AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Level
Achieving Amazon Web Services Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional Level exam validates technical expertise in provisioning, operating, and managing distributed application systems on the AWS platform.
Before taking this exam you should understand and have the ability to:
- Implement and manage continuous delivery systems and methodologies on AWS
- Understand, implement, and automate security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation
- Define and deploy monitoring, metrics, and logging systems on AWS
- Implement systems that are highly available, scalable, and self-healing on the AWS platform
- Design, manage, and maintain tools to automate operational processes
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Knowledge
- AWS Services: Compute and Network, Storage and CDN, Database, Analytics, Application Services, Deployment, and Management
- Minimum of two years hands-on experience with production AWS systems
- Effective use of Auto Scaling
- Monitoring and logging
- AWS security features and best practices
- Design of self-healing and fault-tolerant services
- Techniques and strategies for maintaining high availability
General IT Knowledge
- Networking concepts
- Strong system administration (Linux/Unix or Windows)
- Strong scripting skillset
- Multi-tier architectures: load balancers, caching, web servers, application servers, databases, and networking
- Templates and other configurable items to enable automation
- Deployment tools and techniques in a distributed environment
- Basic monitoring techniques in a dynamic environment
Required Training and Exam
The AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Level exam includes multiple-choice and multiple-answer questions. You will have 170 minutes to complete it.
| REQUIRED EXAM | RECOMMENDED TRAINING COURSE |
|---|---|
| AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Level exam | DevOps Engineering on AWS (GK1979) |