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This article will cover topics related to the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional exam and certification.

Domains

The 6 domains outlined in the AWS blueprint for the certification include:

1. Software Development LifeCycle (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%]

Domain 1: SDLC Automation

• 1.1 Apply concepts required to automate a CI/CD pipeline
• 1.2 Determine source control strategies and how to implement them
• 1.3 Apply concepts required to automate and integrate testing
• 1.4 Apply concepts required to build and manage artifacts securely
• 1.5 Determine deployment/delivery strategies (e.g., A/B, Blue/green, Canary, Red/black) and how to implement them using AWS Services

Domain 2: Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code

• 2.1 Determine deployment services based on deployment needs
• 2.2 Determine application and infrastructure deployment models based on business needs
• 2.3 Apply security concepts in the automation of resource provisioning
• 2.4 Determine how to implement lifecycle hooks on a deployment
• 2.5 Apply concepts required to manage systems using AWS configuration management tools and services

Domain 3: Monitoring and Logging

• 3.1 Determine how to set up the aggregation, storage, and analysis of logs and metrics
• 3.2 Apply concepts required to automate monitoring and event management of an environment
• 3.3 Apply concepts required to audit, log, and monitor operating systems, infrastructures, and applications
• 3.4 Determine how to implement tagging and other metadata strategies

Domain 4: Policies and Standards Automation

• 4.1 Apply concepts required to enforce standards for logging, metrics, monitoring, testing, and security
• 4.2 Determine how to optimize cost through automation
• 4.3 Apply concepts required to implement governance strategies

Domain 5: Incident and Event Response

• 5.1 Troubleshoot issues and determine how to restore operations
• 5.2 Determine how to automate event management and alerting
• 5.3 Apply concepts required to implement automated healing
• 5.4 Apply concepts required to set up event-driven automated actions

Domain 6: High Availability, Fault Tolerance, and Disaster Recovery

• 6.1 Determine appropriate use of multi-AZ versus multi-region architectures
• 6.2 Determine how to implement high availability, scalability, and fault tolerance
• 6.3 Determine the right services based on business needs (e.g., RTO/RPO, cost)
• 6.4 Determine how to design and automate disaster recovery strategies
• 6.5 Evaluate a deployment for points of failure

SDLC Automation

• Introduction
• What is CI/CD?
• AWS CodeCommit
• AWS CodeBuild
• AWS CodeDeploy
• AWS CodePipeline
• Testing
• Artifacts
• Deployment Strategies

Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code

• Introduction
• AWS CloudFormation
• AWS CloudFormation Intrinsic Functions
• AWS CloudFormation Wait Conditions
• AWS CloudFormation Nested Stacks
• AWS CloudFormation Deletion Policies
• AWS CloudFormation Stack Updates
• AWS CloudFormation Change Sets
• AWS CloudFormation Custom Resources
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk extensions
• AWS Config
• Amazon ECS
• AWS Managed Services
• AWS Lambda
• AWS Lambda Step Functions
• AWS OpsWorks

Monitoring and Logging

• Introduction
• CloudWatch
• CloudWatch Custom Metrics
• CloudWatch Events
• CloudWatch Logs
• AWS X-Ray

Policies and Standards Automation

• Introduction
• AWS Service Catalog
• AWS Trusted Advisor
• AWS Systems Manager
• AWS Organizations
• AWS Secrets Manager
• Amazon Macie
• AWS Certificate Manager

Incident and Event Response

• Introduction
• Amazon GuardDuty
• Amazon Inspector
• Amazon Kinesis

High Availability, Fault Tolerance, and Disaster Recovery

• Introduction
• AWS Single Sign-On
• Amazon CloudFront
• AutoScaling and Lifecycle hooks
• Amazon Route53
• Amazon RDS
• Amazon Aurora
• Amazon DynamoDB
• Amazon DynamoDB Keys and Streams

Other Services You Need to Know About

• Introduction
• Tagging
• Amazon Elastic File System
• Amazon ElastiCache
• Amazon S3 Glacier
• AWS Direct Connect
• AWS Lambda Function Dead Letter Queues
• Amazon CloudSearch
• Amazon Elasticsearch Service
• Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator
• AWS Server Migration Service

External links

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional