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Exam Details

• Exam Name: DevOps Certified Expert (DCE)
• Exam Format: Multiple choice, online with remote supervision (proctoring)
• Exam Delivery: Safe Exam Browser
• Number of Questions: 50 questions: 70% scenarios / 30% conceptual
• Exam Duration: 100 minutes
• Passing Score: 70% (35 out of 50 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 culture (15%): Lean and agile principles; DORA metrics; Three Ways model; Error budgets.
• Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) (25%): Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps; Blue-green, canary and feature flags; Artifact management; CI/CD auditing.
• Infrastructure as code and automation (20%): Terraform: modules and state; Ansible; Secrets management; Configuration drift.
• Containers, orchestration and cloud native (20%): Multi-stage Docker; Kubernetes; GitOps with ArgoCD and Flux; Service mesh.
• Observability, security and operations (20%): Prometheus, Grafana and ELK; DevSecOps and the supply chain; SLIs, SLOs and SLAs; Chaos engineering.

Who is this certification for?

• DevOps Engineers: Who lead end-to-end automation.
• Software architects and technical leads: Who define delivery platforms and practices.
• SREs and Platform Engineers: Who operate cloud native systems in production.

Prerequisites

Mandatory: DevOps Certified Associate (DCA) and DevOps Certified Professional (DCP). DCE is the highest level of the CertJoin DevOps path.