AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional Interactive Course

Software development lifecycle concepts, phases, and models

Pipeline deployment patterns for single- and multi-account environments

Configuring code, image, and artifact repositories

Using version control to integrate pipelines with application environments

Setting up build processes

Managing build and deployment secrets

Determining appropriate deployment strategies

Different types of tests

Reasonable use of different types of tests at different stages of the CI/CD pipeline

Running builds or tests when generating pull requests or code merges

Running load/stress tests, performance benchmarking, and application testing at scale

Automating unit tests and code coverage

Measuring application health based on application exit codes

Invoking AWS services in a pipeline for testing

Artifact use cases and secure management

Methods to create and generate artifacts

Artifact lifecycle considerations

Creating and configuring artifact repositories

Configuring build tools for generating artifacts

Automating Amazon EC2 instance and container image build processes

Deployment methodologies for various platforms

Application storage patterns

Mutable deployment patterns in contrast to immutable deployment patterns

Tools and services available for distributing code

Configuring security permissions to allow access to artifact repositories

Configuring deployment agents

Troubleshooting deployment issues

Using different deployment methods

Infrastructure as code options and tools for AWS

Change management processes for IaC-based platforms

Configuration management services and strategies

Composing and deploying IaC templates

Determining optimal configuration management services

Applying CloudFormation StackSets across multiple accounts and AWS Regions

Implementing infrastructure patterns, governance controls, and security standards into reusable IaC templates

AWS account structures, best practices, and related AWS services

Standardizing and automating account provisioning and configuration

Creating, consolidating, and centrally managing accounts

Applying IAM solutions for multi-account and complex organization structures

Implementing and developing governance and security controls at scale

AWS services and solutions to automate tasks and processes

Methods and strategies to interact with the AWS software-defined infrastructure

Automating system inventory, configuration, and patch management

Developing Lambda function automations for complex scenarios

Automating the configuration of software applications to the desired state

Maintaining software compliance

Multi-AZ and multi-Region deployments

SLAs

Replication and failover methods for stateful services

Techniques to achieve high availability

Translating business requirements into technical resiliency needs

Identifying and remediating single points of failure in existing workloads

Enabling cross-Region solutions where available

Configuring load balancing to support cross-AZ services

Configuring applications and related services to support multiple Availability Zones and Regions while minimizing downtime

Appropriate metrics for scaling services

Loosely coupled and distributed architectures

Serverless architectures

Container platforms

Identifying and remediating scaling issues

Identifying and implementing appropriate auto scaling, load balancing, and caching solutions

Deploying container-based applications

Deploying workloads in multiple Regions for global scalability

Configuring serverless applications

Disaster recovery concepts

Backup and recovery strategies

Recovery procedures

Testing failover of Multi-AZ and multi-Region workloads

Identifying and implementing appropriate cross-Region backup and recovery strategies

Configuring a load balancer to recover from backend failure

How to monitor applications and infrastructure

Amazon CloudWatch metrics

Real-time log ingestion

Encryption options for at-rest and in-transit logs and metrics

Security configurations

Securely storing and managing logs

Creating CloudWatch metrics from log events by using metric filters

Creating CloudWatch metric streams

Collecting custom metrics

Managing log storage lifecycles

Processing log data by using CloudWatch log subscriptions

Searching log data by using filter and pattern syntax or CloudWatch Logs Insights

Configuring encryption of log data

Anomaly detection alarms

Common CloudWatch metrics and logs

Amazon Inspector and common assessment templates

AWS Config rules

AWS CloudTrail log events

Building CloudWatch dashboards and Amazon QuickSight visualizations

Associating CloudWatch alarms with CloudWatch metrics

Configuring AWS X-Ray for different services

Analyzing real-time log streams

Analyzing logs with AWS services

Event-driven, asynchronous design patterns

Capabilities of auto scaling for a variety of AWS services

Alert notification and action capabilities

Health check capabilities in AWS services

Creating CloudWatch custom metrics and metric filters, alarms, and notifications

Configuring EventBridge to send notifications based on a particular event pattern

Installing and configuring agents on EC2 instances

Configuring solutions for auto scaling

Configuring S3 events to process log files and deliver log files to another destination

Configuring AWS Config rules to remediate issues

Configuring health checks

Event-driven architectures

Integrating AWS event sources

Building event processing workflows

Fleet management services

Configuration management services

Applying configuration changes to systems

Modifying infrastructure configurations in response to events

Remediating a non-desired system state

AWS metrics and logging services

AWS service health services

Root cause analysis

Analyzing failed deployments

Analyzing incidents regarding failed processes

Appropriate usage of different IAM entities for human and machine access

Identity federation techniques

Permission management delegation by using IAM permissions boundaries

Organizational SCPs

Designing policies to enforce least privilege access

Implementing role-based and attribute-based access control patterns

Automating credential rotation for machine identities

Managing permissions to control access to human and machine identities

Network security components

Certificates and public key infrastructure

Data management

Automating the application of security controls in multi-account and multi-Region environments

Automating the discovery of sensitive data at scale

Encrypting data in transit and data at rest

Combining security controls to apply defense in depth

Security auditing services and features

AWS services for identifying security vulnerabilities and events

Common cloud security threats

Implementing robust security auditing

Configuring alerting based on unexpected or anomalous security events

Configuring service and application logging

Analyzing logs, metrics, and security findings