AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate SOA-C02 [2025]

As more and more companies migrate their on-premises workloads to the cloud, the demand for highly skilled and certified AWS Professionals will continue to rise over the coming years ahead. The AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate (SOA-C02) is consistently among the top-paying IT certifications and you can earn over $150,000 per year with an AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate certification!

Concretely, here’s what we’ll learn to pass the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate exam:

• EC2 For SysOps: Placement Groups, Shutdown Behavior, Troubleshooting, AMI, CloudWatch Metrics
• SSM – Systems Manager: Manage EC2 at Scale, Automation, Run Command, Secure Shell, Parameter Store
• High Availability and Scalability: ELB Load Balancers (SysOps), Auto Scaling (SysOps), CloudWatch Metrics
• Elastic Beanstalk for SysOps
• CloudFormation for SysOps: including cfn-init scripts
• EBS & EFS: Operations, Troubleshooting, CloudWatch metrics, RAID
• S3 in depth: ALL you need to know about S3: MFA, Default Encryption, Policies, Access Logs, Athena, Glacier, CloudFront, Snowball, Storage Gateway, and more
• Databases: RDS, Aurora & ElastiCache – Security, Backup, Snapshots, Performance, Metrics, Troubleshooting, Scalability
• Monitoring, Audit & Performance: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config
• AWS Account Management: Health, Organizations, Billing and Cost Monitoring and Control
• Security and Compliance: over 10 services
• Route 53: Practical hands-on guide to using Route 53 in the real world
• VPC: Complete guide to building fully operational and 2019-ready VPC
• Tips to ROCK the exam