AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate (SOA-C02) Practice Exam

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate (SOA-C02)

About AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate (SOA-C02) Certification

The AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (SOA-C02) certification exam has been developed for system administrators responsible to execute cloud operations roles. Candidates are suggested to have more than 1 year of applied experience in the field of deployment, management, networking, and security on AWS.

Skills Acquired

The AWS SysOps Administrator Associate (SOA-C02) exam validates the candidate's ability to perform tasks including - 

• Firstly, deploying, managing, and operating AWS workloads
• Secondly, providing support and maintain AWS workloads in accordance with the AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Ability to perform operations using AWS Management Console and the AWS CLI
• Ability to implement security controls for meeting compliance requirements
• Concepts monitoring, logging and troubleshooting systems
• The ability to apply networking concepts (like DNS, TCP/IP, firewalls)
• Skills to implement architectural requirements (like high availability, performance, capacity)
• Skills to perform business continuity and disaster recovery concepts
• Lastly, identifying, classifying, and remediate incidents

Suggested Knowledge

The candidates are suggested to have the following requirements - 

• At least 1 year of hands-on experience with AWS technology
• Experiential learning to deploy, manage, and operate workloads on AWS
• Skills and Knowledge of the AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Experiential learning to use AWS Management Console and AWS CLI
• Experiential learning to implement security controls and compliance needs
• Ability to perform AWS networking and security services

Exam Details

• Exam Name: AWS SysOps Administrator Associate 
• Exam Code: SOA-C02
• Type of Questions: Multiple Choice and Multiple Responses
• Exam Questions: 65 Questions
• Exam Duration: 180 minutes
• Pass Score: 720 (on a scale of 100-1000)

AWS SysOps Administrator Associate (SOA-C02) Course Outline 

The AWS SysOps Administrator Associate (SOA-C02) Exam covers the following topics - 

Module 1: Describe Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation (20%)

Implementing metrics, alarms, and filters by using AWS monitoring and logging services

• Learn Identifying, collecting, analyzing, and exporting logs (for example, Amazon CloudWatch Logs, CloudWatch Logs Insights, AWS CloudTrail logs)
• Learn to use the CloudWatch agent for collecting metrics and logs
• Learn creating CloudWatch alarms
• Learn creating metric filters
• Building CloudWatch dashboards
• Learn about Configuring notifications 

Remediating issues based on monitoring and availability metrics

• Learn to troubleshoot and perform corrective actions as per the notifications and alarms
• Learn configuring Amazon EventBridge rules to trigger actions
• Learn using AWS Systems Manager Automation documents for taking action based on AWS Config rules

Module 2: Describe Reliability and Business Continuity (16%)

Implement scalability and elasticity

• Learn the concept of creating and maintaining AWS Auto Scaling plans
• Learn the concept of implementing caching
• Learn the concept of implementing Amazon RDS replicas and Amazon Aurora Replicas
• Learn the concept of implementing loosely coupled architectures
• Learn the concept of differentiating between horizontal scaling and vertical scaling

Implementing high availability and resilient environments

• Learn the concept of configuring Elastic Load Balancer and Amazon Route 53 health checks
• Learn the concept of differentiating between the use of a single Availability Zone and Multi-AZ deployments
• Learn the concept of Implementing fault-tolerant workloads (for example, Amazon Elastic File System [Amazon EFS], Elastic IP addresses)
• Learn the concept of Implementing Route 53 routing policies (for example, failover, weighted, latency based)

Implementing backup and restore strategies

• Learn the concept of automating snapshots and backups depending on use cases
• Learn the concept of Restoring databases (for example, point-in-time restore, promote read replica)
• Learn the concept of Implementing versioning and lifecycle rules
• Learn the concept of Configuring Amazon S3 Cross-Region Replication
• Learn the concept of Executing disaster recovery procedures

Module 3: Describe Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation (18%)

Provisioning and maintaining cloud resources

• Learn the concept of Creating and controlling AMIs (for example, EC2 Image Builder)
  
• Learn the concept of Creating, managing, and troubleshooting AWS CloudFormation
• Learn the concept of Provisioning resources over multiple AWS Regions and accounts 
• Learn the concept of Selecting deployment scenarios and services 
• Learn the concept of Identifying and remediating deployment issues 

Automating manual or repeatable processes

• Learn the concept of using AWS services (for example, OpsWorks, Systems Manager, CloudFormation) for automating deployment processes
  
• Learn the concept of implementing automated patch management
• Learn the concept of scheduling automated tasks by using AWS services (for example, EventBridge, AWS Config)

Module 4: Describe Security and Compliance (16%)

Implementing and managing security and compliance policies

• Learn the concept of implementing IAM features 
  
• Learn the concept of troubleshooting and auditing access issues by using AWS services
• Learn the concept of validating service control policies and permission boundaries
• Learn the concept of reviewing AWS Trusted Advisor security checks
• Learn the concept of validating AWS Region and service selections based on compliance requirements
• Learn the concept of implementing secure multi-account strategies 

Implementing data and infrastructure protection strategies

• Learn the concept of enforcing a data classification scheme
  
• Learn the concept of creating, managing, and protecting encryption keys
• Learn the concept of implement encryption at rest 
• Learn the concept of implementing encryption in transit 
• Learn the concept of securely storing secrets by using AWS services 
• Learn the concept of reviewing reports or findings 

Module 5: Describe Networking and Content Delivery (18%)

Implementing networking features and connectivity

• Learn the concept of configuring a VPC
  
• Learn the concept of configuring private connectivity 
• Learn the concept of configuring AWS network protection services 

Configuring domains, DNS services, and content delivery

• Learn the concept of configuring Route 53 hosted zones and records
  
• Learn the concept of implement Route 53 routing policies 
• Learn the concept of configuring DNS 
• Learn the concept of configuring Amazon CloudFront and S3 origin access identity (OAI)
• Learn the concept of configuring S3 static website hosting

Troubleshooting network connectivity issues

• Learn the concept of interpreting VPC configurations
• Learn the concept of collecting and interpreting logs
• Learn the concept of identifying and remediating CloudFront caching issues
• Learn the concept of troubleshooting hybrid and private connectivity issues

Module 6: Describe Cost and Performance Optimization (12%)

Implementing cost optimization strategies

• Learn the concept of implementing cost allocation tags
  
• Learn the concept of identifying and remediating underutilized or unused resources by using AWS services and tools 
• Learn the concept of configuring AWS Budgets and billing alarms
• Learn the concept of assessing resource usage patterns for qualifying workloads for EC2 Spot Instances
• Learn the concept of identifying opportunities to use managed services 

Implementing performance optimization strategies

• Learn the concept of computing resources depending on performance metrics
  
• Learn the concept of monitoring Amazon EBS metrics
• Learn the concept of modifying the configuration to increase performance efficiency
• Learn the concept of implementing S3 performance features 
• Learn the concept of monitoring RDS metrics and modifying the configuration for increasing performance efficiency 
• Learn the concept of enabling enhanced EC2 capabilities 

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