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AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate (SOA-C03)

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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.

- (SOA-C03) Monitoring, Logging, Analysis, Remediation, and Performance Optimization - (SOA-C03) Reliability and Business Continuity - (SOA-C03) Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation - (SOA-C03) Security and Compliance - (SOA-C03) Networking and Content Delivery

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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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