Certified DevOps Lifecycle Initiate - CDLI™

Certified DevOps Lifecycle Initiate - CDLI™

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Certification Overview

Modern projects must embody quality, agility, scalability, and resilience. Business success and client satisfaction are only achievable when a project seamlessly integrates continuous software delivery with rapid issue resolution within a stable environment. To accomplish this, many organizations are transitioning to DevOps—a collaborative strategy that aligns operations, development, and QA teams throughout the project lifecycle to foster constant improvement and flexibility.

Because of these significant benefits, it is now essential for project managers, product owners, and enterprise infrastructure specialists to master various DevOps tools and technologies to effectively address infrastructure challenges.

The DevOps Foundation Certification offers a comprehensive look into the DevOps movement—a professional culture that prioritizes communication, teamwork, integration, and automation. By optimizing the workflow between software engineers and IT operations, organizations can significantly enhance their capacity to design, build, and deploy services with greater speed and efficiency.

Our DevOps Foundation program is specifically structured to fast-track the success of your organizational improvements. This course brings together industry experts in automation and service delivery to share proven best practices and "lessons learned" from the world's most high-performing IT organizations.

The Certified DevOps Lifecycle Initiate - CDLI™ is a foundational credential awarded by ITQMA to professionals who have demonstrated core competency in project frameworks


Exam Code: CDLI™-001

Exam Information

The exam comprises of 40 Multiple Choice Questions out of which the candidate needs to score 70% (28 out of 40 correct) to pass the exam.

The total duration of the exam is 1 hour (60 Minutes).

  • The exam is conducted in AI-proctored mode and can be taken anytime, anywhere within an eight-month validity period.
  • Upon purchasing the Premium Package or an Exam Voucher Code, a voucher code with two attempts will be assigned to your login profile under the "My Vouchers" tab. You can then take the exam through the "My Exam(s)" tab in your profile. To take the exam, simply apply the voucher code.

  • The Exam Voucher included in the Premium Package or purchased separately is valid for two (2) attempts. If you are unable to pass the exam within these two attempts, you can purchase a new voucher code, which will grant you an additional two attempts.
  • Kindly Note: The voucher will not be valid for a second attempt if you pass the exam on your first attempt.

Certified DevOps Lifecycle Initiate Certificate is valid for life.

CDLI™™ is a Trademark of ITQMA.

Note: The Certified DevOps Lifecycle Initiate - CDLI™™ Certification has no pre-requisites (Completion of an E-Course is not mandatory from ITQMA), but we highly recommend doing the E-Course as maximum number of questions are drawn from the E-Course in the actual exam.

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Course Outline

Module Information - 1

  • Overview & Basic Concepts
  • DevOps Principles
  • DevOps and Automation & Benefits
  • DevOps Culture
  • Collaboration & communication in DevOps
  • Three ways of DevOps
  • Software development in DevOps
  • Overview of Agile and its vocabulary

Module Information - 2

  • Various roles in agile development
  • User Stories, Acceptance Criteria & EPIC
  • Product Backlog and its refinement in DevOps
  • Dev performance using dashboard and burn down chart
  • Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog
  • Event - Product Backlog Refinement
  • Event - Sprint Planning Meeting
  • Event - Daily Scrum

Module Information - 3

  • Event - Sprint Review
  • Event - Sprint Retrospective
  • Lean principles and method
  • How lean is used in DevOps
  • DevOps Practices
  • Automation & Tools
  • DevOps Implementation
  • Challenges, Risk & Critical Success Factors
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Target Audience

  • Individuals and organisations seeking a fundamental understanding of DevOps
  • Employees, managers, stakeholders and suppliers who are leading or contributing to an organisation’s DevOps initiatives
  • Consultants guiding their clients through DevOps programs and process improvement initiatives
  • Individuals and organizations seeking a foundational understanding of DevOps
  • Application and infrastructure providers whose products are part of the DevOps tool chain
  • Internal and external suppliers
  • Business stakeholders
  • Process stakeholders

Certified DevOps Lifecycle Initiate - CDLI™ are trademarks of ITQMA (IT Quality Management Association). All rights reserved.