Preparing for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer — Professional exam (DOP-C01)
Who the certification is intended for?
This certification validates technical expertise in provisioning, operating, and managing distributed application systems on the AWS platform. It is intended for experienced AWS cloud engineers looking to learn advanced automations and features on the AWS cloud.
Domain distribution
The test content domains are as follows :
- SDLC Automation
- Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code
- Monitoring and Logging
- Policies and Standards Automation
- Incident and Event Response
- High Availability, Fault Tolerance, and Disaster Recovery
DevOps practices/concepts which you will be tested on
Just like any other AWS Certification, you will be tested on your knowledge of a plethora of AWS services. However, this certification also evaluates your understanding of some fundamental DevOps concepts and practices :
- Source Control Strategies
- Architecting a CI/CD pipeline
- Deployment/Delivery Strategies (A/B testing , Blue/Green, Canary, Red/Black)
- Automation of Monitoring and Event Management
- Design and Configuration of Event-Driven Automated Actions
AWS Services you should be proficient in
Developing conceptual understanding of AWS services should be viewed as a logical progression of topics rather than a ‘laundry list’ of services which you need to learn. Based on my experience, these should be the AWS services one needs to be confident in to achieve the certification (in order of importance)
- AWS CloudFormation
- Elastic Beanstalk
- CodePipeline
- CodeDeploy
- CodeBuild
- CodeCommit
- AWS Lambda
- CloudWatch
- CloudTrail
- AWS RDS
- DynamoDB
- AWS OpsWorks
- AWS Config
- AWS Step Functions
AWS Services you should be aware of
There are some services which you only need to know about and have a 100-Level understanding about them
- AWS Service Catalogue
- AWS Trusted Advisor
- AWS Macie
- AWS GuardDuty
- AWS Inspector
- AWS CloudSearch (referred to as CS in the exam)
- AWS Server Migration Service (referred to as SMS in the exam)
- AWS DirectConnect
- AWS Organizations
- AWS QuickSight
The aforementioned lists have been made under the assumption that the test taker is already proficient in the core AWS services like EC2, ELB, VPC, S3, EBS etc.
Additional Study Material and Relevant AWS Whitepapers
- Running Containerized Microservices on AWS
- Implementing Microservices on AWS
- Infrastructure as a Code
- Introduction to DevOps on AWS
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional 2020 course on A Cloud Guru by Nick Triantafillou
Hope this information is beneficial to the readers, feel free to share your thoughts and All the best!
