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.