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AWS DevOps Engineer - Professional (DOP-C02) — Practice Questions and Mock Exam
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Checked against AWS · July 2026Current exam version
Overview
About the exam
The AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional validates advanced technical proficiency in provisioning, operating, and managing distributed application systems on AWS. It covers CI/CD pipeline automation, infrastructure as code, monitoring and logging, incident response, and security controls across the full software development lifecycle.
This certification targets DevOps engineers, platform engineers, and SREs with two or more years of hands-on experience managing AWS environments. It demonstrates the ability to implement and manage continuous delivery systems, automate security controls, and design highly available and self-healing infrastructure on AWS.
Exam Domains
What's on the exam
The exam consists of 75 questions (65 scored, 10 unscored), featuring multiple-choice and multiple-response question types over 180 minutes. Questions are scenario-heavy, often describing complex deployment pipelines, infrastructure automation challenges, or incident response situations. With 2.4 minutes per question, efficient reading and elimination of distractors is critical to finishing on time.
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Format
What to expect
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Where candidates struggle
This exam demands deep practical experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and operational automation. Candidates who lack hands-on experience building and managing deployment pipelines on AWS find the scenario complexity overwhelming.
- 01IaC Tool Selection — Confusing when to use CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform, or Systems Manager for different infrastructure automation scenarios and requirements.
- 02Deployment Strategies — Mixing up blue/green, canary, rolling, and in-place deployment patterns and not knowing which AWS services support each strategy.
- 03Pipeline Security — Not understanding how to integrate security scanning, secrets management, and compliance checks into automated CI/CD pipelines.
- 04Monitoring Gaps — Confusing CloudWatch metrics, X-Ray traces, CloudTrail logs, and EventBridge events for different operational monitoring use cases.
- 05Auto-Healing Design — Not knowing how to combine Auto Scaling, health checks, and Systems Manager automation to create self-healing infrastructure patterns.
Details
Exam logistics
Delivered via Pearson VUE online or at testing centers. Available in English, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese. The certification is valid for 3 years with renewal through recertification exams.
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