AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional (DOP-C02) Cert Prep

21h 30mIntermediate2025-08-19

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Course details

The AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional (DOP-C02) exam is intended for individuals who are working in or aspiring to land a DevOps engineer role. The exam validates your technical expertise in provisioning, operating, and managing distributed systems and services on AWS. The ideal exam candidate should have two or more years of experience in provisioning, operating, and managing AWS environments across the entire software development lifecycle. This course equips you with the core concepts and skills required to tackle the official DOP-C02 certification exam.

Learning objectives
Implement and manage continuous delivery systems and methodologies on
AWS.
Design 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
AWS.
Design, manage, and maintain tools to automate operational processes.

Skills covered

DevOps FoundationsDevOpsCloud ServicesCloud PlatformsCert PrepCloud Computing

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Exam overview
02 - Exam domains

1. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Basics

03 - AWS overview
04 - AWS global infrastructure
05 - AWS shared responsibility
06 - AWS support plans
07 - AWS Well-Architected Framework
08 - The pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework

3. AWS Identity and Management (AWS IAM)

25 - IAM overview
26 - IAM identities
27 - IAM policy types
28 - IAM policy basics
29 - IAM policy evaluation logic
30 - IAM Access Analyzer
31 - IAM Identity Center

4. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

32 - Amazon VPC overview
33 - The anatomy of an Amazon VPC
34 - Amazon VPC network architectures
35 - Hands-on lab - Exploring the Amazon VPC console
36 - Hands-on lab - Launching an Amazon VPC

5. Amazon EC2

37 - Amazon EC2 overview
38 - Instance purchasing options
39 - Spot Instances
40 - On-Demand EC2 Instances
41 - Reserved Instances
42 - Dedicated Hosts and Instances
43 - Savings Plans
44 - Capacity reservation
45 - Instance types
46 - Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
47 - EC2 Image Builder
48 - Instance user data
49 - Instance metadata
50 - Amazon EC2 networking
51 - Amazon EC2 network security
52 - Hands-on lab - Vertically scale an Amazon EC2 instance
53 - Hands-on lab - Connect to your instance with EC2 Instance Connect
54 - Hands-on lab - Create an AMI from an EBS-backed EC2 instance
55 - Hands-on lab - Create placement groups
56 - Hands-on lab - Launch an EC2 Spot Instance
57 - Hands-on lab - Set up a web server on an EC2 instance

6. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

58 - Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling overview
59 - Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling types
60 - Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling life cycle hooks
61 - Scaling Amazon EC2 instances using ASG

7. AWS Storage Services

62 - Amazon EBS overview
63 - Amazon EBS types
64 - Amazon S3 overview
65 - Amazon S3 storage classes
66 - Amazon S3 minimum storage duration
67 - Amazon S3 event notifications
68 - Amazon EFS overview
69 - Amazon FSx for Lustre
70 - Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
71 - Amazon FSx for OpenZFS
72 - Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
73 - Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager
74 - AWS Backup
75 - AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
76 - Hands-on lab - Explore the Amazon S3 console
77 - Hands-on lab - Create an Amazon S3 bucket
78 - Hands-on lab - Upload and download objects in Amazon S3
79 - Hands-on lab - Create an EFS file systems storage

8. AWS Databases

80 - Amazon RDS overview
81 - Amazon RDS read replica
82 - Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments
83 - Amazon RDS events notification
84 - Amazon RDS Proxy
85 - Amazon Aurora overview
86 - Amazon DynamoDB overview
87 - Amazon DynamoDB core components
88 - Amazon MemoryDB

9. Amazon CloudWatch

89 - Amazon CloudWatch overview
90 - CloudWatch metrics for EC2 instances
91 - CloudWatch alarms
92 - CloudWatch logs and metric filters
93 - Amazon CloudWatch Events (Amazon EventBridge)

10. AWS Systems Manager

94 - Systems Manager Parameter Store
95 - Systems Manager AppConfig
96 - Systems Manager Automation
97 - Systems Manager Run Command
98 - Systems Manager Change Manager
99 - Systems Manager Patch Manager
100 - Hands-on lab - AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store

11. AWS CloudFormation

101 - CloudFormation overview
102 - Anatomy of a CloudFormation template
103 - CloudFormation helper scripts
104 - DependsOn and WaitCondition
105 - CloudFormation - StackSets
106 - CloudFormation - Nested stacks
107 - CloudFormation - Custom resource

12. AWS Networking and Application Integration Services

108 - Route 53 overview
109 - Route 53 routing policies
110 - CloudFront overview
111 - CloudFront security features
112 - Amazon SQS overview
113 - Amazon SNS overview
114 - AWS Step Functions overview

13. Serverless Computing and Other AWS Services

115 - Serverless computing overview
116 - Serverless architectures
117 - AWS Lambda overview
118 - Amazon API Gateway overview
119 - AWS Audit Manager overview
120 - AWS Config overview
121 - Amazon Detective overview
122 - AWS Compute Optimizer overview
123 - Amazon Directory Service overview
124 - AWS Organizations overview
125 - AWS CloudTrail overview
126 - CloudTrail integrations
127 - Amazon Macie hands-on
128 - AWS Network Firewall
129 - AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)
130 - AWS Secrets Manager
131 - AWS Security Hub overview
132 - Amazon QuickSight
133 - Amazon OpenSearch Service
134 - Hands-on lab - Set up an AWS Organization

14. Comparison of AWS Services and Topics

135 - High availability vs. fault tolerance
136 - Recovery Time Objective (RTO) vs. Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
137 - Security group vs. network ACL
138 - File vs. Volume vs. Tape in Storage Gateway
139 - Storage Gateway vs. DataSync
140 - Amazon S3 vs. EFS vs. EBS
141 - SSM Parameter Store vs. AWS Secrets Manager

15. AWS Deployment Services

142 - AWS CodeBuild overview
143 - AWS CodeBuild workflow
144 - AWS CodeDeploy overview
145 - CodeDeploy deployment configuration
146 - AWS CodePipeline overview
147 - Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer
148 - Amazon CodeGuru Profiler
149 - Amazon CodeGuru Security
150 - AWS CloudShell
151 - AWS Fault Injection Simulator

16. Advantages of Cloud Computing

152 - AWS Cloud Adoption Framework overview
153 - The advantages of cloud computing
154 - Trade fixed expense for variable expense
155 - Benefit from massive economies of scale
156 - Stop guessing capacity
157 - Increase speed and agility
158 - Stop spending money running and maintaining data centers
159 - Go global in minutes

17. AWS Well-Architected Framework

160 - AWS Well-Architected (WA) Tool overview
161 - AWS WA Tool step 1 - Define workload
162 - AWS WA Tool step 2 - Conduct architectural review
163 - AWS WA Tool step 3 - Apply best practices

18. Demo Project - Launching a WordPress Website in AWS

164 - Register your domain in Amazon Route 53
165 - Launch an Amazon EC2 instance
166 - Connect a domain name to the Amazon EC2 instance with Elastic IP
167 - Access the Amazon EC2 instance using SSH
168 - Install NGINX, PHP, MySQL, and WordPress into Amazon EC2
169 - Troubleshoot common WordPress website issues
170 - Get started with WordPress dashboard
171 - Your guide to WordPress plugins and themes

19. AWS Machine Learning Services

172 - Amazon Comprehend
173 - Amazon Textract
174 - Amazon Fraud Detector
175 - Amazon Transcribe
176 - Amazon Translate
177 - Amazon A2I
178 - Amazon Rekognition
179 - Amazon Q
180 - Amazon Bedrock
181 - Amazon Lex
182 - Hands-on lab - Amazon Polly