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Certifications / 3 levels

Three credentials. Three different jobs.

Each ZopDev University certification verifies a specific operational capability. Associate runs the tool. Professional builds with it. Expert owns the practice. Pass the exam, list it on your résumé.

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Associate
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Professional
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Expert
Level 1 / Associate

ZopDev Certified Associate

For anyone responsible for what the cloud costs this month.

ZopDev Certified Associate

You can read a cloud bill and act on it.

Where cloud cost work starts: reading a bill, finding what runs when nobody is using it, and turning that into a schedule somebody trusts.

Lessons
66
Course time
12hr
Exam
min
Pass mark
%
What it proves
  • Reads a cloud bill and names the four cost categories
  • Connects a cloud, runs estate discovery, audits tags
  • Builds schedules, sets safe-window overrides, routes notifications
  • Manages groups, RBAC roles, and the audit log
Path
  1. Foundations
  2. Operator
  3. Associate exam
Level 2 / Professional

ZopDev Certified Professional

For engineers building cost-aware systems.

ZopDev Certified Professional

You can shape the cost surface.

Not just running the tool, building the practice. Tagging at the IaC layer, scaling for events, handling cost incidents like real incidents.

Lessons
113
Course time
18hr
Exam
min
Pass mark
%
What it proves
  • Reads the rule library, configures auto-remediation
  • Schedules K8s + Databricks workloads, pre-scales for events
  • Tags at the IaC layer (Terraform / Pulumi / CDK)
  • Runs a cost incident: detect, diagnose, remediate, postmortem
Path
  1. Associate
  2. Engineer
  3. DevOps Cost Discipline
  4. Professional exam
Level 3 / Expert

ZopDev Certified Expert

For platform leads owning the cost-discipline practice.

ZopDev Certified Expert

You own how the org thinks about cost.

The senior conversation. Finance asks for forecasts. Security asks for posture. The CTO asks what the next twelve months look like. You have answers.

Lessons
111
Course time
18hr
Exam
min
Pass mark
%
What it proves
  • Multi-org RBAC, audit-log architecture, SOC 2 / ISO posture
  • FinOps Foundation framework, KPIs, maturity model
  • Forecasting, commitments (RIs, SPs, CUDs), unit economics
  • AI-powered ops via MCP, agentic remediation, guardrails
Path
  1. Professional
  2. Architect
  3. FinOps Mastery
  4. AI Ops
  5. Expert exam

Every credential is publicly verifiable.

A hiring manager pastes the ID, reads the candidate's name, level, and date. No login. No marketing wall.

Each certificate ships with a credential ID in the format ZDU-XX-YYYY-XXXX-XXXX. The candidate puts the ID on their résumé. The verifier pastes the ID, sees three lines, knows it's authentic.

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The credential is the artifact.

What it stands for is the operating practice you'll bring to your team. Start where you are.

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Start with the bill.

Foundations takes about five hours. The first lesson is nine minutes.

Free curriculum. No paywall. 290 lessons across 7 courses, plus an optional 24-lesson beginner course. Browse every course without an account; a free account opens the lessons, saves your progress and opens the exams for three publicly verifiable credentials. Read it on the train, take the exam on a Saturday, list the credential on your résumé Monday.

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5h median time to finish Foundations
free account, every course, no paywall
3 certifications, each with a public verifier
Multi-cloud automation· Production-ready in 30 min· SOC 2 · ISO 27001· 20–60% off the bill, first month· 4 platforms · 1 console· Multi-cloud automation· Production-ready in 30 min· SOC 2 · ISO 27001· 20–60% off the bill, first month· 4 platforms · 1 console·