AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate SOA-C02The Complete Beginner's Guide

CloudWatch Metrics and Alarms

Objective 1.1 · Monitoring

CloudTrail and AWS Config

Objective 1.2 · Monitoring

CloudWatch Composite Alarms and Anomaly Detection

Objective 1.1

CloudWatch Container Insights for ECS and EKS

Objective 1.1

EventBridge for Automated Remediation

Objective 1.2

AWS Health Dashboard and EventBridge Integration

Objective 1.2

CloudTrail Insights for Unusual API Activity

Objective 1.2

CloudWatch Logs Agent and Unified Agent

Objective 1.1

CloudWatch Metric Filters from Log Groups

Objective 1.1

CloudWatch Contributor Insights

Objective 1.1

CloudWatch Synthetics Canaries

Objective 1.1

AWS X-Ray for SysOps Monitoring

Objective 1.1

EC2 Enhanced Monitoring and CloudWatch Agent

Objective 1.1

Lambda for Automation and Remediation

Objective 1.2

AWS Service Health Dashboard and Personal Health

Objective 1.2

AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager

Objective 1.2

S3 Server Access Logs and Request Monitoring

Objective 1.2

CloudWatch Log Metric Alarms

Objective 1.1

Auto Healing and Auto Scaling

Objective 2.1 · Reliability

AWS Backup

Objective 2.2 · Reliability

Auto Scaling Policies: Target Tracking, Step, Simple

Objective 2.1

S3 Replication: CRR and SRR

Objective 2.2

RDS Automated Backups and Snapshots

Objective 2.2

RDS Multi-AZ vs Read Replicas

Objective 2.1

EC2 Status Checks and Auto Recovery

Objective 2.1

EC2 Placement Groups: Cluster, Spread, Partition

Objective 2.1

EC2 Hibernation and Spot Interruption Handling

Objective 2.1

DR Strategies: Backup/Restore, Pilot Light, Warm Standby, Multi-Site

Objective 2.2

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS)

Objective 2.2

Aurora Clusters and Failover for SysOps

Objective 2.2

S3 Multi-Region Access Points

Objective 2.2

AWS Backup Plans and Policies

Objective 2.2

CloudFormation for SysOps

Objective 3.1 · Deployment

AWS Systems Manager

Objective 3.2 · Deployment

AMI Management and Lifecycle

Objective 3.3 · Deployment

SSM Patch Manager

Objective 3.2

S3 Lifecycle Policies and Storage Classes

Objective 3.3

Golden AMI Strategy and Image Builder

Objective 3.3

SSM Inventory and Managed Instance Management

Objective 3.2

SSM Run Command for Bulk Operations

Objective 3.2

SSM Automation Runbooks

Objective 3.2

SSM Parameter Store for Configuration

Objective 3.2

EFS Performance Modes and Throughput

Objective 3.3

FSx for Windows File Server

Objective 3.3

FSx for Lustre for HPC Workloads

Objective 3.3

S3 Intelligent-Tiering Storage Class

Objective 3.3

AWS Control Tower for Landing Zones

Objective 3.1

CloudFormation Drift Detection

Objective 3.1

AWS CDK for Infrastructure as Code

Objective 3.1

AWS Managed Services (AMS)

Objective 3.2

AWS Proton for Platform Engineering

Objective 3.1

Elastic Beanstalk Management and Updates

Objective 3.1

AWS OpsWorks for Chef and Puppet

Objective 3.2

SSM Change Manager and Change Calendar

Objective 3.2

AWS Resource Groups and Tag Editor

Objective 3.2

Elastic Beanstalk Worker Environments

Objective 3.1

IAM for SysOps

Objective 4.1 · Security

AWS Inspector and GuardDuty

Objective 4.2 · Security

SSM Session Manager for Secure Access

Objective 4.1

AWS Security Hub and Findings

Objective 4.2

AWS Organizations and Service Control Policies

Objective 4.1

AWS Config Rules and Conformance Packs

Objective 4.2

AWS Config Aggregator for Multi-Account

Objective 4.2

AWS Config Auto-Remediation Actions

Objective 4.2

CloudTrail Log File Validation

Objective 4.1

EC2 Instance Connect and Session Manager

Objective 4.1

AWS IAM Identity Center (SSO)

Objective 4.1

AWS Audit Manager

Objective 4.2

Amazon Security Lake

Objective 4.2

AWS WAF and Shield for SysOps

Objective 4.2

Multi-Account Architecture with AWS Organizations

Objective 4.1

Tag Policies in AWS Organizations

Objective 4.1

Amazon Detective for Investigation

Objective 4.2

AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)

Objective 4.1

AWS Firewall Manager

Objective 4.2

Amazon Macie for Data Security

Objective 4.2

ELB and Route 53 for SysOps

Objective 5.2 · Networking

VPC for SysOps

Objective 5.1 · Networking

ELB Types: ALB, NLB, and Gateway Load Balancer

Objective 5.2

Route 53 Routing Policies

Objective 5.2

Route 53 Health Checks and DNS Failover

Objective 5.2

CloudFront Distributions for SysOps

Objective 5.1

AWS Global Accelerator

Objective 5.1

VPC Flow Logs Analysis

Objective 5.1

VPC Reachability Analyzer

Objective 5.1

VPC Network Access Analyzer

Objective 5.1

Transit Gateway for Network Architecture

Objective 5.1

AWS Direct Connect for SysOps

Objective 5.1

CloudFront Origin Access Control (OAC)

Objective 5.1

Network ACLs vs Security Groups Deep Dive

Objective 5.1

Route 53 Private Hosted Zones

Objective 5.2

AWS Network Firewall

Objective 5.1

Route 53 Resolver for Hybrid DNS

Objective 5.2

Cost Allocation and Tagging

Objective 6.1 · Cost

Trusted Advisor and Cost Explorer

Objective 6.2 · Cost

AWS Budgets and Cost Anomaly Detection

Objective 6.1

Reserved Instances vs Savings Plans

Objective 6.2

AWS License Manager

Objective 6.1

AWS Cost Categories and Cost Allocation

Objective 6.1

Cost Explorer Rightsizing Recommendations

Objective 6.2

AWS Compute Optimizer

Objective 6.2

Spot Instances and Interruption Management

Objective 6.2

AWS Cost Anomaly Detection

Objective 6.1

RDS Performance Insights

Objective 6.2