AWS Certified SysOps Administrator

The AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate exam is designed to validate your technical expertise in deployment, management, and operations on the AWS platform.  In order to succeed in the SysOps Administrator Associate exam, you should understand core exam concepts including:

• Deploying, managing, and operating scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS
• Migrating an existing on-premises application to AWS
• Implementing and controlling the flow of data to and from AWS
• Selecting the appropriate AWS service based on compute, data, or security requirements
• Identifying appropriate use of AWS operational best practices
• Estimating AWS usage costs and identifying operational cost control mechanisms

Candidate Profile

• Minimum of one-year hands-on experience operating AWS-based applications
• Experience provisioning, operating and maintaining systems running on AWS
• Understanding of the AWS tenets – architecting for the cloud
• Hands-on experience with the AWS CLI and SDKs/API tools
• Ability to identify and gather requirements to define a solution to be built and operated on AWS
• Ability to provide AWS operations and deployment guidance and use best practices throughout the lifecycle of a project