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AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate (SOA-C03) Crash Course

Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Intermediate content levelIntermediate

Operational confidence on AWS

What you’ll learn and how you can apply it

  • Understand what will be, what might be, and what won’t be on the exam
  • Gain additional mastery over the topics inside the exam coverage area
  • Equip yourself to pass the certification exam, or understand where you need to improve

Course description

CloudOps is a new certification in the AWS curriculum. As a companion certification to Solutions Architect or Developer Associate, this professional achievement will validate that you can manage AWS workloads, create a secure network, ensure business continuity, and optimize cost and performance.

There’s never been a better time to understand the AWS Cloud and prove to employers that you can operate it well, securely, and at scale. This crash course, led by Bill Boulden, will tell you whether you’re ready to take the exam. You should also feel confident knowing what you’ll encounter on the test and how to maximize your chances of success. Whether you’ve set your sights on certification or are just looking to upskill, you’ll leave with a renewed appreciation for the key elements of building performant, cost-optimized, resilient, and secure applications in the AWS Cloud.

This live event is for you because...

  • You intend to take the AWS Certified CloudOps exam and want to prepare.
  • You’ve taken and passed either the Solutions Architect or Developer Associate certification exams and want to focus on places where CloudOps diverges from those exams
  • You’re looking for a refresher on best practices for building applications in the AWS Cloud.

Prerequisites

  • Familiarity with using AWS for at least three months in some production capacity

Recommended follow-up:

  • Take the Pearson Practice Test for this certification (link to come)

Schedule

The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.

The basics (10 minutes)

  • Presentation: Me, you, and AWS

Monitoring, logging, analyzing, remediating (35 minutes)

  • Presentation: Observability sources; observability introspection; cross-service communication; remediating storage, database, and compute issues

Reliability and business continuity (25 minutes)

  • Presentation: Scaling; failing

Deployment, provisioning, and automating (20 minutes)

  • Presentation: Deployment basics and strategies
  • Break

Security and compliance (30 minutes)

  • Presentation: IAM review; detecting violations; encryption deep dive; security best practices and secrets manager; stuff we don’t use but the exam likes here

Networking and content delivery (15 minutes)

  • Presentation: Protection services; caching and delivery; troubleshooting
  • Break

Exam practice (40 minutes)

  • Presentation: Test-taking tips; prepared sample questions; Pearson sample test

Your Instructor

  • Bill Boulden

    Bill Boulden is CTO at FavorDrop in Buffalo. As a software engineer for 25 years, they’ve taken part in over 25 distinct software launches—every last one of them on AWS. As a fractional CTO, Bill repeatedly built and launched startup MVPs for angel-stage founders, with three exits and roughly half of the startups still alive. Now they’re a TechStars All-Star Mentor and an eight-time mentor formerly with Techstars Atlanta and now Techstars Columbus. In their spare time they produce all genres of music under the artist name “Downupright.”

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Skills covered

  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate