DevOps Practitioner Certification Cost

Updated on 23 September 2026. What’s new: exam access corrected to the first two attempts within 60 days of the course at $50 a retake, written for the current SDP 6.0 release.

The SAFe DevOps Practitioner exam is 45 multiple-choice questions in 90 minutes, and 73% is the pass mark. You reach it through the two-day SAFe DevOps course, and the first two attempts are covered by your course fee if you sit them within 60 days. What surprises most candidates is where the marks sit. The single heaviest lesson is Continuous Exploration, at 25-27% of the paper, and not one of its topics is about a build server.

That is the whole character of the SDP exam in one sentence. It is written for people who can already automate things, and it spends its questions on the decisions that surround the automation: which value stream to fix first, how a hypothesis becomes a Feature, when to decouple a deployment from a release. Engineers who revise pipelines and containers walk out of the exam puzzled. Engineers who revise the flow of value walk out certified.

This guide sets out what Scaled Agile currently publishes for the SDP exam, how each lesson is weighted, what the attempts and retakes cost, and a six-week plan that fits around a full-time job.