practical-devsecops.comReviews of practical-devsecops.com

I am a developer with a windows background (25 years) and it is only 2 years that I work with nodejs environment. The labs, the instructors and the class were outstanding. Real hands on in the labs, that is where I think the big difference is. The exam it is unorthodox, and long so be prepared.

I liked the experience of doing this CDP certification. I have finished with the feeling of having learned many things related to DevSecOps but not only theoretical, but also practical. In fact, the course is mostly practical, and this is appreciated because you are directly confronted with the problems that you could encounter doing this type of work. I would also like to highlight the kindness and good disposition of the whole team, always willing to help you with whatever you need.

The 3-day instructor led course by Maran and Imran was very good. They had complete understanding on what they were presenting and answering questions during the class. The instruction material including videos, reference material, external links etc., were very useful. The cloud labs are excellent for practicing the concepts we learned. The support by the staff was good, timely and they were very quick to take the inputs and fix any issues with their environment. The exam itself was carefully and intelligently designed to test candidate's complete understating of the concepts and application - very hands on. The evaluation was also done manually to make sure the candidate has understood the challenges and their approach was taken into consideration. The best part is once we are certified, it stays with forever - no need to re-certify! My only issue with the entire CDP experience is the time commitment for the exam - 12 hour exam followed by report creation/submission the next day. I was drained out at the end as I was on the run all week with work and exam on the whole weekend. I was exhausted and needed a couple of days to recover! I thankfully passed the test but hard to even think about retaking the exam. If not for the exam experience, I would have easily given 5 stars.

Overall all lectures, videos and labs were great and I’ve really enjoyed learning and exploring about different tools through the course.

Course was excellent and explained deeply DevSecOps area. It was practical and theoretical but a practical part was most important as well as for me and for course creators. In summary great course and I will recommend this course for every security specialist.

It was a great experience. The course teaches everything involved in the CI/CD technology but touches only the surface in some of the topics (which would be covered in the expert one, the next level). Totally recommended. I think they should include bitbucket/bitbucket cloud since it's really spreaded among companies.

I really enjoyed the labs and the way they were setup. I thought it was great to have my own environment spun up with the tools to practice on. I also thought the lab questions were a good test of knowledge. I did think the whole certification (lab + document) was really long. However, in the end I feel much more knowledgeable about the devsecops tools and how best to configure them.

It's clear that a lot of work went into developing the class and labs. The instructors were very helpful to me and provided good real-world examples. The certification test was very encompassing, requiring hands-on ability to assess tools for what, why, and how to integrate into DevSecOps pipelines.