Is the DevOps & CI/CD Professional certificate verifiable?

Yes. Every issued Hootix Academy certificate carries a unique credential code that anyone can verify online.

How is the DevOps & CI/CD Professional exam structured?

It is a 140-minute proctored multiple-choice exam of 95 questions; you need 75% to pass.

Do I need to buy the course to take the exam?

You can purchase the certification exam on its own, or bundle it with the full study course at a reduced price.

How long does the DevOps & CI/CD Professional course take?

About 32 hours of self-paced study.

DevOps & CI/CD Professional Certification

Automate the path from commit to production — and operate it

Key facts

Level: Professional
Field: Software Engineering & DevOps
Estimated study time: about 32 hours
Credential price: $149
Exam: 95 questions · 140 minutes · pass mark 75%

About the DevOps & CI/CD Professional certification

The DevOps & CI/CD Professional certification validates that you can take software from a developer's commit all the way to a reliably-operated production service, using automation, culture and measurement rather than heroics. It is tool-agnostic: the principles transfer across GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Argo CD, Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes. The exam covers DevOps culture and the CALMS model (flow, feedback, continuous learning), version-control workflows (trunk-based development, GitFlow, pull requests and code review), continuous integration (pipelines, build and test automation, artifacts, fast feedback), continuous delivery vs deployment and release strategies (blue-green, canary, rolling, feature flags), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, declarative vs imperative, state, modules) and configuration management (Ansible/Chef/Puppet concepts), containers (Docker images, layers, registries, multi-stage builds, Dockerfile best practices) and an introduction to container orchestration with Kubernetes, artifact and dependency management, secrets management and DevSecOps (SAST/DAST/SCA, supply-chain security), testing in pipelines and quality gates, environments and promotion, monitoring and observability (metrics, logs, traces, SLI/SLO/error budgets, alerting), incident management, on-call and postmortems, the DORA metrics, GitOps, cloud deployment, rollback and disaster recovery, and automation/scripting with Bash and Python. Candidates should already be comfortable programming and reasoning about data structures, and ideally hold the Programming & Data Structures credential or equivalent hands-on experience.

What you will learn

The official DevOps & CI/CD Professional study course covers:

DevOps Culture & Version Control — CALMS and the Three Ways, trunk-based vs GitFlow, and pull-request code review.
Continuous Integration & Delivery — CI pipelines and fast feedback, build artifacts and promotion, CD vs deployment.
Release Strategies & Infrastructure as Code — Blue-green, canary, rolling and feature flags; Terraform, state and modules.
Containers & Orchestration — Docker images, layers and multi-stage builds; Kubernetes Pods, Deployments and self-healing.
Secure Pipelines, DevSecOps & GitOps — Secrets, SAST/DAST/SCA and supply chain; GitOps pull-based delivery.
Observability, Incidents & DORA — Metrics/logs/traces and SLO/error budgets, incident lifecycle and postmortems, the DORA metrics.

Prerequisites

Programming & Data Structures Associate

Frequently asked questions

Is the DevOps & CI/CD Professional certificate verifiable?: Yes. Every issued Hootix Academy certificate carries a unique credential code that anyone can verify online.
How is the DevOps & CI/CD Professional exam structured?: It is a 140-minute proctored multiple-choice exam of 95 questions; you need 75% to pass.
Do I need to buy the course to take the exam?: You can purchase the certification exam on its own, or bundle it with the full study course at a reduced price.
How long does the DevOps & CI/CD Professional course take?: About 32 hours of self-paced study.