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FinOps-FCP · DevOpsSchool Certification

FinOps Foundation Certified Practitioner (FinOps-FCP)

Master cloud financial management, cost optimisation, and FinOps culture across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Every session is a live demo in a real lab environment — not slides, not theory. You watch the instructor build it, then you build it yourself.

 4.8 / 5 · 2,300+ ratings 18,000+ certified learners 412 enrolled in last 90 days
Duration
5 weeks
Total content
100+ hours
Per tool
5 hrs · 2 assignments · 1 capstone
Final exam
3 hrs · online · open-book
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What's included
  • 5-week program · 100+ hours of content
  • Live & interactive instructor sessions
  • 2 assignments & 1 capstone per tool
  • 3-hour online open-book final exam
  • Recordings, slides & lab repos
  • Industry-recognised digital certificate
  • Lifetime forum support — ask anything, forever
  • FREE 1-year LMS access — entire DevOpsSchool LMS: 20+ courses, 50+ tools, videos, quizzes, assignments & projects.
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# career outcomes

Walk in an engineer. Walk out a FinOps-FCP who ships.

By the end of FinOps-FCP, you'll have shipped 12 production-grade artefacts and proven you can:

Design CI/CD for multi-service applications, with branching, gates, and progressive rollout.

Provision infrastructure as code across AWS, Azure, or GCP using Terraform — including drift control.

Automate configuration at scale with Ansible — idempotent playbooks, secret-free roles.

Run containers on Kubernetes — workloads, networking, autoscaling, observability.

Shift security left — SAST/DAST, SBOM, signed images, policy as code with OPA.

Operate SLOs — define error budgets, run incident response, write postmortems.

Median salary after certification
$118K – $165K
Roles our FinOps-FCP alumni land: DevOps Engineer · Platform Engineer · SRE · Build & Release Manager · Cloud Automation Lead. Based on alumni reporting, 2024–25.
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# why this program

It's training built by people who run production for a living.

Taught by senior practitioners

Every instructor has 15+ years operating production systems — our lead instructor, Rajesh Kumar, has 20.

Build your own lab — not a sandbox

We teach you to provision a production-grade environment on your own AWS/Azure/GCP. It's the same skill you'll use day one on the job — and it goes with you when you leave.

100% demo-driven

Every session is a live demonstration in a working lab — never slides, never theory. You watch the instructor build it in real time, then you build it yourself.

Job-ready portfolio

You leave with 12 GitHub-ready projects you can show in interviews tomorrow.

# next cohort

Live cohorts — pick the track that fits your week.

Every cohort is capped at 10 learners by design. That's how the instructor still answers your real production questions in week 4 — not just the rehearsed ones from week 1.

Weekend cohort Most popular

Starts 1st of next month · Sat · Sun · 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM IST
  • 5 weekends · ~8 hrs/weekend live + self-paced
  • Designed for working professionals on IST/EST/GMT
  • Mentor office hours · Sunday 11 AM IST
  • Only 3 of 10 seats left
Reserve seat — ₹34,999

Weekday cohort

Starts 1st of next month · Mon · Wed · Fri · 8:00 – 10:00 PM IST
  • 5 weeks · ~12 hrs/week (live + self-paced)
  • Recorded same-day · always-available replay
  • Mentor office hours · Thursday 7 PM IST
  • Capped at 10 learners — small-batch by design
Reserve seat — ₹34,999

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# curriculum · FinOps-FCP

Tool-by-tool. Live demos, not slides.

Each tool is taught as a working live demonstration inside a real lab environment — you see it built end-to-end before you build it yourself. The structure is identical for every tool, so you always know what's coming and what you'll have shipped by the end of the week.

5 hours
content per tool
(live + self-paced video)
2 assignments
per tool
graded with feedback
1 capstone
per tool
GitHub-public portfolio
3-hr exam
online · open-book
at the end of the program
01 FinOps Framework & Phases — Inform, Optimise, Operate Live & Interactive5 hrs · 2 assignments · 1 capstone
The FinOps Foundation framework: three phases, six domains, and the five FinOps principles. RACI model for engineering, finance, and leadership collaboration. Unit economics and cost-as-code thinking.
  • Assignments: (1) map your organisation to the FinOps maturity model; (2) identify top three cost drivers in a sample AWS account
  • Capstone: produce a FinOps capability assessment report with a 90-day roadmap
02 Cloud Billing & Cost Visibility — AWS, Azure & GCP Live & Interactive5 hrs · 2 assignments · 1 capstone
AWS Cost Explorer + Cost and Usage Reports (CUR), Azure Cost Management + Billing, GCP Billing + BigQuery exports. Reading cloud invoices and decoding discount line items.
Capstone: build a unified multi-cloud cost visibility dashboard in Grafana from CUR + Azure + GCP BigQuery data.
03 Tagging Strategy & Cost Allocation Live & Interactive5 hrs · 2 assignments · 1 capstone
Tag taxonomy design, tag governance with AWS Config / Azure Policy, shared-cost allocation models (direct, proportional, even-split), and cost centre mapping.
Capstone: design and enforce a multi-cloud tagging policy that achieves 95% allocation coverage.
04 Reservations, Savings Plans & Committed Use Live & Interactive5 hrs · 2 assignments · 1 capstone
EC2 Reserved Instances vs Compute Savings Plans vs Spot, Azure Reserved VM Instances + Savings Plan, GCP Committed Use Discounts (CUD). Coverage vs utilisation metrics, purchasing workflow.
Capstone: build an RI/SP purchasing recommendation model covering a 12-month forecast horizon.
05 Rightsizing Compute — EC2, Azure VMs & GCE Live & Interactive5 hrs · 2 assignments · 1 capstone
CPU/memory utilisation analysis, AWS Compute Optimizer, Azure Advisor, GCP Recommender, instance family selection, and lifecycle management for over-provisioned fleets.
Capstone: identify and execute rightsizing actions that reduce a sample fleet cost by ≥ 30%.
06 Storage & Data Transfer Cost Optimisation Live & Interactive5 hrs · 2 assignments · 1 capstone
S3 Intelligent-Tiering, lifecycle policies, Azure Blob tiers, GCS storage classes, EBS snapshot cleanup, and data egress cost reduction strategies (CDN, same-region traffic).
Capstone: audit a storage estate and implement lifecycle policies saving ≥ 40% on storage costs.
07 Kubernetes Cost Management — Kubecost & OpenCost Live & Interactive5 hrs · 2 assignments · 1 capstone
Namespace-level cost allocation, request vs limit rightsizing, node pool optimisation, spot/preemptible nodes for Kubernetes workloads, OpenCost open standard and Kubecost dashboards.
Capstone: deploy OpenCost on EKS and produce a per-team Kubernetes spend chargeback report.
08 Unit Economics & Showback / Chargeback Live & Interactive5 hrs · 2 assignments · 1 capstone
Cost per transaction, cost per user, cost per deployment. Showback vs chargeback models, internal billing workflows, and building a shared-cost accountability culture.
Capstone: implement a team-level chargeback model with monthly automated cost reports.
09 FinOps Tooling — Cloudability, CloudHealth & Infracost Live & Interactive5 hrs · 2 assignments · 1 capstone
Apptio Cloudability, VMware CloudHealth, Infracost for IaC cost estimation, and native cloud tools. Integrating Infracost into CI/CD pipelines for pre-merge cost diffs.
Capstone: add Infracost to a Terraform GitHub Actions workflow with PR cost diff comments.
10 Anomaly Detection & Budget Alerts Live & Interactive5 hrs · 2 assignments · 1 capstone
AWS Cost Anomaly Detection, Azure Budget Alerts, GCP Budget Notifications, Slack / PagerDuty integration, and designing tiered alert thresholds to prevent bill shock.
Capstone: configure a multi-cloud anomaly detection pipeline with automated Slack escalation.
11 FinOps Culture & Cross-Functional Collaboration Live & Interactive5 hrs · 2 assignments · 1 capstone
Building a FinOps practice: stakeholder buy-in, cloud cost community of practice, OKRs for FinOps, and making engineers cost-aware without slowing delivery.
Capstone: deliver a FinOps workshop presentation and cost-reduction proposal to a mock executive audience.
12 FinOps Reporting & Dashboards — Grafana, Power BI & Looker Live & Interactive5 hrs · 2 assignments · 1 capstone
Designing executive-level cost reports, trending and forecasting with BigQuery ML, Grafana cost dashboards, Power BI cloud spend workbooks, and automated monthly digest emails.
Capstone: build an end-to-end FinOps reporting pipeline from raw CUR data to an exec-ready Grafana dashboard.
Final certification exam2 hrs · online · multiple-choice
Scenario-based examination covering FinOps framework, cloud billing mechanics, cost allocation, commitment-based discounts, Kubernetes cost management, and FinOps tooling. 60 questions, 75% pass mark.
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# your capstone portfolio

One capstone per tool. 12 GitHub-public artefacts you'll show in interviews.

Every tool you learn ends in a graded capstone project. By the end of the program you'll have a full portfolio of production-grade, employer-show-able work — sample capstones below.

CAPSTONE · VISIBILITY
Multi-cloud cost dashboard

Unified Grafana dashboard pulling from AWS CUR, Azure Cost Management, and GCP BigQuery billing exports.

GrafanaAWS CURBigQuery
CAPSTONE · TAGGING
Multi-cloud tagging policy

AWS Config + Azure Policy + GCP OrgPolicy enforcing mandatory tags, achieving 95% cost allocation coverage.

AWS ConfigAzure PolicyTerraform
CAPSTONE · KUBERNETES
Kubernetes chargeback with OpenCost

Deploy OpenCost on EKS and produce automated per-team Kubernetes spend reports delivered monthly.

OpenCostEKSGrafana
CAPSTONE · CI/CD
Infracost in CI/CD pipeline

Terraform GitHub Actions workflow with Infracost PR cost diff comments and budget gate blocking overspend.

InfracostGitHub ActionsTerraform
CAPSTONE · ALERTS
Multi-cloud anomaly detection

AWS Anomaly Detection + Azure Budgets + GCP Billing Alerts funnelled into a single Slack escalation pipeline.

AWSAzureSlack
CAPSTONE · REPORTING
Exec-ready FinOps dashboard

End-to-end FinOps reporting pipeline from raw CUR data through BigQuery transforms to a Grafana executive dashboard.

BigQueryGrafanaPower BI
# tools you'll master

30+ industry-standard tools, in the order a real engineer adopts them.

AWS Cost Explorer
AWS CUR
Azure Cost Mgmt
GCP Billing
BigQuery
Grafana
Power BI
Looker
OpenCost
Kubecost
Terraform
Infracost
GitHub Actions
Cost Anomaly Det.
Slack
AWS Config
Azure Policy
CloudHealth
Cloudability
AWS Compute Opt.
# the final exam

3 hours. Online. Open-book. Built to test what you can ship.

The FinOps-FCP examination is intentionally not a memorisation contest. Open-book, scenario-driven, and proctored online — it tests whether you can solve real production problems with the toolchain you spent five weeks practising.

3 hours
total duration
Online
from anywhere
Open-book
notes, docs, the LMS
Scenario-based
real engineering tasks

What it covers
  • Multi-part production scenarios that span the toolchain end-to-end
  • Pipeline design, IaC, configuration, containers, K8s, observability, security
  • Debugging exercises — given symptoms and logs, find the root cause
  • Written reasoning on trade-offs (e.g. blue/green vs canary, push vs pull GitOps)
Why open-book

In a real on-call shift you look things up. The exam mirrors that. We test the skill that actually matters — composing what you know into a working solution under time pressure. Memorising flag syntax wouldn't make you a better engineer.

Pass → certified.

Clear the exam and you'll be issued the FinOps-FCP digital certificate within 5 working days, with a verifiable credential ID on our public registry.

  • Two free re-attempt windows if you don't clear first time
  • Detailed feedback report on every section
  • Mock papers + walkthrough during the program
  • Hard copy of the certificate on request
See the credential
# meet your instructor

You're not learning from a content team. You're learning from the person who built it.

RK

Rajesh Kumar

Principal DevOps Engineer and Architect
20 years · DevOps · SRE · Security Early-bird practitioner · MLOps · AIOps Ex-PayPay · SoftwareAG · ServiceNow · Adobe · Intuit · IBM · Accenture 10,000+ engineers trained M.Tech · BITS Pilani 25+ certifications

Rajesh is a working practitioner with 20 years across DevOps, SRE and Security, and an early-bird operator in MLOps and AIOps — he was already running model-deployment and telemetry-driven incident pipelines years before either term became industry vocabulary. He has held principal engineering and architect roles at PayPay, SoftwareAG, ServiceNow (Netherlands), JDA Software, Intuit, Adobe, IBM/Emptoris, Ness, MindTree and Accenture. He has personally trained engineers at JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Verizon, Nokia, World Bank, GE Healthcare, VMware, Citrix, Oracle, Qualcomm, Ericsson, Splunk, New Relic, Datadog, Airbus, AstraZeneca, Bosch, Mercedes-Benz, Vodafone, Deloitte, EY, Capgemini, Infosys, Cognizant, HCL, Wipro and dozens more. He teaches what he runs — not what he reads.

# your credential

A certificate engineers actually recognise — and recruiters look for.

Every FinOps-FCP certificate is issued with a unique credential ID, a tamper-proof QR code, and a verification URL on devopsschool.com/certificates. Add it to LinkedIn in one click.

  •   Lifetime verifiable on our public registry
  •   PDF + digital badge (Credly-compatible)
  •   Recognised by hiring partners across 50+ countries
  •   Hard copy shipped on request — order here
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Certificate of completion
Jane Engineer
has successfully completed
FinOps Foundation Certified Practitioner (FinOps-FCP)
Credential ID · DS-FinOps-FCP-XXXX-XXXX
# what learners say

4.8 / 5 from 2,300+ engineers. Here's what a few of them said.

# pricing

Pick the level of support that fits your goal.

Every plan includes the full curriculum, recorded sessions, and access to our learner community.

Every plan includes 1 year of full DevOpsSchool LMS access.
Not just this one course — the entire LMS: 20+ courses, 50+ tools, videos, quizzes, assignments, and end-to-end projects. Worth ₹40,000+ on its own.
See what's in the LMS
Self-paced video ₹833 / month · billed yearly (₹9,996) All recorded sessions, labs & the full LMS — learn at your own pace.
  • Full 100+ hour recorded curriculum
  • 12 hands-on capstones on your own cloud lab (free-tier setup walkthrough included)
  • 1-year access — recordings, labs & updates
  • 3-hr online open-book exam
  • Industry-recognised certificate on completion
  • Lifetime forum support
  • Full LMS access — 20+ courses & 50+ tools
  • Live instructor classes
  • 1-on-1 mentor sessions
Get self-paced — ₹833/mo
1-on-1 Mentorship ₹99,999 full program Dedicated senior practitioner. Pace, schedule and labs tailored to you.
  • Everything in Live & Interactive
  • Private 1-on-1 instructor (your schedule)
  • Custom curriculum & labs for your stack
  • Resume & LinkedIn review
  • Mock interview & salary negotiation prep
  • Capstone & portfolio code review
  • Priority response from instructor
  • Lifetime forum support
  • Full LMS access — 20+ courses & 50+ tools
Enrol 1-on-1 — ₹99,999
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# why us

Why engineers pick DevOpsSchool over the alternatives.

Not slides. Not a 500-seat MOOC. Not a temporary sandbox login. Three things make the difference — then compare us line-by-line.

100% live demo. 0% slides.

Every session is the instructor screen-sharing a real working lab and building the thing in front of you — then you build it yourself. No PowerPoint, no "imagine if…".

You build your own lab.

We guide you through provisioning a free-tier AWS / Azure / GCP environment on day one — the same skill you'll use at work. A temporary sandbox login disappears the day the cohort ends. Your own lab doesn't.

10 learners. By design.

Cohorts are capped at 10 by design. The instructor still knows your name in week 4 — and still has time to debug the weird production thing you brought from work.

What matters YouTube + blogs Generic online course Boot camp DevOpsSchool FinOps-FCP
Teaching method You piece it together yourself Pre-recorded talking-head + slides Mix of slides & some labs Live demos in a real lab — every session
Cohort size 1 (you, alone) Hundreds to thousands 30–60 per batch 10 by design — instructor knows your name
Lab environment None Throwaway sandbox Shared sandbox login Your own AWS/Azure/GCP, guided setup
Per-tool structure Ad-hoc Inconsistent across modules Theme-based, varies wildly 5 hrs · 2 assignments · 1 capstone for every tool
Final assessment None Multiple-choice quiz Mini-project 3-hour open-book scenario exam
Portfolio at the end What you built solo 1–2 generic toy projects 1 capstone 1 capstone per tool — GitHub-public
Instructor pedigree Mixed (creator-economy) Mixed (often academic) Recent-grad TAs common Rajesh Kumar — 20 yrs, ex-PayPay/ServiceNow/Adobe
Cohort start cadence N/A — pure self-pace Self-paced only Quarterly windows New cohort every 1st of the month
Post-program support None Drip-fed retention emails 30–90 day Slack Lifetime forum + alumni community
LMS bundled No This one course only This program only 1 year full LMS — 20+ courses, 50+ tools
Refund posture N/A Vendor-specific, often none after start Usually none after week 1 100% within 15 days if we cancel
Total cost (full program) Free, slow ₹15K – ₹50K per single course ₹80K – ₹3L+ ₹34,999 · LMS + lifetime forum included

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# frequently asked

Everything you'd ask on a 1-on-1 call.

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Do I need prior DevOps or coding experience?
A working knowledge of Linux command line and basic Git is enough. We'll bring you up to speed on everything else from Module 1. About 30% of every cohort enters from a sysadmin / dev / QA background.
What if I miss a live class?
Every session is recorded and shared with the cohort within 24 hours. You retain access to the recordings and lab repositories for the duration of the cohort and a defined access window after it. Specific access duration is confirmed at enrolment.
How does the certificate work? Is it accredited?
We issue a DevOpsSchool-credentialed digital certificate plus a verifiable badge. Each certificate has a unique credential ID and a public verification URL. While it isn't a vendor exam like AWS or CNCF, every cohort includes coaching toward those external exams as a track-add.
Can I pay in instalments / EMI?
Yes — 3, 6, and 12-month plans are available via our payment partners with 0% interest on the 3-month option. We also support employer invoicing.
What's the refund policy?
Once a training cohort is confirmed, the seat is generally non-refundable. The exception is when we cancel or postpone — instructor unavailability, low enrolment, or force majeure — in which case you receive a 100% refund within 15 working days, or you can join the rescheduled cohort. GST and payment-gateway fees are not refunded. Full details on the refund policy page.
Do you give us a cloud sandbox, or do we set one up?
We do it the way you'll do it on the job — you provision your own AWS / Azure / GCP lab, and we walk you through the free-tier setup step-by-step before module 1 starts. Most labs run at zero out-of-pocket. The point is that the skill of owning your infrastructure goes with you forever; a sandbox login disappears the day the cohort ends.
Do you offer corporate or team enrolments?
Yes — private cohorts for teams of 8+ are our most-requested format. We can run them on your schedule, in your VPC, against your internal toolchain. Request a quote.
What time-zones do the live cohorts run in?
Default schedule is IST-friendly, but the weekend cohort works for EST/CET/GMT engineers as well. Recordings cover the rest. We also run a North America-specific cohort every quarter — ask us for the calendar.
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