Master AWS operations: monitoring, reliability, automation, and troubleshooting, with the course built for the new CloudOps Engineer (formerly SysOps Administrator) exam.
Bestseller 4.6 · 157K+ students · 25 total hours · 424 lectures
The AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer Associate (formerly SysOps Administrator) is the operations certification for AWS, and its exam is famously hands-on. This 25-hour course prepares you accordingly: monitoring, high availability, deployments, automation, networking, and troubleshooting, all demonstrated in the console and the CLI.
If you operate AWS workloads, or want to, this course covers what the SOA-C03 exam demands and what production demands after it.
| Exam code | SOA-C03 |
| Level | Associate |
| Price | $150 USD |
| Duration | 130 minutes |
| Questions | 65 (multiple choice and multiple response; 50 scored, 15 unscored) |
| Passing score | 720 on a scaled score of 100 to 1,000 |
| Delivery | Pearson VUE, at a test center or online proctored |
| Languages | English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and more |
| Recommended experience | 1 year of experience with deployment, management, and operations on AWS recommended |
| Certification validity | 3 years |
The exam has 5 domains:
Three high-fidelity 65-question practice tests matching the real SOA-C03 structure, with detailed explanations for every option.
How much does the SOA-C03 exam cost?
$150 USD, taken at a Pearson VUE test center or online proctored.
How many questions does the exam have, and how long is it?
65 questions in 130 minutes. Unanswered questions are scored as incorrect, so never leave one blank: there is no penalty for guessing.
What score do I need to pass?
720 on a scaled score of 100 to 1,000. The scoring is compensatory: you only need to pass overall, not each domain.
Do I need experience before attempting the exam?
There are no prerequisites. Recommended background: 1 year of experience with deployment, management, and operations on AWS.
How long is the certification valid?
3 years. Recertify by passing the exam again or a higher-level AWS exam.
Is this the same as the old SysOps Administrator certification?
Yes: AWS renamed the SysOps Administrator Associate to CloudOps Engineer Associate with the SOA-C03 version, refreshing the content around modern operations practices.
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