DOP-C02 · AWS
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
The second professional-level AWS exam, and the operations counterpart to SAP-C02's architecture path.
The second professional-level AWS certification, and the one that completes the track alongside SAP-C02. SAP-C02 is the architecture path; this is the DevOps path. If you run the pipelines, the monitoring and the incident response rather than drawing the diagrams, this is your exam. It is a judgement exam, not a recall exam. Two of the four options are usually both technically correct, and only one of them fits the constraints the scenario actually stated - the deployment window, the rollback requirement, the compliance boundary, the cost ceiling. Reading the constraint carefully is most of the skill being tested. Note the pass mark: 75%, higher than the 72% the associate exams use. The margin is thinner than people expect coming from SAA-C03 or DVA-C02. Like the real exam, this bank mixes single-answer questions with multiple-select ones.
Who sits this exam
Engineers who own the pipelines, the monitoring and the pager rather than the diagrams. It is a judgement exam: two of the four options are usually both workable, and only one fits the constraint the scenario actually stated - the deployment window, the rollback requirement, the compliance boundary. SOA-C03 or DVA-C02 is the better starting point if this is your first AWS exam.
What it covers
Each domain below is weighted the way the real exam weights it, and scored separately, so you can see which one is holding the total down.
- 01SDLC Automation
- 02Configuration Management and IaC
- 03Resilient Cloud Solutions
- 04Monitoring and Logging
- 05Incident and Event Response
- 06Security and Compliance
How you will practise
- Review
- Practice with answers explained immediately.
- Section
- Review one domain at a time.
- Timed
- A timed set with results at the end.
- Final
- The full exam simulation — every question, timed.
What passing proves
That you can run software into production on AWS safely and repeatedly: build once and promote the same artifact, deploy behind gates that can roll themselves back, instrument the result well enough to notice a regression before a customer does, and respond to what you find without doing it by hand a second time.