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
Which phase of the FinOps lifecycle focuses on obtaining visibility and accountability in cloud spending?
- A . Inform
- B . Optimize
- C . Operate
- D . Assess
Your FinOps lead has requested all cloud expenses and would like to understand all costs realized and paid for this quarter.
What type of expense would consider this? (Select One)
- A . Costs of Goods Sold (COGS)
- B . Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)
- C . Capital Expenditure (CAPEX)
- D . Operational Expenditure (OPEX)
Business value of cloud drives decisions" is one of the core principles of FinOps.
- A . True
- B . False
‘Establish FinOps Culture’ would be under what domain according to the FinOps Foundation? (Select One)
- A . Real-Time Decision Making
- B . Organizational Alignment
- C . Understanding Cloud Usage and Cost
- D . Cloud Usage Optimization
This term describes the amount of a commitment-based discount that went unused for a given time frame.
- A . Vacancy
- B . Amortization
- C . Uncommitted capacity
- D . Blended cost
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 the Engineering Lead? (Select One)
- A . Deliver faster and high quality services to the organization, whilst maintaining business as usual
- B . Accurately budget, forecast and report cloud costs
- C . Leverage technology to give the business a market and competitive advantage
- D . Quickly bring new products and features to market with an accurate price point.
We can reduce overall c ost by reducing resource usage (r emoving or only running a resource when we need it). This best describes __________.
- A . Workload Management
- B . Rightsizing
- C . Automation
- D . License Optimization
Which stage in the FinOps Adoption Process would we be ‘performing initial resourcing’ such as getting budget approval?
- A . Stage 1 – Planning for FinOps in an Organization (Laying the groundwork)
- B . Stage 2 – Socializing FinOps for adoption in an organization
- C . Stage 3 – Preparing the organization for FinOps
Which of the following are the FinOps sponsored Maturity Assessment Model steps/phases? (Select Three)
- A . Evaluate
- B . Run
- C . Walk
- D . Crawl
- E . Assess
Using public cloud is fundamentally different from using traditional data centers because __________.
- A . All services are less expensive in the cloud
- B . Engineers are able to commit the company to spending directly using infrastructure as code
- C . When you configure a resource in the cloud, you can’t change its configuration later
- D . Infrastructure is purchased upfront, so there is no need to track individual resource costs