AWS SYSOPS ADMINISTRATOR ASSOCIATE CERTIFICATION
The AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate examination is intended for systems administrators in a systems operations role with at least one year of experience in deployment, management, and operations on AWS.
It validates an examinee’s ability to:
- Deploy, manage, and operate scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS
- Implement and control the flow of data to and from AWS
- Select the appropriate AWS service based on compute, data, or security requirements
- Identify appropriate use of AWS operational best practices
- Estimate AWS usage costs and identify operational cost control mechanisms
- Migrate on-premises workloads to AWS
THE AWS SYSOPS ADMINISTRATOR ASSOCIATE EXAM BLUEPRINT
1.1 Create and maintain metrics and alarms utilizing AWS monitoring services
1.2 Recognize and differentiate performance and availability metrics
1.3 Perform the steps necessary to remediate based on performance and availability metrics
2.1 Implement scalability and elasticity based on use case
2.2 Recognize and differentiate highly available and resilient environments on AWS
3.1 Identify and execute steps required to provision cloud resources
3.2 Identify and remediate deployment issues
4.1 Create and manage data retention
4.2 Identify and implement data protection, encryption, and capacity planning needs
5.1 Implement and manage security policies on AWS
5.2 Implement access controls when using AWS
5.3 Differentiate between the roles and responsibility within the shared responsibility model
6.1 Apply AWS networking features
6.2 ImplementconnectivityservicesofAWS
6.3 Gather and interpret relevant information for network troubleshooting
7.1 Use AWS services and features to manage and assess resource utilization
7.2 Employcost-optimization strategies for efficient resource utilization
7.3 Automate manual or repeatable process to minimize management overhead