AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (SOA-C02) Exam Learning Path

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (SOA-C02) Exam Learning Path
Recently, I was recertified for AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate (SOA–C02) exam. SOA-C02, the updated version of SOA-C01 AWS exam that includes hands-on labs, is the first AWS exam.
SOA-C02 is basically valid
AWS allows you to deploy, manage, and run workloads
Assist and maintain AWS workloads in accordance with the AWS Well-Architected Framework
You can perform operations using the AWS Management console and the AWS CLI
To meet compliance requirements, implement security controls
Monitor, log, troubleshoot and log systems
Use networking concepts (e.g. DNS, TCP/IP and firewalls)
Implement architectural requirements (for instance, high availability, performance and capacity).
Perform business continuity and disaster recovery
Identify, classify and remediate incidents. Refer to AWS Certified SysOps Associate (SOA–C02) Exam Guide Sep 18
Summary of the Exam for AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate (SOA–C02)
SOA-C02 is a first AWS exam. It includes 2 sections.
Hands-on labs
The SOA-C02 Exam lasts 190 minutes and has 51 questions (somewhat strange!!). Objective-type questions and three hands-on labs are included in the SOA-C02 Exam.
Labs are done in a separate instance. You can copy-paste, but make sure to copy the exact names when creating resources.
If you are familiar with AWS, labs can be quite simple.
NOTE: You cannot go back to a section once you have completed it. The same applies to labs. Once a lab has been completed, it is impossible to return to it.
You can practice the sample lab provided when you book your exam. This will give you an idea of what the actual exam would look like. Exam ResourcesOnline CoursesStephane MAREK – Ultimate AWS Certified SysOps Administration Associate 2021
DolfinEd Udemy AWS-Certified Solutions Architect Associate 2021 – SAA-C02 (Self Paced)
A Cloud Guru – AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate. You can practice the labs at end to make sure you are very useful.
Exam Readiness: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate
Practice ExamsBraincert AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate SOA-C02 Practice Examinations
Stephane Maarek – Practice Exams: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate
Whizlabs AWS SysOps Administrator Associate Examination
AWS offers a free Tier account that allows you to try a lot of the Services without any restrictions. However, there are limits that will limit your ability to use the Services. To prevent any surprises, make sure you decommission all items that exceed the free limits. AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate (SOA–C02) Exam Topics
Practice Labs
Create IAM users and IAM roles with limited policies.
Create a private S3 bucketenable versioning
enable default encryption
Allow lifecycle policies to transition the objects and then expire them
Replication in the same region possible
With static website hosting, create a public S3 bucket
Establish a VPC with subnets public and private with Routes, SGSs, and NACLs.
Establish a VPC with private and public subnets, and allow communication from private subnets to be made to the Internet via NAT gateway
Create an EC2 instance, take a Snapshot, and then restore it as a new instance.
Create Security Groups for ALB/Target Groups and ALB Launch Templates, Auto Scaling Groups, and target groups with sample apps. Check the flow.
Create Multi-AZ RDS instance with failover.
Set up SNS topic. Cloud Watch Metrics can be used to create a CloudWatch alert on certain thresholds and send notifications the SNS topic
Set up SNS topic. Cloud Watch Logs can be used to create a CloudWatch Alarm on log patterns and to send notifications to the SNS Topic.
Update a CloudFormation Template and run the stack again to check the impact.
To create snapshot lifecycles, use AWS Data Lifecycle Manager
AWS Backup can be used to create EFS backups with hourly or daily backup rules.