This credential helps organizations identify and develop talent with critical skills for implementing cloud initiatives.
Earning AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional validates the ability to automate the testing and deployment of AWS infrastructure and applications.
Who should take this exam?
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional is intended for individuals with two or more years of experience provisioning, operating, and managing AWS environments.
Before you take this exam, we recommend you have:
- Experience developing code in at least one high-level programming language; building highly automated infrastructures; and administering operating systems
- Understanding of modern development and operations processes and methodologies
- Ability to implement and manage continuous delivery systems and methodologies on AWS
- Ability to implement and automate security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation
- Ability to define and deploy monitoring, metrics, and logging systems on AWS
What does it take to earn this certification?
To earn this certification, you’ll need to take and pass the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional exam (DOP-C01).
The exam features a combination of two question formats: multiple choice and multiple response.
Additional information, such as the exam content outline and passing score, is in the exam guide.
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Exam overview
Level: Professional
Length: 180 minutes to complete the exam
Cost: 300 USD
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Format: 75 questions, either multiple choice or multiple response
Delivery method: Pearson VUE and PSI; testing center or online proctored exam
Languages offered
This exam is offered in the following languages: English, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese.
Prepare for your exam
You’ve set your goal. Now it’s time to build knowledge and skills to propel your career.
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Exam review:
- EXAM GUIDE: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional Exam Guide
- SAMPLE QUESTIONS: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional Sample Questions
- PRACTICE: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional Official Practice Question Set
- DIGITAL TRAINING: Exam Readiness: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
AWS Training for DevOps engineers:
- DIGITAL TRAINING: Introduction to AWS CloudFormation
- DIGITAL TRAINING: AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) Primer
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AWS Certified AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional Certification and Beyond
Explore the ins and outs of becoming an AWS certified DevOps professional engineer with the help of easy-to-follow practical examples and detailed explanations
Key Features
- Discover how to implement and manage continuous delivery systems and methodologies on AWS
- Explore real-world scenarios and hands-on examples that will prepare you to take the DOP-C01 exam with confidence
- Learn from enterprise DevOps scenarios to prepare fully for the AWS certification exam
Book Description
The AWS Certified DevOps Engineer certification is one of the highest AWS credentials, vastly recognized in cloud computing or software development industries. This book is an extensive guide to helping you strengthen your DevOps skills as you work with your AWS workloads on a day-to-day basis.
You’ll begin by learning how to create and deploy a workload using the AWS code suite of tools, and then move on to adding monitoring and fault tolerance to your workload. You’ll explore enterprise scenarios that’ll help you to understand various AWS tools and services. This book is packed with detailed explanations of essential concepts to help you get to grips with the domains needed to pass the DevOps professional exam. As you advance, you’ll delve into AWS with the help of hands-on examples and practice questions to gain a holistic understanding of the services covered in the AWS DevOps professional exam. Throughout the book, you’ll find real-world scenarios that you can easily incorporate in your daily activities when working with AWS, making you a valuable asset for any organization.
By the end of this AWS certification book, you’ll have gained the knowledge needed to pass the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer exam, and be able to implement different techniques for delivering each service in real-world scenarios.
What you will learn
- Automate your pipelines, build phases, and deployments with AWS-native tooling
- Discover how to implement logging and monitoring using AWS-native tooling
- Gain a solid understanding of the services included in the AWS DevOps Professional exam
- Reinforce security practices on the AWS platform from an exam point of view
- Find out how to automatically enforce standards and policies in AWS environments
- Explore AWS best practices and anti-patterns
- Enhance your core AWS skills with the help of exercises and practice tests
Who this book is for
This book is for AWS developers and SysOps administrators looking to advance their careers by achieving the highly sought-after DevOps Professional certification. Basic knowledge of AWS as well as its core services (EC2, S3, and RDS) is needed. Familiarity with DevOps concepts such as source control, monitoring, and logging, not necessarily in the AWS context, will be helpful.