Certification
Prove what you know about SLOs
Pass a short knowledge check built from the content on this site and earn the free SLO Foundation Certificate, ready to share on LinkedIn or X. Advanced certifications are coming to members.
01 — Pathway
Start free, go deeper when you are ready
The Foundation certificate checks that you understand the ideas. Advanced certifications will check that you can apply them.
SLO Foundation
Twenty questions on SLIs, SLOs, critical user journeys, error budgets, incident management and AI SLOs. Pass mark is 80%, retakes are unlimited, and you get a downloadable certificate with a credential ID.
Take the check →Advanced certifications
A paid membership will unlock further certifications, built on deeper content and practical workshops where you apply SLOs to real scenarios instead of answering questions about them.
- Advanced content beyond the free pages
- Practical, hands-on workshops
- Certifications assessed on applied work
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02 — Prepare
What the check covers
Every question comes from a page on this site. Read the pages, try the calculators, then take the check.
SLIs, SLOs and CUJs
What each term means, how they connect, and what makes a good indicator.
Study the pipeline →Error budgets
Turning an SLO into allowed downtime, tracking burn, and deciding when to ship or stabilise.
Open the calculator →Incident management
Roles, severity levels, mitigation first, and blameless reviews.
Study incidents →03 — Take the check
SLO Foundation knowledge check
Free, self-paced and open book. Your name and result stay in your browser and are not uploaded.
Good to know
What this certificate is, and is not
The Foundation certificate is a self-paced, open-book knowledge check run in your browser. It shows you completed and passed the check. It is not a proctored exam, and credential IDs cannot be independently verified yet. Advanced certifications are planned to be assessed on applied work.
Every answer is checked against a public reference, mainly Google's published SRE guidance and PagerDuty's incident response documentation. When you review a missed question, the source is linked so you can read it yourself.