Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation

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Course overview

The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation course explores the principles and practices organisations use to improve the reliability and stability of critical services. You’ll examine the role of engineering and automation in SRE, how reliability is measured and how teams can use operational evidence and lessons from failure to improve the way services are managed.

Build your understanding of reliability engineering

Whether you’re developing your knowledge of SRE or building on existing experience, this two-day course strengthens your understanding of the measures and practices behind reliable services. You’ll examine SLOs, SLIs, error budgets and toil, giving you a stronger technical foundation for contributing to reliability-focused work.

Learning objectives

Interpret core SRE principles in an operational context
Explain how Service Level Objectives support reliability
Relate SLIs to SLOs and service health
Explain error budgets and associated policies
Identify toil and opportunities to reduce it
Evaluate service health through monitoring and observability
Recognise SRE automation approaches and tools
Explain anti-fragility and approaches to failure testing
Explain the organisational implications of adopting SRE
Understand how SRE is evolving alongside other frameworks

What you'll learn

The course examines the technical and organisational practices behind SRE, from responding to incidents and learning from failure to adopting reliability practices at scale. You’ll also consider how SRE interacts with other approaches and how specialist reliability roles are developing.

Managing incidents sustainably

Examine sustainable incident response, on-call responsibilities and the role of blameless post-mortems. You’ll look at how SRE teams learn from incidents and use those findings to inform future operational practices, rather than treating an incident as an isolated technical problem.

Scaling SRE across the organisation

Examine the organisational impact of introducing SRE, including different adoption patterns, changes to roles and responsibilities, and the challenges that emerge as SRE operates at greater scale. This gives you context for how reliability practices can affect teams beyond a dedicated SRE function.

SRE in the wider technology landscape

Place SRE in context by examining its relationship with DevOps, Agile, ITSM, Value Stream Management and Platform Engineering. You’ll also look at the evolution of SRE and specialist disciplines including Network Reliability Engineering and Customer Reliability Engineering.

What’s included?

Accredited Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation training
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation exam
Digital delegate materials
Optional extras include Take² exam insurance

Key facts

Certification

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation

Who it’s for

IT professionals and technical leaders involved in improving service reliability

Prerequisites

There are no formal prerequisites. An understanding of common DevOps terminology and concepts, together with related work experience, is recommended.

Exam information

Open book, multiple choice, 60 minutes, 40 questions, 65% pass mark

Optional extras

Take² exam insurance.

Pre-course

There is no pre-course work for this training

FAQs

Have questions about the SRE Foundation course? Find information on the certification exam, its relationship with DevOps, the role of AI and AIOps, and what you can expect to gain from the training.

Does the SRE Foundation course include a certification exam?

Yes. The course prepares you for the Site Reliability Engineering Foundation certification exam which assesses your knowledge and understanding of core SRE concepts and practices.

How does Site Reliability Engineering relate to DevOps?

Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps are closely related, but SRE focuses specifically on applying engineering practices to the operation of reliable services. The course examines the relationship between SRE and DevOps alongside other frameworks and practices.

What are the benefits of taking the SRE Foundation course?

The course builds your understanding of SRE principles, terminology and practices and gives you context for working with reliability-focused teams and services. It also prepares you for the SRE Foundation certification exam.

Does the SRE Foundation course include AI and AIOps?

Yes. The course covers AIOps, including the use of machine learning for analysis, and generative AI use cases for automating SRE tasks.

What our customers say

“Brilliant and really engaging trainer with amazing communication skills. He managed to deliver the course and answer all of our questions with such clarity.”

Baha Aboukoura, TSG Learner

“This is the most well-presented, well-paced certification I've ever taken, the language was clear, there were plenty of examples which helped validate the learning and the frequency of the breaks kept my mind fresh and able to pay attention.”

Shane Nhau, TSG learner

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