Cert Prep: FinOps Certified Practitioner (FOCP)

Course details

As more organizations move towards cloud-based infrastructure, the need for effective management of cloud costs has become increasingly important. The FinOps methodology is a proven approach to cloud optimization, and practitioners who understand its principles and best practices are in high demand. In this course, Jon Myer teaches you the financial management skills and strategies needed to optimize cloud spending and drive business growth, as well as prepare to earn your FinOps Certified Practitioner certification. Jon starts by defining some of the basic nomenclature and stakeholders, then explains frameworks and user interfaces, discusses adoption and life cycles, containers, connecting to other frameworks, and more.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Supercharge your Certification Prep for FinOps
02 - What you should know

1. Introduction to What Cloud FinOps Is

03 - Defining Cloud FinOps
04 - Benefits of Cloud FinOps
05 - Principles of Cloud FinOps

2. Why FinOps - A Cultural Shift and the FinOps Team

06 - Cloud for the right reasons
07 - Who does FinOps and why use a centralized team
08 - Roles and responsibilities
09 - Understanding motivations

3. Language of FinOps

10 - The language of FinOps - Basic terms
11 - Finance terms for cloud professionals

4. Anatomy of the Cloud Bill

12 - Types of cloud bills and basic formats
13 - The importance of hourly data and granularity in FinOps

5. Adopting FinOps

14 - How to pitch FinOps
15 - Key personas
16 - Roadmap for FinOps adoption

6. FinOps Foundation Framework

17 - Framework model

7. UI of FinOps

18 - Build vs. buy vs. native and accessibility
19 - Seek to understand the data

8. FinOps Lifecycle

20 - Six principles of FinOps
21 - FinOps lifecycle

9. Inform Phase

22 - Data, seek first to understand, transparency, and the feedback loop
23 - Allocation - No dollar left behind
24 - Tags, labels, accounts
25 - Accurate forecasting

10. Optimize Phase

26 - Setting goals
27 - Using less usage optimization
28 - Paying less rate optimization
29 - Understanding commitment-based discounts
30 - Building a commitment-based discount strategy
31 - Sustainability - FinOps partnering with GreenOps

11. Operate Phase

32 - Operate - Aligning teams to business goals
33 - Automating cost management
34 - Metric-driven cost optimization

12. FinOps for the Container World

35 - Containers 101

13. Connectivity to Other Frameworks

36 - Working with other methodologies and frameworks

14. The Nirvana for FinOps Using Data-Driven Decision Making

37 - Data-driven decisions

Conclusion

38 - What's next