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Exam Details

• Exam Name: DevOps Certified Associate (DCA)
• Exam Format: Multiple choice, online with remote supervision (proctoring)
• Exam Delivery: Safe Exam Browser
• Number of Questions: 60 questions: 70% scenarios / 30% conceptual
• Exam Duration: 90 minutes
• Passing Score: 70% (42 out of 60 correct answers)
• Available Languages: Spanish / English
• Attempts: Maximum 2 attempts (minimum 15 days between attempts)
• Validity: 3 years · 15 CPD credits per year

Main Subjects

• DevOps fundamentals and collaborative culture (20%): CALMS and the three ways; Value stream and DORA metrics; Scrum, Kanban and retrospectives; DevOps, SRE and Platform roles; Git, trunk-based development and semantic versioning.
• Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) (25%): CI, continuous delivery and continuous deployment; Pipeline as code: Jenkins, GitLab CI and GitHub Actions; Test pyramid and static analysis; Immutable artifacts; Recreate, rolling, blue-green and canary.
• Infrastructure as code and cloud (20%): Terraform: plan, apply and remote state; Ansible: playbooks and roles; IaaS, PaaS and SaaS; Docker and Compose; Kubernetes, EKS, AKS and GKE.
• Monitoring, observability and feedback (15%): Metrics, logs and traces; The four golden signals; Prometheus, Grafana, ELK and OpenTelemetry; Actionable alerts; SLIs, SLOs and blameless post-mortems.
• Security, reliability and continuous improvement (20%): DevSecOps and shift left; Secrets, least privilege and SBOM; Error budget and toil; Resilience and incident management; Continuous improvement and Code of Ethics.

Who is this certification for?

• IT students and junior profiles: Who are starting their career in DevOps and software delivery automation.
• Developers and testers: Who want to understand and take part in delivery pipelines and in operating what they build.
• System and network administrators: Who are moving toward automation, infrastructure as code and the cloud.
• Cloud, support and operations engineers: Who want to formalize their skills in containers, monitoring and reliability.
• Professionals starting the CertJoin DevOps path: Who want to begin at the first level before moving on to Professional and Expert.

Prerequisites

No mandatory prerequisites: no prior experience, training or certification is required. Registration is direct with CertJoin or through an authorized partner. Recommended (not mandatory): basic knowledge of software development, operating systems or system administration. Next levels: DevOps Certified Professional (DCP) and DevOps Certified Expert (DCE).