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Course Overview
AWS SysOps Administrator Associate certification demonstrates and validates your knowledge in operating, managing, and deploying AWS-based systems.
This course comes up with 395+ newly updated questions in AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate Practice Exams and carefully designed 16 hours of online training with 77+ detailed video lectures.
We also provide 61 advanced Lab sessions based on the newly updated exam format, in which you can directly trial-run the tools on-live. These Labs are integrated into our LMS (Learning management system), so that you can study and apply your skills in the AWS cloud - all in one study environment for learning faster and deeper.
AWS SysOps Administrator course is designed uniquely for candidates attempting the official AWS certification exam (SOA-C02). By the end of this course, you will be able to perform the workload operations in the AWS cloud as a Cloud System Administrator.
Key Features of the Course
- 6+ Practice Questions with Exhaustive Explanations
- 12 Full-Length Mock Exams (395+ Unique Questions)
- 60-65 Practice Questions in each test
- 61 labs for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate Exam
- Section Tests – 3 objective/topic-wise quiz for SysOps latest exam version (30 unique questions)
- 16+ hours of Training Videos for all Exam Objectives (100% Syllabus Covered)
- Unlimited Access for 2 Year
- Online chat support for instant resolution of any product-related issues
Benefits of AWS SysOps Administrator Associate Certification
Getting certified as an AWS SysOps Administrator Associate has a great range of benefits, some of them are:
- Your career will be upgraded as AWS administrator in Cloud operations
- You are able to build fault-tolerant systems on AWS
- You can manage the entire flow of incoming and outgoing data in AWS
- You can handle on-premises workload migrations into AWS cloud
By earning a certification in AWS SysOps Administrator, you will be able to heighten your career scope in the AWS cloud. This course will help you in passing the AWS (SOA-C02) exam.
Why & Who should take AWS SysOps Administrator Associate Certification?
If you are been into any of the below scenarios, then this certification perfectly suits for upgrading your AWS knowledge & career.
- For candidates who took AWS Fundamentals Exams
If you are working for more than a year in AWS and passed any beginner-level certification, then you can also try this certification.
To pursue specialty-level certifications in the future, attempting this SysOps certification can help you learn AWS faster.
Having multiple AWS certifications always attracts MNC recruiters who are in a need of experienced AWS Cloud Administrators. - Are you working as an AWS SysOps Administrator without a Certification?
Since you are designated as SysOps Administrator, based on the business demand, you will be occupied with a lot of responsibilities.
You might be facing a lot of challenges in dealing with cloud application developers and users with the growing cloud space, but a solution is always deployed in AWS.
Instead of studying the mighty documentation for performing cloud operations, you may attempt this AWS SysOps Certification in advance to deploy quicker solutions in your company. - For On-premise system administrators and Non-AWS cloud administrators
If you are working as a system / Server administrator on any platform, then this exam is very handy to grow in your career goals.
With your years of experience in managing servers, it's time to start learning AWS with this course and apply your learning on cloud operations in real-time. By the way, you can pass this AWS SysOps Certification.
What are the prerequisites for this SysOps Administrator Certification exam?
IT knowledge requirements
- 1-2 years of system administrator experience in the operational-level role
- Practical knowledge in monitoring and troubleshooting in a cloud / On-premises server
- Aware of DNS and Firewalls networking concepts
- Ability to increase performance, capacity and higher availability based on requirements
AWS knowledge:
- 1 Year experience in AWS cloud
- Managing AWS workloads
- Ability to understand the AWS frameworks
- Experience in handling Management Console and CLI
- Networking and Security services in AWS
- Applying controls in AWS security and compliance checks.
What you'll learn from AWS SysOps Administrator (SOA-C02) Certification?
- Implementation of AWS Monitoring, Logging & Remediation
Collection of metrics from CloudWatch & CloudTrail, then create dashboards and configure notifications as required. Based on the metrics, providing Remediate issues such as troubleshooting, configuring EventBridge rules, etc.,
- Ensuring Reliability and Continuity
You will learn about Scalability, Reliability, and Availability by configuring load balancers and conducting S3 health checks in AWS.
- How to do Provisioning and Automation on Cloud resources
You will get detailed knowledge on managing AMIs, identifying deployment issues, OpsWorks errors, subnet sizing that is required to allocate cloud resources. Also, Automation tasks are carried out by using AWS services such as EventBridge, AWS Config
- Managing policies for Security and Compliance
Your learning extends to implementing security policies and strategizing protection on AWS infrastructure and data
- Troubleshooting in Networks and seamless Content Delivery
With this SysOps Administrator exam, you will also learn about configuring DNS services and troubleshooting networking issues.
- Optimizing Cloud Cost and its Performance
In this objective, you will be able to learn about strategy creation for Cost and Performance management using tools such as AWS Compute Optimizer, Cost Explorer, Amazon RDS, Fargate, EFS etc.,
Included in this course
- Practice Tests11 Quizzes Available
- Video Course170 Videos Available
- Hands-on Labs78 Labs Available
- Cloud SandboxAvailable
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Millions of aspirants have become certified with our practice tests. Give your preparation a new edge with Whizlabs AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate practice tests.
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- AWS Access control alerts with CloudWatch and CloudTrail1h
- Using CloudWatch for Resource Monitoring, Create CloudWatch Alarms and Dashboards1h 30m
- Install CloudWatch Logs Agent on EC2 Instance and View CloudWatch Metrics30m
- Creating Cloudwatch Logs for SQS by triggering Lambda function45m
- Configuring a CloudWatch Alarm for Lambda Invocation Errors with SNS Notifications1h
- Automate EBS Snapshot create with CloudWatch Event and get SNS notification Using Terraform1h
- Create an EventBridge Rule to get notified on EC2 Instance state change using Terraform30m
- Find vulnerabilities on Inspector2 using Lambda scanning1h
- Use AWS Systems Manager document & Resource Group to install Apache on EC2 Instance45m
- Configuring CloudTrail Logs for EC2 Events45m
- Access EC2 from Session manager and send SSH logs to CloudWatch45m
A cloud sandbox is a virtual environment that simulates environment for testing, development, and experimentation purposes. The cloud sandbox can be used to test new applications, try out different configurations, or practice cloud skills.
Access the benefits of Cloud Sandbox along with the Video Course of AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate course and explore real-time.
Exam Format and Information
AWS Certified Sysops Administrator - Associate (soa-c02)
Prior Certification
Not Required
Exam Validity
36 Months
Exam Fee
150 USD
Exam Duration
130 Minutes
No. of questions
65
Passing Marks
720
Recommended Experience
one year of hands-on experience with deploying, managing, networking, and securing applications on the AWS platform
Exam Format
Multiple Choice/Multiple Response/Exam Lab
Languages : English, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese
Why Choose Us?
Practice Questions
5 Full-length Mock Exams (325+ Unique AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate Practice Exam Questions)
Online Course
16+ hours of Training Videos for all the certification exam objectives You will be amazed by the way of explaining the concepts that are very easy to understand
Hands-on Labs
Hands-on Labs to test your knowledge on AWS environment. Covering all the important topics like EC2, IAM, Aurora, Cloudwatch, Alarms etc.
Section Quiz
3 section quizzes covering most important topics (AWS Config, Storage and Data Management) for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate exam.
Experts Support
Our support team consists of AWS Experts, ready to clarify all your questions related to AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate Exam.
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“I passed AWS Solution sysops Associate last year. Thanks to Whizlab for helping me with AWS labs. That helped me immensely. I would recommend Whizlabs to everyone whoever preparing for Cloud certs. Also helping me to grow with other products like Hashicorp.”
Awesome test
“Practicing on the tests were essential to be able to pass the exam.”
Covers All Services
“The course covers all AWS Services with respect to exams and the test papers really benefitted me.”
Great course not for only exam but also for real learning
“I am using this course to take my sysops exam. It is a great course and I learned a lot from the course”
Nice Combination of Questions
“Tricky questions.. will help in exams”
Awesome but needs updating
“The way Whizlabs is setup and the quality and the qantity of the sample exams are amazingly great however, they are a bit outdated, needs to be constantly updated, some information are obsolete for over 2 years, which is long time to catch on. Some Video lectures, need to be more than just reading slides (SysOps Administrator certificate training) Good example of lectures videos (Architecting on AWS) But yet, all material need to be updated”