DevOps-SRE Exam Information and Outline
DevOps Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Syllabus Update Checked on: November 10, 2026
DevOps-SRE Exam Syllabus & Study Guide
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- Exam Format
- 40 multiple-choice questions; 60 minutes; pass 65%
- SRE Principles and Practices
- Origins and relation to DevOps
- Service Level Objectives and Error Budgets
- SLIs, SLOs and error budget policies
- Reducing Toil
- Identifying and automating toil
- Monitoring, Alerting and Observability
- Golden signals
- SRE Tools and Automation
- Tooling landscape
- Anti-Fragility and Learning from Failure
- Chaos engineering and blameless postmortems
- Organizational Impact of SRE
- Team models
- SRE, Other Frameworks and the Real World
- ITIL and agile alignment