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  • Week 1
    • 1.AWS Infrastructure Through an Operator's Eyes: Regions, AZs, and the Boundary of Responsibility
    • 2.IAM Operator's Manual: Users, Groups, Roles, Policy Evaluation Algorithm
    • 3.Advanced IAM: Building Guardrails with Permission Boundary, SCP, and Identity Center
    • 4.AWS Organizations: How One Person Operates 100 Accounts
    • 5.Week 1 Consolidated Review: Revisiting the First Week Through Operator Scenarios
  • Week 2
  • Week 3
  • Week 4
  • Week 5
  • Week 6
  • Week 7
  • Week 8
  • Week 9
  • Week 10
  • Week 11
  • Week 12
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CloudOps Engineer - Associate

12 weeks · 60 days · Associate

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Exam Information

Intermediate · 1-2 years of relevant hands-on experience recommended
Questions
65
Duration
130min
Passing
720 / 1000
Cost
$150
Validity
3y

Domain Weights

Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation20%
Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation18%
Networking and Content Delivery18%
Reliability and Business Continuity16%
Security and Compliance16%
Cost and Performance Optimization12%
Format65 multiple-choice or multiple-response questions (hands-on labs discontinued)
Prerequisites1 or more years of experience deploying, managing, and operating workloads on AWS, including networking and security, 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 SOA-C02 exam, and how long is it?+

SOA-C02 has 65 questions and a time limit of 130 minutes. Questions are multiple-choice and multiple-response.

What is the passing score?+

A score of 720 or higher out of 1000 is required to pass. Scores are scaled to account for question difficulty, so they are 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 US $150. 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, and how do I recertify?+

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

Can I take the exam in Korean?+

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

Official Exam Guide Register for Exam

Week 1

  • Day 1AWS Infrastructure Through an Operator's Eyes: Regions, AZs, and the Boundary of Responsibility
  • Day 2IAM Operator's Manual: Users, Groups, Roles, Policy Evaluation Algorithm
  • Day 3Advanced IAM: Building Guardrails with Permission Boundary, SCP, and Identity Center
  • Day 4AWS Organizations: How One Person Operates 100 Accounts
  • Day 5Week 1 Consolidated Review: Revisiting the First Week Through Operator Scenarios

Week 2

  • Day 1The Internals of CloudWatch Metrics: Namespace, Dimension, Resolution, Cardinality
  • Day 2CloudWatch Logs: The 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: Design Principles of API Audit Logs and the 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 Review: CloudTrail, Config, and the Audit Stack Together

Week 5

  • Day 1AWS Systems Manager: The Operator's Central Control Tower
  • Day 2Run Command, State Manager, Maintenance Window: The Operations Automation Trio
  • Day 3Patch Manager: Applying Security Patches Safely and Compliantly
  • 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: The Three Pillars of Safe CFn Operations
  • Day 3Nested Stack, Cross-Stack Reference, StackSets: Large-Scale IaC Operations
  • Day 4Service Catalog, AppConfig, AppRegistry: The Craft 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 1The VPC as a Virtual Datacenter, and the Five Things Operators Get Confused About Every Day
  • 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: How to Manage Keys Without Ever Seeing Them
  • Day 2Secrets Manager: How to Change the Passwords of a Living System Without Downtime
  • Day 3IAM Access Analyzer and Trusted Advisor: How to Prove Permissions with Code
  • Day 4The Four Eyes That Detect Threats, and How to Bring Them Together
  • Day 5Week 9 Comprehensive Review: How Keywords Point to Answers

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 Re-Size Your Instances
  • Day 2Trusted Advisor, the Five Eyes with Which AWS Inspects Your Account for You
  • Day 3Cost Explorer and Budgets: How to Read and Control Your Bill
  • Day 4Savings Plans and Spot: The Economics of Commitments and Gambles That Cut Compute Costs by 70%
  • Day 5Week 11 Review: Cost and Performance Operations as One Decision Flow

Week 12

  • Day 1Rereading Domains 1 and 2, Where Observability and Resilience Become One Flow
  • Day 2Rereading Domains 3 and 4: Deploy Automatically, Lock Down with Least Privilege
  • Day 3Rereading Domains 5 and 6: The Packet's Road and the Bill's Road
  • Day 4The Full 50-Question Mock Exam, and What Your Wrong Answers Tell You
  • Day 5The D-Day Checklist: Operating the Exam, the Final System