AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional (DOP-C02)

Course Description

This course is designed for professionals who want to master DevOps practices on AWS at an advanced level. It aligns with the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional (DOP-C02) certification and focuses on automation, continuous delivery, monitoring, security, and resilient system design.

Learners will build and manage end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using AWS developer tools, implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using CloudFormation, and design event-driven automation workflows. The course also dives deep into monitoring and logging strategies, incident response, rollback mechanisms, and operational troubleshooting.

Additionally, learners will explore advanced security practices, multi-account strategies, and highly available architectures across regions. By the end of the course, participants will be equipped to manage complex AWS environments and implement enterprise-grade DevOps solutions.

Who is this course for

• Professionals preparing for AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional (DOP-C02)

• DevOps engineers managing CI/CD pipelines on AWS

• Cloud engineers working on automation and infrastructure provisioning

• SREs responsible for system reliability and monitoring

• Developers transitioning into DevOps roles

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, learners will be able to:

• Design and implement end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using AWS services

• Automate software delivery workflows using CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy

• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using CloudFormation

• Manage configuration and environment consistency across deployments

• Build event-driven automation using EventBridge and Lambda

• Monitor systems using CloudWatch and implement centralized logging strategies

• Troubleshoot deployment failures and implement rollback mechanisms

• Implement security best practices including IAM, multi-account strategies, and compliance controls

• Design highly available, fault-tolerant, and disaster-resilient architectures

• Optimize operational workflows using AWS Systems Manager

• Prepare effectively for the AWS DevOps Engineer Professional certification exam

Prerequisites

• Strong understanding of core AWS services (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, RDS)

• Prior experience with AWS at associate level (recommended: Solutions Architect or CloudOps)

• Understanding of CI/CD concepts and DevOps practices

• Basic scripting knowledge (Bash, Python, or similar)

• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code concepts

• Experience with application deployment and version control systems

Course outline

Section 1: SDLC Automation

1. CodeCommit

2. CodeBuild

3. CodeDeploy

4. CodePipeline

5. SDLC Concepts and Services

6. SDLC Automation Review

Section 2: Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code

1. Elastic Beanstalk

2. Serverless

3. CloudFormation

4. Configuration Management

5. Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code Review

Section 3: Incident and Event Response

1. Troubleshooting and Rollback

2. Event-Driven Actions

3. Supporting Services

4. Incident and Event Response Review

Section 4: Monitoring and Logging

1. EventBridge and CloudWatch

2. Supporting Services

3. Logging

4. Monitoring and Logging Review

Section 5: Security and Compliance

1. Identity and Access, and Multi-Account Environments

2. Systems Manager

3. Security and Compliance Services

4. Security and Compliance Review

Section 6: Resilient Cloud Solutions

1. Auto Scaling

2. Highly Available Databases

3. High Availability, Multi-Account, Multi-Region, and Disaster Recovery

4. AWS Lambda

5. Storage and Migration

6. Resilient Cloud Solutions Review