{"id":13773,"date":"2021-05-26T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.com\/blog\/?p=13773"},"modified":"2023-11-02T12:32:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T07:02:31","slug":"aws-certified-sysops-administrator-exam-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/blog\/aws-certified-sysops-administrator-exam-format\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Exam Format"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate (SOA-C02) exam is designed for system administrators in a cloud operations role. For this they must have knowledge and experience of at least one year in deployment, management, networking, and security on AWS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Getting certified is quite a task and it requires a lot of effort. However, once you are certified, it will boost your career and professional profile quite like never before. Apart from that, the pay is also two times more than others in this field. Enroll in this AWS certification course to grasp all the concepts and attain better scores effortlessly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>AWS Certified SysOps Administrator: Exam Overview<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the technology sector is growing more and more powerful every day and so does the competition. There are several ways for the candidates to stand out from others. AWS certification is surely the most effective way to define and prove your expertise. No doubt, this certification is worth learning and a great addition to a good resume.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/aws-certified-sysops-administrator-associate-soa-c02-practice-exam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AWS SysOps Administrator Associate<\/a> certification course designed to help candidates understand the principles of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and gain the practical hands-on experience required to successfully administer an AWS infrastructure. This infrastructure includes learning how to use over 80 different services that will put you on the path to becoming an AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>AWS SysOps Administrator Associate Course Outline (SAO-C02)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Below mentioned is the detailed information regarding the domains covered in the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate exam and also the weightage of each domain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Domain 1: Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>1.1 Implementing metrics, alarms, and filters by using AWS monitoring and logging services<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Identify, collect, analyze, and export logs (for example, Amazon CloudWatch Logs, CloudWatch Logs Insights, AWS CloudTrail logs) (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonCloudWatch\/latest\/logs\/AnalyzingLogData.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Analyzing Log Data with CloudWatch Logs Insights<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonCloudWatch\/latest\/logs\/WhatIsCloudWatchLogs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Define Amazon CloudWatch Logs<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonCloudWatch\/latest\/logs\/CWL_QuerySyntax-examples.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CloudWatch Logs Insights Sample Queries<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Collect metrics and logs using the CloudWatch agent (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonCloudWatch\/latest\/monitoring\/Install-CloudWatch-Agent.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Collecting Metrics and Logs from Amazon EC2 Instances and On-Premises Servers<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Creating CloudWatch alarms (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonCloudWatch\/latest\/monitoring\/ConsoleAlarms.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Create a CloudWatch Alarm Based on a Static Threshold<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AWSEC2\/latest\/UserGuide\/using-cloudwatch-createalarm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Create a CloudWatch alarm for an instance<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonCloudWatch\/latest\/monitoring\/AlarmThatSendsEmail.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Using Amazon CloudWatch Alarms<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Develop metric filters (<strong>AWS Documentation:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonCloudWatch\/latest\/logs\/MonitoringLogData.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Creating Metrics From Log Events Using Filters<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonCloudWatch\/latest\/logs\/MonitoringPolicyExamples.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Creating Metric Filters<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Creating CloudWatch dashboards (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonCloudWatch\/latest\/monitoring\/create_dashboard.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Creating a CloudWatch Dashboard<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonCloudWatch\/latest\/monitoring\/CloudWatch_Dashboards.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Using Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Configuring notifications (for example, Amazon Simple Notification Service [Amazon SNS], Service Quotas, CloudWatch alarms, AWS Health events) (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonCloudWatch\/latest\/monitoring\/US_SetupSNS.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Setting Up Amazon SNS Notifications<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/ses\/latest\/DeveloperGuide\/configure-sns-notifications.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Configuring Amazon SNS notifications for Amazon SES<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/awscloudtrail\/latest\/userguide\/cloudtrail-configure-notifications-for-cloudwatch-logs-alarms.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Configuring Notifications for CloudWatch Logs Alarms<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/health\/latest\/ug\/cloudwatch-events-health.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Monitoring AWS Health events with Amazon CloudWatch Events<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/servicequotas\/latest\/userguide\/configure-cloudwatch.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Service Quotas, and Amazon CloudWatch alarms<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>1.2 Remediating issues based on monitoring and availability metrics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Troubleshooting or taking&nbsp; corrective actions based on notifications and alarms (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/cloudwatch\/features\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon CloudWatch Features<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonCloudWatch\/latest\/events\/CWE_Troubleshooting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Troubleshooting CloudWatch Events<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Configuring Amazon EventBridge rules to trigger actions (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/eventbridge\/latest\/userguide\/create-eventbridge-rule.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Creating a rule for an AWS service<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/eventbridge\/latest\/userguide\/create-eventbridge-cloudtrail-rule.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Creating an EventBridge Rule That Triggers on an AWS API Call Using AWS CloudTrail<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Using AWS Systems Manager Automation documents to take action based on AWS Config rules (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/systems-manager\/latest\/userguide\/systems-manager-automation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AWS Systems Manager Automation<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/systems-manager\/latest\/userguide\/automation-actions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Systems Manager Automation actions reference<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/systems-manager\/latest\/userguide\/automation-documents.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Working with runbooks<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/blogs\/mt\/using-aws-systems-manager-opscenter-and-aws-config-for-compliance-monitoring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AWS Config<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Domain 2: Reliability and Business Continuity<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>2.1 Implementing scalability and elasticity<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Creating and maintaining AWS Auto Scaling plans (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/autoscaling\/#:~:text=AWS%20Auto%20Scaling%20lets%20you%20build%20scaling%20plans%20that%20automate,you%20based%20on%20your%20preference.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AWS Auto Scaling<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/autoscaling\/plans\/userguide\/how-it-works.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How scaling plans work<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Implementing caching (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/caching\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Caching Overview<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonElastiCache\/latest\/mem-ug\/Strategies.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Caching strategies<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Applying Amazon RDS replicas and Amazon Aurora Replicas (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonRDS\/latest\/AuroraUserGuide\/Aurora.Integrating.AutoScaling.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Using Amazon Aurora Auto Scaling with Aurora replicas<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonRDS\/latest\/AuroraUserGuide\/Aurora.Replication.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Replication with Amazon Aurora<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Implementing loosely coupled architectures (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/blogs\/compute\/building-loosely-coupled-scalable-c-applications-with-amazon-sqs-and-amazon-sns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Building Loosely Coupled, Scalable, C# Applications with Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/wellarchitected\/latest\/high-performance-computing-lens\/loosely-coupled-scenarios.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Loosely Coupled Scenarios<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Differentiating between horizontal scaling and vertical scaling<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2.2 Implement high availability and resilient environments<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Configuring Elastic Load Balancer and Amazon Route 53 health checks (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/Route53\/latest\/DeveloperGuide\/routing-to-elb-load-balancer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Configuring Amazon Route&nbsp;53 to route traffic to an ELB load balancer<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/Route53\/latest\/DeveloperGuide\/dns-failover.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Creating Amazon Route&nbsp;53 health checks, and configuring DNS failover<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Differentiating between the use of a single Availability Zone and Multi-AZ deployments. For example, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon FSx, Amazon RDS (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AWSEC2\/latest\/UserGuide\/using-regions-availability-zones.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Regions and Zones<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonRDS\/latest\/UserGuide\/Concepts.MultiAZ.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">High availability (Multi-AZ) for Amazon RDS<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/rds\/features\/multi-az\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon RDS Multi-AZ Deployments<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/autoscaling\/ec2\/userguide\/autoscaling-load-balancer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elastic Load Balancing, and Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Implementing fault-tolerant workloads. For example, Amazon Elastic File System [Amazon EFS], Elastic IP addresses (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/efs\/latest\/ug\/mounting-fs-mount-cmd-ip-addr.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mounting with an IP address<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/efs\/latest\/ug\/how-it-works.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon EFS: How it works<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Applying Route 53 routing policies (for example, failover, weighted, latency based) (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/Route53\/latest\/DeveloperGuide\/routing-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Choosing a routing policy<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>2.3 Implementing backup and restore strategies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Automating snapshots and backups based on use cases (for example, RDS snapshots, AWS Backup, RTO and RPO, Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager, retention policy) (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonRDS\/latest\/UserGuide\/USER_WorkingWithAutomatedBackups.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Working with backups<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AWSEC2\/latest\/UserGuide\/snapshot-lifecycle.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Restoring databases (for example, point-in-time restore, promote read replica) (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.amazonaws.cn\/en_us\/AmazonRDS\/latest\/UserGuide\/USER_ReadRepl.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Working with read replicas<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Implementing versioning and lifecycle rules (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonS3\/latest\/dev-retired\/intro-lifecycle-rules.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lifecycle configuration elements<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonS3\/latest\/userguide\/object-lifecycle-mgmt.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Managing your storage lifecycle<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Configuring Amazon S3 Cross-Region Replication (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/s3\/features\/replication\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon S3 Replication<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonS3\/latest\/userguide\/replication-example-walkthroughs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Configuring replication<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonS3\/latest\/userguide\/replication.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Replicating objects<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Executing disaster recovery procedures (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/wellarchitected\/latest\/reliability-pillar\/plan-for-disaster-recovery-dr.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Plan for Disaster Recovery (DR)<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Domain 3: Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>3.1 Provisioning and maintaining cloud resources<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Creating and managing AMIs (for example, EC2 Image Builder) (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/imagebuilder\/latest\/userguide\/what-is-image-builder.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EC2 Image Builder<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/imagebuilder\/latest\/userguide\/how-image-builder-works.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How EC2 Image Builder works<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Creating, managing, and troubleshooting AWS CloudFormation (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AWSCloudFormation\/latest\/UserGuide\/troubleshooting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Troubleshooting AWS CloudFormation<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Provisioning resources across multiple AWS Regions and accounts. For example, AWS Resource Access Manager, CloudFormation StackSets, IAM cross-account roles (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/blogs\/aws\/use-cloudformation-stacksets-to-provision-resources-across-multiple-aws-accounts-and-regions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Use CloudFormation StackSets to Provision Resources<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/blogs\/infrastructure-and-automation\/multiple-account-multiple-region-aws-cloudformation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Multiple-account, multiple-Region AWS CloudFormation<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/blogs\/aws\/new-use-aws-cloudformation-stacksets-for-multiple-accounts-in-an-aws-organization\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Use AWS CloudFormation StackSets for Multiple Accounts in an AWS Organization<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Selecting deployment scenarios and services (for example, blue\/green, rolling, canary) (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonECS\/latest\/developerguide\/deployment-type-bluegreen.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Blue\/Green deployment with CodeDeploy<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/codedeploy\/latest\/userguide\/deployment-configurations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Working with deployment configurations in CodeDeploy<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/apigateway\/latest\/developerguide\/canary-release.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Set up an API Gateway canary release deployment<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Identifying and remediating deployment issues (for example, service quotas, subnet sizing, CloudFormation, and AWS OpsWorks errors, permissions) (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/general\/latest\/gr\/aws_service_limits.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AWS service quotas<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/sdk-for-go\/api\/service\/opsworks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AWS OpsWorks<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AWSCloudFormation\/latest\/UserGuide\/aws-resource-ec2-subnet.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AWS::EC2::Subnet<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>3.2 Automating manual or repeatable processes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Using AWS services (for example, OpsWorks, Systems Manager, CloudFormation) to automate deployment processes (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/opsworks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AWS OpsWorks<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/systems-manager\/latest\/userguide\/automation-cf.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Use AWS CloudFormation to configure a service role for Automation<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/codedeploy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AWS CodeDeploy<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Implementing automated patch management&nbsp; (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/systems-manager\/latest\/userguide\/systems-manager-patch.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/prescriptive-guidance\/latest\/patch-management-hybrid-cloud\/overview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Patch management overview<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Scheduling automated tasks by using AWS services (for example, EventBridge, AWS Config) (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/eventbridge\/latest\/userguide\/event-types.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EventBridge Event Examples from Supported AWS Services<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/blogs\/mt\/build-scheduler-as-a-service-amazon-cloudwatch-events-amazon-eventbridge-aws-lambda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Build a scheduler as a service<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/config\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AWS Config<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Domain 4: Security and Compliance<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>4.1 Implementing and managing security and compliance policies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Implementing IAM features (for example, password policies, MFA, roles, SAML, federated identity, resource policies, policy conditions) (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/iam\/#:~:text=AWS%20IAM%20allows%20you%20to,to%20AWS%20services%20and%20resources.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/IAM\/latest\/UserGuide\/id_roles_create_for-idp_saml.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Creating a Role for SAML 2.0 federation (console)<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/IAM\/latest\/UserGuide\/access_policies.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Policies and permissions in IAM<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/IAM\/latest\/UserGuide\/id_roles_providers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Identity providers and federation<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/IAM\/latest\/UserGuide\/id.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IAM Identities (users, groups, and roles)<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Troubleshooting and auditing access issues by using AWS services (for example, CloudTrail, IAM Access Analyzer, IAM policy simulator) (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/IAM\/latest\/UserGuide\/cloudtrail-integration.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Logging IAM and AWS STS API calls with AWS CloudTrail<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/IAM\/latest\/UserGuide\/what-is-access-analyzer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Using AWS IAM Access Analyzer<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/general\/latest\/gr\/aws-security-audit-guide.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AWS security audit guidelines<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/IAM\/latest\/UserGuide\/logging-using-cloudtrail.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Logging Access Analyzer API calls with AWS CloudTrail<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Validating service control policies and permission boundaries (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/organizations\/latest\/userguide\/orgs_manage_policies_scps.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Service control policies<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/IAM\/latest\/UserGuide\/access_policies_boundaries.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Permissions boundaries for IAM entities<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reviewing AWS Trusted Advisor security checks (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/awssupport\/latest\/user\/trusted-advisor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AWS Trusted Advisor<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Validating AWS Region and service selections based on compliance requirements (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AWSEC2\/latest\/UserGuide\/compliance-validation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Compliance validation for Amazon EC2<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/IAM\/latest\/UserGuide\/iam-compliance-validation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Compliance validation for AWS Identity and Access Management<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AWSEC2\/latest\/UserGuide\/using-regions-availability-zones.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Regions and Zones<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Implementing secure multi-account strategies (for example, AWS Control Tower, AWS Organizations) (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/controltower\/latest\/userguide\/aws-multi-account-landing-zone.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AWS multi-account strategy for your AWS Control Tower landing zone<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/controltower\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AWS Control Tower<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4.2 Implementing data and infrastructure protection strategies<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Enforcing a data classification scheme (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/whitepapers\/latest\/data-classification\/leveraging-aws-cloud-to-support-data-classification.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Leveraging AWS Cloud to Support Data Classification<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/wellarchitected\/latest\/security-pillar\/data-classification.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Data Classification<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Creating, managing, and protecting encryption keys (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/kms\/latest\/developerguide\/create-keys.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Creating keys<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Implementing encryption at rest (for example, AWS Key Management Service [AWS KMS]) (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/kms\/latest\/developerguide\/overview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AWS Key Management Service<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/kms\/latest\/developerguide\/concepts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AWS Key Management Service concepts<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Implementing encryption in transit (for example, AWS Certificate Manager, VPN) (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/acm\/latest\/userguide\/acm-overview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AWS Certificate Manager<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonS3\/latest\/userguide\/UsingEncryption.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Protecting data using encryption<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Securely store secrets by using AWS services (for example, AWS Secrets Manager, Systems Manager Parameter Store) (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/systems-manager\/latest\/userguide\/systems-manager-parameter-store.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/systems-manager\/latest\/userguide\/integration-ps-secretsmanager.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Referencing AWS Secrets Manager secrets from Parameter Store parameters<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reviewing reports or findings (for example, AWS Security Hub, Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Config, Amazon Inspector) (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/inspector\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon Inspector<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/inspector\/latest\/userguide\/inspector_reports.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Assessment reports<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/guardduty\/latest\/ug\/what-is-guardduty.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon GuardDuty<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Domain 5: Networking and Content Delivery<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>5.1 Implementing networking features and connectivity<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Configuring a VPC (for example, subnets, route tables, network ACLs, security groups, NAT gateway, internet gateway ) (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/vpc\/latest\/userguide\/VPC_Scenario2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">VPC with public and private subnets (NAT)<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/vpc\/latest\/userguide\/vpc-nat-gateway.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NAT gateways<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/vpc\/latest\/userguide\/VPC_Internet_Gateway.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Internet gateways<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/vpc\/latest\/userguide\/vpc-network-acls.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Network ACLs<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Configuring private connectivity (for example, Systems Manager Session Manager, VPC endpoints, VPC peering, VPN) (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/systems-manager\/latest\/userguide\/setup-create-vpc.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Create a Virtual Private Cloud endpoint<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/systems-manager\/latest\/userguide\/session-manager.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AWS Systems Manager Session Manager<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/vpc\/latest\/userguide\/endpoint-services-overview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AWS PrivateLink and VPC endpoints<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/vpc\/latest\/userguide\/vpc-peering.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">VPC peering<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Checking AWS network protection services (for example, AWS WAF, AWS Shield) (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/waf\/latest\/developerguide\/ddos-overview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How AWS Shield works<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/waf\/latest\/developerguide\/what-is-aws-waf.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What are AWS WAF, AWS Shield, and AWS Firewall Manager?<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5.2 Configuring domains, DNS services, and content delivery<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Configuring Route 53 hosted zones and records (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/Route53\/latest\/DeveloperGuide\/CreatingHostedZone.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Creating a public hosted zone<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/Route53\/latest\/DeveloperGuide\/resource-record-sets-creating.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Creating records by using the Amazon Route&nbsp;53 console<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Implementing Route 53 routing policies (for example, geolocation, geoproximity) (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/Route53\/latest\/DeveloperGuide\/routing-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Choosing a routing policy<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/Route53\/latest\/DeveloperGuide\/traffic-policies.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Creating and managing traffic policies<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Customizing DNS (for example, Route 53 Resolver) (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/Route53\/latest\/DeveloperGuide\/resolver-getting-started.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Getting started with Route 53 Resolver<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/Route53\/latest\/DeveloperGuide\/resolver.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Resolving DNS queries between VPCs and your network<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/Route53\/latest\/DeveloperGuide\/dns-configuring.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Configuring Amazon Route&nbsp;53 as your DNS service<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Configuring Amazon CloudFront and S3 origin access identity (OAI) (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonCloudFront\/latest\/DeveloperGuide\/private-content-restricting-access-to-s3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Restricting Access to Amazon S3 Content by Using an Origin Access Identity<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Configuring S3 static website hosting (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonS3\/latest\/userguide\/WebsiteHosting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hosting a static website using Amazon S3<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonS3\/latest\/userguide\/HostingWebsiteOnS3Setup.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Configuring a static website on Amazon S3<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>5.3 Troubleshooting network connectivity issues<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Interpreting VPC configurations (for example, subnets, route tables, network ACLs, security groups) (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/vpc\/latest\/userguide\/VPC_Route_Tables.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Route tables for your VPC<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/vpc\/latest\/userguide\/VPC_Security.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Internetwork traffic privacy in Amazon VPC<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/vpc\/latest\/userguide\/vpc-network-acls.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Network ACLs<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/vpc\/latest\/userguide\/flow-logs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">VPC Flow Logs<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Collecting and interpreting logs (for example, VPC Flow Logs, Elastic Load Balancer access logs, AWS WAF web ACL logs, CloudFront logs) (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/waf\/latest\/developerguide\/logging.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Logging web ACL traffic information<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonCloudFront\/latest\/DeveloperGuide\/AccessLogs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Configuring and using standard logs (access logs)<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/vpc\/latest\/userguide\/flow-logs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">VPC Flow Logs<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/elasticloadbalancing\/latest\/network\/load-balancer-access-logs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Access logs for your Network Load Balancer<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Identifying and remediating CloudFront caching issues (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonCloudFront\/latest\/DeveloperGuide\/Introduction.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon CloudFront<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Troubleshoot hybrid and private connectivity issues (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/premiumsupport\/knowledge-center\/network-issue-vpc-onprem-ig\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">troubleshoot network performance issues between Amazon EC2 Linux instances in a VPC<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AWSEC2\/latest\/UserGuide\/TroubleshootingInstancesConnecting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Troubleshoot connecting to your instance<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/whitepapers\/latest\/building-scalable-secure-multi-vpc-network-infrastructure\/hybrid-connectivity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hybrid Connectivity<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Domain 6: Cost and Performance Optimization<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>6.1 Implement cost optimization strategies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Implementing cost allocation tags (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/awsaccountbilling\/latest\/aboutv2\/cost-alloc-tags.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Using Cost Allocation Tags<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Identify and remediate underutilized or unused resources by using AWS services and tools (for example, Trusted Advisor, AWS Compute Optimizer, Cost Explorer) (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/premiumsupport\/technology\/trusted-advisor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AWS Trusted Advisor<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/whitepapers\/latest\/cost-optimization-laying-the-foundation\/reporting-cost-optimization-tools.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AWS Tools for Reporting and Cost Optimization<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/premiumsupport\/knowledge-center\/trusted-advisor-cost-optimization\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">optimize costs using AWS Trusted Advisor<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Configure AWS Budgets and billing alarms (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonCloudWatch\/latest\/monitoring\/monitor_estimated_charges_with_cloudwatch.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Creating a Billing Alarm to Monitor Your Estimated AWS Charges<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/awsaccountbilling\/latest\/aboutv2\/budgets-managing-costs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Managing your costs with AWS Budgets<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Assessing resource usage patterns to qualify workloads for EC2 Spot Instances (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AWSEC2\/latest\/UserGuide\/using-spot-instances.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spot Instances<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Identify opportunities to use managed services (for example, Amazon RDS, AWS Fargate, EFS) (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonECS\/latest\/developerguide\/tutorial-efs-volumes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Using Amazon EFS file systems with Amazon ECS<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonECS\/latest\/developerguide\/Welcome.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon Elastic Container Service<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonECS\/latest\/developerguide\/AWS_Fargate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonRDS\/latest\/UserGuide\/Welcome.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">6.2 Implement performance optimization strategies<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Recommend compute resources based on performance metrics (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AWSEC2\/latest\/UserGuide\/viewing_metrics_with_cloudwatch.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">List the available CloudWatch metrics for your instances<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/compute-optimizer\/latest\/ug\/metrics.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Metrics analyzed by AWS Compute Optimizer<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Monitor Amazon EBS metrics and modify the configuration to increase performance efficiency (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AWSEC2\/latest\/UserGuide\/ebs-io-characteristics.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">I\/O characteristics and monitoring<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AWSEC2\/latest\/UserGuide\/using_cloudwatch_ebs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon CloudWatch metrics for Amazon EBS<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Implementing S3 performance features (for example, S3 Transfer Acceleration, multipart uploads) (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonS3\/latest\/userguide\/transfer-acceleration.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Configuring fast, secure file transfers using Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonS3\/latest\/dev-retired\/mpuoverview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Multipart upload overview<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Monitor RDS metrics and modify the configuration to increase performance efficiency (for example, performance insights, RDS Proxy) (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonRDS\/latest\/AuroraUserGuide\/rds-proxy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Managing connections with Amazon RDS Proxy<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonRDS\/latest\/UserGuide\/USER_PerfInsights.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Using Performance Insights on&nbsp;Amazon RDS<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enabling enhanced EC2 capabilities (for example, enhanced network adapter, instance store, placement groups) (<strong>AWS Documentation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AWSEC2\/latest\/UserGuide\/enhanced-networking.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Enhanced networking on&nbsp;Linux<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AWSEC2\/latest\/WindowsGuide\/enhanced-networking-ena.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Enable enhanced networking with the Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) on&nbsp;Windows&nbsp;instances<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AWSEC2\/latest\/UserGuide\/placement-groups.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Placement groups<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Learning Resources for AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Exam<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/AWS-Certified-SysOps-Administrator-Associate-SOA-C02-guide.png\" alt=\"AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate (SOA-C02) study guide\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>You need to start preparing for your exam by first selecting the best study material. You can find numerous learning resources but have to choose the most suitable one. Your rate of success in the exam totally depends upon the study material you refer to. Firstly, go through your course outline very carefully, it will be very beneficial for you. Also, it will provide you a clear idea about the exam. Most importantly, you can create a very strong mind set regarding how to prepare the exam with the help of the syllabus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, you can opt for instructor led trainings, it is very beneficial as you can study in detail all the topics by the subject expert. Instructor led trainings are definitely highly preferable as there you get personalized learning and nothing can really beat it. Also, highly collaborative and complex topics can be covered very easily with the help of experts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also prepare yourself by joining the AWS online community. It is basically an additional venue for learning. It is an ideal way to connect with people of your age who have the same aim as yours. Moreover, you can swap your ideas and can learn many new things. Additionally, do appear for as many practice tests as you can, it acts as a trial run before the actual exam, and will help you revise your whole syllabus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a well-strategized preparation guide, candidates can refer to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/tutorial\/aws-sysops-administrator-associate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate Tutorial<\/a>, which is designed for aspiring candidates to help them with collecting suitable learning resources and online training to strengthen their grasp on machine learning and hence achieve excellence.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/tutorial\/aws-certified-sysops-administrator-associate-soa-c02\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/AWS-Certified-SysOps-Administrator-3.png\" alt=\"AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Tutorial\" class=\"wp-image-13791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/AWS-Certified-SysOps-Administrator-3.png 960w, https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/AWS-Certified-SysOps-Administrator-3-300x47.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Expert\u2019s Corner<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Cloud computing is virtually present in almost various industries, and half of the global cloud infrastructure market belongs to AWS. Hence, understanding the AWS platform is very crucial. So, the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate certification will give your career a high boast. You can clear this exam easily with the right sort of preparation. Practice tests are the key factor in deciding your rate of success in the exam. So, do appear for as many practice tests as possible. Getting the experience of an exam before even giving the actual exam will surely inculcate self-analytical capacity and will increase your confidence as well.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/aws-certified-sysops-administrator-associate-soa-c02-free-practice-test\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/AWS-Certified-SysOps-Administrator-2-1.png\" alt=\"AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Practice Tests\" class=\"wp-image-13790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/AWS-Certified-SysOps-Administrator-2-1.png 960w, https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/AWS-Certified-SysOps-Administrator-2-1-300x47.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Build your skills and enhance them to qualify AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Exam with numerous practice tests.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/aws-certified-sysops-administrator-associate-free-practice-test\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Start Preparing Now!<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate (SOA-C02) exam is designed for system administrators in a cloud operations role. For this they must have knowledge and experience of at least one year in deployment, management, networking, and security on AWS. Getting certified is quite a task and it requires a lot of effort. 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