AWS DevOps Engineer Professional study guide
AWS DevOps Engineer Professional · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional is an advanced AWS certification aimed at engineers who build and operate delivery pipelines, automated infrastructure, and production systems on AWS. It suits people who already hold an associate-level AWS certification or have comparable hands-on experience and who now own automation and reliability end to end rather than a single service. The AWS DevOps Engineer Professional study guide has 6 sections and about 1,628 words.
01SDLC Automation
SDLC Automation on the DevOps Professional exam centers on CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and CodeCommit, plus how they wire into existing CI/CD. Know the stage/action model: pipelines are ordered stages, each stage has actions that can run sequentially or in parallel (runOrder), and artifacts move between stages via an artifact store (S3).
293 words, about 1 min02Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code
This domain tests CloudFormation deeply plus configuration tooling (SSM, OpsWorks, Elastic Beanstalk). For CloudFormation, understand templates (Resources, Parameters, Mappings, Conditions, Outputs, Metadata), intrinsic functions (Ref, GetAtt, Sub, Join, If, ImportValue), and stack operations (create/update/delete, change sets, drift detection).
258 words, about 1 min03Resilient Cloud Solutions
Resilience questions test multi-AZ vs. multi-Region design, Auto Scaling, load balancing, and failure isolation.
270 words, about 1 min04Monitoring and Logging
Monitoring and logging spans CloudWatch (metrics, alarms, Logs, dashboards), CloudTrail, AWS Config, and X-Ray. Know CloudWatch metrics: default vs.
266 words, about 1 min05Incident and Event Response
Event response tests EventBridge, SNS/SQS, Lambda, and automated remediation. Know EventBridge rules (event patterns, schedules), targets, and how AWS service events (e.g., EC2 state change, GuardDuty findings, Config compliance changes) route to Lambda, SNS, or SSM Automation.
258 words, about 1 min06Security and Compliance
Security and compliance covers IAM (policies, roles, permission boundaries, SCPs), KMS, secrets management, and audit. Know IAM policy types (identity vs.
283 words, about 1 min