The Linux Foundation FOCP Practice Exams
Last updated on Apr 02,2025- Exam Code: FOCP
- Exam Name: FinOps Certified Practitioner
- Certification Provider: The Linux Foundation
- Latest update: Apr 02,2025
When proposing the adoption of a FinOps function within an organization, there will be a need to brief a variety of personas among the executive team to gain approval, buy-in, and involvement in conducting FinOps and achieving its goals. Every role has a clearly documented Primary Goal.
What is the primary goal for a Chief Technology Officer (CTO)? (Select One)
- A . Leverage technology to give the business a market and competitive advantage
- B . Deliver faster and high quality services to the organization, whilst maintaining business as usual
- C . Quickly bring new products and features to market with an accurate price point.
- D . Drive best practices into the organization through education, standardization, and cheerleading
Which of these is a key responsibility that should be centralized in FinOps?
- A . Approve new systems being launched in cloud at implementation time.
- B . Ensure consistent patching of infrastructure
- C . Perform rightsizing on resources with savings above a certain threshold
- D . Perform commitment purchasing activities on behalf of the company
AWS provides what is called a ‘Blended Rate’ on its invoices.
What is the blended rate showing? (Select One)
- A . Shows the variable rate for a group of resources with the variable attributes.
- B . Shows the effective rate for a group of resources with different attributes.
- C . Shows the effective rate for a group of resources with the same attributes.
- D . Shows the variable rate for a group of resources with the same attributes.
Distributed decision making coupled with the move to variable spending in cloud allows technology teams to efficiently partner with finance and business teams to make informed decisions that drive continual optimization. (True or False)
- A . False
- B . True
When do you reach the end of the FinOps lifecycle?
- A . Never, it is a continuous process
- B . Once you achieve the Run level in each function
- C . When all waste is eliminated
- D . Once all workloads are migrated to the cloud
There are effectively two ‘levers’ that are used to reduce costs in cloud computing.
What are they? (Select Two)
- A . Restructuring Costs
- B . Mitigating Costs
- C . Avoiding Costs
- D . Reducing Costs
FinOps capabilities are: __________.
- A . What the FinOps team does in its practice
- B . How to manage the move to cloud
- C . Northstars to guide our FinOps practice
- D . How to mature our FinOps team
User
Who should be involved in the creation and maintenance of a tagging or labelling strategy?
- A . Application owners
- B . Finance
- C . Operations
- D . All of these groups
In a FinOps based organization spending is a concern only for finance team and the FinOps team members. (True or False)
- A . False
- B . True
What term would we use to define the act of changing the size of provisioned resources to one that better matches needs? (Select One)
- A . Right-Sizing
- B . Cost Avoidance
- C . Cost Reduction
- D . Provisioning