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  • Week 1
    • 1.DevOps as an Operating Model: The Five Axes of CALMS and the Truth DORA Proved Through Measurement
    • 2.Well-Architected Framework: Rereading It Through the Six Lenses of DevOps
    • 3.The AWS DevOps Tool Map: The Code* Series and the Real Picture Beyond It
    • 4.Multi-Account Strategy: The Real Picture of Organizations, Control Tower, and IAM Identity Center
    • 5.Week 1 Wrap-Up: Cementing the DevOps Thinking Frame with Scenarios
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DevOps Engineer - Professional

16 weeks · 80 days · Professional

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Exam Information

Advanced · 2+ years of hands-on experience recommended
Questions
75
Duration
180min
Passing
750 / 1000
Cost
$300
Validity
3y

Domain Weights

SDLC Automation22%
Configuration Management and IaC17%
Security and Compliance17%
Resilient Cloud Solutions15%
Monitoring and Logging15%
Incident and Event Response14%
Format75 multiple choice or multiple response questions
Prerequisites2+ years of experience provisioning, operating, and managing AWS environments, plus SDLC and programming experience recommended
LanguagesEnglish, Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese

Benefits & Tips

  • Passing earns you a 50% discount voucher for your next exam. Find it under "Benefits" in your AWS Certification account and use it for recertification or another certification (it has an expiry date, so use it before then).
  • The certification is valid for 3 years and must be renewed before it expires. You can use the 50% voucher for recertification too.
  • There is no free retake (every attempt is paid in full). Passing on the first try is the cheapest route, so take the real exam once your mock exam scores clear the passing mark.
  • Passing also earns you a Credly digital badge that you can add to LinkedIn and your email signature.

FAQ

How many questions are on the DOP-C02 exam, and how long is it?+

DOP-C02 has 75 questions and a time limit of 180 minutes. Questions are multiple choice and multiple response.

What is the passing score?+

You need 750 or higher out of 1000 to pass. The score is a scaled score adjusted for question difficulty, so it is not the same as a simple percentage of correct answers.

How much does the exam cost and how do I register?+

The exam fee is $300 USD, and you can take it through Pearson VUE at a test center or as an online proctored exam. There is no free retake, so you pay the full fee each time you sit the exam.

How long is the certification valid? How do I recertify?+

The certification is valid for 3 years after you pass, and you must recertify before it expires. When you pass, you receive a 50% discount voucher for your next exam, which you can use for recertification or for another AWS certification exam.

Can I take the exam in Korean?+

Yes, it is offered in 4 languages in total, including Korean. You can choose your language when you register for the exam.

Official Exam Guide Register for Exam

Week 1

  • Day 1DevOps as an Operating Model: The Five Axes of CALMS and the Truth DORA Proved Through Measurement
  • Day 2Well-Architected Framework: Rereading It Through the Six Lenses of DevOps
  • Day 3The AWS DevOps Tool Map: The Code* Series and the Real Picture Beyond It
  • Day 4Multi-Account Strategy: The Real Picture of Organizations, Control Tower, and IAM Identity Center
  • Day 5Week 1 Wrap-Up: Cementing the DevOps Thinking Frame with Scenarios

Week 2

  • Day 1CodeCommit Deep Dive: What Changes When Git Hosting is Integrated with IAM
  • Day 2GitHub Actions ↔ AWS OIDC: Eliminating Static Keys Permanently Through Federation
  • Day 3CodeArtifact and Supply Chain Security: When Dependencies Become Attack Surface
  • Day 4DevSecOps Shift Left: Automated Security Gates Built with Code Signing, CodeGuru, and Inspector
  • Day 5Week 2 Wrap-Up: From Source Control to Code Signing, Cementing the DevSecOps Mindset Through Scenarios

Week 3

  • Day 1The Real Meaning of buildspec.yml: The Moment a Pipeline Specification Becomes Code
  • Day 2The Physics of Build Speed: Trade-offs Among Cache, Parallelism, and Compute
  • Day 3Design Principles of Secret Management: The Criteria That Separate Secrets Manager from Parameter Store
  • Day 4VPC CodeBuild, Custom Images, ARM/Graviton: Expanding the Boundary of the Build Environment
  • Day 5Week 3 Review: Integrated CodeBuild Scenarios and Practical Judgment

Week 4

  • Day 1In-place vs Blue/Green, AppSpec: The Physics of Deployment Strategies
  • Day 2EC2/On-Prem Deployment + Auto Scaling Integration: The Intersection of Instance Lifecycle and Deployment
  • Day 3Lambda Deployment: Linear/Canary/AllAtOnce and the Math of Aliases
  • Day 4ECS Blue/Green + CodeDeploy Traffic Shift: The Logic of Two Target Groups
  • Day 5Week 4 Review: Integrated Scenarios in CodeDeploy Deployment Strategies

Week 5

  • Day 1CodePipeline Architecture: Understanding Why Stage, Action, and Artifact Were Designed This Way
  • Day 2Multi-Account Pipeline: Why Cross-Account IAM Is Required
  • Day 3Action Providers: How Lambda, Step Functions, and Manual Approval Extend the Pipeline
  • Day 4Dynamic Pipeline: V2 Variable System, Trigger Filters, and Execution Mode Design
  • Day 5Week 5 Review: CodePipeline Integration Scenarios

Week 6

  • Day 1ECR: Solving the Problems that Container Image Registries Must Solve
  • Day 2ECS Automated Deployment: From Task Definition Updates to Auto Scaling
  • Day 3EKS CI/CD: Why GitOps Was Born, and How ArgoCD and Flux Changed Kubernetes
  • Day 4App Runner and ECS Copilot: The Spectrum of Container Operations Abstraction
  • Day 5Week 6 Review + 12 Scenario Practice Problems

Week 7

  • Day 1AWS SAM: CloudFormation's Apology to Serverless
  • Day 2Serverless Framework and CDK: People Who Chose a Path Other Than SAM
  • Day 3Lambda Versions and Aliases: A Mutable Pointer on Top of Immutable Snapshots
  • Day 4Step Functions: Workflows as State Machines, Not Code
  • Day 5Week 7 Review: All the Pieces of Serverless CI/CD in One Picture

Week 8

  • Day 1CloudFormation Advanced: Nested·Cross-Stack and the Deep Story of Modularization
  • Day 2StackSets: The Deep Story of Deploying IaC to Thousands of Accounts
  • Day 3Custom Resource·Hooks·Change Set: CloudFormation's Extension and Validation Mechanisms
  • Day 4CDK·CDK Pipelines·Terraform: Deep Comparison of Modern IaC Tools and Self-Evolving Pipelines
  • Day 5Week 8 Integrated Scenarios: Where IaC Tools Meet Inside a Single Incident

Week 9

  • Day 1Systems Manager: Run Command·Session Manager·Patch Manager's Deep Story
  • Day 2State Manager·Inventory·Compliance: The Abstraction of Desired State
  • Day 3AppConfig: The Art of Changing Behavior Without a Code Deployment
  • Day 4Secrets Manager and Parameter Store: Lifecycle and Rotation
  • Day 5Week 9 Integrated Review: Operations Automation as One Picture

Week 10

  • Day 1CloudWatch Metrics: Time Series, Dimensions, and Alarm Evaluation Model Deep Dive
  • Day 2CloudWatch Logs: Groups, Streams, Subscriptions, and Insights Deep Dive
  • Day 3Container Insights·Lambda Insights·EMF: Workload-Specific Observability Deep Dive
  • Day 4Synthetics·RUM·Evidently: Three Lenses Measuring User Experience
  • Day 5Week 10 Review: Weaving the Observability Stack into an Incident

Week 11

  • Day 1X-Ray: Causal Graphs of Distributed Tracing and the Deep Story of the Trace Model
  • Day 2X-Ray Sampling: Reservoir Algorithm and the Economics of Tracing at Operational Scale
  • Day 3ADOT: The Deep Story of OpenTelemetry Ending the Tracing Tool Wars
  • Day 4OpenSearch · AMP · AMG: The Two Worlds of Inverted Indices and Time-Series Databases
  • Day 5Week 11 Synthesis: Real-World Decision-Making in Tracing and Telemetry Observability

Week 12

  • Day 1EventBridge: Event Bus Routing Model and the Nervous System of Asynchronous Automation
  • Day 2SSM Automation: Operational Procedures as Code, and People Inside the Workflow
  • Day 3Auto-Healing: The Control Theory of Automatic Recovery and the Safety Engineering That Stops Runaway Automation
  • Day 4ChatOps and Incident Manager: The Boundary Where Automation Ends and the Human Organization Begins
  • Day 5Week 12 Integrated Review: Wiring the Whole Nervous System of Incident Automation Together

Week 13

  • Day 1Multi-AZ High Availability: Distributed Principles Underlying Replication Consistency, Quorum, and Failover
  • Day 2Multi-Region Resilience: Distributed Principles of DNS Routing, Global Replication, and Encryption Boundaries
  • Day 3Four DR Strategies: Tradeoffs of RTO, RPO, Cost and Their Economics
  • Day 4Validating Resilience: Chaos Engineering with Resilience Hub and FIS
  • Day 5Week 13 Comprehensive Review: Tying Together High Availability, Multi-Region, DR, and Resilience Validation

Week 14

  • Day 1GuardDuty and Automatic Isolation: Signal Processing, Statistics, and Auto-Response Principles
  • Day 2Security Hub: The SIEM Principles of Normalizing, Aggregating, and Auto-Remediating Security Data
  • Day 3AWS Config: Closed-Loop Control Principles for State Recording, Drift Detection, and Automated Remediation
  • Day 4Audit Manager, Macie, Inspector: Evidence Automation, Data Classification, Vulnerability Scanning Principles
  • Day 5Week 14 Comprehensive Review: The Big Picture of Security Automation Stack and Practical Scenarios

Week 15

  • Day 1Multi-Account Enterprise CI/CD: Governance and Platform Engineering Principles for 50+ Accounts
  • Day 2Hybrid CI/CD: Bridging On-Premises and AWS into One Deployment Model
  • Day 3Large-Scale ECS/EKS Operations: Scheduling, GitOps, Cost Principles for 100+ Microservices
  • Day 4Serverless Large-Scale Incident Auto-Response: Recovery Without People, Safety Rails
  • Day 5Week 15 Wrap-Up: The Art of Reading Clues Across Cases and Judging Trade-offs

Week 16

  • Day 1Domains 1 & 2 Integrated Review: The Principle That Threads SDLC Automation and IaC Together
  • Day 2Domains 3 and 4 Combined Review: The Math of Resilience and the Theory of Observability
  • Day 3Domains 5 and 6 Integrated Review: Incident Automation and Security Through Control Theory
  • Day 4Full Mock Exam: A Comprehensive Check of the 6 Domains at Real 75-Question Pace
  • Day 5D-Day Wrap-Up: Exam-Room Strategy and a Final Integrated Scenario Check