The Linux Foundation FOCP FinOps Certified Practitioner Online Training
The Linux Foundation FOCP Online Training
The questions for FOCP were last updated at Feb 04,2025.
- Exam Code: FOCP
- Exam Name: FinOps Certified Practitioner
- Certification Provider: The Linux Foundation
- Latest update: Feb 04,2025
What is the name of the file format used in AWS Cost and Usage reports? (Select One)
- A . CAR
- B . DBR
- C . CUR
- D . CSV
‘Manage Commitment Based Discounts’ would be under what domain according to the FinOps Foundation? (Select One)
- A . Cloud Usage Optimization
- B . Performance Tracking and Benchmarking
- C . Cloud Rate Optimization
- D . Organizational Alignment
FinOps Principles are north stars that guide the activities of our FinOps practice. They’re developed by FinOps Foundation members, and honed through experience.
When it comes to the FinOps principle of ‘A centralized team drives FinOps’ which of the following statements would be true? (Select Two)
- A . Centralized discount buying process removes rate negotiations from engineering team consideration
- B . Centrally govern and control Committed Use Discounts, Reserved Instances, and Volume/Custom Discounts with Cloud Providers
- C . Track team-level targets to drive accountability
- D . Never use granular allocation of all costs, direct or shared, to the teams and cost centers responsible for them
When comparing TBM and FinOps, which one would focus on results mainly on speed? (Select One)
- A . FinOps
- B . TBM
Which of the following is NOT part of the FinOps Maturity Model? (Select One)
- A . Crawl
- B . Walk
- C . Sprint
- D . Run
Which are the correct FinOps Principles? (Select Six)
- A . A centralized team drives FinOps
- B . Engineering is solely responsible for cloud usage
- C . FinOps reports should be accessible and timely
- D . Teams need to collaborate
- E . Everyone takes ownership of cloud usage
- F . Take advantage of the variable cost model of the cloud
- G . Business Value of cloud drive decisions
- H . All decisions are centralized thru finance
Which of the following a native tool in AWS that we would use in our FinOps exercises to understand costing issues, get recommendations, etc.
- A . Cost and Usage Reports
- B . Cost Explorer
- C . Trusted Advisor
Your organization has recently adopted a FinOps based method for dealing with cloud costs and adopting FinOps. Currently, your organization has recently completed ‘Step Two’ for FinOps culture in your company.
What would the next stage for the organization to accomplish? (Select One)
- A . Socializing FinOps for adoption in an organization
- B . Planning for FinOps in an Organization
- C . Enforcing mandates for cloud spend.
- D . Preparing the organization for FinOps
Your business unit has decided to use Azure for its cloud services for production. Other business units have been Azure for both development and production use cases. You have been asked to provide tools in Azure that can provide recommendations for reducing costs and getting insight into better ways of resource management.
What tools in Azure could you identify? (Select Two)
- A . Recommender
- B . Trusted Advisor
- C . Azure Advisor
- D . Azure has only one tool
FinOps Principles are north stars that guide the activities of our FinOps practice. These principles are clearly broken down and we must encourage members to practice these. When it comes to these principles which of the following activities would be under the ‘Teams need to Collaborate’ principle? (Select One)
- A . Rightsizing instances and services help drive appropriate resourcing levels
- B . Fast feedback loops result in more efficient behavior
- C . Define governance and controls for cloud usage
- D . Gain visibility into cloud spend at all levels