Hello, and welcome to the final section of this learning path. By now, you would've covered a vast amount of information, from theory courses to hands-on apps plus the mock test, all preparing you to successfully pass the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional Exam. You will now have a greater understanding of all the points measured within the six different domains which to recap was as follows.

Domain one, SDLC automation. This domain covers all areas of the software development lifecycle within AWS. It covers a range of AWS services to test your awareness of best practices and concepts. You must fully understand the SDLC and the core services used. And this domain has the largest percentage area of the certification.

Domain two, configuration management and infrastructure as code. This domain covers the second-highest percentage at 19% and assesses your level of understanding and ability to implement a state of configuration management across your deployments from security and compliance to selecting the most appropriate AWS service to manage your infrastructure.

Domain three, monitoring and logging. This domain will focus on your awareness and insight into all things monitoring and logging in AWS. This covers a number of different services and you need to ensure that you know how to determine what data you can log, how to track it, and how to monitor that logged data to your benefit using automation services. Having the ability to set up logging and monitoring strategies to gain a deeper understanding of your infrastructure is essential.

Domain four, policies, and standards automation. This domain has a focus on security and governance, enabling you to show how to implement standards of cultural infrastructure using AWS services and adhering to strict compliance controls as and when needed. It also has a requirement that requires you to show how you could implement this through the use of automation methods.

Domain five, incident, and event response. This domain focuses on the best practices and processes to help you identify and resolve incidents as and when they arise within your environment as quickly as possible using automated and event-driven actions.

Domain six, high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery. This domain will ask you a number of questions to ascertain your knowledge and understanding of the AWS Global Network and how you can use it to implement a range of solutions to help you build resiliency and high availability in addition to implementing a successful backup and DR strategy.

Now you have solidified your knowledge, I recommend you review some of the AWS whitepapers to reinforce your understanding, all of which can be found here. Running containerized microservices on AWS, Infrastructure as Code, Practicing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery on AWS, Import Windows Server to Amazon EC2 with PowerShell, Blue/green deployment on AWS, Introduction to DevOps on AWS.

Thank you for taking the time in pursuing this learning path and I wish you the very best of luck when you take your exam. It would be great to hear how well you've done, so please contact us at support@cloudacademy.com with your news. I wish you good luck and thank you again.