AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional (DOP-C01)

The AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional (DOP-C01) is a certification provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) designed for individuals who perform a DevOps engineer role with two or more years of experience provisioning, operating, and managing AWS environments.

This certification exam generally covers the following domains:

1. SDLC Automation: 22%
2. Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code: 19%
3. Monitoring and Logging: 15%
4. Policies and Standards Automation: 10%
5. Incident and Event Response: 18%
6. High Availability, Fault Tolerance, and Disaster Recovery: 16%

Here’s a brief description of each domain:

1. SDLC Automation: This domain involves automating the software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes and designing a continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) process.
2. Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code: Here, you’ll need to implement and manage configuration management and infrastructure as code.
3. Monitoring and Logging: This domain tests your knowledge on implementing and managing monitoring, metrics, and logging.
4. Policies and Standards Automation: This domain is about implementing and managing policies and standards for automating governance and validation.
5. Incident and Event Response: You’re required to manage and automate incident and event response.
6. High Availability, Fault Tolerance, and Disaster Recovery: Here, you’ll be tested on your ability to implement and manage highly available, fault-tolerant, and resilient systems on AWS.

The certification process involves a multiple-choice, multiple-answer exam, which can be taken at a testing center or via an online proctored exam from your home or office.

It’s recommended that candidates for this exam have hands-on experience with AWS, programming languages, and a strong understanding of agile project management methodologies, microservices, and distributed systems. Familiarity with continuous integration and delivery methodologies and tools is also important.