimize the business value of cloud.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.4.2 Managing Anomalies
Anomalies in the context of FinOps are unpredicted variations (usually increases) in cloud spending that are larger than would be expected given historical spending patterns.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.7.4 FinOps Education & Enablement
FinOps Education & Enablement allows all those participating in FinOps practices to increase the business value of cloud by accelerating FinOps adoption.
$100
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.7.2 Cloud Policy & Governance
Cloud Policy is a statement of intent to align cloud-related activity with a standard model designed to improve business value. Cloud Governance is a set of processes by which activity is controlled, so that cloud policy is implemented.
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.7.3 Establishing FinOps Culture
At its core, FinOps is a cultural movement because the practice of FinOps is more than a technology solution or a checklist you hand to your teams.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
1.1.0 Team Building & Adoption
This module includes lessons on team building, adoption, and a business case for change.
FinOps Certified Professional
Self-Paced
2.3.0 Performance Tracking & Benchmarking Domains
Within this domain, the organization sets and maps its usage and cost to budgets, uses historical information to forecast, and establishes and measures KPIs and other performance indicators, including benchmarking.
Advanced
Self-Paced
FinOps Certified Professional Certification Service & Content Project
The FinOps Professional Certification requires you to fulfill a service and content project requirement.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.5.1 Workload Management & Automation
This capability may be known by many different names, including elasticity, variable spending, dynamic resource pro/deprovisioning, and so on. No matter the name we associate to this capability, it is one of the primary benefits of cloud and a fundamental aspect of the FinOps practice.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.3.1 Measuring Unit Costs
Unit Costs are a key way to communicate both the cost and the value of what an organization is doing in cloud.
FREE
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
FinOps Certified Professional Exam
Final exam for FinOps Professional Certification
FinOps Certified Professional
Certification Exam
Advanced
2.8.2 FinOps Assessment
Define and establish the required scoping to execute a FinOps Assessment.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.7.2.1 Working with Cloud Service Providers
Understanding the relationships with cloud service providers.
Limited availability
30 min
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.5.3.1 Multi-Cloud
This module takes a look at Multi-Cloud.
Limited availability
33 min
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.3.3 Budget Management
Why is Budget management important? It’s no surprise that budgets are used in just about every organization to manage spend. They have been shown to be effective and important over the years in ensuring organizations are managed responsibly.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
FinOps Strategy - Interactive Session Two
The second virtual instructor-led session in the FinOps Professional course. This session covers FinOps Strategy.
FinOps Certified Professional
Virtual Instructor-Led
FinOps Team - Interactive Session One
The first virtual instructor-led session in the FinOps Certified Professional course. This session focuses on the FinOps vision, teams, roadmap, and creating a business case for change.
FinOps Certified Professional
Virtual Instructor-Led
Self-Paced
2.7.1 Chargeback & IT Finance Integration
Chargeback and IT Finance Integration establishes financial accountability for cloud spend and IT Finance Integration is the ‘forward path’ of cloud spend data through to an organization’s financial management systems.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.5.3 Onboarding Workloads
The Onboarding Workloads capability is about establishing a process to migrate and develop applications in the cloud (included in the FinOps Professional course).
$100
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.1.0 The FinOps Framework
The FinOps Framework provides the operating model for how to practice it.
Self-Paced
2.6.0 Cloud Rate Optimization Domain
Within this domain, the organization works to define its pricing model goals, uses historical data to make pricing model adjustments, and works to manage the pricing aspects of services.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.6.1 Manage Commitment Based Discounts
Each cloud vendor has their own set of commitment based discount options, so the specifics of what you’re committing to and the discount you receive will vary depending on the vendor and what type of commitment you make.
FinOps Certified Professional
Self-Paced
2.7.0 Organizational Alignment Domain
Within this domain, the organization acts and automates to manage cloud use within the context of other IT Finance activities, and integrates FinOps capabilities with existing organizational processes, organizational units, and technology.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.8.0 Translating Services Across Cloud Providers
A look at specific FinOps terminology and tools per cloud provider.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
FinOps Certified Professional Certification Essay Questions
A collection of three essay questions required to earn FinOps Professional Certification.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
FinOps Certified Engineer Certification Exam
This section contains the exam within the FinOps Certified Engineer course.
Certification Exam
FinOps Certified Engineer Course Materials
This section covers all of the course material from data to sustainability and more!
Intermediate
Self-Paced
FinOps Certified Engineer
FinOps Certified Practitioner Certification Exam (self-paced)
This section contains the exam within the FinOps Certified Practitioner course
Limited availability
Certification Exam
2.8.1.2 GCP Billing Mechanics
An overview of Google Cloud Provider billing mechanics including GCP resource hierarchy, billing concepts, rate optimizations, detailed usage, and billing data.
Limited availability
37 min
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.5.2.1 Leverage Spot Resources
Spot resources are spare compute capacity offered by the cloud service providers.
Limited availability
33 min
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.7.2.1 Working with Cloud Service Providers
Understanding the relationships with cloud service providers.
Limited availability
30 min
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.5.3.1 Multi-Cloud
This module takes a look at Multi-Cloud.
Limited availability
33 min
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
FinOps Certified Engineer Certification Exam
This section contains the exam within the FinOps Certified Engineer course.
Certification Exam
FinOps Certified Engineer Course Materials
This section covers all of the course material from data to sustainability and more!
Intermediate
Self-Paced
FinOps Certified Engineer