AWS SysOps Administrator Associate SOA-C02 — Study Guide
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This guide covers each SOA-C02 domain in depth. Pick a domain to go deep, or work through them in order.
The domains
- Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation — Monitoring, logging, and remediation provide the operational nervous system for AWS environments: they detect problems, give context, and drive
- High Availability, Fault Tolerance, and Disaster Recovery — This domain covers designing systems that remain available and recoverable when components, services, or whole regions fail. It spans backup and
- Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation — This domain covers the methods and tooling used to provision, update, and operate AWS infrastructure and application deployments reliably and
- Security, Identity, and Compliance — This domain covers the identity, encryption, secrets, and auditing primitives that underpin secure and compliant AWS operations. It focuses on
- Networking and Content Delivery — Networking and Content Delivery covers the VPC foundation, hybrid connections, DNS and global routing, edge caching with CloudFront, and TLS
- Storage and Data Management — Storage and Data Management covers designing, operating, and optimizing object, block, and file storage in AWS to meet availability, cost, and
- Compute and Auto Scaling — This domain covers managing EC2 instances and Auto Scaling to deliver reliable, cost-effective compute capacity. It focuses on instance lifecycle
- Databases and Caching — Databases and caching are core operational responsibilities for a SysOps administrator: they provide persistent storage, availability, and
- Serverless and Application Integration — Serverless and application integration covers running event-driven applications without managing servers and connecting services reliably.
- Cost Management and Resource Tagging — Cost management and resource tagging are core operational activities that keep cloud spending visible, predictable, and governed. Accurate billing
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