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Adoption of the cloud computing services are on the rise. Every organization irrespective of their size either harnessing the power of cloud computing or planning to do so. This is the right time to gain or enhance your knowledge towards cloud computing. If you are planning to appear for AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate certificate exam then this article will provide you all necessary information which you need to have to plan for your study and do the preparation for your exam.

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate certificate exam is one of the associate level exams. AWS has three certification exams under Associate level category:

• 1.       AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate Certificate
• 2.       AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate Certificate
• 3.       AWS Certified Developer Associate Certificate

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate Certificate is quite a difficult certificate. To pass this certificate you need to have more detailed knowledge and hands-on experience with AWS services.

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate Certificate exam is mainly targeted to the candidates who wants to build their career in System Administrator Domain. With this certificate candidate will be demonstrating their proficiency in deploying and monitoring AWS Cloud Services.

Following roles, but not limited to this list, can go for this certification:

v  System Administrator

v  Deployment Engineer

v  DevOps Engineer

v  Support Engineer

v  Any role who Deploying/Supporting/Monitoring AWS Cloud Services.

This Certificate exam validates candidate's ability on topics:

v  Deploy, manage, and operate scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS

v  Implement and control the flow of data to and from AWS

v  Select the appropriate AWS service based on compute, data, or security requirements

v  Identify appropriate use of AWS operational best practices

v  Estimate AWS usage costs and identify operational cost control mechanisms

v  Migrate on-premises workloads to AWS

Recommended Exam Prerequisites

AWS recommended below mentioned basic criteria to be able to take AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate Certification exam:

v  One or more years of hands-on experience deploying and monitoring AWS Cloud Services.

v  Understanding of the AWS tenets – architecting for the cloud

v  Hands-on experience with the AWS CLI and SDKs/API tools

v  Understanding of virtualization technology

v  Monitoring and auditing systems experience

v  Knowledge of networking concepts (e.g., DNS, TCP/IP, and firewalls)

Question Type

There will be 65 questions in the exam and these questions are of two types of questions on the examination:

v  Multiple choice:  Has one correct response and three incorrect responses (distractors).

v  Multiple response: Has two or more correct responses out of five or more options.

Exam Duration

v  Exam is 130 minutes

Note: it is recommended to join the exam 30 minutes prior to the scheduled time as candidate needs to fill out some formalities in order that exam to start.

Exam Fee

v  USD 150 + Applicable Taxes (based on candidate’s country)

Passing Marks

v  AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate Certificate examination is a pass or fail exam.

v  Results for the examination are reported as a score from 100–1000 with a minimum passing score of 700.

v  Score report contains classifications of your performance at each section level.

v  You do not need to “pass” the individual sections.

v  There is no negative marking for wrong answer.

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate Certificate - Subject Areas

The content for AWS Certified Developer-Associate Certification exam has been categorized into five subject areas:

Subject Areas	% Of Examination
1: Monitoring and Reporting	22%
2: High Availability	8%
3: Deployment and Provisioning	14%
4: Storage and Data Management	12%
5: Security and Compliance	18%
6: Networking	14%
7: Automation and Optimization	12%

 

Monitoring and Reporting:

This is actually one of the main subject areas for the exam as 22% questions will come from this subject area. A thorough understanding of monitoring and reporting services is required to pass the exam. This exam will test your ability to construct and maintain reporting alarms, which are tied to key metrics that you defined.

Following are AWS Services which you need to understand and learn.

v  Cloud Watch ü  CloudWatch Metrics ü  Custom Metrics for EC2 ü  CloudWatch Alarms ü  CloudWatch logs and event ü  CloudWatch Dashboard v  Cloud Trail v  Personal Health Dashboard v  Service Health Dashboard

 

High Availability:

In this subject area you can expect questions from Autoscaling and Load balancers. This subject area of the exam only accounts for 8%. To grasp the understanding of this section, you are need to consider different use case scenarios to implement scalability and high availability.

Following are the topics which you should understand:

v  Autoscaling Group	v  Elastic Load Balancer
ü  Target tracking policy ü  Step scaling policy ü  Launch configuration ü  Lifecycle hook	ü  Application Load Balancer ü  Network Load Balancer ü  Classic Load Balancer ü  Target groups ü  Health checks ü  Listeners’ priorities ü  Host-based routing ü  Path-based routing

 

Deployment and Provisioning:

This subject area expects from you to select the appropriate infrastructure services to deploy in various scenarios. You need to understand every step of provisioning and deployment process. You are going to demonstrate that you complete understand following services.

v  AWS Elastic Beanstalk v  AWS CodeStar v  AWS OpsWorks v  Elastic Container Services ü  Docker concepts, ü  Docker file ü  Container Registry ü  Task definition ü  Service Cluster v  Fargate

v  AWS Systems Manager ü  System manager automation ü  System Manager Inventory ü  Patch Manager ü  Run Command ü  Parameter store

Storage and Data Management:

The subject area of the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate exam focuses on data storage, including storage options, management, security, and retention:

v  Simple Storage Service (S3), v  Elastic Block Storage (EBS), v  Elastic File Service (EFS), v  Relational Database Service (RDS) ü  Data Autoscaling ü  Read Replicas ü  Multi-AZ instances

v  AWS Storage Gateway ü  File Gateway ü  Volume Gateway ü  Tape Gateway v  AWS Snowball

 

Security and Compliance:

This exam will test your ability to comply with standard AWS security best practices and to follow all mandatory compliance laws. You are also required to show that you understand how to implement, configure and use security policies on AWS for your own purposes. This subject area is the second biggest area from exam perspective as exam comprises 18% questions from this subject area. You need to thoroughly understand the following topics:

v  Shared Responsibility Model v  Identity Access and Management (IAM) v  S3 Bucket policy and Data Integrity v  VPC -  Security Group and NACL v  AWS Inspector v  AWS KMS v  AWS Certificate Manager v  AWS WAF v  AWS Shield v  AWS Artifact service Networking:

This subject area expects that you analyze network troubleshooting information and use that to help diagnose issues and present solutions. Following are AWS services which you need to learn and understand:

v  AWS VPC ü  VPC flow log ü  Subnet configuration ü  Route tables ü  CIDR reservations ü  VPC Peering v  AWS CloudFront v  AWS VPN Gateway v  AWS Direct Connect

 Automation and Optimization:

This subject area of the exam ensures that you know how to access your current resource utilization so that you can manage AWS services effectively

v  AWS CloudFormation v  AWS OpsWorks

 

This is the brief about all the subject area covered under the SysOps Administrator Associate exam. I hope you should get all informati