Free practice questions covering monitoring and remediation, reliability and business continuity, deployment automation, security and compliance, and networking. Scenario-based items aligned with the official AWS exam guide (formerly SysOps Administrator - Associate).
The AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate (SOA-C03) (formerly SysOps Administrator - Associate) validates hands-on operations skills: deploying, managing, and operating workloads on AWS with the console, CLI, and infrastructure as code. Expect practical, troubleshooting-heavy scenarios — not trivia.
| Exam Code | SOA-C03 |
| Full Name | AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate |
| Provider | AWS |
| Prerequisite | None (~1 year hands-on AWS operations recommended) |
| Question Format | 65 questions (50 scored) — multiple choice + multiple response, scenario-based |
| Duration | 130 minutes |
| Passing Score | 720 out of 1000 |
| Exam Fee | $150 USD |
CloudWatch metrics, composite alarms, dashboards; CloudTrail; CloudWatch agent; Managed Prometheus/Grafana; SNS notifications; EventBridge routing; SSM Automation runbooks; EBS, S3, EFS/FSx, RDS and EC2 performance optimization.
Auto Scaling; ElastiCache/CloudFront caching; RDS/DynamoDB scaling; ELB and Route 53 health checks; Multi-AZ fault tolerance; AWS Backup snapshots; point-in-time restore vs RTO/RPO; S3 versioning; DR procedures.
AMIs, container images, Image Builder; CloudFormation and CDK stacks; deployment troubleshooting; RAM and StackSets sharing; blue-green/canary/rolling strategies; Terraform/Git; SSM automation; Lambda event-driven automation.
IAM policies, MFA, roles, federation; CloudTrail/Access Analyzer audits; Organizations, SCPs, Control Tower; Trusted Advisor remediation; KMS at rest; ACM in transit; Secrets Manager; Security Hub/GuardDuty/Config/Inspector.
VPC subnets, route tables, NACLs, security groups, NAT/IGW; PrivateLink, peering, Transit Gateway, VPN; WAF/Shield/Network Firewall; Route 53 routing and logging; CloudFront/Global Accelerator; flow-log troubleshooting; hybrid connectivity.
Operators who deploy, monitor, patch, and troubleshoot production AWS workloads daily.
Moving from on-prem ops into AWS — validate monitoring, backup, networking, and security skills.
Already passed Solutions Architect Associate? SOA-C03 proves you can actually operate what you design.
Build the operations foundation (CI/CD awareness, IaC, observability) before professional-level certs.
65-question sets mirroring the real exam. Instant explanations with AWS references.
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