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AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
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Course Description
Overview
The AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate exam is intended for system administrators in a cloud operations role. The exam validates a candidate’s ability to deploy, manage, and operate workloads on AWS.The exam also validates a candidate’s ability to complete the following tasks:
- Support and maintain AWS workloads according to the AWS Well-Architected Framework
- Perform operations by using the AWS Management Console and the AWS CLI
- Implement security controls to meet compliance requirements
- Monitor, log, and troubleshoot systems
- Apply networking concepts (for example, DNS, TCP/IP, firewalls)
- Implement architectural requirements (for example, high availability, performance, capacity)
- Perform business continuity and disaster recovery procedures
- Identify, classify, and remediate incidents
Objectives
Audience
Prerequisites
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Before you take this exam, we recommend you have:
- A minimum of one year of hands-on experience with AWS technology
- Experience deploying, managing, and operating workloads on AWS as well as implementing security controls and compliance requirements
- Familiarity with using both the AWS Management Console and the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)
- Understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework as well as AWS networking and security services
- 1–2 years of experience as a systems administrator in an operations role
- Experience in monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting
- Knowledge of networking concepts (for example, DNS, TCP/IP, firewalls)
- Ability to implement architectural requirements (for example, high availability, performance, capacity)
- Minimum of 1 year of hands-on experience with AWS technology
- Experience in deploying, managing, and operating workloads on AWS
- Understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework
- Hands-on experience with the AWS Management Console and the AWS CLI
- Understanding of AWS networking and security services
- Hands-on experience in implementing security controls and compliance requirements
Topics
- Identify, collect, analyze, and export logs (for example, Amazon CloudWatch Logs, CloudWatch Logs Insights, AWS CloudTrail logs)
- Collect metrics and logs using the CloudWatch agent
- Create CloudWatch alarms
- Create metric filters
- Create CloudWatch dashboards
- Configure notifications (for example, Amazon Simple Notification Service [Amazon SNS], Service Quotas, CloudWatch alarms, AWS Health events)
- Troubleshoot or take corrective actions based on notifications and alarms
- Configure Amazon EventBridge rules to trigger actions
- Use AWS Systems Manager Automation documents to take action based on AWS Config rules
- Create and maintain AWS Auto Scaling plans
- Implement caching
- Implement Amazon RDS replicas and Amazon Aurora Replicas
- Implement loosely coupled architectures
- Differentiate between horizontal scaling and vertical scaling
- Configure Elastic Load Balancer and Amazon Route 53 health checks
- Differentiate between the use of a single Availability Zone and Multi-AZ deployments (for example, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon FSx, Amazon RDS)
- Implement fault-tolerant workloads (for example, Amazon Elastic File System [Amazon EFS], Elastic IP addresses)
- Implement Route 53 routing policies (for example, failover, weighted, latency based)
- Automate snapshots and backups based on use cases (for example, RDS snapshots, AWS Backup, RTO and RPO, Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager, retention policy)
- Restore databases (for example, point-in-time restore, promote read replica)
- Implement versioning and lifecycle rules
- Configure Amazon S3 Cross-Region Replication
- Execute disaster recovery procedures
- Create and manage AMIs (for example, EC2 Image Builder)
- Create, manage, and troubleshoot AWS CloudFormation
- Provision resources across multiple AWS Regions and accounts (for example, AWS Resource Access Manager, CloudFormation StackSets, IAM cross-account roles)
- Select deployment scenarios and services (for example, blue/green, rolling, canary)
- Identify and remediate deployment issues (for example, service quotas, subnet sizing, CloudFormation and AWS OpsWorks errors, permissions)
- Use AWS services (for example, OpsWorks, Systems Manager, CloudFormation) to automate deployment processes
- Implement automated patch management
- Schedule automated tasks by using AWS services (for example, EventBridge, AWS Config)
- Implement IAM features (for example, password policies, MFA, roles, SAML, federated identity, resource policies, policy conditions)
- Troubleshoot and audit access issues by using AWS services (for example, CloudTrail, IAM Access Analyzer, IAM policy simulator)
- Validate service control policies and permissions boundaries
- Review AWS Trusted Advisor security checks
- Validate AWS Region and service selections based on compliance requirements
- Implement secure multi-account strategies (for example, AWS Control Tower, AWS Organizations)
- Enforce a data classification scheme
- Create, manage, and protect encryption keys
- Implement encryption at rest (for example, AWS Key Management Service [AWS KMS])
- Implement encryption in transit (for example, AWS Certificate Manager, VPN)
- Securely store secrets by using AWS services (for example, AWS Secrets Manager, Systems Manager Parameter Store)
- Review reports or findings (for example, AWS Security Hub, Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Config, Amazon Inspector)
- Configure a VPC (for example, subnets, route tables, network ACLs, security groups, NAT gateway, internet gateway)
- Configure private connectivity (for example, Systems Manager Session Manager, VPC endpoints, VPC peering, VPN)
- Configure AWS network protection services (for example, AWS WAF, AWS Shield)
- Configure Route 53 hosted zones and records
- Implement Route 53 routing policies (for example, geolocation, geoproximity)
- Configure DNS (for example, Route 53 Resolver)
- Configure Amazon CloudFront and S3 origin access identity (OAI)
- Configure S3 static website hosting
- Interpret VPC configurations (for example, subnets, route tables, network ACLs, security groups)
- Collect and interpret logs (for example, VPC Flow Logs, Elastic Load Balancer access logs, AWS WAF web ACL logs, CloudFront logs)
- Identify and remediate CloudFront caching issues
- Troubleshoot hybrid and private connectivity issues
- Implement cost allocation tags
- Identify and remediate underutilized or unused resources by using AWS services and tools (for example, Trusted Advisor, AWS Compute Optimizer, Cost Explorer)
- Configure AWS Budgets and billing alarms
- Assess resource usage patterns to qualify workloads for EC2 Spot Instances
- Identify opportunities to use managed services (for example, Amazon RDS, AWS Fargate, EFS)
- Recommend compute resources based on performance metrics
- Monitor Amazon EBS metrics and modify configuration to increase performance efficiency
- Implement S3 performance features (for example, S3 Transfer Acceleration, multipart uploads)
- Monitor RDS metrics and modify the configuration to increase performance efficiency (for example, Performance Insights, RDS Proxy)
- Enable enhanced EC2 capabilities (for example, enhanced network adapter, instance store, placement groups)
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