⚙️ AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional (DOP-C02)
Free, independent AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional exam-preparation with a signed certificate. Learn the modules, pass the exam.
Last updated: June 2026
An independent, free exam-preparation course built around the publicly published AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (DOP-C02) exam guide. It walks through all six official domains — SDLC Automation; Configuration Management & Infrastructure as Code; Resilient Cloud Solutions; Monitoring & Logging; Incident & Event Response; and Security & Compliance — using visual lessons, worked AWS scenarios, original self-check questions and a 45-question final exam to build exam-ready understanding of CI/CD pipelines, CloudFormation/CDK, containers, observability, automated remediation, high availability and security automation. It is awareness/prep only — not the official AWS training or the proctored certification exam — and claims no Amazon Web Services affiliation or endorsement. The course is organized into 22 modules, ending with a final exam (pass mark 80%). It is independent, free exam-preparation training — not an official or accredited review course.
What you'll learn
- Exam Blueprint & the Six DOP-C02 Domains
- SDLC Automation: Pipelines End-to-End
- CodeBuild: Build, Test & buildspec
- CodeDeploy: Deployments & Rollbacks
- CodeArtifact & Dependency Management
- CloudFormation: IaC Fundamentals
- CDK, StackSets & Drift Detection
- Configuration Management with Systems Manager
- Containers: ECS & Fargate Pipelines
- Kubernetes Delivery with EKS
- Deployment Strategies: Blue/Green & Canary
- Monitoring with CloudWatch
- Centralized Logging & Insights
- Distributed Tracing with X-Ray
- Event-Driven Automation with EventBridge & Lambda
- Incident & Event Response
- High Availability & Fault Tolerance
- Disaster Recovery & Multi-Region
- Security Automation: IAM & Secrets
- Compliance Automation: Config, GuardDuty & Security Hub
- Governance: Organizations & Control Tower
- Exam Strategy & Test-Day Tactics
Learning objectives
- Map the six official DOP-C02 domains and their exam weightings so you spend study time where it scores.
- Design end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy and CodeArtifact.
- Automate infrastructure with CloudFormation, the CDK, StackSets and drift detection.
- Apply deployment strategies — blue/green, canary and rolling — across EC2, containers and Lambda.
- Build resilient, multi-AZ and multi-Region architectures with automated backup, failover and disaster recovery.
- Instrument observability with CloudWatch, X-Ray, Container Insights and centralized logging.
- Automate event-driven response with EventBridge, Lambda, Systems Manager and Config remediation.
- Embed security and compliance automation with IAM, Secrets Manager, GuardDuty, Security Hub and Organizations/Control Tower.
- Practise with original DOP-C02-style scenario questions to spot the right AWS-native answer fast.
- Pass a 45-question exam (80% to earn your certificate).