AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate Practice Exam
AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate Practice Exam
About the AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate Exam
The AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate certification validates your ability to manage, operate, and optimize workloads on AWS. It focuses on the operational side of cloud computing ensuring professionals can monitor, maintain, and secure AWS environments effectively. This certification demonstrates your skills in implementing security controls, managing networking configurations, executing business continuity and disaster recovery procedures, and applying performance and cost optimization techniques. As AWS infrastructures expand and evolve, this certification proves your capability to keep systems resilient, efficient, and compliant.
Who should take the Exam?
This certification is ideal for IT professionals with around one year of hands-on experience in deploying, managing, and operating AWS workloads. It’s especially suited for those aiming to showcase their ability to run secure and reliable cloud operations.
Recommended Roles
- Cloud Operations Specialist
- Cloud Support Engineer
- Cloud Consultant
- Migration Specialist
- Cloud Systems Integration Engineer
- CloudOps Engineer
- Cloud Operator
Exam Details
- Exam Duration: 130 minutes
- Exam Format: 65 questions (multiple choice/multiple response)
- Delivery Options: Pearson VUE testing center or online proctored exam
- Exam Language: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese
- Recommended Experience: Approx 1 year of AWS workload deployment, management, and operations
Recommended Knowledge
- To perform well in this exam, candidates should have:
- Experience in monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting AWS workloads
- Solid understanding of networking concepts (DNS, TCP/IP, firewalls)
- Experience designing for high availability, performance, and capacity
- Familiarity with at least one scripting language (Python, Bash, or PowerShell)
- Working knowledge of Linux or Windows environments
- Understanding of core cloud computing principles
- Awareness of containerization and orchestration tools
- Basic knowledge of CI/CD processes and Git
Recommended AWS Experience
Candidates should be comfortable with:
- AWS Well-Architected Framework principles
- AWS storage (Amazon S3, EBS, EFS) and container solutions (ECS, EKS)
- Monitoring and auditing tools like CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Config
- AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, and Infrastructure as Code tools such as CloudFormation
- AWS networking and security services for access management and compliance
- Cost monitoring and optimization using AWS financial management tools
- Managing hybrid and multi-VPC environments
- AWS databases (Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache)
- Compute services such as EC2, Lambda, and ECS
Exam Domains and Key Focus Areas
The AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate Exam covers the following topics -
Module 1: Monitoring, Logging, Analysis, Remediation, and Performance Optimization
- Configure monitoring tools like CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and Prometheus
- Deploy and manage CloudWatch Agents for EC2, ECS, and EKS
- Create and manage CloudWatch alarms, dashboards, and EventBridge rules
- Troubleshoot system metrics and automate remediation using Lambda and Systems Manager
- Optimize compute, storage, and database performance for cost and efficiency
Module 2: Reliability and Business Continuity
- Implement auto scaling, caching (CloudFront, ElastiCache), and database scaling
- Design fault-tolerant, multi-AZ architectures with ELB and Route 53
- Automate backups, snapshots, and recovery with AWS Backup
- Plan and execute disaster recovery strategies to meet RTO/RPO targets
Module 3: Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation
- Build and manage AMIs and container images
- Automate deployments with CloudFormation, CDK, or Terraform
- Share resources securely across accounts and regions using AWS RAM and StackSets
- Implement event-driven automation using Lambda and S3 Event Notifications
Module 4: Security and Compliance
- Configure IAM policies, MFA, and federated identities
- Analyze and fix access issues using IAM Access Analyzer and CloudTrail
- Apply encryption at rest and in transit using KMS and ACM
- Store secrets securely and respond to findings from Security Hub, GuardDuty, and Inspector
Module 5: Networking and Content Delivery
- Configure and optimize VPCs, routing, and private connectivity
- Protect networks with WAF, Shield, and Network Firewall
- Manage DNS with Route 53 and deliver content globally through CloudFront
- Troubleshoot VPC, DNS, and connectivity issues using flow logs and network metrics
