mohitkr05/aws-sysops-certification-notes

My Notes for AWS SysOps certification

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate Study Guide

My notes for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate that I am about to take in a weeks time.

The preparation is mostly based on the AWS documentation.

Important notes

• Exam Guide
• Total questions = 65
• Time = 130 minutes
• Scored questions = 50
• Unscored questions = 15
• Time per question = 130/65 = 2 minutes

Domains

• Domain 1: Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation (20% of scored content or around 10 questions)
• Domain 2: Reliability and Business Continuity (16% of scored content or around 8 questions)
• Domain 3: Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation (18% of scored content or around 9 questions)
• Domain 4: Security and Compliance (16% of scored content or around 8 questions)
• Domain 5: Networking and Content Delivery (18% of scored content or around 9 questions)
• Domain 6: Cost and Performance Optimization (12% of scored content or around 6 questions)

Domain 1 - Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation

Task Statement 1.1: Implement metrics, alarms, and filters by using AWS monitoring and logging services.

• Identify, collect, analyze, and export logs (for example, Amazon CloudWatch Logs, CloudWatch Logs Insights, AWS CloudTrail logs).
• Collect metrics and logs by using the CloudWatch agent.
• Create CloudWatch alarms.
• Create metric filters.
• Create CloudWatch dashboards.
• Configure notifications (for example, Amazon Simple Notification Service [Amazon SNS], Service Quotas, CloudWatch alarms, AWS Health events).

Task Statement 1.2: Remediate issues based on monitoring and availability metrics.

• Troubleshoot or take corrective actions based on notifications and alarms.
• Configure Amazon EventBridge rules to invoke actions.
• Use AWS Systems Manager Automation runbooks to take action based on AWS Config rules

AWS services

• Cloudwatch

Primary

• EC2

• S3

• RDS

• VPC

• Route 53

• Identity & Access Management

• CloudWatch

• Glacier

• DynamoDB

• SQS

• SNS

• Storage Gateway

• CloudFront

• Direct Connect

• Trusted Advisor

• Elastic Beanstalk

• OpsWorks

• CloudFormation

• EMR

• SES

• Penetration testing policy