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.
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
docs.aws.amazon.com, checked August 2026Throttled deliverables are retried for up to 24 hours. After 24 hours, the failed deliverables are dropped.
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.
- 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.
Quick Practice
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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
Fills as you go
Re-asks the questions you got wrong. Nothing to review until you miss something.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)’s free resources
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Official DevOps Engineer Professional exam page & objectives ↗Keep reading
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- DevOps Engineer Professional exam format
How many questions, how long, what the items look like, and how long it stays valid.
- DevOps Engineer Professional passing score
The exact cut score, what kind of number it is, and the retake terms.
- How hard is DevOps Engineer Professional?
An honest difficulty read from the format, the clock and the weights.
- What DevOps Engineer Professional costs
The voucher price, the retake, and what renewal costs across the cycle.
- DevOps Engineer Professional guide
Who it is for, study plans by experience level, and whether it is worth it.
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.