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  • Copyright 2022
  • Dimensions: 6" x 9"
  • Pages: 336
  • Edition: 1st
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  • ISBN-10: 0-13-750958-8
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-13-750958-4

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate (SOA-C02) Exam Cram is an all-inclusive study guide designed to help you pass the updated version of the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate exam. Prepare for test day success with complete coverage of exam objectives and topics, plus hundreds of realistic practice questions. Extensive prep tools include quizzes, Exam Alerts, and our essential last-minute review CramSheet. The powerful Pearson Test Prep practice software provides real-time assessment and feedback with two complete exams.



Covers the critical information needed to score higher on your AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate (SOA-C02) exam!



  • Demonstrate baseline AWS Well-Architected Framework knowledge to support and maintain AWS workloads
  • Use AWS monitoring and logging services and remediate issues based on monitoring and availability metrics
  • Implement scalability and elasticity for reliability and business continuity
  • Use AWS services to provision, deploy, maintain, and automate cloud resources
  • Implement and manage security controls to meet compliance policies and requirements
  • Implement, configure, and troubleshoot network features and connectivity issues
  • Identify and implement cost and performance optimization strategies



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AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate (SOA-C02) Exam Cram is an all-inclusive study guide designed to help you pass the updated version of the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate exam. Prepare for test day success with complete coverage of exam objectives and topics, plus hundreds of realistic practice questions. Extensive prep tools include quizzes, Exam Alerts, and our essential last-minute review CramSheet. The powerful Pearson Test Prep practice software provides real-time assessment and feedback with two complete exams.

Covers the critical information needed to score higher on your AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate exam!
  • Demonstrate baseline AWS Well-Architected Framework knowledge to support and maintain AWS workloads
  • Use AWS monitoring and logging services and remediate issues based on monitoring and availability metrics
  • Implement scalability and elasticity for reliability and business continuity
  • Use AWS services to provision, deploy, maintain, and automate cloud resources
  • Implement and manage security controls to meet compliance policies and requirements
  • Implement, configure, and troubleshoot network features and connectivity issues
  • Identify and implement cost and performance optimization strategies

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Table of Contents

    Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii

CHAPTER 1: Introduction to AWS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

    What Is Cloud Computing?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

    The AWS Cloud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

    Six Benefits of the AWS Cloud.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

    AWS Services Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

    What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

CHAPTER 2: Monitoring Services in AWS.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

    Metering, Monitoring, and Alerting. . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

    CloudWatch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

    CloudTrail.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

    What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

CHAPTER 3: Troubleshooting and Remediation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

    Responding to Alarms.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

    Amazon EventBridge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

    AWS Config. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

    What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

CHAPTER 4: Implementing Scalability and Elasticity.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

    Scaling in the Cloud.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

    Caching.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

    Read Replicas.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

    What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

CHAPTER 5: High Availability and Resilience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

    Availability Zones in AWS.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

    High Availability with Elastic Load Balancers and Route 53.. . . . . 94

    Highly Available Datastores.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

    Highly Available Databases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

    What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

CHAPTER 6: Backup and Restore Strategies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

    Backup in the Cloud.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

    S3 as a Backup Service.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

    What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

CHAPTER 7: Provisioning Resources.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

    Deployment Tools in AWS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

    What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

CHAPTER 8: Application Management.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

    Lifecycle Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

    Patching.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

    What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

CHAPTER 9: Security and Compliance.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

    Account Management.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

    What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

CHAPTER 10: Data Protection at Rest and in Transit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

    Protecting Data.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

    What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

CHAPTER 11: Networking and Connectivity.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

    The VPC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

    VPC Connectivity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

    AWS Network Firewall.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

    VPC Endpoints.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

    VPC Peering.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

    VPN .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

    Direct Connect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

    AWS WAF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

    AWS Shield.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

    What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

CHAPTER 12: Domains, DNS, and Content Delivery.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

    Route 53.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

    Route 53 Routing Policies.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

    S3 Static Website Hosting.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

    Amazon CloudFront.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

    S3 Origin Access Identity.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

    What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

CHAPTER 13: Troubleshoot Network Connectivity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

    Configuring VPC Flow Logs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

    ELB Access Logs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

    AWS WAF ACL Logs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

    CloudFront Logs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

    CloudFront Caching Issues.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

    Troubleshooting Hybrid and Private Links. . . . . . . . . . . 256

    What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

CHAPTER 14: Cost Optimization Strategies.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

    Operational Optimization.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

    What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

CHAPTER 15: Performance Optimization.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

    Optimizing for Performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

    What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Glossary.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

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