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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

Prepare for the AWS DevOps Engineer Professional-level exam

Achieving Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional certification validates your technical expertise in provisioning, operating and managing distributed application systems on the AWS platform. It confirms your 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.

 

About the exam

The AWS Certified DevOps - Professional exam includes multiple-choice and multiple-answer questions. You will have 170 minutes to complete it.

Prerequisites

The below prerequisites demonstrate the skills and knowledge that will help you achieve the AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional certification.

 

Required: Either the AWS Certified SysOps Adminstrator - Associate certification or the AWS Certified Developer - Associate certification.

 

AWS Knowledge and Experience

  • AWS services: compute and networking, storage and content delivery, database, analytics, application services, and deployment and management. 
  • At least two years of hands-on experience with production of 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 skill set. 
  • Multitier 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 Exams

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional exam

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