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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional (DOP-C02)

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The AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional certification validates expertise in implementing and managing continuous delivery systems and methodologies on AWS. This exam tests advanced knowledge of SDLC automation, configuration management, infrastructure as code, monitoring, logging, incident response, security, and building resilient cloud solutions.

exam: 75 questions · 180 min

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DevOpsCI/CDIaC180 min exam75 questions750/1000 to pass~$300 USD

Difficulty

Hard

Avg study time

100-150h

3-4 months typical

Pass rate

~50-55%

First attempt

Market demand

Very high

Top DevOps credential

Exam Domain Breakdown

SDLC automation (CI/CD)22%

Configuration management and IaC17%

Resilient cloud solutions15%

Monitoring and logging15%

Incident and event response14%

Security and compliance17%

Difficulty by Topic

CodePipeline / CodeBuild

Core CI/CD - heavily tested

CloudFormation / CDK

StackSets, drift, nested stacks

CloudWatch / X-Ray

Metric filters, alarms, dashboards

OpsWorks / Systems Manager

SSM Patch Manager, Run Command

Deployment strategies

Blue/green, canary, rolling - ECS, EKS, EB

Multi-account strategy

Organizations, SCPs, Control Tower

Exam Tips

This is a scenario-heavy professional exam. Questions describe real production problems and you pick the best architectural fix. The answer is rarely the simplest option.

Multi-account with AWS Organizations and Control Tower is tested deeply - SCPs, account vending, guardrails, and cross-account IAM. Build a test Organizations setup if you can.

Know every deployment strategy cold: blue/green vs canary vs rolling vs immutable - and which services support each (CodeDeploy, ECS, Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda).

CloudFormation goes deep - StackSets for multi-account/region deployments, nested stacks, custom resources with Lambda, drift detection, and rollback triggers. Terraform-first engineers need dedicated CFN study time.

Do not neglect Systems Manager - SSM Patch Manager, Run Command, Session Manager, Parameter Store, and Automation documents are all tested.

Aim for 80%+ consistently on Tutorials Dojo timed practice exams before booking.