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AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate (SOA-C03)
5 Courses
2 Labs
15 Hours
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AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate (formerly known as AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate) validates skills and knowledge in monitoring and maintaining AWS workloads, implementing security controls and networking concepts, performing business continuity procedures, and implementing cost and performance optimizations.
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What You'll Learn
- Monitoring, Logging, Analysis, Remediation, and Performance Optimization
- What Reliability and Business Continuity means
- How Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation functions
- Security and Compliance
- Networking and Content Delivery
- The exam also validates a candidate's ability to complete the following tasks:
- Support and maintain AWS workloads according to the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
- Perform operations by using the AWS Management Console and the AWS CLI.
- Implement security controls to meet compliance requirements.
- Monitor, log, and troubleshoot systems.
- Apply networking concepts (for example, DNS, TCP, IP, firewalls).
- Implement architectural requirements (for example, high availability, performance, capacity).
- Perform business continuity and disaster recovery procedures.
- Identify, classify, and remediate incidents.
Prerequisites
- Recommended general IT knowledge and experience
- The target candidate should have the following general IT knowledge and experience:
- Techniques for monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting
- Networking concepts (for example, DNS, TCP, IP, firewalls)
- Implementation of architectural requirements (for example, high availability, performance, capacity)
- Familiarity with at least one scripting language
- Familiarity with at least one major operating system
- Understanding of cloud computing
- Containerization and orchestration basics
- Understanding of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) and Git
- Recommended AWS knowledge and experience
- The target candidate should have the following AWS knowledge:
- The AWS Well-Architected Framework
- AWS storage and container solutions
- AWS monitoring tools
- How to use the AWS Management Console, the AWS CLI, infrastructure as code (IaC) solutions, and AWS CloudFormation
- AWS networking and security services
- How to implement AWS security controls and compliance requirements
- Cloud financial management
- Operations within hybrid and multi-VPC environments
- AWS database services (for example, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon ElastiCache)
- AWS compute services (for example, Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Container Service [Amazon ECS])
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