DASA DevOps Specify and Verify Certification Program
€ 495
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Master the integration of customer requirements into IT products and services. The DASA DevOps Specify and Verify Certification equips you with the skills, mindset, and behaviors to ensure customer needs are accurately understood and met by your team—while embedding testing, security, and compliance into the development lifecycle for faster, high-quality releases.
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This certification program will fundamentally improve how you manage product development and quality.
— Luca Ingianni, ARRI
Get Certified.
Get Ahead.
DASA certified professionals make an actual difference and help their organizations drive change. They stand out from their peers with verifiable skills and credentials. Get started with our career-changing DASA DevOps Specify and Verify Certification Program.
Avoid Missed Targets and Poor Product Quality
With the lack of clear specifications and effective verification, your team risks delivering products that don’t meet customer needs or business goals. Poor requirements lead to rework, delays, and low-quality outcomes. Without proper communication and feedback loops, misunderstandings can arise, causing missed opportunities for improvement and harming your product’s success.
Ensure Your Teams Deliver
What Matters
The DASA DevOps Specify and Verify certification equips you with the tools to bridge the gap between customer expectations and product delivery. You’ll learn how to clarify requirements, streamline verification processes, and make data-driven decisions that lead to better outcomes.
Ensure Clear Communication
Create accurate specifications that align with customer needs and business goals.
Improve Product Quality
Implement effective verification processes to ensure your product meets high-quality standards.
Optimize Feedback Loops
Establish and utilize continuous feedback to refine and improve product outcomes.
Join a Movement of Professionals Driving Change
Future-Proof Your Career
Stay relevant and competitive by mastering DevOps.
Boost Your Impact
Lead your team toward faster product delivery, innovation, and security.
Gain an Industry-Recognized Certification
Earn a credential that is trusted worldwide and recognized by top organizations.
Learning Objectives
After completing this program, you will be able to:
- Understand how the tasks covering specification and verification fit into a DevOps environment.
- Take end-to-end responsibility for your product – from concept to grave.
- Truly understand your customers and validate whether the product fits their needs.
- Find good ways to communicate with everyone involved, from customers to stakeholders and developers.
- Describe and visualize your product in a format that fits your specific situation.
- Understand what software quality means and how to achieve adequate quality with your product.
- Decide adequately which kind of tests the product needs, and understand what you gain from them.
- Set up useful feedback loops, and use them meaningfully.
- Understand which architectural considerations are important in a DevOps environment.
Certification Details
Prerequisites
Required: DASA DevOps Fundamentals certificate
Beneficial: Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, Lean, and basic knowledge of specification and testing.
Audience
The DASA DevOps Professional – Specify and Verify certification is primarily aimed at:
- Individuals involved in IT development, IT operations, or IT Service Management
- Individuals whose role are affected by DevOps and continuous delivery, such as:
- DevOps engineers
- Business Analysts
- Testers
- Architects
- UX and Interaction Designers
- (aspiring) Product Owners
- Integration Specialists
- Operations Managers
- Incident and Change Managers
- System and Network Administrators
- Business Managers
Course Curriculum
Welcome and Introduction
- Welcome
- Icebreaker
- Let’s Get To Know Each Other
- Best Practices for a Good Online Training How Will We Interact?
Course Introduction
- DASA DevOps Professional: Specify and Verify Course
- Course Learning Outcomes
- DevOps Professional: Specify and Verify and the DASA Competence
- Framework Module Structure
- Course Agenda
- DASA DevOps Certification Scheme
Module 1: Thinking About Quality and Value
- Intent and Context
- Module Objectives
- Topics Covered
- Quality and Value
- DevOps View on Quality Assurance DevOps Approach to Quality Assurance
- Human-Technical Systems
- Key Takeaways
- Module-End Questions
Module 2: Delivering Value
- Intent and Context
- Module Objectives
- Topics Covered
- The Product Lifecycle
- Taking an Economic Perspective Value Stream Mapping
- Key Takeaways
- Module-End Questions
Module 3: Understanding Your Customers
- Intent and Context
- Module Objectives
- Topics Covered
- Customers and Stakeholders
- Identifying and Interacting With Customers Gathering Requirements From
- Stakeholders Key Takeaways
- Module-End Questions
Module 4: Designing the Right Product
- Intent and Context
- Module Objectives
- Topics Covered
- The Right Product
- Lean User Experience
- Structuring Requirements for Products Key Takeaways
- Module-End Questions
Module 5: Architecting for DevOps
- Intent and Context
- Module Objectives
- Topics Covered
- Introduction to Architecture
- Architecture and Teams
- Fundamental Considerations About Architecture Practical Architecture Work
- Key Takeaways
- Module-End Questions
Module 6: Practical Value Assurance in DevOps
- Intent and Context
- Module Objectives
- Topics Covered
- Testing and Other VA Techniques
- How to Test Well
- Common Testing Practices and Approaches Value Assurance in DevOps
- Testing in DevOps
- Key Takeaways
- Module-End Questions
Module 7: Monitoring and Testing in Production
- Intent and Context
- Module Objectives
- Topics Covered
- What Is Monitoring
- Value Assurance in Production Monitoring and Testing Postmortems
- DevOps Approach to Monitoring Key Takeaways
- Module-End Questions
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Certification and Duration
| Certificate | DASA DevOps Professional – Specify and Verify |
| Duration in hours | 16 hours |
Exam Details
DASA delivers the DevOps Fundamentals exams. The participants and training organizations can attain the vouchers for the exam through DASA.
| Delivery | Online and Paper-based |
| Format | Closed-book format, participants can bring scratch paper |
| Proctoring | Live/Webcam |
| Duration | 60 minutes, 15-minute additional time for non-native candidates |
| Questions | 25 Multiple Choice Questions |
| Pass Grade | 60% |
Scheduling Your Exam
Generally, your training partner will book the certification exam for you. If you have chosen an online self-study certification option you will be able to use the voucher provided with the training material.
Mock Exam
Certification courses include a mock exam. You can download the mock exam from your learning profile.
Accessing Your Certificate
All certificates and badges are issues through Accredible. You will receive an email with your download link in the days following your exam.
We Understand the Challenges of Staying Ahead
We understand how challenging it can be to ensure clear requirements and verify successful outcomes, especially when precision and quality are critical. That’s why we’ve helped thousands of professionals just like you gain the skills they need to thrive. With our globally recognized certification, you can rest assured that you’ll be learning from the best.
Business Benefits
Ensure Clear Alignment
Train professionals to translate business needs into actionable and testable requirements for teams.
Improve Quality at Every Stage
Equip participants with skills to integrate quality assurance seamlessly into the entire delivery pipeline.
Strengthen Collaboration
Enable teams to collaborate effectively on defining and refining specifications for better outcomes.
Reduce Defects and Waste
Teach professionals to identify potential issues early, minimizing costly rework and delays.
Automated Testing Practices
Provide insights into implementing and scaling automated testing for faster, more reliable delivery.
Drive Continuous Verification
Develop expertise in embedding verification processes throughout the development cycle to ensure alignment with expectations.
Optimize Feedback Loops
Help teams create faster and more effective feedback mechanisms to address issues proactively.
Align Development with Value
Train participants to ensure that the work delivered consistently meets customer and business requirements.
Here’s How to Get Certified in Specify and Verify
In 3 steps, you can gain the skills you need to lead the future.
Step 1
Get Access to the Self-Paced Course
Enroll online and gain immediate access to the full self-paced course — no scheduling, no delays.
Step 2
Learn and Apply
Learn through practical, self-paced modules designed to help you build real skills, not just pass an exam.
Step 3
Pass the Certification Exam
Prove your expertise by passing the exam, ensuring you have the skills to lead platform engineering initiatives.
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“This certification program will fundamentally improve how you manage product development and quality.”
Luca Ingianni
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