How to become AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate?
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate certification has been engineered to test your knowledge of systems operations domains.
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate examination is intended for individuals with one to two years of experience as a systems administrator in a systems operations role. The certification validates an examinee’s ability deploy, manage, and operate scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS.
There are primarily seven domains of relatively equal weight in which the test are organized –
- Monitoring and Metrics
- High Availability
- Analysis
- Deployment and Provisioning
- Data Management
- Security
- Networking
Note – As we explore individual AWS architectures and services, it is crucial to note that many of the AWS products have operational considerations that apply to most, if not all domains.
Which AWS Services are important?
As an AWS systems operator, we are tasked to understand those considerations along with how to optimize the service for performance and cost. The sections in this tutorial helps us to run through the service categories, explain how those services are addressed from an operational perspective, and discuss what to focus on.
There are more than 90 services and approximately 55 questions, so mathematically not every service can be addressed in the certification exam. Commonly used services might appear in many different questions, although services with more specific use cases are much less likely to appear.
We would provides specific reference architectures that we can use as plan on what services to study.
- Front-end web server layer
- Application middle layer
- Database layer
Note, in many cases, the first two layers may be fronted, or decoupled, with elastic load balancers.