FinOps Certified Practitioner
The FinOps Certified Practitioner course allows individuals in a large variety of cloud, finance, and technology roles to validate their FinOps knowledge and enhance their professional credibility. The FinOps Certified Practitioner course covers the fundamentals of FinOps, including all components of the FinOps Framework. This course helps you understand what it means to be a FinOps Practitioner and how this role fits into a broader organization. Throughout this course, you will develop an understanding of FinOps, its practice areas, and how it is applied to enhance business value from cloud operations.
Level: Intermediate
Approximate Time to Complete: Self-paced: 6 hours; Instructor-led: 10 hours; Exam only: 1 hour
FinOps Certified Practitioner Self-Paced Course + Certification Exam
This is great for those who need flexibility and convenience. All course modules and the exam are available to you for a full year, you can complete it at your own pace during hours that work best for you. Includes 12 months of access to all course modules and the certification exam.
$500
2 Modules
FinOps Certified Practitioner Intermediate Self-Paced
FinOps Certified Practitioner Virtual Instructor-Led Course + Exam
Live two-day (virtual) class where you can get answers to your unique questions from industry-expert instructors. Includes 12 months of access to all course modules and the certification exam.
$1,500
FinOps Certified Practitioner FOCP Intermediate Virtual Instructor-Led
FinOps Certified Practitioner Certification Exam Only
Become a FinOps Certified Practitioner without taking a course. You will have three attempts to pass the exam over the course of one year. Includes certification exam only.
$325
FinOps Certified Practitioner Certification Exam Intermediate
FinOps Certified Practitioner Course (Training Modules Only)
Have access to all of the FinOps Certified Practitioner course content for 12 months. Includes course content only.
$250
FinOps Certified Practitioner + FOCUS Analyst
This bundle includes access to course materials and certification exams for the FinOps Practitioner and FOCUS Analyst courses.
$600
Booking Holding's FinOps Training Subscription
A collection of FinOps Foundation training and certification curated for Booking Holdings
FinOps Certified Professional Introduction
Get started here! This module provides an overview of the course, instructions for accessing the Slack group, an introduction into the business case, and the code of conduct.
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
SAP Training Subscription
A collection of FinOps Foundation training and certification curated for SAP
Equifax Training Subscription
A collection of FinOps Foundation training and certification curated for Equifax
Fidelity Investments Training Subscription
A collection of FinOps Foundation training and certification curated for Fidelity Investments
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.
Limited availability
FinOps Persona Training Beginner Self-Paced
American Airlines FinOps Training Subscription
A collection of FinOps Foundation training and certification curated for American Airlines
JPMC Training Subscription
A collection of FinOps Foundation training and certification curated for JPMC
FinOps Certified Engineer Certification - Exam Only
Become a FinOps Certified Engineer without taking a course. You will have three attempts to pass the exam over the course of one year. Includes certification exam only.
$325
Workday FinOps Training Subscription
A collection of FinOps Foundation training and certification curated for Workday
Bank of Montreal's FinOps Training Subscription
A collection of FinOps Foundation training and certification curated for Bank of Montreal
Apple Training Subscription
A collection of FinOps Foundation training and certification curated for Apple
FinOps Certified Practitioner + FinOps Certified Professional + FinOps Certified FOCUS Analyst
This bundle gives learners access not only to the FinOps Certified Professional certification but also to the prerequisite FinOps Certified Practitioner course and FinOps Certified FOCUS Analyst.
$2,250
FinOps Certified Professional + FinOps Certified FOCUS Analyst
Choose this option if you already hold the FinOps Certified Practitioner certification but still need FinOps Certified FOCUS Analyst. You can begin the Professional course immediately but will need to complete the FinOps Certified Analyst before taking the Professional certification exam.
$2,100
FinOps for Containers
This course examines ways engineers can perform FinOps activities on container spending.
$250
FinOps for Containers Beginner Intermediate Self-Paced
Lockheed Martin's FinOps Training Subscription
A collection of FinOps Foundation training and certification curated for Lockheed Martin
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.
Limited availability
FinOps Persona Training Beginner Self-Paced
FinOps Certified Engineer Self-Paced Course + Certification Exam
This option is great for those who need flexibility and convenience. All course content modules and the exam are included so you can complete it at your own pace during hours that work best for you. Includes 12 months of access to all course modules and the certification exam.
$500
2 Modules
Intermediate Self-Paced FinOps Certified Engineer
Introduction to FOCUS
This free course provides an introduction to FOCUS. After completing this course you will know what FOCUS is and why it is important. Includes 12 months of access to all course content.
FREE
Beginner Self-Paced FOCUS
Apply for Scholarship
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Introduction to FinOps
This FREE course provides a basic understanding of activities that are central to FinOps.
FREE
Beginner Self-Paced
AMEX's FinOps Training Subscription
A collection of FinOps Foundation training and certification curated for AMEX
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.
Limited availability
FinOps Persona Training Beginner Self-Paced
FinOps Certified FOCUS Analyst
This course provides an in-depth understanding of FOCUS. You will learn how to use FOCUS conformed datasets to solve real-world business challenges. Includes 12 months of access to all course modules and the certification exam.
$400
2 Courses
Advanced Self-Paced FOCUS
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.
Limited availability
FinOps Persona Training Beginner 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.
Limited availability
FinOps Persona Training Beginner Self-Paced
FinOps Certified Engineer + FinOps Certified FOCUS Analyst
This bundle includes access to course materials and certification exams for the FinOps Engineer and FOCUS Analyst courses.
$600
NatWest's FinOps Training Subscription
A collection of FinOps Foundation training and certification curated for NatWest
FinOps Certified Practitioner Course Content
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FinOps Certified Practitioner Intermediate Self-Paced
FinOps Certified Professional
This is the best option for learners who already have their FinOps Certified Practitioner and FinOps Certified FOCUS Analyst certification.
$1,999
32 Modules
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced
FinOps for AI - Coming Soon
Learn more about a brand-new series of courses to help you master the intersection of FinOps and AI.
FinOps Certified Engineer Course (Training Modules Only)
Have access to all of the FinOps Certified Engineer course content for 12 months. Includes course content only.
$250
FinOps Foundation Mentor Application
Apply to become a FinOps Foundation Mentor
FinOps Foundation Mentee Application
Apply to become a FinOps Foundation Mentee
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 Team - Interactive Session One
The first virtual instructor-led 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 covering FinOps strategy.
FinOps Certified Professional Virtual Instructor-Led
FinOps Certified Professional Exam
Final exam for FinOps Professional Certification.
FinOps Certified Professional Certification Exam Advanced
Flexera 2025 SKO
FinOps Certified FOCUS Analyst Certification Exam
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Limited availability
Certification Exam
FinOps Certified FOCUS Analyst Course Content
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Limited availability
Intermediate FOCUS
FinOps Certified Practitioner Certification Exam (Self-Paced)
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Limited availability
Certification Exam
Rate Optimization
Driving cloud rate efficiency through a combination of negotiated discounts, commitment discounts (RIs, Savings Plans, Committed Use Discounts), and other pricing mechanisms to meet the organization’s operational and budgetary objectives.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Forecasting
Creating a model of the anticipated future cost and value of cloud systems leveraging statistical methods, historical spend patterns, planned changes, and related metrics.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
FinOps Tools & Services
Developing criteria and methodology to effectively integrate FinOps tools and services that align to the Framework Capabilities to empower the FinOps practice.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Optimize Cloud Usage & Cost Domain
This Domain focuses on cloud efficiency, ensuring organizations only use the resources when they provide value to the organization; and that resources used are purchased at the lowest acceptable cost and impact to meet the organization’s goals. Organizations will measure efficiency in a variety of ways, including monetary cost, carbon usage, or more traditional IT operational efficiency measures.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Intersecting Disciplines
Coordinating activities with interconnected disciplines or Allied Personas (such as, ITAM, ITFM, Sustainability, Security) which manage responsibilities broader than just cloud, and which must integrate into the organizational cloud strategy by collaborating with FinOps.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Quantify Business Value Domain
Within this Domain, organizations map monetary and non-monetary cloud costs to budgets, use historical information and future plans to forecast, establish and measure technical and organizational KPIs, and perform benchmarking across teams, business units and with other organizations.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Invoicing & Chargeback
Developing specific reporting, cloud invoice reconciliation workflows and chargeback models, in direct collaboration with Finance Personas with input from Product and Engineering Personas, to align cloud cost data and reporting to specific budgets and accounting requirements.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Cloud Policy & Governance
Establishing and evolving policies, controls and governance mechanisms to ensure that cloud use aligns with business objectives, complies with regulatory requirements, and optimizes cloud resources efficiently.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Cloud Sustainability
Incorporating sustainability criteria and metrics into cloud optimization, to ensure environmental efficiency is balanced with financial value, and cloud optimization decisions are aligned with organizational goals.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Planning & Estimating
Estimation and exploration of potential cost and value, alongside opportunities for automation, sustainability and optimization, for workloads if implemented in an organization’s cloud environment in a particular model or models.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Manage the FinOps Practice Domain
This Domain enables continuous improvement to change and align the entire organization - its people, processes and technology - to adopt FinOps and use cloud in ways that create value for the company.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Reporting & Analytics
Analyze cloud data and create reporting to gain insights into usage patterns and spend patterns, identify opportunities for improvement, and support informed decision-making about cloud resources.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Anomaly Management
Detect, identify, alert and manage unexpected or unforecasted cloud cost and usage irregularities in a timely manner to lower risk in cost-effective cloud operations.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Licensing & SaaS
Understanding and optimizing the impact of software licenses and SaaS investments on an organization’s cloud cost structure and value by understanding vendor-specific licensing terms, use rights, and pricing options, planning for appropriate use aimed to minimize over-deployment or under-deployment, and collaborating with finance, procurement, and legal teams.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Data Ingestion
Collect, transfer, store, and normalize data from various sources, with a goal of creating a complete, contextual dataset of cloud usage and cost data available for analysis.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Understand Cloud Usage & Cost Domain
The outcome of this Domain is better understanding of an organization's use of the cloud. Within this Domain, organizations work to gather all the information required to perform FinOps. This includes direct and imputed cloud cost, cloud usage, observability, utilization, and sustainability data, and other datasets required by any FinOps Domain.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Budgeting
Strategic and ongoing process for setting limits, monitoring, and managing cloud spending, aligned with business objectives, to ensure accountability and predictable financial outcomes for cloud-based systems.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Business Case Study
Use the FinOps Business Case to apply your FinOps knowledge to practice identifying challenges and creating solutions for the Sunbird organization.
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Unit Economics
Develop and track metrics that provide an understanding of how an organization’s cloud use and cloud management practices impact the value of the organization’s products, services, or activities.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Onboarding Workloads
Orchestrating the migration of systems into, or between, cloud environments in a way that provides transparency to cost, usage, and impact; supports operational objectives; and establishes or maintains cost effectiveness.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Allocation
Define strategies to assign and share cloud costs using accounts, tags, labels, and other metadata, creating accountability among teams and projects within an organization.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
FinOps Education & Enablement
Training, skill development, and practical activities that enable teams throughout the organization to adopt and deliver the FinOps practice.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Benchmarking
Using efficiency metrics to evaluate cloud optimization and value between parts of the organization or against industry peers to inform decision-making and align FinOps with business objectives.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
FinOps Practice Operations
Driving a culture of accountability by running an effective FinOps team that empowers the FinOps practice through continuous implementation of FinOps strategy and processes.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Architecting for Cloud
Designing and modernizing solutions with cost-awareness and efficiency to maximize business value while achieving performance, scalability, and operational objectives.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Professional Contribution
Use this module to submit your Professional Contribution(s) for review.
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Workload Optimization
Analyze and optimize cloud resources to match specific usage patterns while ensuring that workloads operate efficiently, sustainably and generate sufficient business value for their cost.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
FinOps Assessment
Conducting repeatable, measurable, thoughtful analysis of the maturity of a FinOps Practice in the context of the FinOps Framework for insights into strengths and areas for improvement of FinOps activities.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
FinOps Certified Engineer Certification Exam
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Certification Exam
FinOps Certified Engineer Course Content
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Intermediate Self-Paced FinOps Certified Engineer
FinOps Certified FOCUS Analyst Certification Exam
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Limited availability
Certification Exam
FinOps Certified FOCUS Analyst Course Content
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Limited availability
Intermediate FOCUS
FinOps Certified Practitioner Course Content
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FinOps Certified Practitioner Intermediate Self-Paced
FinOps Certified Practitioner Certification Exam (Self-Paced)
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Limited availability
Certification Exam
Rate Optimization
Driving cloud rate efficiency through a combination of negotiated discounts, commitment discounts (RIs, Savings Plans, Committed Use Discounts), and other pricing mechanisms to meet the organization’s operational and budgetary objectives.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Forecasting
Creating a model of the anticipated future cost and value of cloud systems leveraging statistical methods, historical spend patterns, planned changes, and related metrics.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
FinOps Tools & Services
Developing criteria and methodology to effectively integrate FinOps tools and services that align to the Framework Capabilities to empower the FinOps practice.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
FinOps Certified Professional Introduction
Get started here! This module provides an overview of the course, instructions for accessing the Slack group, an introduction into the business case, and the code of conduct.
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Optimize Cloud Usage & Cost Domain
This Domain focuses on cloud efficiency, ensuring organizations only use the resources when they provide value to the organization; and that resources used are purchased at the lowest acceptable cost and impact to meet the organization’s goals. Organizations will measure efficiency in a variety of ways, including monetary cost, carbon usage, or more traditional IT operational efficiency measures.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Intersecting Disciplines
Coordinating activities with interconnected disciplines or Allied Personas (such as, ITAM, ITFM, Sustainability, Security) which manage responsibilities broader than just cloud, and which must integrate into the organizational cloud strategy by collaborating with FinOps.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Quantify Business Value Domain
Within this Domain, organizations map monetary and non-monetary cloud costs to budgets, use historical information and future plans to forecast, establish and measure technical and organizational KPIs, and perform benchmarking across teams, business units and with other organizations.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
FinOps Team - Interactive Session One
The first virtual instructor-led session focuses on the FinOps vision, teams, roadmap, and creating a business case for change.
FinOps Certified Professional Virtual Instructor-Led Self-Paced
Invoicing & Chargeback
Developing specific reporting, cloud invoice reconciliation workflows and chargeback models, in direct collaboration with Finance Personas with input from Product and Engineering Personas, to align cloud cost data and reporting to specific budgets and accounting requirements.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Cloud Policy & Governance
Establishing and evolving policies, controls and governance mechanisms to ensure that cloud use aligns with business objectives, complies with regulatory requirements, and optimizes cloud resources efficiently.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Cloud Sustainability
Incorporating sustainability criteria and metrics into cloud optimization, to ensure environmental efficiency is balanced with financial value, and cloud optimization decisions are aligned with organizational goals.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Planning & Estimating
Estimation and exploration of potential cost and value, alongside opportunities for automation, sustainability and optimization, for workloads if implemented in an organization’s cloud environment in a particular model or models.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Manage the FinOps Practice Domain
This Domain enables continuous improvement to change and align the entire organization - its people, processes and technology - to adopt FinOps and use cloud in ways that create value for the company.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Reporting & Analytics
Analyze cloud data and create reporting to gain insights into usage patterns and spend patterns, identify opportunities for improvement, and support informed decision-making about cloud resources.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Anomaly Management
Detect, identify, alert and manage unexpected or unforecasted cloud cost and usage irregularities in a timely manner to lower risk in cost-effective cloud operations.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Licensing & SaaS
Understanding and optimizing the impact of software licenses and SaaS investments on an organization’s cloud cost structure and value by understanding vendor-specific licensing terms, use rights, and pricing options, planning for appropriate use aimed to minimize over-deployment or under-deployment, and collaborating with finance, procurement, and legal teams.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Data Ingestion
Collect, transfer, store, and normalize data from various sources, with a goal of creating a complete, contextual dataset of cloud usage and cost data available for analysis.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Understand Cloud Usage & Cost Domain
The outcome of this Domain is better understanding of an organization's use of the cloud. Within this Domain, organizations work to gather all the information required to perform FinOps. This includes direct and imputed cloud cost, cloud usage, observability, utilization, and sustainability data, and other datasets required by any FinOps Domain.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Budgeting
Strategic and ongoing process for setting limits, monitoring, and managing cloud spending, aligned with business objectives, to ensure accountability and predictable financial outcomes for cloud-based systems.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Business Case Study
Use the FinOps Business Case to apply your FinOps knowledge to practice identifying challenges and creating solutions for the Sunbird organization.
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
FinOps Certified Professional Exam
Final exam for FinOps Professional Certification.
FinOps Certified Professional Certification Exam Advanced
Unit Economics
Develop and track metrics that provide an understanding of how an organization’s cloud use and cloud management practices impact the value of the organization’s products, services, or activities.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
FinOps Strategy - Interactive Session Two
The second virtual instructor-led session covering FinOps strategy.
FinOps Certified Professional Virtual Instructor-Led
Onboarding Workloads
Orchestrating the migration of systems into, or between, cloud environments in a way that provides transparency to cost, usage, and impact; supports operational objectives; and establishes or maintains cost effectiveness.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Allocation
Define strategies to assign and share cloud costs using accounts, tags, labels, and other metadata, creating accountability among teams and projects within an organization.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
FinOps Education & Enablement
Training, skill development, and practical activities that enable teams throughout the organization to adopt and deliver the FinOps practice.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Benchmarking
Using efficiency metrics to evaluate cloud optimization and value between parts of the organization or against industry peers to inform decision-making and align FinOps with business objectives.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
FinOps Practice Operations
Driving a culture of accountability by running an effective FinOps team that empowers the FinOps practice through continuous implementation of FinOps strategy and processes.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Architecting for Cloud
Designing and modernizing solutions with cost-awareness and efficiency to maximize business value while achieving performance, scalability, and operational objectives.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Professional Contribution
Use this module to submit your Professional Contribution(s) for review.
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Workload Optimization
Analyze and optimize cloud resources to match specific usage patterns while ensuring that workloads operate efficiently, sustainably and generate sufficient business value for their cost.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
FinOps Assessment
Conducting repeatable, measurable, thoughtful analysis of the maturity of a FinOps Practice in the context of the FinOps Framework for insights into strengths and areas for improvement of FinOps activities.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
FinOps Certified Engineer Certification Exam
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Certification Exam
FinOps Certified Engineer Course Content
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Intermediate Self-Paced FinOps Certified Engineer
FinOps Certified FOCUS Analyst Certification Exam
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Limited availability
Certification Exam
FinOps Certified FOCUS Analyst Course Content
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Limited availability
Intermediate FOCUS
FinOps Certified Practitioner Certification Exam (Self-Paced)
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Limited availability
Certification Exam
Rate Optimization
Driving cloud rate efficiency through a combination of negotiated discounts, commitment discounts (RIs, Savings Plans, Committed Use Discounts), and other pricing mechanisms to meet the organization’s operational and budgetary objectives.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Forecasting
Creating a model of the anticipated future cost and value of cloud systems leveraging statistical methods, historical spend patterns, planned changes, and related metrics.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
FinOps Tools & Services
Developing criteria and methodology to effectively integrate FinOps tools and services that align to the Framework Capabilities to empower the FinOps practice.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Optimize Cloud Usage & Cost Domain
This Domain focuses on cloud efficiency, ensuring organizations only use the resources when they provide value to the organization; and that resources used are purchased at the lowest acceptable cost and impact to meet the organization’s goals. Organizations will measure efficiency in a variety of ways, including monetary cost, carbon usage, or more traditional IT operational efficiency measures.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Intersecting Disciplines
Coordinating activities with interconnected disciplines or Allied Personas (such as, ITAM, ITFM, Sustainability, Security) which manage responsibilities broader than just cloud, and which must integrate into the organizational cloud strategy by collaborating with FinOps.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Quantify Business Value Domain
Within this Domain, organizations map monetary and non-monetary cloud costs to budgets, use historical information and future plans to forecast, establish and measure technical and organizational KPIs, and perform benchmarking across teams, business units and with other organizations.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Invoicing & Chargeback
Developing specific reporting, cloud invoice reconciliation workflows and chargeback models, in direct collaboration with Finance Personas with input from Product and Engineering Personas, to align cloud cost data and reporting to specific budgets and accounting requirements.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Cloud Policy & Governance
Establishing and evolving policies, controls and governance mechanisms to ensure that cloud use aligns with business objectives, complies with regulatory requirements, and optimizes cloud resources efficiently.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Cloud Sustainability
Incorporating sustainability criteria and metrics into cloud optimization, to ensure environmental efficiency is balanced with financial value, and cloud optimization decisions are aligned with organizational goals.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Planning & Estimating
Estimation and exploration of potential cost and value, alongside opportunities for automation, sustainability and optimization, for workloads if implemented in an organization’s cloud environment in a particular model or models.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Manage the FinOps Practice Domain
This Domain enables continuous improvement to change and align the entire organization - its people, processes and technology - to adopt FinOps and use cloud in ways that create value for the company.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Reporting & Analytics
Analyze cloud data and create reporting to gain insights into usage patterns and spend patterns, identify opportunities for improvement, and support informed decision-making about cloud resources.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Anomaly Management
Detect, identify, alert and manage unexpected or unforecasted cloud cost and usage irregularities in a timely manner to lower risk in cost-effective cloud operations.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Licensing & SaaS
Understanding and optimizing the impact of software licenses and SaaS investments on an organization’s cloud cost structure and value by understanding vendor-specific licensing terms, use rights, and pricing options, planning for appropriate use aimed to minimize over-deployment or under-deployment, and collaborating with finance, procurement, and legal teams.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Data Ingestion
Collect, transfer, store, and normalize data from various sources, with a goal of creating a complete, contextual dataset of cloud usage and cost data available for analysis.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Understand Cloud Usage & Cost Domain
The outcome of this Domain is better understanding of an organization's use of the cloud. Within this Domain, organizations work to gather all the information required to perform FinOps. This includes direct and imputed cloud cost, cloud usage, observability, utilization, and sustainability data, and other datasets required by any FinOps Domain.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Budgeting
Strategic and ongoing process for setting limits, monitoring, and managing cloud spending, aligned with business objectives, to ensure accountability and predictable financial outcomes for cloud-based systems.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Business Case Study
Use the FinOps Business Case to apply your FinOps knowledge to practice identifying challenges and creating solutions for the Sunbird organization.
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Unit Economics
Develop and track metrics that provide an understanding of how an organization’s cloud use and cloud management practices impact the value of the organization’s products, services, or activities.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Onboarding Workloads
Orchestrating the migration of systems into, or between, cloud environments in a way that provides transparency to cost, usage, and impact; supports operational objectives; and establishes or maintains cost effectiveness.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Allocation
Define strategies to assign and share cloud costs using accounts, tags, labels, and other metadata, creating accountability among teams and projects within an organization.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
FinOps Education & Enablement
Training, skill development, and practical activities that enable teams throughout the organization to adopt and deliver the FinOps practice.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Benchmarking
Using efficiency metrics to evaluate cloud optimization and value between parts of the organization or against industry peers to inform decision-making and align FinOps with business objectives.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
FinOps Practice Operations
Driving a culture of accountability by running an effective FinOps team that empowers the FinOps practice through continuous implementation of FinOps strategy and processes.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Architecting for Cloud
Designing and modernizing solutions with cost-awareness and efficiency to maximize business value while achieving performance, scalability, and operational objectives.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Professional Contribution
Use this module to submit your Professional Contribution(s) for review.
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
Workload Optimization
Analyze and optimize cloud resources to match specific usage patterns while ensuring that workloads operate efficiently, sustainably and generate sufficient business value for their cost.
Limited availability
FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
FinOps Assessment
Conducting repeatable, measurable, thoughtful analysis of the maturity of a FinOps Practice in the context of the FinOps Framework for insights into strengths and areas for improvement of FinOps activities.
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FinOps Certified Professional Advanced Self-Paced
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