AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional — Requirements & Free Practice

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AWS professional certification recognizing expertise in provisioning, operating, and managing distributed application systems on AWS.

Initial by examination

Provider: Pearson VUE
Format: Multiple choice or multiple response
Exam questions: Total questions: 75; Scored questions: 65; Unscored questions: 10; The total includes the scored and unscored questions.
Time limit: 180 minutes
Passing score: 750 scaled score
Exam fee: 300 USD

Examination outline

SDLC Automation (22%)
- Implement CI/CD pipelines
- Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines
- Build and manage artifacts
- Implement deployment strategies for instance, container, and serverless environments
Configuration Management and IaC (17%)
- Define cloud infrastructure and reusable components to provision and manage systems throughout their lifecycle
- Deploy automation to create, onboard, and secure AWS accounts in a multi-account or multi-Region environment
- Design and build automated solutions for complex tasks and large-scale environments
Resilient Cloud Solutions (15%)
- Implement highly available solutions to meet resilience and business requirements
- Implement solutions that are scalable to meet business requirements
- Implement automated recovery processes to meet RTO and RPO requirements
Monitoring and Logging (15%)
- Configure the collection, aggregation, and storage of logs and metrics
- Audit, monitor, and analyze logs and metrics to detect issues
- Automate monitoring and event management of complex environments
Incident and Event Response (14%)
- Manage event sources to process, notify, and take action in response to events
- Implement configuration changes in response to events
- Troubleshoot system and application failures
Security and Compliance (17%)
- Implement techniques for identity and access management at scale
- Apply automation for security controls and data protection
- Implement security monitoring and auditing solutions

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