Note: The AWS [DOP-C01] exam will expire on March 6, 2023, and it has been updated to the AWS [DOP-C02], which will be available on March 7, 2023. Click here to learn more about AWS [DOP-C02].
The AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional certification demonstrates an individual’s technical skill in deploying, operating, and managing distributed application systems on the AWS platform, providing them with improved trust and credibility among colleagues, stakeholders, and customers. Organizations with these qualified people can ensure the timely delivery of secure, compliant, highly available, and scalable systems.
With the advancement in the cloud, it is essential for the development and operation team to take advantage of the AWS DevOps model, to increase an organization’s ability to deliver applications and services very quickly.
DeOps allows an organization to evolve and improve products at a faster pace than traditional software development and infrastructure management processes.
This blog post covers everything you need to know about AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional (DOP-C01) exam.
What Is AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional DOP-C01?
The DOP-C01 exam is one of the most difficult yet high-paying IT certifications. It is designed to assess the candidate’s ability to provision, administer, and manage distributed application systems on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform:
- Implement and manage continuous delivery systems and methodologies on AWS.
- Implement and automate security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation.
- Define and install monitoring, measurement, and logging systems on AWS.
- Implement systems that are highly available, scalable, and self-healing on the AWS platform.
- Tools for automating operational procedures need to be designed, managed, and maintained.
General Information About AWS DOP-C01
- Certification Name: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional DOP-C01
- Target Audience: Designed for professionals and beginners who are responsible for the Solutions Architect role
- Platform: AWS Training and Certification and delivered via Pearson VUE and PSI
- Format: Multiple choice, multiple answers
- Exam Duration: 180 minutes
- Number of Questions: 75
- Passing score: 75%
- Exam cost: $300USD
How to Book the [AWS DOP-C02] Exam
- Step 1: Visit the AWS Training and Certification
- Step 2: Select the desired certificate from the available list i.e. DOP-C01
- Step 3: Select the schedule with Pearson VUE as PSI only offers an exam at the test center.
- Step 4: Select the exam mode home or Test center.
- Step 5: Agree upon the Terms and Conditions
- Step 6: Select the Date, and time and confirm with the payment method
AWS DOP-C01 Exam Topics
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Domain 1: SDLC Automation
- Automate CI/CD pipeline
- Source control strategies & implementation
- Automate and integrate testing
- Build and manage artifacts securely
- Deployment/delivery strategies and implement
Domain 2: Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code
- Deployment services
- Application and infrastructure deployment models
- Apply security concepts in the automation of resource provisioning
- Determine how to implement lifecycle hooks on a deployment
- Apply concepts required to manage systems using AWS configuration management tools and services
Domain 3: Monitoring and Logging
- Aggregation, storage, and analysis of logs and metrics
- Automate monitoring and event management of an environment
- Apply concepts required to audit, log, and monitor operating systems, infrastructures, and applications
- Determine how to implement tagging and other metadata strategies
Domain 4: Policies and Standards Automation
- Enforce standards for logging, metrics, monitoring, testing, and security
- Optimize cost through automation
- Conceptualize and implement governance strategies
Domain 5: Incident and Event Response
- Troubleshoot issues and determine restore operations
- Automate event management and alerting
- Implement automated healing
- Set up event-driven automated actions
Domain 6: High Availability, Fault Tolerance, and Disaster Recovery
- Appropriate use of multi-AZ versus multi-region architectures
- Implement high availability, scalability, and fault tolerance
- Determine services based on business needs
- Design and automate disaster recovery strategies
- Evaluate deployment for points of failure
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AWS DevOps Hands-on Guides
For AWS DevOps we have a list of 30 Step-by-Step Activity Guides (Hands-On Labs) for you to practice and have a clear knowledge of the concepts both theoretically and practically. The list of activity guides is as follows:
- Lab 1:Create AWS Free Trial Account
- Lab 2:CloudWatch – Create Billing Alarm & Service Limits
- Lab 3:Create & Connect To Amazon EC2 Machine
- Lab 4:Install & Configure AWS CLI, Setup GIT, Node JS & SDK
- Lab 5:Working with AWS CodeCommit
- Lab 6:Build Application with AWS CodeBuild
- Lab 7:Create a Simple Pipeline (CodePipeline)
- Lab 8:Create and Update Stacks using CloudFormation
- Lab 9:Deploy PHP App Using AWS OpsWorks Stacks
- Lab 10:Blue-Green Deployments Using Elastic Beanstalk
- Lab 11:Setting Up AWS Config to Assess Audit & Evaluate AWS Resources
- Lab 12:Build API Gateway with Lambda Integration
- Lab 13:Event-Driven Architectures Using AWS Lambda, SES, SNS, and SQS
- Lab 14:Enable CloudTrail and Store Logs in S3
- Lab 15:Configure Amazon CloudWatch to Notify Change In EC2 CPU Utilization
- Lab 16:Install CloudWatch Agent on EC2 Instance & View CloudWatch Metrics
- Lab 17:Amazon Athena
- Lab 18:Using AWS Systems Manager for Patch Management
- Lab 19:AWS Organizations and Service Control Policies
- Lab 20:Classify sensitive data in your environment using Amazon Macie
- Lab 21:Amazon Inspector
- Lab 22:Visualize Web Traffic Using Kinesis Data Streams
- Lab 23:Block Web Traffic with WAF in AWS
- Lab 24:Configure a Load Balancer And Autoscaling on EC2 Instances
- Lab 25:Registering a Domain Name For Free
- Lab 26:Working with Route53 for Disaster Recovery
- Lab 27:Configuring a MySQL DB Instance via RDS
- Lab 28:Create & Manage Amazon Aurora Global Databases
- Lab 29:Create & Query with Amazon DynamoDB
- Lab 30:Process New Items with DynamoDB Streams and Lambda
Exam Results
Your results for the examination are scored on a scale of 100-1,000, with a minimum passing score of 750.
The AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional (DOP-C01) examination uses a standard scoring system established by AWS professionals in accordance with industry best practices and guidelines.
Scaled scoring models are used to equate scores across multiple exam forms that may have slightly different difficulty levels.
Your score report will contain a table of classifications of your performance at each section level. This information is designed to provide topic-wise feedback on your performance. It is not necessary to pass the individual sections, only the overall examination score will determine pass or fail.
Related Links/References:
- Overview of Amazon Web Services & Concepts
- How to create a free tier account in AWS
- Amazon Elastic File System User Guide
- AWS Management Console Walkthrough
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