Study the official exam domains. Each lesson teaches the concept from the vendor exam guide and first-party docs.
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Enroll in This CourseOfficial Domain 1 is SDLC Automation and it is 22 percent of scored DOP-C02 content. Official task 1.1 opens with software development lifecycle concepts, phases, and models. The official CI/CD whitepaper then maps th...
Official task 1.1 knowledge continues with pipeline deployment patterns for single-account and multi-account environments. Official CodePipeline cross-account docs walk the pattern with two accounts. Account A owns th...
Official task 1.1 skills open with configuring code, image, and artifact repositories, then using version control to integrate pipelines with application environments. Official CodePipeline sources are Amazon ECR, a v...
Official task 1.1 is implement CI/CD pipelines. Official CodePipeline docs call the service a continuous delivery service you use to model, visualize, and automate the steps that release software. This lesson is the o...
Official task 1.1 names setting up build processes and gives AWS CodeBuild as the example. Official CodeBuild docs call it a fully managed build service. It compiles source, runs unit tests, and produces artifacts tha...
Official task 1.1 skills include managing build and deployment secrets and name AWS Secrets Manager and AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store. Official Secrets Manager text says you retrieve credentials at runtime inste...
Official task 1.2 is integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines. Official knowledge names unit tests, integration tests, acceptance tests, user interface tests, and security scans, then asks for reasonable use a...
Official task 1.3 is build and manage artifacts. Official knowledge is use cases, secure management, how artifacts are created, and lifecycle considerations. Official skills name AWS CodeArtifact, Amazon S3, and Amazo...
Official task 1.3 skills include automating Amazon EC2 instance and container image builds and name EC2 Image Builder. Official 1.4 also lists Image Builder as a tool that distributes code. Official Image Builder docs...
Official task 1.4 is implement deployment strategies for instance, container, and serverless environments. Official knowledge names Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, and Lambda as platforms, Amazon EFS, Amazon S3, a...
Official Domain 2 is Configuration Management and IaC and it is 17 percent of scored DOP-C02 content. Official task 2.1 opens with infrastructure as code options and tools for AWS, then change management processes for...
Official task 2.1 names AWS CloudFormation as the first compose example. Official welcome text says CloudFormation models and sets up AWS resources so you spend less time managing those resources by hand. You write a...
Official task 2.1 skills include applying CloudFormation StackSets across multiple accounts and AWS Regions. Official StackSets writing says StackSets extend stacks. One operation creates, updates, or deletes stacks i...
Official task 2.1 names infrastructure as code options and tools. Official compose examples after CloudFormation are AWS CDK and AWS SAM. Both still provision through CloudFormation. The CDK writes infrastructure in a...
Official task 2.1 skills include identifying reusable patterns for building well-architected, resilient, and scalable infrastructure using infrastructure as code. Official compose examples name AWS Service Catalog nex...
Official task 2.1 knowledge includes configuration management services and strategies. Official skills ask you to apply configuration management services to implement infrastructure as code in a predictable manner, an...
Official task 2.2 is deploy automation to create, onboard, and secure AWS accounts in a multi-account or multi-Region environment. Official skills name AWS Organizations structures and hierarchies, evaluating untruste...
Official task 2.2 skills include using AWS Control Tower to govern multi-account environments, applying SCPs to accounts and OUs, and automating the creation and onboarding of new accounts. Official Control Tower writ...
Official task 2.3 is design and build automated solutions for complex tasks and large-scale environments. Official skills name using AWS Systems Manager for configuration automation, including inventory, patch, and St...
Official task 2.3 skills include using AWS Config, AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions, and the AWS SDK to automate complex tasks and large-scale environments. Official Step Functions writing says you create workflows, als...
Official Domain 3 is Resilient Cloud Solutions and it is 15 percent of scored DOP-C02 content. Official task 3.1 is implement highly available solutions to meet resilience and business requirements. Official knowledge...
Official task 3.1 skills include configuring load balancing to support cross-AZ services and configuring applications to support multiple Availability Zones while minimizing downtime. Official Elastic Load Balancing w...
Official task 3.1 knowledge includes replication and failover methods for stateful services, and Multi-AZ and multi-Region deployments for the data layer. Official skills include enabling cross-Region solutions where...
Official task 3.1 skills include enabling cross-Region solutions where available, naming Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon RDS, Amazon Route 53, Amazon S3, and Amazon CloudFront. Official Route 53 health-check writing says you...
Official task 3.2 is implement solutions that are scalable to meet business requirements. Official knowledge names appropriate metrics for scaling services. Official skills include identifying and remediating scaling...
Official task 3.2 knowledge includes loosely coupled and distributed architectures. Official skills include remediating scaling issues and implementing auto scaling, load balancing, and caching. Official EC2 Auto Scal...
Official task 3.2 skills include identifying and implementing appropriate auto scaling, load balancing, and caching solutions. Official 3.2 knowledge also names metrics for scaling. Official CloudFront from lesson 3.4...
Official task 3.2 knowledge includes serverless architectures and container platforms. Official skills include deploying container-based applications, naming Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS, deploying workloads in multiple...
Official task 3.3 is implement automated recovery processes to meet RTO and RPO requirements. Official knowledge names disaster recovery concepts such as RTO and RPO, AWS Backup and recovery strategies such as pilot l...
Official task 3.3 skills include identifying and implementing appropriate cross-Region AWS Backup and recovery strategies, naming AWS Backup, Amazon S3, and AWS Systems Manager, testing failover of Multi-AZ and multi-...
Official Domain 4 is Monitoring and Logging and it is 15 percent of scored DOP-C02 content. Official task 4.1 is configure the collection, aggregation, and storage of logs and metrics. Official knowledge names how to...
Official Domain 4 skill on task 4.1 is collecting custom metrics, and the example is the CloudWatch agent. Official task 4.3 skill is installing and configuring agents on EC2 instances, and the examples are AWS System...
Official task 4.1 knowledge names real-time log ingestion, encryption options for at-rest and in-transit logs and metrics including client-side and server-side AWS KMS, and IAM roles that allow collection. Official sk...
Official task 4.1 skills name creating CloudWatch metrics from log events with metric filters, creating CloudWatch metric streams to Amazon S3 or Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, processing log data with CloudWatch log s...
Official task 4.2 is audit, monitor, and analyze logs and metrics to detect issues. Official knowledge names anomaly detection alarms, then common CloudWatch metrics and logs such as CPU utilization on EC2, queue leng...
Official task 4.2 skill is building CloudWatch dashboards and Amazon Quick Sight visualizations. Official CloudWatch dashboard writing says dashboards give a single view of metrics and alarms, including resources in m...
Official task 4.2 skill is configuring AWS X-Ray for different services, and the examples are containers, Amazon API Gateway, and Lambda. Official X-Ray writing says the service collects data about requests your appli...
Official task 4.2 knowledge names Amazon Inspector and common assessment templates, AWS Config rules, and AWS CloudTrail log events. Official skills name analyzing real-time log streams with Amazon Kinesis Data Stream...
Official task 4.3 is automate monitoring and event management of complex environments. Official knowledge names event-driven, asynchronous design patterns such as S3 Event Notifications or Amazon EventBridge events to...
Official task 4.3 knowledge names auto scaling capabilities for EC2 Auto Scaling groups, RDS storage auto scaling, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon ECS capacity providers, and Amazon EKS autoscalers, plus health check capabili...
Official Domain 5 is Incident and Event Response and it is 14 percent of scored DOP-C02 content. Official task 5.1 is manage event sources to process, notify, and take action in response to events. Official 5.1 names...
Official Domain 5 task 5.1 knowledge names event-driven architectures and gives three examples: fan out, event streaming, and queuing. Official 5.1 skills later name the services that implement those shapes. This less...
Official task 5.1 skills name building event processing workflows and give five examples: Amazon SQS, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon SNS, AWS Lambda, and AWS Step Functions. Official 5.1 knowledge already picked the shape. Th...
Official EventBridge writing splits processing into event buses and pipes. Official task 5.1 still owns the match. Official task 5.2 starts when a target changes configuration. This lesson is the router in the middle....
Official task 5.2 is implement configuration changes in response to events. Official 5.2 knowledge names fleet management services and gives AWS Systems Manager and AWS Auto Scaling as the examples. Official 5.2 skill...
Official task 5.2 knowledge names fleet management services and gives AWS Systems Manager and AWS Auto Scaling as the pair. Official 5.2 skills name modifying infrastructure configurations in response to events. Domai...
Official task 5.2 knowledge names configuration management services and gives AWS Config as the example. Official 5.2 skills name remediating a non-desired system state. Official Config writing says Config remediates...
Official task 5.3 is troubleshoot system and application failures. Official 5.3 skills name analyzing failed deployments and give AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CloudFormation, and CloudWatch syn...
Official task 5.3 skills name analyzing incidents regarding failed processes and give auto scaling, Amazon ECS, and Amazon EKS as the examples. Official 5.3 knowledge still names CloudWatch, X-Ray, Health, and OpsCent...
Official task 5.3 knowledge names AWS service health services and gives AWS Health, CloudWatch, and Systems Manager OpsCenter as the examples, then names root cause analysis. Official 5.3 skills already walked failed...
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