Apptio Certified Practitioner: Cloudability Essentials

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(Only for clients on Apptio education system, Internals and partners need to take IBM Cloudability for Practitioner Level 4 course on YourLearning and IBM training respectively).

Become a Cloudability expert by gaining in-depth knowledge of the product and earn an industry-recognized certification. Learn about different Cloudability features that will help you organize your cloud billing data, will provide visibility to your cloud spend and will help you optimize your cloud cost and usage. This course is recommended for Apptio administrators.

Upon completion, students will be assigned the title of Apptio Certified Practitioner

Plan Includes

  • 17 hours of self-paced content
  • 4 hours of instructor-led training
  • 1 hour of final evaluation

Instructor-Led Courses (Virtual)

IBM Cloudability: Tagging Strategy and Compliance (2 hours)

Learn about the importance and challenges of tagging, checking tagging compliance, and how to set a tagging strategy.

IBM Cloudability: Aligning Personas to Dashboard (2 hours)

Learn how to maximize value by ensuring that the personas are aligned with the dashboards they use every day, so they can see the data they care about even faster.

Learning Plan Overview

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IBM Cloudability: Foundation

Duration: 4 hours

Take this course to gain foundational knowledge of Cloudability like introduction to cloud and Cloudability, FinOps methodology and steps for doing user-set up in Frontdoor. 

  • Overview of learning plan 

  • Introduction to cloud and Cloudability 

  • FinOps primer (self-paced) 

  • FinOps primer (student guide) 

  • User set up in Frontdoor 

  • Course Knowledge check 

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IBM Cloudability: Data Ingestion

Duration: 1 hour

Take this course to discover how to use Cloudability's in-app training guides to successfully complete vendor credentialing. 

  • Credentialing overview 

  • Introduction to vendor credentialing 

  • In-app training guide: Data Ingress 

  • In-app training guide: Data Egress 

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IBM Cloudability: API

Duration: 3 hours

Take this course to dive into Cloudability API and explore its various endpoints. 

  • Introduction 

  • Various API endpoints 

  • Course knowledge check 

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IBM Cloudability: Cost Visibility

Duration: 2 hours

Take this course to learn about Cloudability features that will help you gain visibility into your cloud spend. 

  • Data requirement 

  • TrueCost explorer 

  • Tag explorer 

  • Views 

  • Reports and dashboards 

  • MCS walkthrough 

  • Resource inventory 

  • Overall process overview 

  • Course knowledge check 


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IBM Cloudability: Optimization Features

Duration: 4 hours

Take this course to understand Cloudability features that will help you optimize both cloud costs and usage.   

  • Data requirement: Anomaly detection, rightsizing and optimizing rate 

  • Anomaly detection 

  • Rightsizing 

  • Rightsizing ROI 

  • Rightsizing preferences 

  • FinOps best practice for rightsizing 

  • Complete guide to rightsizing 

  • Commitment portfolio 

  • Commitment manager 

  • Commitment recommendations 

  • Overall process overview: Anomaly detection, rightsizing and optimizing rate 

  • Course knowledge check 

 

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IBM Cloudability: Budgets and Forecasts

Duration: 1 hour

Take this course to gain insights into Cloudability features that assist in planning budgets and forecasting cloud expenses.   

  • Data requirement 

  • Introduction to budget and forecast tools 

  • Current month report 

  • Forecasts 

  • Budgets 

  • Overall process overview 

  • Course knowledge check 

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IBM Cloudability: Data Organization

Duration: 2 hours

Take this course to explore Cloudability features that will help you efficiently organize data of both cloud usage and spend. 

  • Data requirement 

  • Tags and labels 

  • Account groups 

  • Business mapping and metrics 

  • Cost sharing 

  • Containers and Kubernetes 

  • Overall process overview 

  • Course knowledge check 

Final Evaluation

Apptio Certified Practitioner: Cloudability Essentials Final Evaluation (1 hour)

Complete the 60 question final evaluation by scoring minimum 80%. Upon passing, learners will earn badge, and certificate from Apptio Education Services.