This 2-day remote course is for people who want to learn FinOps best practices and become a certified practitioner.

PRICE

€ 1,500 (excl VAT)

ABOUT THE COURSE

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 certification covers FinOps fundamentals and an overview of key concepts in each of the three sections of the FinOps lifecycle: Inform, Optimize and Operate.

LANGUAGE

The course will be taught in English.

THIS COURSE IS INTENDED FOR

• Cloud budget owners
• FinOps practitioners like FinOps Analysts, Directors of Cloud Optimisation, Cloud Operations Managers and Cloud Cost Optimisation Data Analysts
• Engineering roles like Principal Systems Engineers, Cloud Architects, Service Delivery Managers, Engineering Managers, Platform Engineering
• Directors, Senior Enterprise Architects (EA) and EA Leaders
• IT Programme and Portfolio Management Leaders
• Tech leaders like Head of Infrastructure, Head of Cloud Centre of Excellence, CTO and CIO
• Finance and procurement people like Technology Procurement Managers, Financial Planning Managers and Analysts, Cloud Cost Optimisation
• Managers and Financial Business Advisors
• Finance leaders like Head of IT Finance and CFO of IT

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.

WHAT YOU GET WITH THIS COURSE

• Live (virtual) 2-day, instructor-led workshop (10 hours total)
• Lead instructor is a real-world practising FinOps leader
• Interactive approach, featuring group discussions and live activities. Come prepared to share your experiences and ask questions!
• Small class sizes to provide maximum interactivity and tailor discussions to participant challenges and questions
• FinOps Certified Practitioner exam voucher
• At the end of the course you will get access to self-study material. This includes all the digital, video and course materials in the self-paced course for study or review ($599 value)

THIS COURSE IS DESIGNED TO TEACH YOU

• What FinOps is for, including the 3 elements of the FinOps lifecycle: Inform, Optimise and Operate
• FinOps best practices, including KPIs and benchmarks, repeatable processes and tools to achieve measurable business outcomes
• How showbacks and chargebacks work
• Various stakeholders’ roles and responsibilities in cloud cost optimisation

AGENDA

Day 1 - FinOps concepts and basics

• Cloud cost management challenges
• Core FinOps principles
• Building a FinOps team
• FinOps capabilities
• FinOps and other methodologies (e.g., Agile, DevOps, hyperscaler Cloud Adoption Frameworks)
• Anatomy of a cloud bill

Day 2 - FinOps practice

• The FinOps lifecycle
• Inform phase - transparency, benchmarking, cost allocation, tagging, forecasting and budgeting
• Optimise phase - business case development, goals and metrics, workload management, rightsizing, reservations, discounts
• Operate phase - team alignment, automation, unit economics

CANCELLATION & PAYMENT POLICY

All prices are net prices. VAT will be added to the price. You have the right to cancel your registration free of charge up until 15 days prior to the event. Nordcloud holds the right to cancel the event 14 days prior to the event, in which case all paid seats will be refunded. A final event confirmation message will be sent to all registrants 14 days prior to the event. No refunds will be paid after the final event confirmation message has been sent. In case the event is cancelled a cancellation message will be sent.