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AWS: Exam Prep: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate

Review exam concepts, work through practice questions, and learn what to expect on the exam with the course, Exam Prep: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate

Exam Prep: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
4 weeks
2–4 hours per week
Self-paced
Progress at your own speed
This course is archived
Future dates to be announced

About this course

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This new intermediate-level course from Amazon Web Services (AWS), is designed to help you to assess your preparedness for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate exam. You will learn how to prepare for the exam by exploring the exam’s topic areas and how they map to SysOps Administration on AWS. You will review sample certification questions in each domain, practice skills with hands-on exercises, test your knowledge with practice question sets, and learn strategies for identifying incorrect responses by interpreting the concepts that are being tested in the exam. At the end of this course you will have all the knowledge and tools to help you identity your strengths and weaknesses in each certification domain areas that are being tested on the certification exam.

The AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (SOA-C02) exam is intended for system
administrators in a cloud operations role. The exam validates a candidate’s ability to deploy, manage, and operate workloads on AWS and their ability to complete the following tasks: Support and maintain AWS workloads according to the AWS Well-Architected Framework, perform operations by using the AWS Management Console and the AWS CLI, implement security controls to meet compliance requirements, monitor, log, and troubleshoot systems, apply networking concepts (for example, DNS, TCP/IP, firewalls), implement architectural requirements (for example, high availability, performance, capacity), perform business continuity and disaster recovery procedures and identify, classify, and remediate incidents.

At a glance

  • Institution: AWS
  • Subject: Computer Science
  • Level: Intermediate
  • Prerequisites:
    • At least 1 year of hands-on experience provisioning, operating, and maintaining systems that run on AWS
    • Hands-on experience with the AWS Management Console and the AWS CLI
  • Language: English
  • Video Transcript: English
  • Associated skills:Management, Service-Oriented Architecture, Operations, Mathematical Optimization, Microsoft Management Console, AWS CLI (Command Line Interface), TCP/IP, Presentations, Amazon Web Services, Troubleshooting (Problem Solving), Firewall, Business Continuity, Security Controls, Automation, Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery, Cloud Operations, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, Data/Record Logging

What you'll learn

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  • Assess your ability to identify how questions on the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate exam relate to concepts about SysOps on AWS
  • How to interpret the concepts being tested so that you can more easily eliminate incorrect responses
  • Interpret the concepts that are being tested by an AWS Certification exam question
  • Apply best practices for allocating your time when you study for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate exam
  • Gauge your preparedness to sit for the ASW Certified SysOp Administrator - Associate exam
  • Week 1

    • Introduction to AWS Certifications

    • Preparing, registering and taking an AWS certification

  • Week 2

    • Monitoring, logging and remediation (20%)*

    • Deployment, provisioning and automation (18%)

  • Week 3

    • Reliability and business continuity (16%)

    • Networking and content delivery (18%)

  • Week 4

    • Security and compliance (16%)

    • Cost and performance optimization (12%)

*The percentages denote the weightings of the topics in the exam

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