AWS SysOps Administrator study materials
AWS SysOps Administrator study resources

AWS SysOps Administrator case studies

AWS SysOps Administrator · Put your knowledge to work in context.

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate is an intermediate-level AWS credential for people who operate workloads on AWS rather than only design them. It fits systems administrators, cloud operations and support engineers, and DevOps practitioners who are responsible for keeping production environments healthy: watching metrics and logs, responding to incidents, applying patches, managing backups and recovery, enforcing security controls, and keeping spend under control. The exam is scenario driven. Expect to be handed a described environment and asked which action resolves the problem, which combination of steps is most operationally sound, or which control satisfies a compliance requirement with the least operational overhead. The AWS SysOps Administrator case studies are 5 cases and about 3,151 words.

1

Flash Sale Latency Without CPU Pressure

A web tier runs on an Auto Scaling group (min 6, max 24, m5.large) behind an Application Load Balancer in us-east-1. Scaling is target tracking on average CPU at 60%.

658 words, about 3 min
2

Regional Failure With a 15-Minute RPO

An order service runs Aurora MySQL in eu-west-1 with one writer and three readers, 7-day automated backup retention, and no cross-region copies. The database is 1.8 TB and grows about 2% per week.

636 words, about 3 min
3

Console Drift and a Stuck CloudFormation Stack

A platform team owns 40 CloudFormation stacks deployed through CodePipeline with a manual approval stage. During an incident an engineer added an inbound rule to a production security group in the console: TCP 5432 from 10.0.0.0/8.

578 words, about 3 min
4

Per-Tenant Encryption and a Scoped Vendor Share

A fintech stores cardholder data in 300 S3 buckets and an unencrypted RDS PostgreSQL instance. Auditors require encryption at rest with customer-managed KMS keys and per-tenant attribution of key use.

617 words, about 3 min
5

CloudFront Hit Ratio and a Second Origin Region

A media site delivers about 400 TB/month of video segments from one S3 bucket in us-east-1 to viewers in North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia. Singapore p95 TTFB is 850 ms.

662 words, about 3 min