Course introduction
The Salesforce DevOps Fundamentals Certification will give you a comprehensive understanding of key DevOps practices, with plenty of practical knowledge that you can apply in your current or future role. The certification track has been specifically designed using a wealth of insights that we’ve gained from training thousands of DevOps professionals over the past few years.
You’ll be guided through a series of seven DevOps Launchpad courses covering the fundamentals of Salesforce DevOps. Start the DevOps certification now and get the confidence you need to drive best practices, foster collaboration and deliver increased customer expectations and business value for your organization.
Who is the DevOps Fundamentals Certification for?
Admins, Developers, Team Leaders
The Salesforce DevOps Fundamentals Certification track is suitable for anyone in the Salesforce ecosystem looking to improve their knowledge of DevOps practices. Whether you’re new to Salesforce or want to understand DevOps concepts specific to the Salesforce context, you’re in the right place.
What you’ll achieve in the DevOps Fundamentals Certification
- Discover the key concepts and core principles of Salesforce DevOps
- Understand challenges that DevOps teams face when implementing DevOps, and best practices to adopt
- Learn how to effectively apply DevOps principles to meet business objectives and deliver value to your team and organization
What the DevOps Fundamentals Certification includes
The Salesforce DevOps Fundamentals Certification doesn’t just teach you theory — it gives you a complete, hands-on DevOps foundation to build your skills and confidence. Through this guided track, you’ll:
- Build a comprehensive understanding of core DevOps principles – Learn key concepts like version control, deployment pipelines, continuous integration, testing, and secure DevSecOps and backup strategies, all tailored for Salesforce teams to build a strong DevOps engineering foundation.
- Get hands-on with continuous delivery practices – Explore continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), automation, and continuous testing foundations that help teams reduce errors, increase service reliability, and deliver customer value faster.
- Develop skills aligned to real-world DevOps teams – From agile principles to implementing DevOps across all stages of the development lifecycle, every module is designed to reflect how high-performing teams work today.
- Validate your knowledge with quizzes and a final certification exam – Finish your journey with a formal assessment. Score 80% or higher to earn your certificate and demonstrate your grasp of DevOps concepts.
- Gain lifetime access to expert content – Return anytime to revisit modules and refresh your knowledge, from DevOps culture to other agile practices.
Whether you’re a Salesforce admin or operations professional, a developer new to Git, or a release manager or team lead focused on business objectives, this certification equips you with the DevOps skills needed to boost collaboration, drive digital transformation, and outpace competitors.
Salesforce DevOps Fundamentals Certification content
An introduction to Salesforce DevOps — your DevOps foundation
Learn what Salesforce DevOps is, why it’s becoming more important than ever, why you should consider adopting it in your organisation, and how to do so successfully. This course also covers the pillars of Salesforce DevOps, and who should be involved in the implementation process.
Get your deployments DevOps ready
Deployments are fundamental on the road to DevOps. This course will help you understand the key best practices of DevOps-ready deployments, explore common issues which can make deployments slow and unreliable, and consider how you can get your deployments ready for DevOps.
Version control fundamentals
Version control is at the heart of modern release management. In this course, you’ll cover the benefits and best practices of version control, how to get started, and when your team should consider moving to a Git-based workflow. No prior knowledge of version control is necessary.
Git branching strategies
Your Git branching strategy is where the theory of version control meets the reality of how you use it day to day. It’s a set of conventions or rules for how you use and manage branches when developing features in version control. In this course, we’ll cover the basics of Git branching strategies, some common models used by Salesforce development teams in the real world, and how to go about building a strategy that works for your team.
Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) for Salesforce
At the heart of DevOps, CI/CD automation has proven a real game-changer for the Salesforce ecosystem with teams building, testing, and shipping code faster. Salesforce teams that have successfully adopted version control are ready to automate their release pipelines with CI/CD tools. Learn about the benefits of automated workflows, and how your team can adopt a culture of continuous delivery to get the most out of CI/CD.
Salesforce testing and test automation
This course delves deep into the art and science of Salesforce testing, exploring essential strategies, tools, and key metrics that empower teams to deliver high-quality Salesforce solutions with confidence. Whether you’re new to Salesforce or looking to refine your testing skills, this course provides valuable knowledge and practical skills to harness the full potential of testing strategies in your organization.
Backups for Salesforce
Many Salesforce professionals find backup and security daunting — not every organization backs up Salesforce data and there are limited training resources. This course is the perfect introduction to why you need Salesforce backups, who should take responsibility and how it fits with your Salesforce team and organization.
DevOps Fundamentals Certification — final assessment
The learning experience is wrapped up with the final certification exam that will test your knowledge of key DevOps practices across all the courses you have completed in this certification track. You will need to achieve 80% or more to pass the final assessment and earn your certificate.
What our students say about the DevOps Fundamentals Certification
“The Fundamentals certification laid a robust technical foundation, empowering me to implement best practices confidently across our CI/CD processes.”
Sipra Sahu, Senior Salesforce Developer
Other DevOps Launchpad courses you might be interested in
- Salesforce DevOps Backup Certificate
- Assessing and improving DevOps performance
- Salesforce DevOps Leadership Certificate
FAQs
What is DevOps Launchpad?
DevOps Launchpad is a free training platform packed with courses and resources for anyone in the Salesforce ecosystem looking to upskill in Salesforce DevOps.The certifications, courses, and quizzes on
DevOps Launchpad are curated by experts in the field from Gearset, the leading DevOps platform for Salesforce. But the majority of content on DevOps Launchpad is all vendor-neutral, and useful for anyone learning more about Salesforce DevOps.
Who is DevOps Launchpad for?
Anyone involved in any aspect of the build, test and release cycle for Salesforce – it doesn’t matter if you’re brand new to the ecosystem or more experienced in Salesforce development.
Our courses are designed to upskill everyone in DevOps, regardless of role. Whether you’re an admin, a developer, release manager, an ISV partner or a technical architect, there’s something here for you.
How do I complete courses and get certificates?
DevOps Launchpad courses are broken down into modules. To finish a module, you usually complete a quiz to test your knowledge with multiple-choice questions. Once you finish all the modules in a course, you’ll earn a certificate which can be downloaded and saved to your resume, or shared on your social profiles.
Our certification tracks provide the opportunity to earn official certifications to demonstrate your DevOps prowess, by completing a number of courses in a guided learning pathway. You can learn more about certification tracks below.
How do I navigate the platform?
Click the Courses tab to see the courses and certification tracks that you’ve enrolled for. This page will be blank until you choose courses in the library. If you want to return to a course in progress or one that you’ve previously completed, head to this page.
The Results tab shows your progress through the courses you’ve completed, including any certifications and test results. It’s a great way to track your learning journey and see the skills you’re building.
The Library is where you can browse courses and enrol to continue building your skillset. Once you enrol for a course, it’ll be added to your courses page and you can start working through it.
How do I access my account?
You can access DevOps Launchpad in different ways:
- The DevOps Launchpad homepage
- Direct login
- For Gearset users: click the DevOps Launchpad icon in the Gearset app
How are certification tracks different from other courses?
Certification tracks are guided learning pathways which are made up of a set of DevOps Launchpad courses. For some certification tracks, you can choose to take courses individually or as part of a track, but you’ll only earn the track certificate if you’ve completed all the component courses.
I’ve signed up to the DevOps Fundamentals Certification track but I can’t see all the component courses
Courses will appear one by one on your Courses page, with a rosette icon top left to indicate that they’re part of a certification track. Once you’ve completed a course, the next one will appear, and so on until you reach the final assessment. You’ll need to pass the final assessment to complete the certification.
Do I have to complete the DevOps Fundamentals Certification track all in one go?
No, you can take modules and courses in your own time. Your progress will be saved, so you can come back whenever suits your schedule!
Do I get certificates for individual courses?
You will receive a certificate for each course that you complete. After you have completed all the courses and the final assessment, you will be awarded the official final certification.
What if I’ve already completed some of the courses on the DevOps Fundamentals Certification track?
DevOps Launchpad will register that you’ve already completed the course and jump to the next course in the track. If you’ve already completed all the component courses, you’ll jump straight to the final assessment. Even if you’ve completed all the component courses, you’ll need to pass the final assessment before gaining your certification.