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Course Details
Course Details
What You'll Learn
This course prepares you for the SOA-C02 certification exam, covering all official exam domains and their approximate weightings:
Domain 1 Domain 1: Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation (20%)
- Implement metrics, alarms, and filters using AWS monitoring/logging services (CloudWatch Logs, CloudWatch Logs Insights, AWS CloudTrail)
- Collect metrics and logs using the CloudWatch agent
- Create CloudWatch alarms, metric filters, and dashboards
- Configure notifications via Amazon SNS, Service Quotas, CloudWatch alarms, AWS Health events
- Remediate issues based on monitoring/availability metrics using EventBridge rules and Systems Manager Automation documents triggered by AWS Config rules
Domain 2 Domain 2: Reliability and Business Continuity (16%)
- Implement scalability and elasticity (Auto Scaling plans, caching, RDS replicas/Aurora Replicas, loosely coupled architectures, horizontal vs vertical scaling)
- Implement high availability and resilient environments (ELB/Route 53 health checks, single-AZ vs Multi-AZ, fault-tolerant workloads, Route 53 routing policies)
- Implement backup and restore strategies (automated snapshots/backups, RTO/RPO, AWS Backup, Data Lifecycle Manager)
- Restore databases (point-in-time restore, promote read replica)
- Implement S3 versioning, lifecycle rules, and Cross-Region Replication
- Execute disaster recovery procedures
Domain 3 Domain 3: Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation (18%)
- Provision and maintain cloud resources (create/manage AMIs via EC2 Image Builder, CloudFormation, cross-Region/cross-account provisioning via RAM/StackSets/IAM cross-account roles)
- Select deployment scenarios (blue/green, rolling, canary) and identify/remediate deployment issues (service quotas, subnet sizing, CloudFormation/OpsWorks errors, permissions)
- Automate manual or repeatable processes using OpsWorks, Systems Manager, CloudFormation
- Implement automated patch management
- Schedule automated tasks using EventBridge and AWS Config
Domain 4 Domain 4: Security and Compliance (16%)
- Implement and manage security/compliance policies (IAM features: password policies, MFA, roles, SAML, federated identity, resource policies, policy conditions)
- Troubleshoot and audit access issues using CloudTrail, IAM Access Analyzer, IAM policy simulator
- Validate service control policies, permission boundaries, and secure multi-account strategies (Control Tower, Organizations)
- Review AWS Trusted Advisor security checks and validate Region/service selection for compliance
- Implement data and infrastructure protection: data classification, encryption keys, encryption at rest (KMS) and in transit (ACM, VPN), secrets storage (Secrets Manager, Parameter Store)
- Review reports/findings from Security Hub, GuardDuty, AWS Config, Amazon Inspector
Domain 5 Domain 5: Networking and Content Delivery (18%)
- Implement networking features and connectivity (VPC subnets, route tables, network ACLs, security groups, NAT/internet gateway)
- Configure private connectivity (Session Manager, VPC endpoints, VPC peering, VPN) and network protection (AWS WAF, AWS Shield)
- Configure domains, DNS services, and content delivery (Route 53 hosted zones/records, routing policies, Route 53 Resolver, CloudFront + S3 OAI, S3 static website hosting)
- Troubleshoot network connectivity issues by interpreting VPC configurations
- Collect and interpret logs (VPC Flow Logs, ELB access logs, AWS WAF web ACL logs, CloudFront logs)
- Identify/remediate CloudFront caching issues and troubleshoot hybrid/private connectivity issues
Domain 6 Domain 6: Cost and Performance Optimization (12%)
- Implement cost optimization strategies (cost allocation tags, identify/remediate underutilized resources via Trusted Advisor/Compute Optimizer/Cost Explorer)
- Configure AWS Budgets and billing alarms; assess usage patterns to qualify workloads for EC2 Spot Instances
- Identify opportunities to use managed services (RDS, Fargate, EFS)
- Implement performance optimization: recommend compute resources based on performance metrics, monitor/modify EBS and RDS configuration (Performance Insights, RDS Proxy)
- Implement S3 performance features (Transfer Acceleration, multipart uploads) and enhanced EC2 capabilities (enhanced network adapter, instance store, placement groups)
Course Info
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Minimum Entry Requirement
Knowledge and Skills
- Able to operate using computer functions
- Minimum 3 GCE ‘O’ Levels Passes including English or WPL Level 5 (Average of Reading, Listening, Speaking & Writing Scores)
Attitude
- Positive Learning Attitude
- Enthusiastic Learner
Experience
- Minimum of 1 year of working experience.
Target Age Group: 18-65 years old
Minimum Software/Hardware Requirement
Software:
TBD
Hardware: Window or Mac Laptops
Job Roles
Job Roles
- Systems Administrator
- Cloud Engineer
- DevOps Engineer
- IT Manager
- Network Administrator
- Solutions Architect
- Technical Support Engineer
- Infrastructure Engineer
- Security Analyst
- Database Administrator
- Software Developer
- IT Consultant
- Cloud Solutions Architect
- Operations Manager
- IT Project Manager
Trainers
Trainers
Saeid is co-founder of Skymics Sdn Bhd. He has 8 years of experience in the field of IoT (Internet of Things) and Information Technology. He is a certified IBM IoT Practitioner and instructor, and a Certified Citizen Data Scientist Train-The-Trainer. He has been co-inventor of 3 inventions during the last 4 years.
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Customer Reviews (6)
- Very useful course Review by Course Participant/Trainee
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The trainer is an expert in the subject and shared many practical insights from real projects. (Posted on 05/06/2026)1. Do you find the course meet your expectation? 2. Do you find the trainer knowledgeable in this subject? 3. How do you find the training environment - Engaging trainer Review by Course Participant/Trainee
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The course materials were detailed and easy to reference afterwards. Great value for money. (Posted on 06/03/2026)1. Do you find the course meet your expectation? 2. Do you find the trainer knowledgeable in this subject? 3. How do you find the training environment - Fantastic experience Review by Course Participant/Trainee
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The trainer was knowledgeable and explained the concepts clearly with real-world examples. (Posted on 25/01/2025)1. Do you find the course meet your expectation? 2. Do you find the trainer knowledgeable in this subject? 3. How do you find the training environment - Good course materials Review by Course Participant/Trainee
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The trainer is an expert in the subject and shared many practical insights from real projects. (Posted on 10/05/2024)1. Do you find the course meet your expectation? 2. Do you find the trainer knowledgeable in this subject? 3. How do you find the training environment - Well structured course Review by Course Participant/Trainee
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The course materials were detailed and easy to reference afterwards. Great value for money. (Posted on 08/05/2024)1. Do you find the course meet your expectation? 2. Do you find the trainer knowledgeable in this subject? 3. How do you find the training environment
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