DevOps Engineer – Professional Certification Preparation for AWS
Description
Updates:
- 2nd July 2019 - Added the new AWS Developer Tools Challenge Lab to test users' proficiency in CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy
- 20th May 2019 - Compute Fundamentals for AWS updated to include content on Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) & Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS)
Learning Path Overview
Specifically designed to help you prepare for the AWS DevOps Engineer - Professional Certification, this hands-on oriented Learning Path provides over 60 hours of interactive content comprised of hands-on labs, video courses, and a preparation exam. This training content has been carefully created to help you study for this AWS certification.
Intended Audience
This Learning Path is suitable for those wanting to pass the AWS DevOps Engineer - Professional Certification Exam.
Prerequisites
This is one of the 2 Professional level certifications available with AWS and it's guided to those who already have experience with AWS, and ideally, have already passed the AWS Certified Developer - Associate exam, but this is not a prerequisite in taking this certification.
What's Included
This learning path includes 33 high definition video courses, 17 hands-on labs, 3 blog/ebook resources, 6 quizzes/knowledge checks and a final preparation exam.
Learning Objectives
The aim of the certification is to validate your knowledge across a number of different key areas, which have been defined by AWS as being able to:
- Implement and manage continuous delivery systems and methodologies on AWS
- Implement and automate security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation
- Define and deploy monitoring, metrics, and logging systems on AWS
- Implement systems that are highly available, scalable, and self-healing on the AWS platform
- Design, manage, and maintain tools to automate operational processes
As a means of demonstrating this knowledge, you will be tested across 6 different domains, with each domain contributing to a total percentage of your overall score. These domains are broken down as:
- Domain 1: SDLC Automation 22%
- Domain 2: Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code 19%
- Domain 3: Monitoring and Logging 15%
- Domain 4: Policies and Standards Automation 10%
- Domain 5: Incident and Event Response 18%
- Domain 6: High Availability, Fault Tolerance and Disaster Recovery 16%
As you progress through the Learning Path, you will gain all the information and knowledge required to fulfill the domain expectations, gaining a deep understanding within each area.
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Learning Path Steps
This course introduces the DevOps Engineer – Professional Certification Preparation for AWS learning path.
This course dives into the fundamental elements of AWS compute services, discussing the features and advantages of each one.
Knowledge Check: AWS Compute Fundamentals
This course covers the wide range of storage services within AWS, their key features, and when and why you would use them.
Knowledge Check: AWS Storage Fundamentals
This course (part of a two-part series on AWS database fundamentals) introduces you to Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon ElastiCache, and Amazon Neptune.
This course (part of a two-part series on AWS database fundamentals) introduces you to Amazon Redshift, Amazon QLDB, Amazon DocumentDB, and Amazon Keyspaces.
Knowledge Check: Database Fundamentals for AWS
In this course, you'll learn the fundamentals of Amazon DynamoDB, including table design, reading, writing, and working with large tables.
Move your first steps using DynamoDB. Create tables with and withoud secondary indexes, learn how to add new rows and query your data by using the AWS Management Console.
A hands-on lab introducing you to the high performance and high availability Amazon Aurora database engine.
This course will take you through what containers are, the benefits of using them, and how to containerize an app.
This course is an introduction to the Amazon ECS Container Service (ECS).
In this course, you'll learn how to quickly launch a new EKS Kubernetes cluster.
Amazon EKS - Launch Cluster and Deploy Microservices Application
This course explores the various tools, technologies, and vocabularies surrounding the continuous integration ecosystem.
This course introduces you to continuous delivery, providing a solid foundation for more advanced courses on the subject.
This course introduces AWS CodeCommit and explains how it can be used to manage your source code.
An introduction to the highly scalable and fully-managed AWS CodeCommit source control service. This lab covers creating, accessing, and adding files to repositories hosted in CodeCommit.
This course will familiarize you with the AWS CodeBuild service and ensure you know when and where to use it within your own software projects.
This course will familiarize you with the AWS CodeDeploy service and ensure you know when and where to use it within your own software projects.
This course will familiarize you with the AWS CodePipeline service and ensure you know when and where to use it within your own software projects.
Integrate static code analysis within a three-stage AWS CodePipeline CI/CD pipeline to prevent vulnerabilities from making it into production in this Lab.
This course introduces you to AWS CodeStar and how it can be used to provision an entire CI/CD workflow using a range of AWS services.
Kickstart your individual and team code projects with AWS CodeStar. Learn to develop and deploy an application with AWS CodeStar.
This course will familiarize you with the AWS Cloud9 service and ensure you know when and where to use it within your own software projects.
Follow the application lifecycle from dev to prod: continuous integration, rollbacks and blue/green deployments with AWS Code Services.
With this course, you'll get a high-level overview of how to monitor EC2, and how to react to resource changes.
This course provides an introduction to the AWS CloudTrail service, looking at all its features and components.
Learn how to configure and use AWS CloudTrail and CloudWatch in cooperation with each other to monitor AWS infrastructure and services. Whenever an Instance is stopped or terminated and alarm will trigger (using AWS SNS) and deliver an email notification to...
In this course, you'll learn how AWS Config allows you to have visibility of your entire AWS infrastructure from a configuration perspective.
Compliance check using AWS Config Rules: See how AWS Config can enhance your security and compliance with AWS managed rules and custom rules with AWS Lambda
For controlled deployments and efficient deployment services of code on EC2 instances, Elastic Beanstalks provides a superior interaction model and developer tools experience.
Deploy a PHP applicationusing Chef with Amazon OpsWorks.
In this course, you'll learn about AWS CloudFormation and it provides you with the ability to provision your infrastructure as code.
In this course, you'll learn how to build automatically provisioned and managed Amazon infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation.
In this course, you'll learn advanced AWS CloudFormation skills, including nested stacks, custom resources, continuous integration, and event automation.
Scalable DevOps: Using CloudFormation for Whole VPC Stacks
Explore the benefits of static code analysis for infrastructure as code, specifically Terraform, and be alerted when the analysis detects an issue in this Lab.
In this course, you'll learn how to implement logging and monitoring across AWS Services including Amazon CloudWatch, CloudWatch Monitoring Agent, AWS CloudTrail Logs, and Amazon S3 Access Logs.
In this course, you'll learn how to implement logging and monitoring across AWS Services including Amazon CloudWatch, CloudWatch Monitoring Agent, AWS CloudTrail Logs, and Amazon S3 Access Logs.
Learn how to monitor AWS Cloud systems by building a log aggregation system running the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana).
In this introductory course, you will learn to recognize and explain the core components of Amazon Kinesis and where those services can be applied.
In this course, you'll learn about the key features and core components of Kinesis Analytics, and what an end-to-end real-time data streaming example looks like.
This course on AWS Lambda shows you how to implement solutions and applications using a serverless architecture.
Learn how to invoke a Lambda function in response to CodeCommit events on your repository.
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a fully-managed, highly-scalable service that facilitates message delivery. Learn how to send messages and process them with AWS Lambda.
Understand some of the best practices of tagging resources when designing a tagging strategy
Understand where your security responsibility starts and ends with the shared responsibility models
This course explains AWS Identity & Access Management (IAM), what it is, and how to implement it.
Knowledge Check: Overview of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
This course introduces you to AWS Identity Federation and includes a demo on how to use it.
This course discusses the responsibility between AWS and the customer when architecting both abstract and container services
This course dives into the AWS Trusted Advisor service to explain how it works and how you can use it to benefit your AWS account.
Follow best practices with AWS Trusted Advisor auditing your AWS environment and advising you on performance, and security improvements.
An explanation of the core components that make up the AWS Global Infrastructure
In this course, you'll learn about RDS multi-AZ and will come away knowing when to implement and use this feature within your own environment.
In this course, you'll learn to design greater applications using managed services in a decoupled environment and understand the differences between SQS, SES, and SNS.
This course explains how and when to use Amazon S3, AWS Storage Gateway, and AWS Snowball for backup and disaster recovery.
This course reviews and summarizes the DevOps Engineer – Professional Certification Preparation for AWS learning path.
In this lab challenge, you'll need to complete several tasks using an existing continuous deployment stack built on AWS Developer Tools.
Cert Prep: Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional for AWS (February 2019)
About the Author
Stuart has been working within the IT industry for two decades covering a huge range of topic areas and technologies, from data center and network infrastructure design, to cloud architecture and implementation.
To date, Stuart has created 80+ courses relating to Cloud reaching over 100,000 students, mostly within the AWS category and with a heavy focus on security and compliance.
Stuart is a member of the AWS Community Builders Program for his contributions towards AWS.
He is AWS certified and accredited in addition to being a published author covering topics across the AWS landscape.
In January 2016 Stuart was awarded ‘Expert of the Year Award 2015’ from Experts Exchange for his knowledge share within cloud services to the community.
Stuart enjoys writing about cloud technologies and you will find many of his articles within our blog pages.