Site Reliability Engineering: Measuring and Managing Reliability by Google via Coursera: Fee, Duration, How to Apply

Quick Facts

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Medium of instructions English	Mode of learning Self study	Mode of Delivery Video and Text Based	Learning efforts 4 Hours Per Week

Course overview

Courses on Coursera are taught by instructors from worldwide universities and companies. These courses provide access to on-demand video lectures, quizzes, homework exercises, projects, and community discussion forums. Coursera has come up with this course along with Google Cloud to give the learners an opportunity to make more reliable business decisions.

The framework of the Site Reliability Engineering: Measuring and Managing Reliability course by Coursera has been tailor-made for learners who wish to gain knowledge about Site Reliability Engineering and start off their career in that direction. The course intends to equip the participants with the skills required to measure and manage reliability.

This course will provide the participants with a detailed understanding of the different components of Site Reliability Engineering, Customer Reliability Engineering and Service Level Objectives. They will also learn about the usage of Service Level Indicators while making business decisions for better reliability. It will familiarize the participants with the various practices and theories of managing and measuring reliability.

Course and certificate fees

Type of course

Free

certificate availability

Yes

certificate providing authority

Coursera

Eligibility criteria

Certification Qualifying Details

Participants have to successfully complete the following in order to receive the course completion certificate:

Complete name verification
Pass all the required assignments given in the course
Pay the course certificate fee

What you will learn

Knowledge of computer application

The completion of the Site Reliability Engineering: Measuring and Managing Reliability course by Coursera will give the participants a firmer grasp of the following:

The core concepts of Site Reliability Engineering
Understanding the theory of Service Level Objectives
Learning the drafting of an error budget policy
Expertise in defining Service Level Indicator specifications
Learning how to make reliable business decisions

The syllabus

Week 1: Introduction to SRE

Videos

Course structure
What's the difference between DevOps and SRE? - Intro
What's the difference between DevOps and SRE?
Now SRE Everyone Else with CRE! - Intro
Now SRE Everyone Else with CRE!
CRE's Three Reliability Principles
Reliability in the Cloud
How SLOs help your business make decisions
How SLOs help you build features faster
How SLOs help you balance operational and project work
Making SLOs work for your organization

Practice Exercise

DevOps/SRE

Week 1: Targeting Reliability

Videos

Introduction
SLOs vs SLAs
The happiness test
How do we measure reliability?
Edge cases
100% is the wrong target
Iterating

Practice Exercises

A working service
SLOs and SLAs
Reliability and iterating
Targeting Reliability Assessment

Week 1: Operating for Reliability

Videos

Introduction
Error budgets
Everything is a trade-off
Error budgets: advanced concepts
Axes of improvement
Operational approach to increasing reliability
Module summary

Practice Exercises

Error budgets
Increasing reliability
Operating for Reliability Assessment

Week 2: Choosing a Good SLI

Videos

Introduction
User happiness in metric form
The properties of good SLI metrics
Ways of measuring SLIs
The SLI menu
The SLI equation
Request / Response SLIs
Data processing SLIs
But my system is really complex!
Managing complexity with aggregation
Managing complexity with bucketing
Achieveable SLOs
Aspirational SLOs
Continuous improvement

Practice Exercises

Measuring happiness
Commonly used SLIs
Correctness and Coverage

Week 3: Developing SLOs and SLIs

Videos

Introduction
The 4-step process
Our example game
Loading the profile page
Refining SLI specifications
Looking for observability gaps
Failure modes

Practice Exercises

Postmortem!
Setting Achievable SLO targets

Week 4: Quantifying Risks to SLOs

Videos

Introduction
Is your error budget realistic?
Modeling risks in our spreadsheet
Analyzing risk

Week 4: Consequences of SLO Misses

Videos

Introduction
No surprises
A dashboard example
Why an error budget policy?
Fundamentals of an error budget policy
How to draft an error budget policy
Example policy thresholds
A hypothetical policy scenario
Course conclusion and video wrap up

Practice Exercises

Error budget policies
Error budget policy - considerations
Consequences of SLO Misses

Admission details

Filling the form

Applicants who wish to apply for Site Reliability Engineering: Measuring and Managing Reliability course by Coursera can follow the steps given below:

Step 1: Visit the website of the course.

Step 2: Select the Enroll option available on the left side of the screen.

Step 3: Candidates have to sign up with Coursera before they can proceed further.

Step 4: After making an account, candidates will be given the option of choosing between the Purchase course and audit only. They can choose the appropriate mode according to their preferences.

Step 5: If they choose a purchased course, they will have to make a payment for the same before they can gain access to the course material.

Step 6: If they choose to audit only, they will be given instant access to the course.

Scholarship Details

Financial aid is provided to the participants who cannot afford to pay for their certificates.

To receive the Coursera Financial Aid or a Scholarship, participants have to:

Fill out an application providing information about their education, career goals, and financial circumstances.
Commit to abide by the Honor Code and the Code of Conduct of Coursera.

How it helps

The Site Reliability Engineering: Measuring and Managing Reliability course by Coursera is an online platform for learners who wish to get in-depth knowledge about Site Reliability Engineering.

Once the course gets completed, the participants will have a detailed perspective about CRE's Three Reliability Principles, building Service Level Objectives and its usage for balancing project operations, the happiness test, process of developing Service Level Indicators, analyzing, modelling risks and various other components of Site Reliability Engineering. They will be skilled and capable enough to measure and manage reliability for making business decisions and sustaining them smoothly.

The practice assignments will enable the participants to review and apply their understanding of the learned concepts. The coursework will help the theoretical as well the practical knowledge called for. This training by Google Cloud will enable the participants to apply their principles to develop their first SLOs for services they are acquainted with within their own organizations. It will make the participants industry-ready.

FAQs

When is the access to lectures and assignments given?

Access to lectures and assignments is given depending upon the type of enrolment made by the candidate. If the course is taken in audit mode, then most of the course material is for free. Access to graded assignments and to earn a Certificate, the Certificate experience has to be purchased during or after the audit.

What does the Course Certificate include?

The Course certificate includes the name of the course, the logo of the partner institution offering the course. The instructor's signature, a verification URL can also be included in the partner institution.

Does Coursera provide a hard copy of the certificate?

No, Coursera provides course certificates as downloadable PDF files, which can be printed by the participants. They can also be shared electronically.

Can I download the videos?

Yes, the participants can download the videos for offline viewing. You can download the subtitles of the videos as a transcript file to read.

What is Coursera Plus?

Coursera Plus provides access to the majority of the courses on Coursera upon payment of an annual subscription. Participants can take as many courses as they like. There is no limit upon the number of courses they can enrol in or Course Certificates they can earn.

Which browsers are supported by Coursera?

Coursera supports the most recent version of Google Chrome (recommended), Safari, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11.

What are Qwiklabs?

Coursera uses a third-party tool, Qwiklabs in some of its courses for labs. It requires the latest version of Firefox, Google Chrome, or Microsoft Edge; Microsoft Internet Explorer 11+ or Safari 8+.

There is no grade penalty for missing a deadline. The majority of the courses have personalized deadlines that begin when the participants enrol in a course. Some courses are on the session so if the participants miss a deadline they will have to switch sessions.