AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional: the honest guide
Everything Amazon Web Services (AWS) publishes about DOP-C02, in one place: what the exam asks, how the domains are weighted, and what it takes to be ready.
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Multiple choice and multiple response only. No simulations, no labs, and nothing to configure.
- Multiple choice
- Multiple response
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Domain breakdown and official weightings
From the official AWS exam guides. SDLC Automation is the heaviest domain at 22 percent, followed by Configuration Management and IaC at 17 percent.
- SDLC Automation22%
- Configuration Management and IaC17%
- Resilient Cloud Solutions15%
- Monitoring and Logging15%
- Incident and Event Response14%
- Security and Compliance17%
What comes after passing
AWS certifications last three years. Recertifying means passing the current version of the exam, or a higher one in the same track, at full price. The 50 percent benefit voucher from your last pass applies.
Costs across the full renewal cycle are on the DevOps Engineer Professional cost page.
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.
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