The Linux Foundation FOCP Practice Exams
Last updated on Apr 06,2025- Exam Code: FOCP
- Exam Name: FinOps Certified Practitioner
- Certification Provider: The Linux Foundation
- Latest update: Apr 06,2025
Building a common language is important to bring all teams to enable meaningful and productive conversations between personas.
- A . True
- B . False
You have been asked to assemble the first FinOps team for your company.
What would be two factors you must consider when organizing your team? (Select Two)
- A . Cloud provider billing models
- B . Complexity of the Cloud usage
- C . Location of your team members
- D . Complexity of your organization
Which of the following methods would we use if we wanted to ensure ‘a user defined coefficient’ ? (Select One)
- A . Target Split
- B . Fixed
- C . Even Split
- D . Proportional
Your currently working with the head of finance to understand how to identify specific cloud usage to specific business units.
What would we use to account for costs for each business units and then debit the business unit for the cloud usage?
- A . Chargeback
- B . Resevationss
- C . Showback
- D . Allocation
- E . Turnback
According to the FinOps Foundation there are very specific roles/personas. For the role of a product owner what would be the ‘Primary Goal’? (Select One)
- A . Cloud platform relationship management
- B . Deliver faster and high quality services to the organization, whilst maintaining business as usual
- C . Accurately budget, forecast and report cloud costs
- D . Quickly bring new products and features to market with an accurate price point.
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 procurement business unit? (Select One)
- A . Assurance that cloud investments are aligned with business objectives
- B . Cloud platform relationship management
- 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
Before addressing other goals in the Optimize phase, what should you have in place?
- A . Good cost allocation information on which to base decisions
- B . Separate OKRs established for each team being monitored
- C . Plans aligned to the business
- D . Cost savings
Which approach might convince engineers to take concrete action toward cost optimization?
- A . A combination of governance and culture change to make the case for cost-efficient engineering practices
- B . Creating tighter governance controls to avoid the need for any rework or optimization later
- C . Education and enablement in financial processes and more clarity around the impact of commitment based discounts on engineering costs
- D . Mandatory tagging and labelling guidelines for 100% of all resources before automated deletion
FinOps Principles are north stars that guide the activities of our FinOps practice. They’re developed by FinOps Foundation members, and honed through experience.
When it comes to the FinOps principle of ‘A centralized team drives FinOps’ which of the following statements would be true? (Select Two)
- A . Centralized discount buying process removes rate negotiations from engineering team consideration
- B . Centrally govern and control Committed Use Discounts, Reserved Instances, and Volume/Custom Discounts with Cloud Providers
- C . Track team-level targets to drive accountability
- D . Never use granular allocation of all costs, direct or shared, to the teams and cost centers responsible for them
When prioritizing in the FinOps practice, use __________ to choose actions that most impact the overall value to the organization.
- A . The Pareto Principle
- B . Workload management
- C . The Cloud FinOps book
- D . Hick’s Law