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CLF-C02 · FoundationalCloud Practitioner - Foundational
DVA-C02 · AssociateDeveloper - Associate
SAA-C03 · AssociateSolutions Architect - Associate
SOA-C02 · AssociateCloudOps Engineer - Associate
  • Week 1
    • 1.Query Health API for ongoing events
    • 2.GitHub Actions OIDC example
    • 3.Day 3
    • 4.AWS Organizations: How One Person Operates 100 Accounts
    • 5.Week 1 Consolidated Review: Revisiting the First Week Through Operator Scenarios
  • Week 2
    • 1.CloudWatch Metrics Internal Structure: Namespace, Dimension, Resolution, Cardinality
    • 2.CloudWatch Logs: Internal Structure of Log Groups and Subscription Patterns
    • 3.Logs Insights Query Language: Operator's Debugging SQL
    • 4.Metric Filter, EMF Deep-Dive, Anomaly Detection: Three Bridges Between Metrics and Logs
    • 5.Week 2 Integrated Review: CloudWatch 12 Scenario Problems
  • Week 3
    • 1.CloudWatch Alarms: M of N Evaluation Model and Composite Alarm Design Philosophy
    • 2.CloudWatch Dashboards: Cross-Account Aggregation, Variables, Observability Design
    • 3.CloudWatch Agent: Internal Operations, StatsD/collectd Integration, procstat Plugin
    • 4.Synthetics Canary, X-Ray Sampling, ServiceLens: User-Centric Monitoring Design
    • 5.Week 3 Review: CloudWatch Observability Stack Synthesis
  • Week 4
    • 1.CloudTrail: API Audit Logging Design Principles and Organization Trail
    • 2.CloudTrail Lake Advanced: SQL Audit Analysis, Insights Anomaly Detection, Cross-Account Queries
    • 3.AWS Config Advanced: Rule Evaluation Triggers, Custom Rule Lambda, Conformance Pack, Auto Remediation
    • 4.Audit Manager, License Manager, Resource Explorer: Audit Automation and Operational Visibility Design
    • 5.Week 4 Comprehensive Review: CloudTrail, Config, Audit Stack Integration
  • Week 5
    • 1.AWS Systems Manager: The Operator's Central Control Tower
    • 2.Run Command, State Manager, Maintenance Window: The SSM Automation Trio
    • 3.Patch Manager: Secure and Compliant Patching
    • 4.Parameter Store, Session Manager, Automation Runbook: SSM Advanced Automation
    • 5.Week 5 Review: Systems Manager Comprehensive Scenario
  • Week 6
    • 1.CloudFormation: Infrastructure as Code from the Operator's Perspective
    • 2.Change Set, Drift Detection, Rollback Trigger: Three Pillars of Safe CFn Operations
    • 3.Nested Stack, Cross-Stack Reference, StackSets: Large-Scale IaC Operations
    • 4.Service Catalog, AppConfig, AppRegistry: The Science of Governance and Dynamic Configuration
    • 5.Week 6 Comprehensive Review: Complete CloudFormation Operations Mastery
  • Week 7
    • 1.Elastic Beanstalk and Five Deployment Policies: The True Cost of Zero Downtime
    • 2.CodeDeploy: The Decision to Deploy Code Only and AppSpec's 13-Stage Lifecycle
    • 3.EC2 Image Builder: The Operational Virtue of Golden AMI
    • 4.OpsWorks EOL and Launch Template: Mixed Instances Policy's True Value
    • 5.Week 7 Comprehensive Review: Scenario-Based Deployment and Provisioning Decision-Making
  • Week 8
    • 1.VPC as a Virtual Data Center, and Five Common Operator Confusions
    • 2.Three Tools for Observing VPC Traffic, and the Limits of Metadata
    • 3.NAT Gateway, VPC Endpoint, PrivateLink — Three Ways VPC Meets the Outside
    • 4.Transit Gateway, VPN, Direct Connect, Route 53 — The Big Picture of Multi-VPC and Hybrid
    • 5.Week 8 Comprehensive Review and 12 Scenario Problems
  • Week 9
    • 1.KMS, Managing Keys Without Ever Seeing Them
    • 2.Secrets Manager, Rotating Live System Secrets Without Downtime
    • 3.IAM Access Analyzer and Trusted Advisor, Proving Permissions with Code
    • 4.Day 4
    • 5.Day 5
  • Week 10
    • 1.EBS Snapshot: How Incremental Backup Remembers Only Changed Blocks
    • 2.AWS Backup: Making Backups Undeletable Even by Administrators
    • 3.RDS Multi-AZ vs Read Replica: Choosing Between Synchronous and Asynchronous
    • 4.S3 Replication, Storage Gateway, Elastic Disaster Recovery: How to Move Files and Workloads
    • 5.Week 10 Comprehensive Review: Backup, DR, HA as One Picture
  • Week 11
    • 1.Compute Optimizer: How 14 Days of Metrics Resize Instances
    • 2.Database Failover, Performance and Scaling
    • 3.Data Migration, Replication, Cross-Region Backup
    • 4.Patching, Maintenance Windows, Availability
    • 5.Week 11 Database Operations Summary
  • Week 12
    • 1.AWS Organizations, Multi-Account Strategy
    • 2.Control Tower, Compliance as Code, Governance
    • 3.Tagging Strategy, Resource Organization
    • 4.Disaster Recovery Architecture, RTO/RPO
    • 5.Week 12 Enterprise Operations and SOA Exam Synthesis
SAP-C02 · ProfessionalSolutions Architect - Professional
DOP-C02 · ProfessionalDevOps Engineer - Professional
SCS-C03 · SpecialtySecurity - Specialty
MLA-C01 · AssociateMachine Learning Engineer - Associate
AIF-C01 · FoundationalAI Practitioner - Foundational
DEA-C01 · AssociateData Engineer - Associate
MLS-C01 · SpecialtyMachine Learning - Specialty
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CloudOps Engineer - Associate

12 weeks · 60 days · Associate

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Exam Information

중급 · 관련 실무 1~2년 권장
Questions
65
Duration
130min
Passing
720 / 1000
Cost
$150
Validity
3y

Domain Weights

모니터링·로깅·교정20%
배포·프로비저닝·자동화18%
네트워킹 및 콘텐츠 전송18%
안정성 및 비즈니스 연속성16%
보안 및 규정 준수16%
비용 및 성능 최적화12%
Format객관식 또는 복수응답형 65문항 (실습 랩 폐지)
PrerequisitesAWS 배포·관리·네트워킹·보안 운영 경험 1년 이상 권장
Languages영어, 한국어, 일본어, 중국어(간체)

Benefits & Tips

  • 합격하면 다음 시험 50% 할인 바우처가 생깁니다. AWS Certification 계정의 "Benefits"에서 확인하고 재인증·다른 자격증 응시에 쓸 수 있어요(만료일이 있으니 그 전에 사용).
  • 인증은 3년간 유효하며 만료 전 재인증이 필요합니다. 재인증 때도 이 50% 바우처를 쓸 수 있어요.
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FAQ

SOA-C02 시험은 몇 문항이고 시험 시간은 얼마나 되나요?+

SOA-C02은 총 65문항이며, 시험 시간은 130분입니다. 문항은 객관식과 복수응답형으로 출제됩니다.

합격 점수는 몇 점인가요?+

1000점 만점에 720점 이상이면 합격입니다. 점수는 문항 난이도를 보정한 스케일 점수라 단순 정답률과는 다릅니다.

응시료는 얼마이고 어떻게 접수하나요?+

응시료는 미화 $150이며, Pearson VUE를 통해 시험 센터 또는 온라인 감독(프록터드) 시험으로 응시할 수 있습니다. 무료 재응시는 없어 매 응시마다 전액을 결제합니다.

자격증은 얼마나 유효한가요? 재인증은 어떻게 하나요?+

합격 후 3년간 유효하며, 만료 전 재인증이 필요합니다. 합격 시 다음 시험 50% 할인 바우처가 제공되어 재인증이나 다른 AWS 자격증 응시에 사용할 수 있습니다.

한국어로 응시할 수 있나요?+

네, 한국어를 포함해 총 4개 언어로 제공됩니다. 시험 등록 시 언어를 선택할 수 있습니다.

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Week 1

  • Day 1Query Health API for ongoing events
  • Day 2GitHub Actions OIDC example
  • Day 3Day 3
  • Day 4AWS Organizations: How One Person Operates 100 Accounts
  • Day 5Week 1 Consolidated Review: Revisiting the First Week Through Operator Scenarios

Week 2

  • Day 1CloudWatch Metrics Internal Structure: Namespace, Dimension, Resolution, Cardinality
  • Day 2CloudWatch Logs: Internal Structure of Log Groups and Subscription Patterns
  • Day 3Logs Insights Query Language: Operator's Debugging SQL
  • Day 4Metric Filter, EMF Deep-Dive, Anomaly Detection: Three Bridges Between Metrics and Logs
  • Day 5Week 2 Integrated Review: CloudWatch 12 Scenario Problems

Week 3

  • Day 1CloudWatch Alarms: M of N Evaluation Model and Composite Alarm Design Philosophy
  • Day 2CloudWatch Dashboards: Cross-Account Aggregation, Variables, Observability Design
  • Day 3CloudWatch Agent: Internal Operations, StatsD/collectd Integration, procstat Plugin
  • Day 4Synthetics Canary, X-Ray Sampling, ServiceLens: User-Centric Monitoring Design
  • Day 5Week 3 Review: CloudWatch Observability Stack Synthesis

Week 4

  • Day 1CloudTrail: API Audit Logging Design Principles and Organization Trail
  • Day 2CloudTrail Lake Advanced: SQL Audit Analysis, Insights Anomaly Detection, Cross-Account Queries
  • Day 3AWS Config Advanced: Rule Evaluation Triggers, Custom Rule Lambda, Conformance Pack, Auto Remediation
  • Day 4Audit Manager, License Manager, Resource Explorer: Audit Automation and Operational Visibility Design
  • Day 5Week 4 Comprehensive Review: CloudTrail, Config, Audit Stack Integration

Week 5

  • Day 1AWS Systems Manager: The Operator's Central Control Tower
  • Day 2Run Command, State Manager, Maintenance Window: The SSM Automation Trio
  • Day 3Patch Manager: Secure and Compliant Patching
  • Day 4Parameter Store, Session Manager, Automation Runbook: SSM Advanced Automation
  • Day 5Week 5 Review: Systems Manager Comprehensive Scenario

Week 6

  • Day 1CloudFormation: Infrastructure as Code from the Operator's Perspective
  • Day 2Change Set, Drift Detection, Rollback Trigger: Three Pillars of Safe CFn Operations
  • Day 3Nested Stack, Cross-Stack Reference, StackSets: Large-Scale IaC Operations
  • Day 4Service Catalog, AppConfig, AppRegistry: The Science of Governance and Dynamic Configuration
  • Day 5Week 6 Comprehensive Review: Complete CloudFormation Operations Mastery

Week 7

  • Day 1Elastic Beanstalk and Five Deployment Policies: The True Cost of Zero Downtime
  • Day 2CodeDeploy: The Decision to Deploy Code Only and AppSpec's 13-Stage Lifecycle
  • Day 3EC2 Image Builder: The Operational Virtue of Golden AMI
  • Day 4OpsWorks EOL and Launch Template: Mixed Instances Policy's True Value
  • Day 5Week 7 Comprehensive Review: Scenario-Based Deployment and Provisioning Decision-Making

Week 8

  • Day 1VPC as a Virtual Data Center, and Five Common Operator Confusions
  • Day 2Three Tools for Observing VPC Traffic, and the Limits of Metadata
  • Day 3NAT Gateway, VPC Endpoint, PrivateLink — Three Ways VPC Meets the Outside
  • Day 4Transit Gateway, VPN, Direct Connect, Route 53 — The Big Picture of Multi-VPC and Hybrid
  • Day 5Week 8 Comprehensive Review and 12 Scenario Problems

Week 9

  • Day 1KMS, Managing Keys Without Ever Seeing Them
  • Day 2Secrets Manager, Rotating Live System Secrets Without Downtime
  • Day 3IAM Access Analyzer and Trusted Advisor, Proving Permissions with Code
  • Day 4Day 4
  • Day 5Day 5

Week 10

  • Day 1EBS Snapshot: How Incremental Backup Remembers Only Changed Blocks
  • Day 2AWS Backup: Making Backups Undeletable Even by Administrators
  • Day 3RDS Multi-AZ vs Read Replica: Choosing Between Synchronous and Asynchronous
  • Day 4S3 Replication, Storage Gateway, Elastic Disaster Recovery: How to Move Files and Workloads
  • Day 5Week 10 Comprehensive Review: Backup, DR, HA as One Picture

Week 11

  • Day 1Compute Optimizer: How 14 Days of Metrics Resize Instances
  • Day 2Database Failover, Performance and Scaling
  • Day 3Data Migration, Replication, Cross-Region Backup
  • Day 4Patching, Maintenance Windows, Availability
  • Day 5Week 11 Database Operations Summary

Week 12

  • Day 1AWS Organizations, Multi-Account Strategy
  • Day 2Control Tower, Compliance as Code, Governance
  • Day 3Tagging Strategy, Resource Organization
  • Day 4Disaster Recovery Architecture, RTO/RPO
  • Day 5Week 12 Enterprise Operations and SOA Exam Synthesis