AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (DOP-C02)
Implement and manage continuous delivery systems and methodologies on AWS, automate security controls, governance, compliance validation, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and logging.
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The DOP-C02 exam consists of 75 scenario questions over 180 minutes. Registration costs $300 USD, with a passing scaled score of 750/1000 (75%).
Domains include: (1) SDLC Automation (~22%), (2) Configuration Management and IaC (~19%), (3) Resilient Cloud Solutions (~15%), (4) Monitoring and Logging (~15%), (5) Incident and Event Response (~14%), and (6) Security and Compliance (~15%).
CodePipeline coordinates build, test, and release actions across stages (Source -> Build -> Test -> Production), integrating manual approvals, deployment gates, and automated rollbacks.
CloudFormation StackSets allow administrators to create, update, or delete CloudFormation stacks across multiple AWS accounts and multiple AWS regions with a single operation.
Blue-Green provisions a duplicate environment before switching traffic; Canary shifts traffic in increments (e.g. 10% for 15 minutes) while monitoring CloudWatch alarms to trigger automated rollbacks on errors.
Conformance Packs are collections of AWS Config rules and remediation actions packaged into a single template deployed across all accounts in an organization to audit compliance baselines.
GuardDuty uses machine learning to detect compromised accounts, instances, or S3 buckets. EventBridge catches GuardDuty findings and triggers automated Lambda functions to isolate compromised assets.
SSM Automation documents execute scripted runbooks across fleets (e.g. creating AMI backups, restarting services, isolating instances) triggered manually or automatically by EventBridge rules.
GitOps treats Git as the single declarative source of truth for Kubernetes configurations; controllers in EKS automatically synchronize the cluster state with changes pushed to Git.
CloudWatch Logs Insights provides an interactive, highly parallel query engine that allows SREs to run purpose-built queries across gigabytes of log streams in seconds.
The DOP-C02 certification is valid for three years from the pass date.
DOP-C02 certifies Senior DevOps Engineers, Lead SREs, and Enterprise Cloud Automation Architects earning average US salaries between $155,000 and $210,000+.