AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate (SOA-C02)
(SOA-C02.AP1)/ISBN:978-1-64459-370-7
Become an AWS-certified SysOps Administrator Associate with the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate (SOA-C02) course and lab. The lab provides a hands-on learning experience for system administrators in cloud operations. The course covers SOA-C02 exam objectives and teaches the skills required for deploying, managing, and operating workloads on AWS, monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting systems, performing business continuity and disaster recovery procedures, and so on.
Here's what you will get
To be the AWS SysOps Administrator certified Associate, you need to pass the AWS SOA-C02 exam. This credential helps organizations identify and develop talent with critical skills for implementing cloud initiatives. Earning AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate demonstrates experience in deploying, managing, and operating workloads on AWS, performing operations by using the AWS Management Console and the AWS CLI, implementing architectural requirements (for example, high availability, performance, capacity), and so on.
Lessons
17+ Lessons | 250+ Exercises | 122+ Quizzes | 134+ Flashcards | 134+ Glossary of terms
TestPrep
50+ Pre Assessment Questions | 2+ Full Length Tests | 50+ Post Assessment Questions | 100+ Practice Test Questions
Hand on lab
42+ LiveLab | 43+ Video tutorials | 01:32+ Hours
Video Lessons
113+ Videos | 09:28+ Hours
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Here's what you will learn
Download Course OutlineLessons 1: Introduction
- How to Prepare for the Exam?
- Taking a Certification Exam
- About This Course
Lessons 2: Introduction to AWS
- What is Cloud Computing?
- The AWS Cloud
- Six Benefits of the AWS Cloud
- AWS Services Overview
Lessons 3: Monitoring Services in AWS
- Metering, Monitoring, and Alerting
- CloudWatch
- CloudTrail
Lessons 4: Troubleshooting and Remediation
- Responding to Alarms
- Amazon EventBridge
- AWS Config
Lessons 5: Implementing Scalability and Elasticity
- Scaling in the Cloud
- Caching
- Read Replicas
Lessons 6: High Availability and Resilience
- Availability Zones in AWS
- High Availability with Elastic Load Balancers and Route 53
- Highly Available Datastores
- Highly Available Databases
Lessons 7: Backup and Restore Strategies
- Backup in the Cloud
- S3 as a Backup Service
Lessons 8: Provisioning Resources
- Deployment Tools in AWS
Lessons 9: Application Management
- Lifecycle Management
- Patching
Lessons 10: Security and Compliance
- Account Management
Lessons 11: Data Protection at Rest and in Transit
- Protecting Data
Lessons 12: Networking and Connectivity
- The VPC
- VPC Connectivity
- VPC Security
- AWS Network Firewall
- VPC Endpoints
- VPC Peering
- VPC
- Direct Connect
- AWS WAF
- AWS Shield
Lessons 13: Domains, DNS, and Content Delivery
- Route 53
- Route 53 Routing Policies
- S3 Static Website Hosting
- Amazon CloudFront
- S3 Origin Access Identity
Lessons 14: Troubleshoot Network Connectivity
- VPC Flow Logs
- ELB Access Logs
- AWS WAF ACL Logs
- CloudFront Logs
- CloudFront Caching Issues
- Troubleshooting Hybrid and Private Links
Lessons 15: Cost Optimization Strategies
- Operational Optimization
Lessons 16: Performance Optimization
- Optimizing for Performance
Appendix: Videos
- Module 1: AWS SysOps Exam Basics
- Module 2: Monitoring, Logging and Retention
- Module 3: Reliability and Business Continuity
- Module 4: Deployment, Provisioning and Automation
- Module 5: Security and Compliance
- Module 6: Networking and Content Delivery
- Module 7: Cost and Performance Optimization
Hands-on LAB Activities
Monitoring Services in AWS
- Creating a CloudWatch Dashboard and Adding a Metric to it
- Creating CloudTrail
Troubleshooting and Remediation
- Creating Amazon EventBridge Rules that React to Events
Implementing Scalability and Elasticity
- Creating an Auto Scaling Group
- Using ElastiCache
High Availability and Resilience
- Assigning an Elastic IP Address to an EC2 Instance
- Creating an Elastic Load Balancer
- Creating an Amazon S3 Glacier Vault
- Enabling Versioning in the Amazon S3 Bucket
- Creating an Amazon S3 Bucket
- Creating an Amazon DynamoDB Table
Backup and Restore Strategies
- Creating an AWS Backup
- Creating a Snapshot
Provisioning Resources
- Creating and Deleting a Resource Share
- Creating an Application in Elastic Beanstalk
- Creating a CloudFormation Template
- Using the AWS Command Line Interface
Security and Compliance
- Configuring a Key
- Configuring an IAM Role
- Creating an IAM Group
- Creating an IAM User
Data Protection at Rest and in Transit
- Enabling and Disabling GuardDuty
Networking and Connectivity
- Creating an Elastic Network Interface
- Creating an Internet Gateway
- Allocating an Elastic IP Address
- Creating a VPC
- Creating a NAT Gateway
- Configuring a Route Table
- Creating a Subnet
- Creating a Security Group
- Creating a Network ACL
- Creating a Gateway Endpoint
- Creating a VPC Endpoint
- Creating a VPC Peering
Domains, DNS, and Content Delivery
- Creating a Hosted Zone Using Amazon Route 53
- Creating a Health Check
- Creating an Amazon CloudFront Web Distribution
Troubleshoot Network Connectivity
- Creating VPC Flow Logs
- Creating an AWS WAF Web ACL
Performance Optimization
- Creating a Placement Group
- Creating an Encrypted Amazon EBS Volume with a Cold HDD
- Creating a Linux Instance
Exam FAQs
There is no official prerequisites for the Amazon SysOps Administrator-Associate exam.
USD 150
The exam contains 50 questions.
180 minutes
720
(on a scale of 100-1000)
If you fail an exam, you must wait 14 days before you are eligible to retake the exam. There is no limit on exam attempts. However, you must pay the full registration fee for each exam attempt. Once you have passed an exam, you will not be able to retake the same exam for two years. If the exam has been updated with a new exam guide and exam series code, you will be eligible to take the new exam version.
Note that beta exam test takers can take the beta version only once, after which they will need to wait to retake the exam when the certification exam becomes generally available.