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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional

DOP-C02AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional (DOP-C02)

The AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional certification validates advanced expertise in provisioning, operating, and managing distributed application systems on AWS. It is designed for DevOps engineers with two or more years of AWS experience who bridge software development and cloud operations. Earning it demonstrates you can deliver secure, compliant, highly available, and scalable systems — and it gives you increased credibility with peers, colleagues, and customers.

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497 practice questions · Updated 2026-07-30

6Domains
17Objectives
174Concepts
497Questions

DOP-C02 Curriculum

Every domain, objective, and concept the DOP-C02 exam measures.

Task Statement 1.1: Implement CI/CD pipelines.

13 concepts · 35 questions
  1. SDLC phases and models
  2. CI/CD pipeline fundamentals
  3. Pipeline deployment patterns for single-account environments
  4. Pipeline deployment patterns for multi-account environments
  5. Configuring code repositories
  6. Configuring image repositories
  7. Configuring artifact repositories
  8. Version control integration with application environments
  9. Setting up build processes with AWS CodeBuild
  10. Managing build and deployment secrets with AWS Secrets Manager
  11. Managing build and deployment secrets with AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store
  12. Determining deployment strategies
  13. Implementing deployment strategies with AWS CodeDeploy

Task Statement 1.2: Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.

8 concepts · 26 questions
  1. Types of automated tests
  2. Test placement in CI/CD pipeline
  3. Triggering tests on pull requests and merges
  4. Running load and stress tests
  5. Application testing at scale
  6. Measuring application health via exit codes
  7. Automating unit tests and code coverage
  8. Invoking AWS services for testing in pipelines

Task Statement 1.3: Build and manage artifacts.

11 concepts · 26 questions
  1. Artifact use cases
  2. Secure artifact management
  3. Artifact generation methods
  4. Artifact lifecycle considerations
  5. AWS CodeArtifact configuration
  6. Amazon S3 artifact storage
  7. Amazon ECR configuration
  8. CodeBuild artifact generation
  9. Lambda artifact generation
  10. EC2 Image Builder automation
  11. Container image build automation

Task Statement 1.4: Implement deployment strategies for instance, container, and serverless environments.

12 concepts · 37 questions
  1. Deployment methodologies for EC2
  2. Deployment methodologies for ECS
  3. Deployment methodologies for EKS
  4. Deployment methodologies for Lambda
  5. Application storage patterns
  6. Mutable vs immutable deployment patterns
  7. Tools for distributing code
  8. Configuring IAM for artifact repositories
  9. Configuring deployment agents
  10. Troubleshooting deployment issues
  11. Blue/green deployment method
  12. Canary deployment method

Task Statement 2.1: Define cloud infrastructure and reusable components to provision and manage systems throughout their lifecycle.

7 concepts · 21 questions
  1. IaC options and tools for AWS
  2. Change management for IaC
  3. Configuration management services and strategies
  4. Composing and deploying IaC templates
  5. CloudFormation StackSets for multi-account/region
  6. Selecting configuration management services
  7. Reusable IaC patterns and governance

Task Statement 2.2: Deploy automation to create, onboard, and secure AWS accounts in a multi-account or multi-Region environment.

12 concepts · 35 questions
  1. AWS account structures and best practices
  2. AWS Organizations for account management
  3. AWS Control Tower for account provisioning
  4. Automating account provisioning and configuration
  5. IAM for multi-account access
  6. Service Control Policies (SCPs)
  7. Governance and security controls at scale
  8. AWS Config for compliance and auditing
  9. AWS Security Hub for centralized security
  10. Amazon GuardDuty for threat detection
  11. Amazon Detective for security investigation
  12. AWS Service Catalog for standardized provisioning

Task Statement 2.3: Design and build automated solutions for complex tasks and large-scale environments.

9 concepts · 27 questions
  1. AWS Systems Manager inventory
  2. AWS Systems Manager patch management
  3. AWS Config for compliance
  4. AWS Lambda automation with SDKs
  5. AWS Step Functions orchestration
  6. AWS OpsWorks configuration management
  7. Systems Manager State Manager
  8. Systems Manager compliance reporting
  9. Automation with AWS software-defined infrastructure

Task Statement 3.1: Implement highly available solutions to meet resilience and business requirements.

8 concepts · 21 questions
  1. Multi-AZ and multi-Region deployment patterns
  2. SLA interpretation and business requirement translation
  3. Replication and failover for stateful services
  4. High availability techniques
  5. Single point of failure identification and remediation
  6. Cross-Region service configuration
  7. Load balancing for cross-AZ traffic
  8. Application configuration for multi-AZ and multi-Region

Task Statement 3.2: Implement solutions that are scalable to meet business requirements.

13 concepts · 43 questions
  1. Scaling metrics selection
  2. Scaling issue identification and remediation
  3. Loosely coupled architectures
  4. Distributed architecture patterns
  5. Serverless architecture fundamentals
  6. Auto scaling implementation
  7. Load balancing solutions
  8. Caching strategies
  9. Container platform deployment
  10. Multi-Region deployment for global scalability
  11. API Gateway configuration for serverless
  12. Lambda scaling and configuration
  13. Fargate serverless containers

Task Statement 3.3: Implement automated recovery processes to meet RTO and RPO requirements.

8 concepts · 25 questions
  1. RTO and RPO definitions
  2. Disaster recovery strategies
  3. AWS Backup and recovery services
  4. Recovery procedures
  5. Testing failover for Multi-AZ workloads
  6. Testing failover for multi-Region workloads
  7. Cross-Region backup strategies
  8. Load balancer backend failure recovery

Task Statement 4.1: Configure the collection, aggregation, and storage of logs and metrics.

13 concepts · 30 questions
  1. CloudWatch metrics fundamentals
  2. Real-time log ingestion
  3. Encryption for logs and metrics
  4. IAM for log collection
  5. Secure log storage and management
  6. Metric filters
  7. CloudWatch metric streams
  8. Custom metrics collection
  9. Log storage lifecycle management
  10. CloudWatch log subscriptions
  11. Log search with filter and pattern syntax
  12. CloudWatch Logs Insights
  13. KMS encryption for log data

Task Statement 4.2: Audit, monitor, and analyze logs and metrics to detect issues.

12 concepts · 33 questions
  1. CloudWatch anomaly detection alarms
  2. Common CloudWatch metrics and logs
  3. Amazon Inspector assessment templates
  4. AWS Config rules
  5. AWS CloudTrail log events
  6. Building CloudWatch dashboards
  7. Amazon QuickSight visualizations
  8. Associating CloudWatch alarms with metrics
  9. Configuring AWS X-Ray for services
  10. Analyzing real-time log streams with Kinesis
  11. Analyzing logs with Athena
  12. Analyzing logs with CloudWatch Logs Insights

Task Statement 4.3: Automate monitoring and event management of complex environments.

17 concepts · 47 questions
  1. Event-driven asynchronous design patterns
  2. Auto scaling capabilities across AWS services
  3. Alert notification and action capabilities
  4. Health check capabilities in AWS services
  5. Configuring EC2 Auto Scaling groups
  6. Configuring RDS storage auto scaling
  7. Configuring DynamoDB auto scaling
  8. Configuring ECS capacity providers
  9. Configuring EKS autoscalers
  10. Creating CloudWatch custom metrics and metric filters
  11. Creating CloudWatch alarms and notifications
  12. Configuring S3 events for log processing
  13. Configuring EventBridge event patterns
  14. Installing and configuring agents on EC2
  15. Configuring AWS Config rules for remediation
  16. Configuring Route 53 health checks
  17. Configuring ALB target group health checks

Task Statement 5.1: Manage event sources to process, notify, and take action in response to events.

4 concepts · 14 questions
  1. AWS event sources
  2. Event-driven architecture patterns
  3. Integrating AWS event sources
  4. Event processing workflows

Task Statement 5.2: Implement configuration changes in response to events.

7 concepts · 18 questions
  1. Fleet management services overview
  2. AWS Systems Manager capabilities
  3. AWS Auto Scaling for configuration changes
  4. Configuration management with AWS Config
  5. Applying configuration changes to systems
  6. Modifying infrastructure configurations in response to events
  7. Remediating non-desired system state

Task Statement 5.3: Troubleshoot system and application failures.

8 concepts · 25 questions
  1. AWS metrics and logging services
  2. AWS service health services
  3. Root cause analysis
  4. Analyzing failed deployments with CI/CD and IaC
  5. CloudWatch synthetic monitoring for deployments
  6. Analyzing incidents with auto scaling
  7. Analyzing incidents with Amazon ECS
  8. Analyzing incidents with Amazon EKS

Task Statement 6.1: Implement techniques for identity and access management at scale.

12 concepts · 34 questions
  1. IAM entities for human and machine access
  2. Identity-based vs. resource-based policies
  3. Session policies
  4. Identity federation with IAM Identity Center
  5. IAM permissions boundaries
  6. Organizational SCPs
  7. Least privilege policy design
  8. Role-based access control (RBAC)
  9. Attribute-based access control (ABAC)
  10. Automating credential rotation for machine identities
  11. MFA enforcement for human and machine identities
  12. AWS Security Token Service (STS) for temporary credentials
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