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AWS CloudOps Engineer Study Roadmap

SOA-C03 · 10-week plan · Free

Last updated: September 29, 2026

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Domain Weight Distribution

D1: Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation
22%
D2: Reliability and Business Continuity
22%
D3: Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation
22%
D4: Security and Compliance
16%
D5: Networking and Content Delivery
18%

Week-by-Week Study Plan

Week 1

Domain 1: CloudWatch (Metrics, alarms, dashboards, Logs Insights, custom metrics)

Week 2

Domain 1: Monitoring & Remediation (EventBridge rules, SNS notifications, auto-remediation)

Week 3

Domain 2: Scalability. Auto Scaling policies (target tracking, step, scheduled), ELB health checks

Week 4

Domain 2: High Availability & Backup (Multi-AZ, RDS snapshots, AWS Backup, cross-region replication)

Week 5

Domain 3: Provisioning (CloudFormation stacks, Elastic Beanstalk, OpsWorks, Service Catalog)

Week 6

Domain 3: Automation. Systems Manager (Run Command, Automation, Patch Manager, State Manager)

Week 7

Domain 4: Security (IAM policies, AWS Config rules, GuardDuty, Security Hub, compliance auditing)

Week 8

Domain 5: Networking (VPC, subnets, Route 53, CloudFront, VPN, Direct Connect, peering)

Week 9

Cross-Domain: Exam labs practice, Hands-on CloudFormation/SSM, Cost optimization with Trusted Advisor

Week 10

Full Review: Practice exams, Lab walkthroughs, Weak areas, Exam logistics

Free Resources

AWS Skill Builder, AWS Docs

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