Opleiding: DASA Platform Engineering

Make the right way the easy way.

Platform Engineering helps organizations enable development teams to deliver software faster, more independently, and more reliably. Instead of requiring every team to repeatedly organize its own infrastructure, tooling, and delivery processes, a platform team provides standardized, reusable, and self-service capabilities.

During this two-day DASA Platform Engineering certification training, you will learn how to successfully position, design, and evolve Platform Engineering within an organization.

Platform Engineering is about much more than technology. A successful platform is treated as a product, with developers as its internal customers and Developer Experience as a key consideration.

CERTIFICATION

This training prepares you for the official DASA Platform Engineering Certification exam.

The exam:

• consists of 40 questions
• takes 80 minutes
• is AI-proctored
• is closed book
• has a passing score of 65%

After successfully passing the exam, you will receive the official DASA Platform Engineering certificate and digital badge.

There are no formal prerequisite qualifications or mandatory certifications required to take the exam.

WHO IS THIS TRAINING FOR?

This training is intended for professionals involved in the design, implementation, use, or management of Platform Engineering.

Typical participants include:

• platform engineers
• software and cloud engineers
• DevOps and SRE professionals
• architects
• product owners
• technical leaders and sponsors
• stakeholders involved in platform development
• development teams

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?

After completing this training, you will be able to:

• explain the importance and key principles of Platform Engineering
• understand the relationship between DevOps and Platform Engineering
• align Platform Engineering with business goals
• treat a platform as a product
• develop a strategy for improving Developer Experience
• understand the role of Infrastructure as Code in Platform Engineering
• explain how Platform Engineering can simplify and accelerate CI/CD
• understand the role of containerization
• apply best practices for monitoring, alerting, and incident response
• continuously evolve and improve a platform

PROGRAMME

1. Platform Engineering Fundamentals
Principles, benefits, roles, and the skills required for Platform Engineering.

2. DevOps and Platform Engineering
DevOps anti-patterns, Team Topologies, SRE, DevSecOps, automation, and CI/CD.

3. Stakeholders and Culture
Vision, leadership, collaboration, ownership, and stakeholder support.

4. Platform as a Product
Product thinking, MVPs, platform backlogs, prioritization, adoption, and continuous improvement.

5. Developer Experience
Developer journeys, developer friction, feedback, and improving DX.

6. Infrastructure as Code
IaC principles, modularity, configuration, immutable infrastructure, and tooling.

7. CI/CD and Automation
Delivery, deployment, scalability, resilience, and platform pipelines.

8. Containerization
Containers, microservices, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD.

9. Monitoring, Observability and Incident Response
Logging, monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, and incident response.

10. Platform Engineering Beyond the Build
Scalability, innovation, evolving technologies, and continuous platform improvement.

LIVE ONLINE

This English-language training is delivered as a live online instructor-led course.

You participate in the same interactive training environment as you would in a classroom, with plenty of opportunity for questions, discussions, exercises, and practical examples.

The aim is not only to understand Platform Engineering terminology, but also to be able to assess which Platform Engineering approach best fits your own organization.

PREREQUISITES

There are no formal prerequisites.

Experience with software development, DevOps, cloud, infrastructure, architecture, or IT operations will help you relate the examples and discussions to your own environment, but is not required.

DURATION

2 days.

WHY PLATFORM ENGINEERING?

Platform Engineering brings together disciplines such as software engineering, cloud, architecture, security, DevSecOps, and Site Reliability Engineering.

By making common architectural choices, infrastructure, delivery processes, and engineering best practices available through a platform, development teams do not have to solve the same technical problems repeatedly.

The goal is to reduce developer friction, increase team autonomy, and make good engineering practices easier to adopt.

Make the right way the easy way.