Hands-on certification
Hands-on Practical DevOps exams based on actions
Assess real troubleshooting ability with live exam scenarios instead of theory tests.
Deadnodes practical exams let engineers work through actual incidents while your team receives an operational result later.
- Focused exam run
- Live terminal sessions
- Per-task weighting
- Simple result pages
Theory-led exams
- Memorization-heavy
- Instant quiz grading
- Little system depth
- Low realism
Deadnodes hands-on exams
- Operational tasks
- Background verification
- Real environment setup
- Higher signal for ops roles
Check practical troubleshooting
These exams are designed for DevOps, SRE, and platform engineers who need to prove they can work in systems, not just talk about them.
- Senior hiring
- Promotion loops
- Internal validation
Use the same conditions for everyone
Teams can sell exams publicly, assign them internally, or use them as part of enterprise onboarding.
- Public purchase flow
- Company assignments
- Exam history
Review exam results
Candidates finish the session, checks run in the background, and the result appears later in a dedicated exam result view.
- Focused exam UX
- Delayed validation
- Simple result screen