AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional Exam

Module 1: DevOps Fundamentals & AWS Overview

⏳ 1 week

• Topics: DevOps culture, AWS shared responsibility, key services

• Hands-on: Set up IAM roles and a baseline VPC for DevOps workflows

Module 2: Source Control & CodeCommit

⏳ 1 week

• Topics: Git basics, CodeCommit repositories, branch strategies

• Hands-on: Migrate a local Git repo to CodeCommit and configure triggers

Module 3: Build & Test with CodeBuild

⏳ 1 week

• Topics: Buildspec files, managed vs. custom images, test integration

• Hands-on: Create a CodeBuild project to compile and unit-test a sample app

Module 4: Deployment Automation

⏳ 1 week

• Topics: CodeDeploy blue/green and canary deployments, AWS Lambda deployments

• Hands-on: Deploy to EC2 Auto Scaling groups and a Lambda function via CodeDeploy

Module 5: CI/CD Orchestration with CodePipeline

⏳ 1 week

• Topics: Pipeline stages, approvals, cross-account pipelines

• Hands-on: Build an end-to-end pipeline integrating CodeCommit → CodeBuild → CodeDeploy

Module 6: Infrastructure as Code

⏳ 1 week

• Topics: CloudFormation templates, stacks, change sets, drift detection

• Hands-on: Write and deploy a multi-tier CloudFormation stack

Module 7: Container & Serverless Deployments

⏳ 1 week

• Topics: Amazon ECS/EKS, Fargate, ECR, Lambda packaging best practices

• Hands-on: Containerize a microservice, push to ECR, and deploy on ECS Fargate

Module 8: Monitoring, Logging & Security

⏳ 1 week

• Topics: CloudWatch metrics/logs/alarms, X-Ray tracing, AWS Config rules, KMS, Secrets Manager

• Hands-on: Instrument an application for tracing and set up compliance checks

Module 9: Exam Prep & Capstone Project

⏳ 1 week

• Topics: Exam blueprint review, sample scenario questions, study strategies

• Hands-on: Design, build, and present a full DevOps solution on AWS

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