AWS DevOps Engineer - Professional Exam Preparation Kit

There is one assessment set and two practice exams to test your knowledge.

There are two types of questions on the examination:

Multiple choice: Has one correct response and three incorrect responses (distractors).

Multiple response: Has two or more correct responses out of five or more options. Select one or more responses that best complete the statement or answer the question. Distractors, or incorrect answers, are response options that an examinee with incomplete knowledge or skill would likely choose. However, they are generally plausible responses that fit in the content area defined by the test objective.

Unanswered questions are scored as incorrect; there is no penalty for guessing.

Exam Domains

There are 6 domains being covered in this preparation kit and in the certification exam.

Domain 1: SDLC Automation

1.1 Apply concepts required to automate a CI/CD pipeline

1.2 Determine source control strategies and how to implement them

1.3 Apply concepts required to automate and integrate testing

1.4 Apply concepts required to build and manage artifacts securely

1.5 Determine deployment/delivery strategies (e.g., A/B, Blue/green, Canary, Red/black) and how to implement them using AWS Services

Domain 2: Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code

2.1 Determine deployment services based on deployment needs

2.2 Determine application and infrastructure deployment models based on business needs

2.3 Apply security concepts in the automation of resource provisioning

2.4 Determine how to implement lifecycle hooks on a deployment

2.5 Apply concepts required to manage systems using AWS configuration management tools and services

Domain 3: Monitoring and Logging

3.1 Determine how to set up the aggregation, storage, and analysis of logs and metrics

3.2 Apply concepts required to automate monitoring and event management of an environment

3.3 Apply concepts required to audit, log, and monitor operating systems, infrastructures, and applications

3.4 Determine how to implement tagging and other metadata strategies

Domain 4: Policies and Standards Automation

4.1 Apply concepts required to enforce standards for logging, metrics, monitoring, testing, and security

4.2 Determine how to optimize cost through automation

4.3 Apply concepts required to implement governance strategies

Domain 5: Incident and Event Response

5.1 Troubleshoot issues and determine how to restore operations

5.2 Determine how to automate event management and alerting

5.3 Apply concepts required to implement automated healing

5.4 Apply concepts required to set up event-driven automated actions

Domain 6: High Availability, Fault Tolerance, and Disaster Recovery

6.1 Determine appropriate use of multi-AZ versus multi-region architectures

6.2 Determine how to implement high availability, scalability, and fault tolerance

6.3 Determine the right services based on business needs (e.g., RTO/RPO, cost)

6.4 Determine how to design and automate disaster recovery strategies

6.5 Evaluate a deployment for points of failure