AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional (DOP-C02)

What you will master

• CI/CD design: secure, observable pipelines with change governance
• Deploy strategies: blue/green, canary, validation gates, rollback triggers
• Observability: metrics/logs/traces, alert quality, SLO thinking, incident triage
• Infrastructure as code: review, drift management, environment promotion patterns
• Security automation: least privilege pipelines, secret handling, policy guardrails
• Operational excellence: runbooks, game-days, continuous improvement loops

Curriculum outline

Labs & practice

• Hands-on: pipeline build/deploy with staged environments and approvals
• Canary lab: traffic shifting + monitoring + rollback automation
• Observability drills: build alerts that reduce noise and catch real issues
• Mock exams: DOP-C02 scenarios focused on best-next-step choices

Who this course is for

• DevOps engineers aiming for professional certification
• SRE/Platform teams building delivery pipelines and ops automation
• Engineers responsible for release reliability and incident handling

Prerequisites

• AWS core familiarity (IAM/VPC/EC2 basics)
• Basic CI/CD understanding (git, build, deploy)
• Willingness to practice end-to-end workflows

Outcomes

• Faster diagnosis of pipeline and deployment failures
• Clear patterns for safe releases and automated rollback
• Stronger observability design and triage habits
• Professional-level readiness for DOP-C02 scenario questions