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AWS DevOps Engineer Professional Study Guide

Domain-by-domain study guide for AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional (DOP-C02). Covers all 4 exam objectives with topic checklists, quick notes, and practice links.

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Exam Overview

Key facts before you start studying

Duration

180 min

Questions

Exam Code

DOP-C02

Domains

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1. SDLC Automation (55%)
2. Monitoring, Metrics, and Logging (20%)
3. Security, Governance, and Compliance (10%)
4. High Availability and Elasticity (15%)

Domain 1

55%

SDLC Automation

Implement continuous delivery systems and methodologies on AWS

Topics to Master

CI/CD pipeline design and implementation
AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodeCommit
Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform)
Source control integration and branching strategies
Artifact management and build automation
Container orchestration (ECS, EKS, Docker)
Serverless deployment patterns (Lambda, SAM)
Deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling)
Automated testing and quality gates
Application deployment to EC2, ECS, Lambda

Domain 2

20%

Monitoring, Metrics, and Logging

Determine how to prepare applications for operational monitoring

Topics to Master

CloudWatch metrics, logs, and alarms
Distributed tracing with AWS X-Ray
Log aggregation and analysis
Performance monitoring and optimization
Alerting and incident response automation
CloudWatch Logs Insights and metric filters
Container monitoring (Container Insights)
Application observability and instrumentation
Synthetic monitoring (CloudWatch Synthetics)
Cross-account observability

Domain 3

10%

Security, Governance, and Compliance

Determine how to implement governance strategies and ensure compliance

Topics to Master

Secrets management (Secrets Manager, Parameter Store)
IAM roles and policies for CI/CD
Security in the pipeline (SAST, DAST, container scanning)
AWS Organizations and Service Control Policies
Compliance as Code (CloudFormation Guard, AWS Config)
Audit logging (CloudTrail)
Container image security (ECR scanning)
Infrastructure security best practices
Policy validation and enforcement
Cross-account access patterns

Domain 4

15%

High Availability and Elasticity

Design and implement highly available, scalable, and resilient systems

Topics to Master

Auto Scaling policies and configurations
Load balancing (ALB, NLB)
Multi-AZ and multi-region architectures
Disaster recovery strategies
Database high availability (RDS Multi-AZ, DynamoDB)
Route 53 health checks and failover
CloudFront and Global Accelerator
ECS and EKS service auto-scaling
Chaos engineering and resilience testing
Backup and recovery automation

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Back to AWS DevOps Engineer Professional

AWS DevOps Engineer Professional Study Guide

Domain-by-domain study guide for AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional (DOP-C02). Covers all 4 exam objectives with topic checklists, quick notes, and practice links.

Download PDF Notes

Exam Overview

Key facts before you start studying

Duration

180 min

Questions

Exam Code

DOP-C02

Domains

Quick Navigation

Jump to a specific exam domain

1. SDLC Automation (55%)
2. Monitoring, Metrics, and Logging (20%)
3. Security, Governance, and Compliance (10%)
4. High Availability and Elasticity (15%)

Domain 1

55%

SDLC Automation

Implement continuous delivery systems and methodologies on AWS

Topics to Master

CI/CD pipeline design and implementation
AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodeCommit
Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform)
Source control integration and branching strategies
Artifact management and build automation
Container orchestration (ECS, EKS, Docker)
Serverless deployment patterns (Lambda, SAM)
Deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling)
Automated testing and quality gates
Application deployment to EC2, ECS, Lambda

Domain 2

20%

Monitoring, Metrics, and Logging

Determine how to prepare applications for operational monitoring

Topics to Master

CloudWatch metrics, logs, and alarms
Distributed tracing with AWS X-Ray
Log aggregation and analysis
Performance monitoring and optimization
Alerting and incident response automation
CloudWatch Logs Insights and metric filters
Container monitoring (Container Insights)
Application observability and instrumentation
Synthetic monitoring (CloudWatch Synthetics)
Cross-account observability

Domain 3

10%

Security, Governance, and Compliance

Determine how to implement governance strategies and ensure compliance

Topics to Master

Secrets management (Secrets Manager, Parameter Store)
IAM roles and policies for CI/CD
Security in the pipeline (SAST, DAST, container scanning)
AWS Organizations and Service Control Policies
Compliance as Code (CloudFormation Guard, AWS Config)
Audit logging (CloudTrail)
Container image security (ECR scanning)
Infrastructure security best practices
Policy validation and enforcement
Cross-account access patterns

Domain 4

15%

High Availability and Elasticity

Design and implement highly available, scalable, and resilient systems

Topics to Master

Auto Scaling policies and configurations
Load balancing (ALB, NLB)
Multi-AZ and multi-region architectures
Disaster recovery strategies
Database high availability (RDS Multi-AZ, DynamoDB)
Route 53 health checks and failover
CloudFront and Global Accelerator
ECS and EKS service auto-scaling
Chaos engineering and resilience testing
Backup and recovery automation

Continue Your Prep

Free CertStud resources for DOP-C02

Study Notes Exam Study Plan Start Practice Test