You can see it againUnder pressure people bring back shapes and positions long after the wording has gone.
Picture superiority · Shepard 1967, Standing 1973
LINUX PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTELPI DevOps Tools Engineer
The LPI DevOps Tools Engineer certification validates your ability to design, deliver, and operate software using modern DevOps practices and open source tooling. It is aimed at software developers and system administrators who bridge the gap between development and operations. Earning it demonstrates you can build stable, scalable, and secure services through collaborative, automated workflows.
Exam formatMultiple choice and fill-in-the-blank
Duration90 minutes
DeliveryPearson VUE
Free questions496
Content last reviewed 30 July 2026 · Up to date
The certification
What LPI DevOps Tools Engineer proves, and what it asks of you
What this certification covers, who it is written for, and what the exam itself looks like on the day.
4domains
15objectives
159concepts
What it is
What this certification is
What it validates, who it is written for, and the experience it assumes.
About this certification
The LPI DevOps Tools Engineer certification validates your ability to design, deliver, and operate software using modern DevOps practices and open source tooling. It is aimed at software developers and system administrators who bridge the gap between development and operations. Earning it demonstrates you can build stable, scalable, and secure services through collaborative, automated workflows.
The certification covers the full lifecycle of software delivery: from designing cloud-native applications and managing source code with Git, to building and orchestrating containers, and operating Kubernetes clusters. It also emphasizes security and observability, including cloud-native security, monitoring with Prometheus, and log management. The exam is vendor-neutral and focuses on open source tools and standards.
Who it’s for
This certification is for professional software developers and system administrators who are involved in producing IT solutions that require a robust and efficient process from source code to deployment. It is ideal for those who want to demonstrate their ability to bridge the gap between development and operations, using open source technology. Candidates should be comfortable working on the command line, understand software development and system administration concepts, and be familiar with DevOps practices such as continuous integration, continuous delivery, and infrastructure as code.
Recommended experience
LPI recommends that candidates maintain at least one active certification in system administration or software development, at a level equivalent to LPIC-1. While not required, this ensures a solid foundation in Linux and open source technologies. Experience with Linux system administration and command-line tools; Understanding of software development principles and practices; Familiarity with version control systems, particularly Git; Knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
The syllabus
What you’ll learn
Every domain and objective Linux Professional Institute measures, with the weight they carry on the exam.
The official Linux Professional Institute exam outline · checked 30 July 2026 · See the source
701 Software Engineering
- 701.1 Modern Software Development (weight: 6)
- 701.2 Standard Components and Platforms for Software (weight: 3)
- 701.3 Source Code Management (weight: 6)
- 701.4 Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (weight: 3)
- 701.5 Software Composition, Licensing and Open Source (weight: 2)
702 Application Container
- 702.1 Application Container Management (weight: 5)
- 702.2 Container Orchestration (weight: 3)
- 702.3 Container Image Building (weight: 5)
703 Kubernetes
- 703.1 Kubernetes Architecture and Usage (weight: 4)
- 703.2 Basic Kubernetes Operations (weight: 7)
- 703.3 Kubernetes Package Management (weight: 2)
704 Security and Observability
- 704.1 Cloud Native Security (weight: 4)
- 704.2 Prometheus Monitoring (weight: 6)
- 704.3 Log Management and Analysis (weight: 2)
- 704.4 Tracing (weight: 2)
On the day
The exam itself
Everything Linux Professional Institute publishes about sitting it, and nothing we inferred.
Prerequisites
No mandatory prerequisites — this certification has no required predecessor exam or credential.
CertificationLPI DevOps Tools Engineer
Exam formatMultiple choice and fill-in-the-blank
Duration90 minutes
Questions60 questions
DeliveryPearson VUE
LanguagesEnglish, Japanese
After you pass
Where this credential goes next
The path Linux Professional Institute lays out, how the credential is kept, and where to book.
Step-by-step path to LPI DevOps Tools Engineer
Credential earnedLPI DevOps Tools Engineer Certification Renewal and maintenance
LPI DevOps Tools Engineer certification is valid for 5 years. To maintain it, you must recertify by retaking the exam or by achieving a higher-level certification. Stay current with the latest technologies and maintain your certification.
Learn more about renewal requirements Lifecycle status
This certification is currently active and available. Linux Professional Institute maintains this certification to validate current skills and industry relevance.
Exam status: ActiveMaintained by Linux Professional Institute
Exam registration
Register for the exam through Pearson VUE, Linux Professional Institute’s authorized testing partner.
Schedule your examVisit the official Linux Professional Institute certification page for exam policies and requirements.
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And when you are serious, your coach Pip takes over
Your coach in the app reads what you have answered with the book closed and tells you one thing to do tonight. It will not count an answer you gave with the page open, and it will tell you when you are not ready.
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Questions people ask
How does the DevOps Tools Engineer certification relate to the LPIC series?
The DevOps Tools Engineer is part of LPI's Open Technology track, which is separate from the Linux Professional (LPIC) track. It has no prerequisites and does not require an active LPIC certification, though LPI recommends having a certification equivalent to LPIC-1 in your primary area of expertise.
Is there a hands-on or lab component in the exam?
The exam is 60 multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank questions. There is no separate hands-on lab component, but the questions are designed to test practical knowledge of tools and commands.
What is the retake policy if I fail the exam?
LPI requires a waiting period of at least 24 hours before retaking a failed exam. There is no limit on the number of attempts.
Can I recertify by passing a different LPI exam?
Yes, achieving a higher-level LPI certification (such as LPIC-2 or LPIC-3) will renew your DevOps Tools Engineer certification. Alternatively, you can retake the 701 exam.
What job roles does the DevOps Tools Engineer credential map to?
The certification is designed for professionals who work as DevOps engineers, site reliability engineers, software developers, and system administrators involved in the delivery and operation of software services.
Are there any regional restrictions for taking the exam?
The exam is available globally through Pearson VUE test centers and online proctoring. Some languages may only be available in specific regions.
Information freshness · Content last reviewed on 2026-07-30 Up to date
Practice free questions 496 questions, free, no account needed.
The curriculum
The whole exam, mapped and written
Every domain, every objective, and every concept Linux Professional Institute measures — each one written out.
4domains
15objectives
159concepts
106free pages
The domains, and what sits inside them
Every objective below is a page you can open and practise now, without an account.
The official Linux Professional Institute exam outline · checked 30 July 2026 · See the source
1701 Software Engineering169 questions
701.1 Modern Software Development (weight: 6)18 concepts · 10 pagesOpen →701.2 Standard Components and Platforms for Software (weight: 3)12 concepts · 7 pagesOpen →701.3 Source Code Management (weight: 6)9 concepts · 7 pagesOpen →701.4 Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (weight: 3)12 concepts · 6 pagesOpen →701.5 Software Composition, Licensing and Open Source (weight: 2)6 concepts · 6 pagesOpen →
2702 Application Container91 questions
3703 Kubernetes107 questions
Not a table of contents
Every line on this map already opens
In front of every objective the practice pages are already there, free and without an account. This is one objective, opened.
701.1 Modern Software Development (weight: 6)10 pagesOpen →
Free in front of it
47 questions on this objective, five to a page. Every range above is a real page, open now, with no account.
Reading the map is not the same as knowing the ground
The curriculum tells you what is on the exam. Proving you know it is a different job — and it is the one the closed-book run does.
Free questions
496 questions. No account, no card.
The whole bank is open. 5 questions to a page, every answer explained, and a discussion thread on each one.
496questions
106pages
15objectives
Freealways
Browse by domain
Every objective, and every page range, is a link — so you can pick up exactly where you left off.
1701 Software Engineering169 questions
2702 Application Container91 questions
3703 Kubernetes107 questions
4704 Security and Observability129 questions
What a practice page gives you
1Five to a page
Short enough to finish, long enough to matter.
2Every answer explained
Not only which one is right — why the others are wrong.
3A discussion on each
Ask, answer, and vote. Every question has its own thread.
A question, and the idea behind it
Every question comes from a concept
These are not trivia. Each one is written against a concept in the book, so when you get one wrong there is somewhere to go and find out why.
The visual book
See it once. Carry it into the exam.
The pages shown here come from our AI-900 book — an example of how each concept is written in plain language and, where the idea needs one, drawn as a full page you can take in at a glance.
159concepts
496free questions
Why a picture, and not another paragraph
Three reasons, and each one is a real finding rather than a slogan.
You can see it againThe whole idea at onceWhere it starts, what happens in the middle, what comes out, and the mistake to avoid.
Multimedia principle · MayerThe look-alikes sit togetherThe pairs the exam tests are drawn side by side, so the difference is seen, not told.
Dual coding · PaivioWhat one page is made of
You are never asked to read a poster here — only to see how one is built. After that, every other page is legible at a glance.
1A numbered strip on top
The idea as a sequence, followed with a finger before a word is read.
2Panels for the parts
What it is, how the machine learns it, when it is the right tool.
3The trap, framed
The distinction the exam tests, given its own box instead of buried in prose.
4One line at the bottom
The sentence to carry into the exam room.
Open book, on purpose
Answer it with the picture beside you
This is the part that teaches. The illustration and the written explanation stay where they are while you work, so a scenario stops being a memory test and becomes something you can simply look at.
It teaches · it does not count
A smartphone uses AI to unlock when the owner looks at the camera. Which AI capability is being used?
AImage classification
BFacial recognition
COptical character recognition
DObject detection
Look at the five steps. Detect finds a face, align straightens it, encode turns it into numbers, search compares it with a stored face, and decide answers one question: is this the same person? Classification would only say “a face”. Detection would only draw a box. Neither decides whose.
Then the page shuts, and it starts counting
The same questions come back with the book closed — that run is the one that counts. After it, your coach picks one thing for tonight, sized to the time you have, and brings pages back before you lose them.
Testing effect · Roediger & Karpicke 2006 · spacing effect · Cepeda et al. 2006
Official resources
Straight from Linux Professional Institute
Where the exam is defined, scheduled and scored.
3official links
159concepts mapped
The source
Linux Professional Institute’s own pages
We link to them rather than repeat them, so nothing here goes stale behind them.
Checked against the source
Every objective on the official Linux Professional Institute outline already has questions here
We build from the official skills outline, not from a summary of it — 15 objectives, 159 concepts written under them, and free questions against every one. When Linux Professional Institute changes the outline, this page changes with it.
15objectives on the outline→159concepts written→496free questions
An official page tells you what will be asked. It cannot tell you what you will get right.
That is the only question worth answering the night before, and no link answers it. You answer it by taking the questions with the book closed, and seeing what comes back.