My notes for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate that I am about to take in a weeks time.
The preparation is mostly based on the AWS documentation.
- Exam Guide
- Total questions = 65
- Time = 130 minutes
- Scored questions = 50
- Unscored questions = 15
- Time per question = 130/65 = 2 minutes
- Domain 1: Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation (20% of scored content or around 10 questions)
- Domain 2: Reliability and Business Continuity (16% of scored content or around 8 questions)
- Domain 3: Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation (18% of scored content or around 9 questions)
- Domain 4: Security and Compliance (16% of scored content or around 8 questions)
- Domain 5: Networking and Content Delivery (18% of scored content or around 9 questions)
- Domain 6: Cost and Performance Optimization (12% of scored content or around 6 questions)
Task Statement 1.1: Implement metrics, alarms, and filters by using AWS monitoring and logging services.
- Identify, collect, analyze, and export logs (for example, Amazon CloudWatch Logs, CloudWatch Logs Insights, AWS CloudTrail logs).
- Collect metrics and logs by using the CloudWatch agent.
- Create CloudWatch alarms.
- Create metric filters.
- Create CloudWatch dashboards.
- Configure notifications (for example, Amazon Simple Notification Service [Amazon SNS], Service Quotas, CloudWatch alarms, AWS Health events).
- Troubleshoot or take corrective actions based on notifications and alarms.
- Configure Amazon EventBridge rules to invoke actions.
- Use AWS Systems Manager Automation runbooks to take action based on AWS Config rules
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EC2
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S3
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RDS
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VPC
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Route 53
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Identity & Access Management
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CloudWatch
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Glacier
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DynamoDB
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SQS
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SNS
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Storage Gateway
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CloudFront
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Direct Connect
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Trusted Advisor
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Elastic Beanstalk
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OpsWorks
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CloudFormation
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EMR
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SES