AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Exam
75-question written exam with multiple-choice and multiple-response question types.
- Type
- Written
- Delivery
- Both
- Duration
- 180 min
- Questions
- 75
Passing score: 750 Scaled score on a 100 to 1,000 scale
Exam sections
SDLC Automation
This domain focuses on the implementation of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and artifact management. It covers deployment strategies such as blue/green, canary, and rolling updates using services like AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy.
Preparation tips
Master the configuration of AWS CodePipeline and integrate various testing stages. Understand different deployment strategies and their use cases in production environments.
Configuration Management and IaC
Covers the provisioning and management of infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like AWS CloudFormation and Terraform. Includes configuration management with AWS Systems Manager and OpsWorks, and automated environment scaling.
Preparation tips
Deep dive into AWS CloudFormation templates, stack sets, and custom resources. Learn how to use AWS Systems Manager for patching and configuration compliance at scale.
Resilient Cloud Solutions
Focuses on designing architectures for high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery. Topics include multi-region deployments, database failover strategies, and implementing self-healing infrastructure to ensure business continuity.
Preparation tips
Study disaster recovery patterns (Pilot Light, Warm Standby) and Route 53 routing policies. Understand how to design for high availability across multiple Availability Zones and Regions.
Monitoring and Logging
Involves setting up centralized logging and monitoring using Amazon CloudWatch and AWS CloudTrail. Focuses on log aggregation, metric analysis, X-Ray tracing, and creating actionable dashboards and alarms to maintain system health.
Preparation tips
Learn to use CloudWatch Logs Insights for querying large datasets and X-Ray for tracing distributed applications. Understand how to set up composite alarms and metric filters.
Incident and Event Response
Covers automated incident response and event-driven remediation. Includes using Amazon EventBridge and AWS Lambda to respond to system events, manage service health notifications, and implement automated recovery processes.
Preparation tips
Focus on creating EventBridge rules that trigger Lambda functions for auto-remediation. Understand how to manage and respond to AWS Health Dashboard events and service limits.
Security and Compliance
Addresses implementing identity and access management (IAM), encryption (KMS), and auditing for security and compliance. Includes using AWS Config, GuardDuty, and Secrets Manager to maintain governance and protect the CI/CD pipeline.
Preparation tips
Study IAM policy evaluation logic, Service Control Policies (SCPs), and AWS Config rules. Understand how to manage secrets and rotate credentials securely using AWS Secrets Manager.