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AWS DevOps Engineer Professional exam facts

  • 65 scored questions plus 10 unscored questions
  • Question types are multiple choice and multiple response
  • Scaled score from 100 to 1000 with a passing score of 750
  • Compensatory scoring based on overall performance
  • Target candidate has 2+ years managing and automating on AWS
  • No penalties for wrong answers, so guess!

AWS DevOps Engineer Professional exam objectives

  • Domain 1: SDLC automation – 22%
  • Domain 2: Configuration management and IaC – 17%
  • Domain 3: Resilient cloud solutions – 15%
  • Domain 4: Monitoring and logging – 15%
  • Domain 5: Incident and event response – 14%
  • Domain 6: Security and compliance – 17%

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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional exam topics

Exam basics

  • Format includes 65 scored questions and 10 unscored questions used for future calibration.
  • Question types include multiple choice and multiple response with no penalty for guessing.
  • Results use a scaled score from 100 to 1000 with a minimum passing score of 750.
  • Scoring is compensatory so only the overall score must meet the standard.
  • Intended for candidates with at least two years of AWS operations and automation experience.

Domain 1: SDLC automation (22%)

  • Implement CI/CD pipelines across single and multi-account environments.
  • Integrate automated tests including unit, integration, UI, performance, and security scans.
  • Build and manage artifacts with CodeArtifact, ECR, S3, and EC2 Image Builder.
  • Choose deployment strategies such as blue/green and canary with CodeDeploy.
  • Manage secrets with Secrets Manager and Parameter Store in pipelines.

Domain 2: Configuration management and IaC (17%)

  • Define infrastructure with CloudFormation, CDK, and AWS SAM using reusable patterns.
  • Apply governance with Service Catalog, StackSets, and configuration standards.
  • Automate multi-account onboarding with AWS Organizations and Control Tower.
  • Use Systems Manager, AppConfig, OpsWorks, and AWS Config for fleet and config management.
  • Embed security controls and guardrails as code at scale.

Domain 3: Resilient cloud solutions (15%)

  • Translate business SLAs into multi-AZ and multi-Region architectures.
  • Eliminate single points of failure and enable cross-Region capabilities.
  • Use ELB, Route 53, CloudFront, RDS, DynamoDB, and S3 for high availability.
  • Scale globally with containers on ECS or EKS and with serverless patterns.
  • Automate recovery to meet RTO and RPO targets using AWS Backup and tested failovers.

Domain 4: Monitoring and logging (15%)

  • Collect and store logs and metrics securely with CloudWatch, Logs, and KMS encryption.
  • Create metric filters, dashboards, anomaly detection, and metric streams.
  • Analyze with Logs Insights, Athena, OpenSearch, and visualize with QuickSight.
  • Trace distributed systems with X-Ray and monitor real-time streams with Kinesis.
  • Automate alarms and notifications with SNS, Lambda, and automatic recovery actions.

Domain 5: Incident and event response (14%)

  • Route events from AWS Health, CloudTrail, and services with EventBridge patterns.
  • Build processing workflows with SQS, SNS, Lambda, Step Functions, and Kinesis.
  • Apply configuration changes at scale with Systems Manager and AWS Config.
  • Troubleshoot failed deployments and autoscaling incidents using pipeline and runtime telemetry.
  • Use OpsCenter and root cause analysis to drive remediation.

Domain 6: Security and compliance (17%)

  • Implement IAM at scale with roles, federation, permissions boundaries, and SCPs.
  • Automate security controls using Security Hub, GuardDuty, Macie, and AWS Config.
  • Protect data with KMS, ACM, CloudHSM, and defense-in-depth network controls.
  • Enable auditing with CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, Inspector, and Access Analyzer.
  • Apply encryption in transit and at rest and rotate secrets with Secrets Manager.

Out of scope

  • Advanced networking design such as complex routing algorithms and failover tuning.
  • Deep security architecture recommendations to development teams.
  • Database query design and performance optimization.
  • Full-stack application development and feature implementation.

How to prepare

  • Study the official guide and map tasks to hands-on labs for each domain.
  • Build CI/CD pipelines with CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodeArtifact, and ECR.
  • Author infrastructure with CloudFormation, CDK, and SAM and enforce guardrails with Organizations and Control Tower.
  • Practice observability using CloudWatch dashboards, Logs Insights, X-Ray, Kinesis, and OpenSearch.
  • Drill security automation with IAM, KMS, Config, CloudTrail, Security Hub, GuardDuty, and Macie.
  • Rehearse deployment strategies, blue/green and canary rollouts, and disaster recovery scenarios.