AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional (DOP-C02)
Prepare for the AWS DevOps Engineer Professional exam with short focused lessons, real AWS automation labs, domain-weighted quizzes, and a beta full-length practice exam covering CI/CD, IaC, resilience, observability, incident response, and security automation.
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Why This Course is Different
Get everything you need to master platform engineering and advance your career
Certificate of Completion
Earn a certificate while gaining real-world skills that go beyond traditional certification prep
Hands-on Labs
31 practical labs with real-world scenarios in pre-configured cloud environments
Expert-Led
Learn from Sam Gabrail, Former HashiCorp Sr. Solutions Engineer with 18+ years experience
Community Support
Join our community where members help each other and collaborate on learning
What You'll Master
Master all six DOP-C02 exam domains with weighted coverage
Build and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines, artifacts, automated tests, secrets, and deployments on AWS
Use CloudFormation, SAM, Systems Manager, AWS Config, and governance patterns to manage infrastructure lifecycle
Implement resilient, scalable, and recoverable AWS workloads using RTO/RPO-driven decisions
Configure CloudWatch, CloudTrail, X-Ray, alarms, dashboards, and operational event workflows
Automate incident response with EventBridge, Lambda, SQS, SNS, Step Functions, and Systems Manager
Apply IAM, KMS, secrets management, audit logging, and compliance automation at professional depth
Eliminate distractors in professional-level AWS scenario questions
Course Curriculum
SECTION 1 – ORIENTATION, EXAM STRATEGY, AND OPERATIONS BASELINE
Set expectations, establish exam strategy, verify your environment, and understand the professional-level scope.
- •Welcome to AWS DevOps Engineer Professional
- •DOP-C02 Exam Format, Domain Weights, and Study Strategy
- •How Professional AWS Questions Are Written
- •The DevOps Engineer Role AWS Is Testing
- •TeKanAid AWS Lab Guardrails and Cost-Safe Practice
- •AWS CLI, IAM Identity, and Region Baseline
- •2025/2026 AWS DevOps Service Updates
- •Professional Exam Study Plan and Readiness Milestones
- •DOP-C02 Domain DiagnosticQuiz
- •AWS DevOps CLI Operations BaselineLab
SECTION 2 – SDLC AUTOMATION AND CI/CD PIPELINES
Build, govern, and operate CI/CD pipelines on AWS using CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, ECR, CodeArtifact, and integrated approval, testing, and rollback patterns.
- •SDLC Automation on AWS
- •CI/CD Design Principles on AWS
- •CodePipeline Architecture Fundamentals
- •CodePipeline Actions, Artifacts, and Variables
- •Source Integration: CodeCommit and CodeConnections
- •Source Integration: GitHub, Bitbucket, and Webhooks
- •CodeBuild Buildspec and Environment
- •CodeBuild Caching, Reports, and Artifacts
- •CodeDeploy: EC2 and On-Premises Strategies
- •CodeDeploy: Lambda Traffic Shifting
- •CodeDeploy: ECS Blue/Green Deployments
- •Artifact Storage with S3 and Encryption
- •Amazon ECR: Image Management and Scanning
- •CodeArtifact: Package Management
- •Pipeline Secrets with Secrets Manager and Parameter Store
- •Automated Testing Gates and CodeGuru Integration
- •Manual Approvals and Pipeline Quality Controls
- •Deployment Failure Modes and Rollbacks
- •Pipeline Observability and Event-Driven Automation
- •Exam Decision Patterns for SDLC Automation
- •Domain 1: SDLC AutomationQuiz
- •CodeBuild Artifact PipelineLab
- •End-to-End CodePipeline DeliveryLab
- •ECR Image Build and LifecycleLab
- •Pipeline Secrets and ApprovalsLab
SECTION 3 – INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE AND CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
Deliver, govern, and remediate AWS infrastructure with CloudFormation, CDK, SAM, AWS Config, Systems Manager, AppConfig, and Service Catalog.
- •AWS IaC Options: CloudFormation, SAM, CDK, Terraform, and Service Catalog
- •CloudFormation Stacks and Change Sets
- •CloudFormation Exports, Imports, and Rollback Triggers
- •Nested Stacks, Modules, and Reusable Components
- •Drift Detection and Remediation
- •IaC Generator and Importing Existing Resources
- •CDK Constructs and Stacks
- •CDK Synth, Diff, and Deployment Workflows
- •SAM Templates and Deployment Lifecycle
- •StackSets for Multi-Account and Multi-Region Operations
- •Systems Manager Run Command and State Manager
- •Systems Manager Patch Manager and Maintenance Windows
- •Parameter Store, Session Manager, and Automation
- •AWS Config Rules and Multi-Account Aggregator
- •Config Conformance Packs and Remediation
- •AppConfig, Service Catalog, and Account Governance
- •Exam Decision Patterns for IaC and Configuration Management
- •Domain 2: IaC and Configuration ManagementQuiz
- •CDK Serverless DeliveryLab
- •Systems Manager Run Command and InventoryLab
- •Config-Driven S3 Compliance RemediationLab
- •SAM Serverless Stack LifecycleLab
SECTION 4 – MONITORING, LOGGING, AND OBSERVABILITY
Build operational judgment around CloudWatch, CloudTrail, X-Ray, EventBridge, and the AWS observability stack to detect, audit, and respond to production issues.
- •CloudWatch Metrics, Namespaces, Dimensions, and Resolution
- •CloudWatch Logs, Retention, Encryption, and Subscription Filters
- •Metric Filters, Custom Metrics, Composite Alarms, and Anomaly Detection
- •CloudWatch Dashboards and Operational Views
- •Logs Insights Query Patterns for Troubleshooting
- •CloudTrail Event History, Trails, Organization Trails, and Audit Storage
- •X-Ray Tracing for Lambda, API Gateway, and Containers
- •CloudWatch Application Signals, SLOs, and Service Maps
- •API Gateway and Lambda Operational Readiness
- •EventBridge as the Operational Event Backbone
- •Metric Streams, Kinesis, OpenSearch, Athena, and QuickSight Decision Patterns
- •Exam Decision Patterns for Monitoring and Logging
- •Domain 4: Monitoring and LoggingQuiz
- •CloudWatch Logs, Metric Filters, and AlarmsLab
- •Custom Metrics and CloudWatch Agent on EC2Lab
- •CloudTrail Investigation: Who Did WhatLab
- •X-Ray Tracing for Lambda and API GatewayLab
SECTION 5 – RESILIENT AND SCALABLE CLOUD SOLUTIONS
Design AWS architectures that meet RTO and RPO targets, scale automatically, recover from instance and AZ failures, and survive regional outages.
- •Translating Business Requirements into RTO, RPO, SLAs, and SLOs
- •Multi-AZ vs Multi-Region Architecture
- •Load Balancing, Health Checks, and Failure Detection
- •Failure Domains, Static Stability, and Capacity Headroom
- •EC2 Auto Scaling, Launch Templates, and Target Tracking
- •ASG Lifecycle Hooks, Warm Pools, and Golden AMIs
- •ECS, EKS, and EKS Auto Mode Scaling Patterns
- •Lambda, DynamoDB, and RDS Scaling Patterns
- •S3 Versioning, Delete Markers, and Object Lock
- •S3 Replication and Lifecycle Recovery
- •RDS and Aurora Resilience: Multi-AZ, Read Replicas, Global Database
- •DynamoDB Global Tables and Multi-Region Active-Active
- •AWS Backup: Cross-Account, Cross-Region, and Vault Lock
- •DR Strategies: Backup/Restore, Pilot Light, Warm Standby, Multi-Site
- •Route 53 Failover and Fault Injection Testing
- •Exam Decision Patterns: Resilience Domain
- •Domain 3: Resilient Cloud SolutionsQuiz
- •Mid-Course Review Quiz: SDLC + IaC + Monitoring + ResilienceQuiz
- •ALB and ASG Health Check RecoveryLab
- •S3 Versioning and Replication RecoveryLab
- •DynamoDB Global Table Decision ScenarioLab
- •S3 Backup and Restore RunbookLab
- •AWS Backup Multi-Service RunbookLab
SECTION 6 – INCIDENT AND EVENT RESPONSE
Detect, route, and automatically respond to AWS events; troubleshoot failed deployments; and run post-incident learning loops.
- •Event Sources: CloudTrail, CloudWatch, EventBridge, AWS Health
- •EventBridge Deep Dive: Rules, Targets, Buses, and DLQs
- •SNS and SQS for Notifications and Dead-Letter Queues
- •Lambda for Auto-Remediation: Async Destinations and DLQs
- •Step Functions for Multi-Step Response Orchestration
- •Systems Manager Automation and Run Command
- •SSM OpsCenter, Change Manager, and Incident Manager
- •CloudWatch Alarm Actions and EC2 Recovery
- •Auto-Remediation Patterns: CloudTrail-Driven and Fan-Out Isolation
- •Troubleshooting CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy
- •CloudFormation Rollback Triggers and Stack Recovery
- •Troubleshooting ASG, ECS, EKS, and Serverless Workloads
- •Runbooks, Post-Incident Reviews, and Game Days
- •Exam Decision Patterns: Incident and Event Response
- •Domain 5: Incident and Event ResponseQuiz
- •EventBridge S3 Auto-RemediationLab
- •Failed Deployment TroubleshootingLab
- •SQS DLQ Incident WorkflowLab
- •SSM Restart RunbookLab
- •Lambda Blue/Green DeploymentLab
SECTION 7 – SECURITY, GOVERNANCE, AND COMPLIANCE AUTOMATION
Identity at scale, encryption, secrets management, audit, and compliance automation patterns for the DOP-C02 exam.
- •IAM Evaluation Logic and the Six Policy Types
- •STS, Cross-Account Roles, and Federation Patterns
- •IAM Identity Center, Permission Sets, and Workforce Access
- •Permission Boundaries, SCPs, and Delegated Administration
- •Least Privilege for CI/CD and Machine Identities
- •IAM Least Privilege with Permission BoundariesLab
- •Secrets Manager vs Parameter Store and Rotation Patterns
- •Secrets Manager Rotation PatternLab
- •KMS Key Policies, Grants, and Encryption Context
- •Envelope Encryption and Cross-Account Key Sharing
- •KMS S3 Encryption EnforcementLab
- •S3 Bucket Policies, Block Public Access, and Default Encryption
- •AWS Config Rules and Automated Remediation
- •CloudTrail Integrity, Organization Trails, and Audit Evidence
- •GuardDuty, Security Hub, Inspector, and Macie at the Decision Level
- •CloudFormation Change Sets and Drift DetectionLab
- •SSM Session Manager and Immutable AMI Patching
- •Domain 6: Security and ComplianceQuiz
SECTION 8 – MULTI-ACCOUNT, MULTI-REGION, AND ENTERPRISE GOVERNANCE SCENARIOS
AWS Organizations, Control Tower, centralized logging, cross-account access, and multi-region failover patterns.
- •AWS Organizations, OUs, and SCP Strategy
- •Control Tower, Landing Zones, and Account Factory
- •Account Vending, StackSets, and Reusable Baselines
- •Delegated Administration and IAM Identity Center
- •Organization CloudTrail and Config Aggregator
- •Centralized Logging Architecture
- •Cross-Account Roles, EventBridge, and KMS Patterns
- •Multi-Region Active-Passive Design and Pipelines
- •Org Backup, Security Hub, and Governance Trade-Offs
- •Simulated Multi-Account GovernanceLab
- •Centralized Logging PatternLab
- •Operations Scenario Review Quiz: Incident + Security + GovernanceQuiz
SECTION 9 – EXAM READINESS, CAPSTONE, AND PRACTICE EXAMS
Convert knowledge into exam readiness through scenario decision patterns, distractor elimination, mental-model integration, capstone drills, and a structured exam-day plan.
- •High-Yield DOP-C02 Decision Patterns
- •How to Eliminate Distractors in Professional AWS Questions
- •Common Traps: IAM, Deployment Strategy, RTO/RPO, Event Routing, and Rollback
- •Service Comparison Rapid Review
- •Mental Model Integration Across All Six Domains
- •Final Two-Week Study Plan
- •Exam Day Strategy and Time Management
- •Scenario Question Dissection Technique
- •Capstone Walkthrough and Post-Exam Debrief
- •Capstone: Secure Serverless DevOps WorkflowLab
- •Capstone: Incident Response DrillLab
- •Final Domain Remediation QuizQuiz
- •DOP-C02 Practice Exam 1Quiz
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Hi there, I'm Sam
I'm a husband and father of two wonderful boys. I'm also very passionate 🔥 about all things technology. From when I was 10, I had a dream to become a computer 💻 engineer one day. Here I am today living the dream!
Thanks for visiting TeKanAid Academy. My goal is to teach you all things DevOps. Below are some of the things I've done over the years. I'm confident that I can help you achieve your dreams too.
- 18+ years of experience in various Information Technology fields from Telecommunications, Computer Networks, Digital Transformation, DevOps, Cybersecurity, and IoT
- President of TeKanAid Solutions Inc. building online content in the DevOps space
- Previous – Sr. Solutions Engineer at HashiCorp
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