AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (DOP-C01) Exam Learning Path
⚠️ EXAM RETIRED – DOP-C01 No Longer Available
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (DOP-C01) was retired on March 6, 2023.
This content is maintained for historical reference only. The DOP-C01 exam can no longer be taken.
Current Exam Version:
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (DOP-C02) Exam Learning Path – Available since March 7, 2023
Key Changes in DOP-C02:
- Updated domain structure with 6 domains (previously 5)
- Greater emphasis on CI/CD automation, IaC, and container/serverless deployments
- New coverage of AWS CDK, Step Functions, EventBridge, and modern observability
- 75 questions in 180 minutes (previously 170 minutes)
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (DOP-C01) exam was the upgraded pattern of the DevOps Engineer – Professional exam which was released in 2018. AWS replaced it with DOP-C02 on March 7, 2023.
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (DOP-C01) exam validated
- Implement and manage continuous delivery systems and methodologies on AWS
- 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
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (DOP-C01) Exam Summary
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional exam was for a total of 170 minutes with 75 questions.
- One of the key tactics when solving the DevOps Engineer questions was to read the question and use paper and pencil to draw a rough architecture and focus on the areas that you need to improve. This helps eliminate 2 answers for sure and then focus on only the other two.
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional exam covered a lot of concepts and services related to Automation, Deployments, Disaster Recovery, HA, Monitoring, Logging and Troubleshooting. It also covered security and compliance related topics.
- Key topics covered:
- Whitepapers – key to understand Deployments and DR
- Management Tools
- Deep dive into CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk and OpsWorks
- Understand CloudFormation vs Elastic Beanstalk vs OpsWorks
- CloudFormation
- In-depth understanding of CloudFormation concepts
- CloudFormation helper scripts for completion signaling
- CloudFormation deployment strategies – rolling and replacing updates with AutoScaling
- CloudFormation policies – Update and Deletion policies
- CloudFormation Best Practices – Nested Stacks and logical grouping
- CloudFormation template anatomy – parameters, outputs, mappings
- CloudFormation Custom resources and use cases
- Elastic Beanstalk
- Elastic Beanstalk – Applications, Versions and Environments
- Elastic Beanstalk Deployment Strategies – rolling, immutable and blue/green
- Custom AMIs and Docker support
- OpsWorks
- OpsWorks – stacks, layers, recipes
- OpsWorks Lifecycle events – Configure event
- OpsWorks Deployment Strategies
- OpsWorks auto-healing
- Development Tools
- CodePipeline, CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, CodeBuild
- CodePipeline pipeline structure
- CodeCommit IAM policies
- CodeDeploy Lifecycle event hooks
- CodeDeploy deployment configurations – canary and linear
- CodeDeploy redeploy and rollbacks
- Monitoring & Governance tools
- CloudWatch vs CloudTrail vs AWS Config
- Trusted Advisor vs Systems Manager vs AWS Inspector
- CloudWatch
- CloudWatch deep dive
- CloudWatch Logs
- CloudWatch Subscription Filters
- CloudWatch Events (now Amazon EventBridge)
- CloudWatch custom metrics
- CloudTrail
- CloudTrail for audit and governance
- CloudTrail log integrity
- AWS Config – history and config revert
- Personal Health Dashboard (now AWS Health Dashboard)
- AWS Trusted Advisor
- Systems Manager – parameter store, patch manager
- Networking & Content Delivery
- VPC
- Route 53
- Route 53
- Routing Policies – Weighted, Latency
- CloudFront
- Load Balancer
- ELB, ALB and NLB
- ELB with Auto Scaling
- Security, Identity & Compliance
- Storage
- S3
- S3 Permissions
- Cross Region Replication for DR
- EBS Snapshots for HA and DR
- S3
- Database
- Aurora DR & HA using Read Replicas and Global Database
- DynamoDB
- Best practices – key selection
- DynamoDB Auto Scaling & DAX for caching
- Compute
- EC2
- ENI for HA, user data, pre-baked AMIs
- Snapshot and sharing
- Auto Scaling
- Auto Scaling Lifecycle events
- Blue/green deployments with Auto Scaling
- Lambda
- ECS – Monitoring and deployments
- EC2
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional – Current Exam Resources (DOP-C02)
Note: The resources below have been updated for the current DOP-C02 exam. For the complete DOP-C02 learning path, visit the DOP-C02 Exam Learning Path.
- Online Courses
- Practice Tests
DOP-C02 Exam Domain Overview
The current DOP-C02 exam has 6 domains (compared to 5 in DOP-C01):
- Domain 1: SDLC Automation (22%) – CI/CD pipelines, testing, deployment strategies
- Domain 2: Configuration Management and IaC (17%) – CloudFormation, CDK, Systems Manager
- Domain 3: Resilient Cloud Solutions (15%) – HA, scalability, disaster recovery
- Domain 4: Monitoring and Logging (15%) – CloudWatch, X-Ray, observability
- Domain 5: Incident and Event Response (14%) – EventBridge, automation, remediation
- Domain 6: Security and Compliance (17%) – IAM, secrets management, compliance automation
For the complete DOP-C02 preparation guide, refer to the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (DOP-C02) Exam Learning Path.