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AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate — Study Guide & Exam Overview

The CloudOps Engineer certification validates the skills needed to run production AWS workloads reliably at scale. It is essential for Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), cloud operations teams, and DevOps engineers responsible for keeping systems healthy, secure, and cost-efficient.

Duration

130 min

Passing Score

720 / 1000 points

Level

Associate

Provider

AWS

What This Certification Covers

  • Monitoring and alerting with CloudWatch: metrics, alarms, dashboards, and Logs Insights
  • Automated operations using Systems Manager: Patch Manager, Automation, and Run Command
  • Deployment strategies: blue/green, rolling, and canary deployments via CodeDeploy
  • Infrastructure compliance with AWS Config rules and CloudTrail audit logging
  • Incident response, root cause analysis, and operational runbook automation

Exam Domain Breakdown

  • Monitoring & Reporting (22%)
  • Reliability & Business Continuity (20%)
  • Deployment & Provisioning (20%)
  • Security & Compliance (20%)
  • Networking & Connectivity (18%)

Exam Format

65 multiple-choice and multiple-response questions, 130 minutes, scored 100–1000 with passing score of 720

Study Tips to Pass CloudOps Engineer

  1. 1Master CloudWatch deeply — nearly every operational scenario involves metrics, logs, or alarms
  2. 2Study AWS Systems Manager end-to-end: it is the backbone of fleet operations on AWS
  3. 3Understand Auto Scaling policies and how to tune them for cost vs. availability trade-offs
  4. 4Practice creating CloudFormation templates and understand drift detection and stack policies
  5. 5Learn AWS Organizations Service Control Policies (SCPs) for multi-account governance

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Official CloudOps Engineer exam page