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How You Could Be A Certified AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
The exam for AWS Certified DevOps Engineer enhances your technical expertise in provisioning and managing distributed application systems on the AWS platform.For this exam, you need to know the implementation and continuous management of delivery systems including the methodologies on AWS. Candidates need to understand,implement and automate security controls including governance process.
Defining and showing monitoring, metrics, including logging systems on AWS
Implement systems that are highly available, scalable, and self-healing on the AWS platform
Candidate should know how to design, manage, and maintaining tools to automate operational processes
The AWS DevOps Engineer - Professional exam has been designed for the individuals who are currently associated to DevOps role. This exam increases a candidate’s ability to:-
Apply and manage the continuous delivery systems and their methodologies on AWS
Individual should understand and know the method to apply and automate security controls Showing the monitoring, metrics, involving logging systems on AWS
Applying the systems that are highly available and could be healed by their own on the AWS platform
Understand the complete design and maintaining tools to automate operational processes
The kind of knowledge and skills that is required for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional includes the major part of the following AWS and general IT knowledge areas:-
What are the qualifications required for this exam?
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate or AWS Certified Developer – Associate AWS Knowledge
The AWS Services like Compute and Network including Storage and CDN, Database, Analytics, and Application Services with Management
Should have minimum of two years working experience with production AWS systems
Candidates needs to know about Effective use of Auto Scaling
It is also required to know about Monitoring and logging
Individual should know about AWS security features and best practices
It involves designing of self-healing and the fault-tolerant services
Different techniques and strategies for the management of high availability
What are the general IT knowledge required to pass AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional exam?
Should know about Networking concepts
Candidate should have knowledge about strong system administration
Individual needs to have strong scripting skillset
It is required to know about Multi-tier architectures which includes the load balancers, caching, application servers, web servers, networking and databases
Candidate should have information about templates and other configurable items to enable automation
Should know the use of deployment tools and techniques in a distributed environment
The basic monitoring techniques in a dynamic environment
How the candidate should prepare for AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional exam?
The training courses and materials that is required for an exam preparation are as follows:-
AWS Training
Candidate should know about the Advanced operations on AWS
Individual needs to have information about Advanced architecting on AWS
AWS Whitepapers
Security at scale:Governance in AWS
Response Limits for this exam:
It is required for the candidate to select from the four or more response options which best completes the statement or answer to the question.If there would be any distractors or wrong answers, it means that the examinee is with incomplete knowledge or skill.The criteria for the response limit has been defined below:
Multiple-choice:It is required for the candidate to select one option that best suits the question or completes a statement. The option could be entrenched in a graphic where the examinee “points and clicks” on their selected choice to complete the test item.
Multiple-response: Candidate may select more than one option that best suits the question or completes a statement.
Sample Directions:There is need to read the statement or question and by using the response options,it is required to select one option that represents the most correct or best answers
What would be the content limit to pass the exam?
The exam blueprint involves weighing,example content and test objectives.The example topics and concepts that are included is to clarify the test objectives.Blueprint should not be construed as a comprehensive listing of all of the content of this examination.
The table that has been given here lists the domains measured by this examination and the extent to which they are represented:
Domai |
% of Exam |
|
1.0 |
Continuous delivery and process automation |
55% |
2.0 |
Monitoring, Metrics, and Logging |
20% |
3.0 |
Security, Governance, and Validation |
10% |
4.0 |
High Availability and Elasticity |
15% |
Total |
100% |
Domain 1:
Continuous Delivery and Process Automation
Showing an understanding of application lifecycle management:
Deployment of Application management strategies like rolling deployments and A/B.
Involves Version control, build tools, testing and bootstrapping
Demonstrating the complete information of infrastructure configuration and automation.
Implementing and managing continuous delivery processes by using AWS services.
Developing and managing scripts along with tools to automate the operational tasks by using the AWS SDKs, CLI, and APIs.
Domain 2:
Monitoring, Metrics, and Logging
It involves monitoring availability and performance.
It includes monitor and management of bills and cost optimization processes.
There will be an involvement of aggregate and analyze infrastructure, application log files and OS
Method to use metrics to drive the scalability,health of infrastructure and applications.
Including the analysation of data collected from monitoring systems to discern utilization patterns.
It includes the management of the lifecycle of application and infrastructure logs
Includes the leveraging of AWS SDKs, CLIs and APIs for metrics and logging.
Domain 3:
Security, Governance, and Validation
Implementing and managing the identity and Access Management and security controls.
Applying and managing protection for data in-flight and at rest.
Apply, automate and approved cost controls for AWS resources.
Applying and managing automated network security and auditing.
Implement the appropriate AWS account and billing set-up options which is based upon business requirements
Applying and managing AWS resource auditing and validation.
Using AWS services to apply IT governance policies.
Domain 4:
High Availability and Elasticity
Determining the suitable use of multi- Availability Zone versus multi-region architectures.
Implementing the self-healing application architectures.
Applying the most appropriate front-end scaling architecture.
Implementing the most suitable middle-tier scaling architecture.
Apply the most appropriate data storage scaling architecture.
Demonstrating an understanding of when to apply vertical and horizontal scaling concepts.
How the candidates will be eligible for AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional exam?
Should have achieved AWS Certified Developer - Associate or AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
Candidates needs to have two or more years’ experience in provisioning,managing AWS environments and operations
There is need to have expertise in developing code in one of the high-level programming language
Needs to gain experience in automation and testing via scripting/programming
Should have better understanding of agile and other development processes and methodologies
What are the examination details for the candidates?
It is required to have certifications like AWS Certified Developer – Associate or AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
Candidates should have multiple choice and multiple answer questions
There will be one hundred seventy minutes to complete the exam
Exam will be available in English
The registration fee for the exam is USD 300
It is recommended to take DevOps Engineering on AWS