Volume I Chapter SOA-C02 foundational tier

SysOps Administrator - Associate

Editor's note — A study companion for the SysOps Administrator - Associate exam — every domain rebuilt from scratch, with worked practice questions and an exam-grade timed simulation.

65 questions 130 minutes threshold 720/1000 6 domains official guide

begin — Practice Twenty questions, untimed, with full explanations after every answer. begin — Mock Examination 65 questions in 130:00, timed, scored.

6 domains · 20 topics

I. Monitoring Logging Remediation 20% weight

CloudWatch Metrics, Alarms, and Dashboards CloudWatch Logs, Log Groups, and Logs Insights CloudTrail and AWS Config for Audit and Compliance EventBridge Rules, SNS, and Automated Remediation

II. Reliability Business Continuity 16% weight

EC2 Auto Scaling, ELB, and Multi-AZ High Availability RDS and Aurora Multi-AZ, Read Replicas, and Caching Backup, Restore, and Disaster Recovery Procedures

III. Deployment Provisioning Automation 18% weight

CloudFormation Stacks, StackSets, and Troubleshooting AMI Management, EC2 Image Builder, and Deployment Strategies Systems Manager: Automation, Patch Manager, and Session Manager Scheduled Tasks, Config Auto-Remediation, and Process Automation

IV. Security Compliance 16% weight

IAM Policies, MFA, SCPs, and Access Troubleshooting Multi-Account Strategy with Organizations and Control Tower Data Protection: KMS, ACM, Secrets Manager, and Security Findings

V. Networking Content Delivery 18% weight

VPC Configuration, Subnets, NACLs, and Private Connectivity Route 53 DNS, Routing Policies, and CloudFront CDN WAF, Shield, and Network Protection Services Network Troubleshooting: VPC Flow Logs, ELB Logs, and Connectivity Diagnostics

VI. Cost Performance Optimization 12% weight

Cost Visibility, Budgets, and Resource Rightsizing Performance Optimization: EBS, RDS, EC2, and S3