The AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (SOA-C02) exam is intended for system administrators who are currently working in or looking to land a cloud operations role. The exam validates your ability to deploy, manage, and operate workloads on AWS, and requires one year of professional experience with deployment, management, networking, and security on AWS. This course is designed to prepare you for the six domains of the official SOA-C02 certification exam. Explore the basics of AWS, service categories, identity and management, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, Amazon EC2, Auto Scaling, storage services, databases, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Systems Manager, CloudFormation, networking and application integration services, serverless computing, and more. “AWS SysOps Certification Prep: Master SOA-C02”

Skills you’ll gain

Course Contents

1. AWS Certified SysOps: Associate (SOA-C02) Cert Prep Exam Overview
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate SOA-C02 Exam overview
4m 48s
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate SOA-C02 Exam domains
4m 50s

2. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Basics
Amazon Web Services (AWS) overview
5m 4s
AWS Global Infrastructure
5m 5s
AWS shared responsibility
13m 39s
AWS support plans
13m 42s
AWS Well-Architected Framework
9m 18s
The pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework
12m 31s

3. AWS Service Categories
AWS services overview
5m 18s
AWS compute services
10m 44s
AWS container services
6m 4s
AWS storage services
17m 32s
AWS database services
11m 51s
AWS deployment services
14m 25s
AWS monitoring services
6m 6s
AWS audit and compliance services
3m 22s
AWS networking and content delivery services
13m 54s
AWS application integration services
10m 9s
AWS security services
12m 56s
AWS management and governance services
9m 50s
AWS identity services
4m 32s
AWS machine learning services
16m 41s
AWS transfer and migration services
9m 33s
AWS analytics services
22m 32s

4. AWS Identity and Management (AWS IAM)
IAM overview
8m 13s
IAM identities
9m
IAM policy types
7m 42s
IAM policy basics
9m 14s
IAM policy evaluation logic
9m 8s
IAM Access Analyzer
3m 38s

5. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
Amazon VPC overview
2m 25s
The anatomy of an Amazon VPC
17m 15s
Amazon VPC network architectures
10m 58s
Hands-on lab: Exploring the Amazon VPC console
15m 17s
Hands-on lab: Launching an Amazon VPC
16m 52s

6. Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2 overview
5m 11s
Instance purchasing options
3m 40s
Spot instances
5m 35s
On-demand EC2 instances
3m
Reserved instances
3m 50s
Dedicated hosts and instances
3m 12s
Savings plans
1m 57s
Capacity reservation
1m 44s
Instance types
8m 6s
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
7m 29s
Instance user data
2m 31s
Instance metadata
6m 13s
Amazon EC2 networking
14m 20s
Amazon EC2 network security
16m 12s

7. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling overview
9m 35s
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling types
7m 45s
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling lifecycle hooks
6m 8s

8. AWS Storage Services
Amazon EBS overview
11m 10s
Amazon EBS types
5m 33s
Amazon S3 overview
9m 22s
Amazon S3 storage classes
12m 41s
Amazon S3 minimum storage duration
4m 26s
Amazon S3 Event Notifications
2m 53s
Amazon EFS overview
3m 57s
Amazon FSx for Lustre
4m 17s
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
5m 36s
Hands-on lab: Creating an EFS file systems storage
7m 36s
Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager
3m 55s
AWS Backup
5m 28s

9. AWS Databases
Amazon RDS overview
10m 58s
Amazon RDS Read Replica
13m
Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments
11m 5s
Amazon RDS events notification
6m 17s
Amazon RDS Proxy
3m 49s
Amazon Aurora overview
7m 10s
Amazon DynamoDB overview
14m 30s
Amazon DynamoDB core components
7m 32s

10. Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch overview
7m 46s
CloudWatch metrics for EC2 instances
5m 56s
CloudWatch alarms
4m 18s
CloudWatch logs and metric filters
3m 36s
Amazon CloudWatch Events (Amazon EventBridge)
4m 36s

11. AWS Systems Manager
Systems Manager Parameter Store
5m 44s
Systems Manager Automation
3m 51s
Systems Manager Change Manager
3m 47s
Systems Manager Patch Manager
2m 50s
Hands-on lab: AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store
10m 2s

12. AWS CloudFormation
CloudFormation overview
4m 58s
Anatomy of a CloudFormation template
9m 2s
CloudFormation helper scripts
3m 59s
DependsOn and WaitCondition
2m 43s
CloudFormation: StackSets
6m 4s
CloudFormation: Nested stacks
3m 52s
CloudFormation: Custom resource
4m 56s

13. AWS Networking and Application Integration Services
Route 53 overview
8m 15s
Route 53 routing policies
11m 6s
CloudFront overview
10m 45s
CloudFront security features
11m 35s
Amazon SQS overview
9m 42s
Amazon SNS overview
6m 56s

14. Serverless Computing and Other AWS Services
Serverless computing overview
8m 38s
Serverless architectures
11m 50s
AWS Lambda overview
2m 50s
Amazon API Gateway overview
5m 1s
AWS Audit Manager overview
6m 51s
AWS Config overview
4m 59s
Amazon Detective overview
4m 30s
AWS Compute Optimizer overview
5m 40s
Amazon Directory Service overview
7m 23s
AWS Organizations overview
7m 8s
AWS CloudTrail overview
3m 13s
CloudTrail integrations
3m 56s
Hands-on lab – Set up an AWS Organization
7m 58s

15. Serverless Computing and Other AWS Services
High availability vs. fault tolerance
RTO vs. RPO
Security Group vs. Network ACL
File vs. Volume vs. Tape Storage Gateway
Storage Gateway vs. DataSync
4m 55s
Amazon S3 vs. EFS vs. EBS
SSM Parameter Store vs. AWS Secrets Manager