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IBM

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

IBM via edX Professional Certificate

Overview

This Professional Certificate program in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) helps you build the skills and knowledge required to work independently as a Site Reliability Engineer. This program from the IBM Center for Cloud Training covers operations, monitoring, troubleshooting, incident management, security and deployments on the IBM Cloud and key skills for any SRE professional. You will be trained on SRE principles and the tools that you can use to help organizations gain greater resiliency, availability, and reliability for their cloud-based workloads. This program can help you earn the IBM Cloud Professional Site Reliability Engineer certification, which validates your skills and can expand your career opportunities.

The first two courses provide interactive and applied learning on SRE principles, operational readiness, service health monitoring, root cause analysis, implementation and management of compute, networking and storage options, reliability and resiliency services and deployment automation.

The third course, the Capstone, includes certification exam preparation study materials and practice exercises in a virtual lab environment.

Upon completion of all three courses, you should have acquired the skills to operate services that sustain service level objectives and engineer scalable, secure, and highly reliable and resilient services in the IBM Cloud. The program will help you prepare for the IBM Cloud Professional Site Reliability Engineer v2 certification exam.

Syllabus

Courses under this program:
Course 1: SRE Fundamentals and Security

Learn foundational principles and terminology needed to understand the new and growing discipline of Site Reliability Engineering. Explore operation strategies and best practices for monitoring and managing services health and security.



Course 2: SRE Infrastructure, Resiliency and Deployment Automation

Discover the importance of reliability engineering and resiliency for services and how the deployment pipeline can be used to help with automation. Explore various infrastructure types, troubleshoot common service issues, including Kubernetes and Openshift clusters.



Course 3: SRE Capstone

The SRE Capstone offers interactive study guides and flash cards that will help you prepare for the Professional SRE - Cloud V2 certification exam. All enrolled learners will receive a discount code for 50% off the certification exam cost.

Also included are hands-on lab exercises that allow you to put the knowledge you gained from the SRE Fundamentals and Security and SRE Infrastructure, Resiliency and Deployment Automation courses into action.



Courses

Taught by

Michele Jordan and Marissa Moore

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