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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional practice exams

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Exam code
DOP-C02
Cost
$300USD
Questions
75(65 scored, 10 unscored)
Duration
180minutes
Passing score
750(scale 100-1000)
Level
Advanced
Study guide
How to prepare
Sources
28official pages
Format
Multiple choice and multiple response

DevOps Engineer Professional practice exams

2 full-length forms, 75 questions each, apportioned to the published domain weightings.

DOP-C02AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional

A team undersizes a Kinesis stream and CloudWatch Logs starts getting throttled while delivering to it. For how long are throttled deliveries retried?

The answer

24 hours

Checked against

Throttled deliverables are retried for up to 24 hours. After 24 hours, the failed deliverables are dropped.

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What the exam tests

Exam domains and official weightings

The percentage is the exam weighting; the bar is how many verified questions we hold there, so a short bar is where our bank is thin.

6domains
  • SDLC Automation22%
    36 verified
  • Configuration Management and IaC17%
    30 verified
  • Resilient Cloud Solutions15%
    24 verified
  • Monitoring and Logging15%
    24 verified
  • Incident and Event Response14%
    24 verified
  • Security and Compliance17%
    30 verified

What the exam actually asks you to do

Multiple choice and multiple response only. No simulations, no labs, and nothing to configure.

Item formats

  • Multiple choice
  • Multiple response

Nothing here needs a lab. Reading carefully and eliminating options is the whole skill. AWS, DevOps Engineer Professional exam guide ↗

Between sittings

The same bank the numbered forms are assembled from.

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    All 168 verified questions, untimed, with the explanation after each answer.

  • Domain Drill

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    Every domain on its own, for the area a score report says is weakest.

  • Review Missed

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    Re-asks the questions you got wrong. Nothing to review until you miss something.

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Frequently asked questions

What does DOP-C02 assume you already know?

Either associate exam's ground, plus real pipeline experience. The exam lives in CodePipeline, CloudFormation, ECS and EKS deployments, CloudWatch and cross-account automation, and it asks what breaks and how to remediate automatically.

Which domain surprises people?

Incident and event response. It is 14% of the exam and tests EventBridge wiring, automated remediation with SSM and how services misbehave under failure, which pipeline-focused prep tends to skip.

SAP or DOP for a platform engineer?

DOP if your work is delivery and operations automation; SAP if it is architecture across many accounts and workloads. DOP rewards depth in fewer services, SAP breadth across nearly all of them.