Master cloud financial management with the FinOps Certified Practitioner certification. Covers FinOps principles, lifecycle (Inform/Optimize/Operate), personas, domains, and cloud cost optimization strategies across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
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90 minutes
~100 questions
70%
FOCP
FinOps Foundation
FinOps definition and value proposition, 6 FinOps principles: Teams collaborate, Business value, Everyone owns, Data accessible, Centrally enabled, Variable cost model, FinOps maturity model: Crawl, Walk, Run
Understand Usage & Cost: Data Ingestion, Allocation, Reporting & Analytics, Anomaly Management, Quantify Business Value: Planning & Estimating, Forecasting, Budgeting, KPIs & Benchmarking, Unit Economics, Optimize Cloud Usage: Commitment-Based Discounts, Rate Optimization, Workload Optimization
Core personas: FinOps Practitioner, Engineering, Finance, Leadership, Procurement, Product, Allied personas: ITAM, ITFM, ITSM, Security, Sustainability, FinOps Practitioner responsibilities and enablement role
Inform phase: visibility, tagging, cost allocation, dashboards, showback, Optimize phase: rightsizing, commitment instruments, storage tiering, waste elimination, Operate phase: governance automation, policy enforcement, continuous improvement
Cloud pricing models: On-Demand, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Spot/Preemptible, RI vs Savings Plans: utilization %, coverage %, commitment strategies, Rightsizing methodology and sequencing (rightsize before committing)
Native cloud tools: AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, GCP Billing Reports, Third-party FinOps platforms: CloudHealth, Apptio Cloudability, Flexera, Key KPIs: Cloud cost as % of revenue, Unit economics, RI utilization/coverage
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