AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Exam Prep

Covers automating the software delivery lifecycle, including CI/CD pipeline design, test automation, artifact management, and deployment strategies across instance, container, and serverless environments. The domain emphasizes AWS-native tooling and deployment controls used to build, test, promote, and release software reliably.

• Task 1.1: Implement CI/CD pipelines
• Continuous integration patterns and tools (AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeArtifact)
• Build and test automation for source code
• Task 1.2: Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines
• Unit, integration, performance, security, and acceptance testing in pipelines
• Test result reporting and quality gates
• Task 1.3: Build and manage artifacts

Key references: AWS DOP-C02 official exam guide · ExamPal shared topic tree

Covers defining, provisioning, and managing infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code and reusable components. The domain also includes multi-account and multi-region account governance, plus automation for large-scale and hybrid environments.

• Task 2.1: Define cloud infrastructure and reusable components to provision and manage systems throughout their lifecycle
• AWS CloudFormation (templates, stacks, StackSets, change sets, drift detection, custom resources, transforms, nested stacks)
• AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), AWS SAM, AWS CDK for Terraform / Pulumi
• Task 2.2: Deploy automation to create, onboard, and secure AWS accounts in a multi-account, multi-region, and/or hybrid environment
• AWS Organizations, AWS Control Tower, AWS Landing Zone Accelerator
• AWS Account Factory, Service Control Policies (SCPs)
• Task 2.3: Design and build automated solutions for complex tasks and large-scale environments

Key references: AWS DOP-C02 official exam guide · ExamPal shared topic tree

Covers designing and implementing highly available, scalable, and recoverable cloud architectures. The domain emphasizes resilience patterns, scaling approaches, and disaster recovery strategies that satisfy business continuity objectives.

• Task 3.1: Implement highly available solutions to meet resilience and business requirements
• Multi-AZ patterns for RDS, Aurora, ElastiCache
• Auto Scaling Groups, target tracking and step scaling policies
• Task 3.2: Implement solutions that are scalable to meet business requirements
• Horizontal vs vertical scaling, Application Auto Scaling for ECS/Lambda/DynamoDB
• Decoupling via Amazon SQS (Standard/FIFO), Amazon SNS, Amazon EventBridge
• Task 3.3: Implement automated recovery processes to meet RTO and RPO requirements

Key references: AWS DOP-C02 official exam guide · ExamPal shared topic tree

Covers collecting, storing, analyzing, and acting on telemetry across AWS environments. The domain includes logs, metrics, traces, events, observability tooling, and notification mechanisms used to detect issues and optimize performance.

• Task 4.1: Configure systems to collect, aggregate, and store telemetry, including logs, metrics, traces, and events
• Amazon CloudWatch metrics (standard + custom), CloudWatch Logs (subscription filters, log groups, retention)
• AWS X-Ray for distributed tracing, ADOT (AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry)
• Task 4.2: Audit, monitor, and analyze logs, metrics, traces, and events to detect issues and optimize performance
• CloudWatch Logs Insights queries, CloudWatch Metrics Insights
• Amazon OpenSearch Service for log analytics and visualization
• Task 4.3: Automate observability of AWS environments to proactively send notifications, generate reports, and identify performance and compliance issues

Key references: AWS DOP-C02 official exam guide · ExamPal shared topic tree

Covers responding to events, automating remediation, and troubleshooting failures in AWS environments. The domain emphasizes event-driven workflows, configuration remediation, and analysis of logs and health signals during incidents.

• Task 5.1: Manage event sources to process, notify, and take action in response to events
• Amazon EventBridge rules and event buses (default, custom, partner)
• AWS Lambda as event target
• Task 5.2: Implement configuration changes in response to events
• AWS Systems Manager Automation runbooks for remediation
• AWS Config rules + remediation actions
• Task 5.3: Troubleshoot system and application failures

Key references: AWS DOP-C02 official exam guide · ExamPal shared topic tree

Covers identity and access management at scale, security automation, data protection, monitoring, and compliance auditing. The domain emphasizes AWS-native controls for least privilege, encryption, threat detection, and governance across multi-account environments.

• Task 6.1: Implement techniques for identity and access management at scale
• IAM users, groups, roles, policies, permission boundaries, session policies
• IAM Identity Center (formerly SSO) for federated multi-account access
• Task 6.2: Apply automation for security controls and data protection
• AWS Key Management Service (KMS), AWS CloudHSM, AWS Secrets Manager
• AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) for TLS certificate lifecycle
• Task 6.3: Implement security monitoring and auditing solutions

Key references: AWS DOP-C02 official exam guide · ExamPal shared topic tree