FinOps Certified Practitioner (FOCP)

Name: FinOps Certified Practitioner (FOCP)
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Master cloud financial management through the FinOps Foundation's framework — principles, personas, and the Inform / Optimize / Operate lifecycle that turns cloud spend into a strategic advantage. Build practical skills in cost visibility, tagging governance, commitment-based discounts, anomaly detection, and unit economics across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Designed to prepare you to pass the FinOps Certified Practitioner (FOCP) exam on your first attempt.

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12 hours

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Updated May 2026

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By James Chen

What You'll Learn

Explain the six FinOps principles and the Crawl/Walk/Run maturity model

Identify the responsibilities of each FinOps persona (Engineer, Finance, Executive, Procurement, Product)

Build a cloud tagging taxonomy and governance policy across AWS, Azure, and GCP

Apply shared cost allocation methods (proportional, even-split, fixed coefficient) and compute unit economics

Apply rate and usage optimization techniques including commitments, spot, and rightsizing

Evaluate forecasting and anomaly detection strategies for an Operate-phase FinOps practice

Evaluate FinOps tooling options and map capabilities to the 2025 FinOps Framework Scopes

Prerequisites

Working knowledge of at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
Familiarity with reading a cloud billing dashboard or invoice
Basic spreadsheet and data analysis skills (sorting, pivoting, simple formulas)
Understanding of how modern software engineering teams operate (sprints, services, deployments)

About the Instructor

James Chen

Expert instructor with hands-on industry experience in Cloud.

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LevelIntermediate

Duration12 hours

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Rating4.70 / 5.0

Cert targetFOCP

This course includes

Hands-on practice labs
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Progress tracking
Certificate of completion
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