Course and practice questions
CloudOps Engineer course
CloudOps Engineer – Associate (SOA-C03): 5 modules, 15 lessons and 5 quizzes. This exam is multiple choice, so the practice is the course and original questions. The lab runtime is kubeadm clusters only, and this page does not include an AWS account. Replaced SysOps Administrator – Associate.
What's included
A course and practice questions
5 modules, 15 lessons and 5 quizzes (40 original questions). About 2 h 8 min of reading. The lab runtime is kubeadm clusters only, so this page does not include an AWS account.
5 modules
15 lessons mapped to the domains in the public exam guide.
5 quizzes
40 original practice questions, with an explanation for every answer. They are not exam items.
130-minute exam
The length published for this exam. This page does not offer a timed mock.
Exam domains
Domains from the public guide
The domain weights below sum to 100. The official page is the source of truth: CloudOps Engineer – Associate exam page.
Monitoring, Logging, Analysis, Remediation, and Performance Optimization
22%of the exam
3 competencies
- Implement metrics, alarms, and filters by using AWS monitoring and logging services
- Identify and remediate issues by using monitoring and availability metrics
- Implement performance optimization strategies for compute, storage, and database resources
Reliability and Business Continuity
22%of the exam
3 competencies
- Implement scalability and elasticity
- Implement highly available and resilient environments
- Implement backup and restore strategies
Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation
22%of the exam
2 competencies
- Provision and maintain cloud resources
- Automate the management of existing resources
Networking and Content Delivery
18%of the exam
3 competencies
- Implement and optimize networking features and connectivity
- Configure domains, DNS services, and content delivery
- Troubleshoot network connectivity issues
Security and Compliance
16%of the exam
2 competencies
- Implement and manage security and compliance tools and policies
- Implement strategies to protect data and infrastructure
Curriculum
5 modules, 15 lessons, 5 quizzes
Lesson titles from the course. The questions stay in the quizzes, and the answers are not published here.
01Monitoring and performance
Metrics the agent actually collects, alarms that page for a reason, and resource changes that match the bottleneck you measured. Domain: Monitoring, Logging, Analysis, Remediation, and Performance Optimization.
- lessonMetrics, alarms, and logs9 min
- lessonFinding the fault and remediating it8 min
- lessonPerformance of compute, storage, and databases9 min
02Reliability and business continuity
Scaling on the right metric, staying up through a zone failure, and choosing a recovery pattern from RPO and RTO. Domain: Reliability and Business Continuity.
- lessonScaling and elasticity8 min
- lessonHigh availability and fault tolerance9 min
- lessonBackup, restore, and disaster recovery9 min
03Provisioning and automation
Stacks you can recreate, fleets that actually pick up a new template, and runbooks that do the work SSH used to do. Domain: Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation.
- lessonProvisioning with infrastructure as code9 min
- lessonKeeping what you provisioned8 min
- lessonAutomating work on resources that already exist8 min
04Security and compliance
SCPs and IAM as a ceiling and a grant, encryption and certificates that are actually attached, and findings you close by changing the resource. Domain: Security and Compliance.
- lessonIdentity, accounts, and compliance evidence9 min
- lessonProtecting data8 min
- lessonProtecting the edge and the host8 min
05Networking and content delivery
Routes, endpoints, DNS policy, and the log that says which hop rejected the packet. Domain: Networking and Content Delivery.
- lessonVPC connectivity9 min
- lessonDNS and content delivery8 min
- lessonTroubleshooting connectivity9 min
Read the CloudOps Engineer – Associate course
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