Chapter DOP-C02 professional tier
DevOps Engineer - Professional
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Table of Contents
I. Sdlc Automation 22% weight
CodePipeline — Cross-Account and Cross-Region Pipelines CodeBuild — Custom Build Environments, buildspec.yml, and Test Integration CodeDeploy — Blue/Green, Canary, and Rolling Deployments ECS and EKS Container Deployment Strategies Lambda Deployment — Aliases, Traffic Shifting, and SAM Canary Artifact Management — CodeArtifact, ECR, and EC2 Image Builder II. Configuration Management Iac 17% weight
CloudFormation — StackSets, Drift Detection, and Change Sets AWS CDK and SAM — Modern IaC Patterns Systems Manager — State Manager, Patch Manager, and Session Manager Multi-Account Automation — Control Tower, Organizations, and SCPs Service Catalog and AWS AppConfig — Governed Provisioning and Feature Flags III. Resilient Cloud Solutions 15% weight
Auto Scaling — Lifecycle Hooks, Warm Pools, and Scaling Policies Multi-Region Failover — Route 53 Health Checks and Routing Policies Scalability — ELB, ElastiCache, and Serverless Patterns Disaster Recovery — RTO/RPO Patterns, AWS Backup, and Cross-Region Recovery IV. Monitoring And Logging 15% weight
CloudWatch Metrics, Logs Insights, and Cross-Account Log Aggregation CloudWatch Alarms, EventBridge, and Automated Monitoring Actions AWS X-Ray — Distributed Tracing and Application Performance CloudTrail, AWS Config, and Operational Dashboards V. Incident And Event Response 14% weight
EventBridge Auto-Remediation and SSM Automation Runbooks Systems Manager Incident Manager and AWS Health Events Deployment Failure Troubleshooting and Root Cause Analysis