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AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (SOA-C02)

AWS CERTIFIED SYSOPS ADMINISTRATOR – ASSOCIATE (SOA-C02) validates technical skills in deploying, managing, and operating workloads on AWS. It is essential for those looking to manage AWS services in

AWS SOA-C02

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (SOA-C02) validates technical skills in deploying, managing, and operating workloads on AWS. It is essential for those looking to manage AWS services in a professional setting.

Course Overview

The AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (SOA-C02) certification is designed for professionals responsible for the deployment, management, and operation of scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS. This certification tests your technical expertise in deployment, management, and operations on the AWS platform.

Emigo Networks delivers expert-led training for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (SOA-C02) certification, tailored for professionals in cloud operations and systems administration. This course equips learners with the essential skills to deploy, manage, and maintain AWS workloads, leveraging operational best practices aligned with AWS standards. You'll gain hands-on experience with tasks like monitoring, logging, security controls, networking, business continuity, and cost-performance optimization. Perfect for system administrators seeking to validate their ability to efficiently operate AWS-based infrastructure and seamlessly blend it with business needs.

What You'll Learn

  • Deployment and Management – Learn how to deploy, configure, and manage AWS workloads efficiently.
  • Monitoring and Reporting – Gain expertise in monitoring system performance, analyzing metrics, and generating operational reports.
  • Security and Compliance – Understand how to implement AWS security controls, manage identity and access, and ensure compliance.
  • High Availability and Business Continuity – Configure fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and automated backup solutions.
  • Networking and Data Management – Manage VPCs, routing, and connectivity while ensuring efficient data storage and access.
  • Automation and Optimization – Use AWS tools to automate operational tasks, optimize costs, and improve overall performance.
  • Troubleshooting and Best Practices – Develop problem-solving skills to identify, diagnose, and resolve AWS operational issues.

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Syllabus Summary

Domain 1: Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation

Task Statement 1.1: Implement metrics, alarms, and filters by using AWS monitoring and logging services. 

• Identify, collect, analyze, and export logs (for example, Amazon CloudWatch Logs, CloudWatch Logs Insights, AWS CloudTrail logs). 

• Collect metrics and logs by using the CloudWatch agent. 

• Create CloudWatch alarms. 

• Create metric filters. 

• Create CloudWatch dashboards. 

• Configure notifications (for example, Amazon Simple Notification Service [Amazon SNS], Service Quotas, CloudWatch alarms, AWS Health events). 

Task Statement 1.2: Remediate issues based on monitoring and availability metrics. 

• Troubleshoot or take corrective actions based on notifications and alarms. 

• Configure Amazon EventBridge rules to invoke actions. 

• Use AWS Systems Manager Automation runbooks to take action based on AWS Config rules.

Domain 2: Reliability and Business Continuity

Task Statement 2.1: Implement scalability and elasticity. 

• Create and maintain AWS Auto Scaling plans.

• Implement caching. 

• Implement Amazon RDS replicas and Amazon Aurora Replicas. 

• Implement loosely coupled architectures. 

• Differentiate between horizontal scaling and vertical scaling. 

Task Statement 2.2: Implement high availability and resilient environments. 

• Configure Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) and Amazon Route 53 health checks. 

• Differentiate between the use of a single Availability Zone and Multi-AZ deployments (for example, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups, ELB, Amazon FSx, Amazon RDS). 

• Implement fault-tolerant workloads (for example, Amazon Elastic File System [Amazon EFS], Elastic IP addresses). 

• Implement Route 53 routing policies (for example, failover, weighted, latency based). 

Task Statement 2.3: Implement backup and restore strategies. 

• Automate snapshots and backups based on use cases (for example, RDS snapshots, AWS Backup, RTO and RPO, Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager, retention policy). 

• Restore databases (for example, point-in-time restore, promote read replica). 

• Implement versioning and lifecycle rules. 

• Configure Amazon S3 Cross-Region Replication (CRR). 

• Perform disaster recovery procedures.

Domain 3: Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation

Task Statement 3.1: Provision and maintain cloud resources. 

• Create and manage AMIs (for example, EC2 Image Builder). 

• Create, manage, and troubleshoot AWS CloudFormation. 

• Provision resources across multiple AWS Regions and accounts (for example, AWS Resource Access Manager [AWS RAM], CloudFormation StackSets, IAM cross-account roles). 

• Select deployment scenarios and services (for example, blue/green, rolling, canary). 

• Identify and remediate deployment issues (for example, service quotas, subnet sizing, CloudFormation errors, permissions). 

Task Statement 3.2: Automate manual or repeatable processes. 

• Use AWS services (for example, Systems Manager, CloudFormation) to automate deployment processes. 

• Implement automated patch management. 

• Schedule automated tasks by using AWS services (for example, EventBridge, AWS Config). 

Domain 4: Security and Compliance

Task Statement 4.1: Implement and manage security and compliance policies. 

• Implement IAM features (for example, password policies, multi-factor authentication [MFA], roles, SAML, federated identity, resource policies, policy conditions). 

• Troubleshoot and audit access issues by using AWS services (for example, CloudTrail, IAM Access Analyzer, IAM policy simulator). 

• Validate service control policies (SCPs) and permissions boundaries. 

• Review AWS Trusted Advisor security checks. 

• Validate AWS Region and service selections based on compliance requirements. 

• Implement secure multi-account strategies (for example, AWS Control Tower, AWS Organizations).

Task Statement 4.2: Implement data and infrastructure protection strategies. 

• Enforce a data classification scheme. 

• Create, manage, and protect encryption keys. 

• Implement encryption at rest (for example, AWS Key Management Service [AWS KMS]). 

• Implement encryption in transit (for example, AWS Certificate Manager [ACM], VPN). 

• Securely store secrets by using AWS services (for example, AWS Secrets Manager, Systems Manager Parameter Store). 

• Review reports or findings (for example, AWS Security Hub, Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Config, Amazon Inspector). 

Domain 5: Networking and Content Delivery

Task Statement 5.1: Implement networking features and connectivity. 

• Configure a VPC (for example, subnets, route tables, network ACLs, security groups, NAT gateway, internet gateway). 

• Configure private connectivity (for example, Systems Manager Session Manager, VPC endpoints, VPC peering, VPN). 

• Configure AWS network protection services (for example, AWS WAF, AWS Shield). 

Task Statement 5.2: Configure domains, DNS services, and content delivery. 

• Configure Route 53 hosted zones and records. 

• Implement Route 53 routing policies (for example, geolocation, geoproximity). 

• Configure DNS (for example, Route 53 Resolver). 

• Configure Amazon CloudFront and S3 origin access control (OAC). 

• Configure S3 static website hosting.

Task Statement 5.3: Troubleshoot network connectivity issues. 

• Interpret VPC configurations (for example, subnets, route tables, network ACLs, security groups). 

• Collect and interpret logs (for example, VPC Flow Logs, ELB access logs, AWS WAF web ACL logs, CloudFront logs). 

• Identify and remediate CloudFront caching issues. 

• Troubleshoot hybrid and private connectivity issues. 

Domain 6: Cost and Performance Optimization

Task Statement 6.1: Implement cost optimization strategies. 

• Implement cost allocation tags. 

• Identify and remediate underutilized or unused resources by using AWS services and tools (for example, Trusted Advisor, AWS Compute Optimizer, AWS Cost Explorer). 

• Configure AWS Budgets and billing alarms. 

• Assess resource usage patterns to qualify workloads for EC2 Spot Instances. 

• Identify opportunities to use managed services (for example, Amazon RDS, AWS Fargate, Amazon EFS). 

Task Statement 6.2: Implement performance optimization strategies. 

• Recommend compute resources based on performance metrics. 

• Monitor Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) metrics and modify configuration to increase performance efficiency. 

• Implement S3 performance features (for example, S3 Transfer Acceleration, multipart uploads). 

• Monitor RDS metrics and modify the configuration to increase performance efficiency (for example, Performance Insights, RDS Proxy). 

• Enable enhanced EC2 capabilities (for example, Elastic Network Adapter, instance store, placement groups)


Prerequisites

Recommended AWS Knowledge:

  • Understanding of the AWS tenets – architecting for the cloud
  • Hands-on experience with the AWS CLI and SDKs/API tools
  • Understanding of network technologies as they relate to AWS
  • Understanding of security concepts with hands-on experience in implementing security controls and compliance requirements
  • Understanding of virtualization technology
  • Monitoring and auditing systems experience
  • Knowledge of networking concepts (DNS, TCP/IP, and firewalls)
  • Ability to translate architectural requirements

Required Exams

  • Exam Code: SOA-C02
  • Duration: 130 minutes
  • Cost: $150 USD 

Who Should Attend

  • System Administrators
  • Cloud Administrators
  • Cloud Engineers
  • DevOps Engineers
  • IT Professionals
  • Network Administrators

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