Ultimate AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate 2022

Full Practice Test with Explanations included! PASS the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate SOA-C02 Exam.

  • Stephane Maarek
  • 4.75
  • (13283 reviews)
  • 25 hrs
  • 356 lectures
  • Udemy
Ultimate AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate 2022

What you will learn?

  • Pass the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate Certification (SOA-C02)
  • Full Practice Exam with Explanations included!
  • All 400+ slides available as downloadable PDF
  • Apply the right AWS services for your future real-world AWS projects
  • Master topics you know from a SysOps perspective: EC2, ELB, ASG, RDS & more
  • Use Systems Manager to perform automations and patching
  • Troubleshoot Elastic Beanstalk and CloudFormation
  • Store data properly with maximum performance using EBS and EFS
  • Master S3 and its ecosystem: Glacier, Snowball, Storage Gateway, CloudFront
  • Implement Monitoring, Security, Compliance, and AWS Account Management
  • Master networking in AWS: Route 53 and VPC in depth

Your trainer

Stephane Maarek

Stephane is a solutions architect, consultant and software developer that has a particular interest in all things related to Big Data, Cloud & API. He's also a many-times best seller instructor on Udemy for his courses in Apache Kafka and AWS.

Stéphane is recognized as an AWS Hero and is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional & AWS Certified DevOps Professional. He loves to teach people how to use the AWS properly, to get them ready for their AWS certifications, and most importantly for the real world.

He also loves Apache Kafka. He sits on the 2019 Program Committee organizing the Kafka Summit in New York, London and San Francisco. He is also an active member of the Apache Kafka community, authoring blogs on Medium and a guest blog for Confluent.

During his spare time he enjoys cooking, practicing yoga, surfing, watching TV shows, and traveling to awesome destinations!

356 lessons

Easy to follow lectures and videos covering subject details.

25 hours

This course includes hours of video material. Watch on-demand, anytime, anywhere.

Certificate of Completion

You will earn a Certificate of Completion at the end of this course.

Course curriculum

Introduction & Requirements - AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate07:50

  • SOA-C02 Course Presentation - DO NOT SKIP03:41
  • PLEASE READ: Lectures you can skip if you took a course from me before00:25
  • About your instructor02:45
  • Course Readiness Quiz1 question
  • Important Message00:59

  • Slides and Code Download - AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate00:15

  • About the EC2 Console Changes00:17
  • Launching an EC2 Instance02:02
  • Changing EC2 Instance Type03:40
  • Enhanced Networking04:20
  • [SAA] EC2 Placement Groups06:06
  • [SAA] EC2 Placement Groups - Hands On01:42
  • EC2 Shutdown Behavior & Termination Protection04:19
  • Troubleshooting EC2 Launch Issues04:04
  • Troubleshooting EC2 SSH Issues07:15
  • [CCP/SAA/DVA] EC2 Instance Purchasing Options09:48
  • [SAA] Spot Instances & Spot Fleet09:32
  • [SAA] EC2 Instances Launch Types Hands On08:52
  • Burstable Instances06:03
  • Elastic IPs06:11
  • CloudWatch Metrics for EC204:57
  • CloudWatch - Unified CloudWatch Agent - Overview03:11
  • Note about the next lecture00:21
  • CloudWatch - Unified CloudWatch Agent Part I16:36
  • EC2 Instance Status Checks04:10
  • EC2 Instance Status Checks Hands On05:53
  • EC2 Instance Status Checks - MUST KNOW00:28
  • [SAA] EC2 Hibernate03:13
  • [SAA] EC2 Hibernate Hands On04:07
  • EC2 Cleanup00:13
  • EC2 For SysOps Quiz12 questions

  • [CCP/SAA/DVA] AMI Overview02:45
  • [CCP/SAA/DVA] AMI Hands On05:34
  • AMI No Reboot Option02:38
  • EC2 Instance Migration using AMIs05:05
  • [CCP] EC2 Image Builder02:46
  • [CCP] EC2 Image Builder Hands On11:56
  • AMI In Production01:58
  • AMI Section Cleanup00:30
  • AMI Quiz4 questions

  • Section Introduction00:39
  • Systems Manager Overview03:47
  • Start EC2 Instances with SSM Agent03:26
  • AWS Tags & SSM Resource Groups04:24
  • SSM Documents & SSM Run Command11:32
  • SSM Automations07:09
  • [SAA/DVA] SSM Parameter Store Overview04:16
  • [SAA/DVA] SSM Parameter Store Hands On (CLI)07:11
  • SSM Inventory & State Manager07:36
  • SSM Patch Manager and Maintenance Windows04:01
  • SSM Patch Manager and Maintenance Windows - Hands On03:35
  • SSM Session Manager Overview02:47
  • SSM Session Manager Hands On02:25
  • SSM Cleanup00:20
  • AWS OpsWorks Overview01:33
  • SSM & OpsWorks Quiz6 questions

  • [SAA/DVA] What is High Availability and Scalability ?05:05
  • [SAA/DVA] Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) Overview06:15
  • [SAA/DVA] Classic Load Balancer (CLB)00:53
  • [SAA/DVA] Classic Load Balancer (CLB) - Hands On10:24
  • [SAA/DVA] Application Load Balancer (ALB)05:49
  • [SAA/DVA] Application Load Balancer (ALB) - Hands On06:50
  • [SAA/DVA] Network Load Balancer (NLB)03:35
  • [SAA/DVA] Network Load Balancer (NLB) - Hands On05:11
  • [SAA/DVA] Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB)03:47
  • [SAA/DVA] Elastic Load Balancer - Sticky Sessions05:41
  • [SAA/DVA] Elastic Load Balancer - Cross Zone Load Balancing04:47
  • [SAA/DVA] Elastic Load Balancer - SSL Certificates07:49
  • [SAA/DVA] Elastic Load Balancer - Connection Draining02:22
  • Elastic Load Balancer - Health Checks03:30
  • Elastic Load Balancer - Monitoring, Troubleshooting, Logging and Tracing05:29
  • Target Group Attributes05:11
  • ALB Rules - Deep Dive02:40
  • [SAA/DVA] Auto Scaling Groups (ASG) Overview04:42
  • [SAA/DVA] Auto Scaling Groups Hands On09:10
  • [SAA/DVA] Auto Scaling Groups - Scaling Policies05:00
  • [SAA/DVA] Auto Scaling Groups - Scaling Policies Hands On09:15
  • ASG for SysOps06:27
  • CloudWatch for ASG01:24
  • Auto Scaling Overview02:05
  • Auto Scaling Hands On01:56
  • Section Cleanup00:31
  • EC2 High Availability & Scalability Quiz15 questions

  • Beanstalk Overview04:18
  • [SAA/DVA] Beanstalk Overview04:31
  • [SAA] Beanstalk Hands On04:56
  • Elastic Beanstalk Quiz2 questions

  • CloudFormation Intro00:44
  • [DVA] CloudFormation Overview07:06
  • [DVA] CloudFormation Create Stack Hands On06:08
  • [DVA] CloudFormation Update and Delete Stack07:30
  • [DVA] YAML Crash Course03:36
  • [DVA] CloudFormation Resources06:27
  • [DVA] CloudFormation Parameters04:59
  • [DVA] CloudFormation Mappings02:53
  • [DVA] CloudFormation Outputs03:08
  • [DVA] CloudFormation Conditions02:06
  • [DVA] CloudFormation Intrinsic Functions05:30
  • ==== SysOps-specific lectures below ====00:16
  • CloudFormation User Data04:57
  • CloudFormation cfn-init06:26
  • CloudFormation cfn-signal and wait conditions06:18
  • CloudFormation cfn-signal failures troubleshooting04:14
  • [DVA] CloudFormation Rollbacks05:44
  • CloudFormation Nested Stacks05:50
  • CloudFormation ChangeSets04:18
  • [DVA] CloudFormation Drift04:20
  • CloudFormation DeletionPolicy05:10
  • CloudFormation TerminationProtection01:18
  • ===== Extra CloudFormation Lectures =====00:10
  • ASG - CloudFormation CreationPolicy03:58
  • ASG - CloudFormation UpdatePolicy10:16
  • CloudFormation - DependsOn03:19
  • CloudFormation - Stack Policies05:53
  • StackSets - Warning00:13
  • Multi Region - CloudFormation StackSets (from DOP)10:48
  • ===== Extra CloudFormation Lectures | CloudFormation Course =====00:02
  • Continue Rolling Back an Update09:24
  • CloudFormation Quiz14 questions

  • [CCP/SAA/DVA] EBS Overview04:57
  • [CCP/SAA/DVA] EBS Hands On04:58
  • [CCP/SAA/DVA] EC2 Instance Store02:47
  • [SAA/DVA] EBS Volume Types Deep Dive05:32
  • [SAA] EBS Multi Attach01:45
  • EBS Operation: Volume Resizing05:49
  • EBS Operation: Snapshots04:53
  • EBS Operation: Snapshots Hands On07:49
  • EBS Operation: Volume Migration01:21
  • [SAA] EBS Operation: Volume Encryption03:47
  • [SAA/DVA] Amazon EFS04:59
  • [SAA/DVA] Amazon EFS - Hands On11:15
  • [SAA/DVA] EFS vs EBS02:56
  • EFS Access Points03:02
  • EFS - Operations03:25
  • EFS - CloudWatch Metrics02:11
  • EFS - Section Cleanup00:51
  • EC2 Storage & Data Management Quiz11 questions

  • [CCP/SAA/DVA] S3 Overview05:06
  • [CCP/SAA/DVA] S3 Hands On05:55
  • [CCP/SAA/DVA] S3 Security: Bucket Policy05:03
  • [CCP/SAA/DVA] S3 Security: Bucket Policy Hands On03:32
  • S3 Security: Bucket Policy Advanced02:37
  • [CCP/SAA/DVA] S3 Website Overview01:07
  • [CCP/SAA/DVA] S3 Website Hands On01:58
  • [CCP/SAA/DVA] S3 Versioning01:13
  • [CCP/SAA/DVA] S3 Versioning - Hands On04:17
  • [CCP/SAA/DVA] S3 Replication01:25
  • [SAA/DVA] S3 Replication Notes00:57
  • [CCP/SAA/DVA] S3 Replication - Hands On06:29
  • [CCP/SAA/DVA] S3 Storage Classes Overview06:12
  • [CCP/SAA/DVA] S3 Storage Classes Hands On03:37
  • S3 Fundamentals Quiz7 questions

  • [SAA/DVA] S3 Lifecycle Rules (with S3 Analytics)04:25
  • [SAA/DVA] S3 Lifecycle Rules - Hands On02:24
  • [SAA/DVA] S3 Event Notifications02:28
  • [SAA/DVA] S3 Event Notifications - Hands On05:42
  • [SAA/DVA] S3 Performance04:54
  • [SAA/DVA] S3 Select & Glacier Select01:17
  • [SAA] S3 Batch Operations02:01
  • S3 Batch Operations Hands On12:09
  • S3 Inventory06:25
  • S3 Glacier Overview05:13
  • S3 Glacier - Hands On02:20
  • Glacier Vault Lock - Hands On03:57
  • S3 Multi Part Upload Deep Dive02:07
  • [SAA] Athena04:13
  • [SAA] Athena Hands On05:16
  • Advanced Amazon S3 Quiz10 questions

  • [SAA/DVA] S3 Encryption06:47
  • [SAA/DVA] S3 Encryption - Hands On05:54
  • [SAA/DVA] S3 Default Encryption01:21
  • [SAA/DVA] S3 CORS04:19
  • [SAA/DVA] S3 CORS Hands On07:23
  • [SAA/DVA] S3 MFA Delete01:24
  • [SAA/DVA] S3 MFA Delete Hands On06:25
  • [SAA/DVA] S3 Access Logs01:16
  • [SAA/DVA] S3 Access Logs - Hands On02:49
  • [SAA/DVA] S3 Pre-signed URLs01:50
  • [SAA/DVA] S3 Pre-signed URLs - Hands On01:48
  • [SAA] Glacier Vault Lock & S3 Object Lock04:13
  • S3 Access Points06:35
  • S3 VPC Endpoints01:31
  • Amazon S3 Security Quiz11 questions

  • [CCP/SAA] AWS Snow Family Overview11:14
  • [CCP/SAA] AWS Snow Family Hands On05:36
  • [SAA/SAP] Amazon FSx08:22
  • [SAA] Amazon FSx - Hands On02:56
  • FSx for SysOps01:13
  • [SAA] Storage Gateway Overview10:22
  • [SAA] Storage Gateway Hands On02:12
  • Storage Gateway for SysOps03:27
  • Advanced Storage Quiz7 questions

  • [SAA/DVA] CloudFront Overview05:11
  • [SAA/DVA] CloudFront with S3 - Hands On05:06
  • [SAA/DVA] CloudFront - ALB as an Origin01:35
  • [SAA/DVA] CloudFront - Geo Restriction00:58
  • CloudFront Reports, Logs and Troubleshooting05:53
  • CloudFront Caching - Deep Dive10:47
  • CloudFront with ALB Sticky Sessions01:57
  • CloudFront Quiz6 questions

  • [SAA/DVA] RDS Overview03:46
  • [SAA/DVA] RDS Multi AZ vs Read Replicas07:22
  • [SAA/DVA] RDS Hands On10:30
  • RDS Multi AZ – Failover Conditions01:00
  • RDS Proxy06:58
  • RDS Parameter Groups04:08
  • RDS Backups and Snapshots04:04
  • RDS Events and Logs04:46
  • RDS & CloudWatch03:34
  • RDS Performance Insights04:41
  • [SAA/DVA] Amazon Aurora06:29
  • [SAA/DVA] Amazon Aurora - Hands On06:42
  • Amazon Aurora - Backups01:44
  • [SAA/DVA] RDS & Aurora Security02:32
  • Amazon Aurora for SysOps01:51
  • [SAA/DVA] ElastiCache Overview04:11
  • [SAA/DVA] ElastiCache Hands On04:34
  • [DVA] ElastiCache Redis Cluster Modes03:07
  • ElastiCache Redis for SysOps04:28
  • ElastiCache Memcached for SysOps03:15
  • Databases For SysOps Quiz22 questions

  • CloudWatch Metrics02:54
  • CloudWatch Custom Metrics04:03
  • CloudWatch Dashboards04:10
  • CloudWatch Logs03:31
  • CloudWatch Logs Hands On05:09
  • CloudWatch Alarms04:01
  • CloudWatch Alarms Hands On04:38
  • CloudWatch Events05:24
  • [SAA/DVA] Amazon EventBridge03:55
  • [SAA/DVA] Amazon EventBridge - Hands On07:11
  • Service Quotas Overview01:46
  • Service Quotas Hands On02:35
  • [CCP/SAA/DVA] CloudTrail05:42
  • [CCP/SAA/DVA] CloudTrail - Hands On10:34
  • CloudTrail for SysOps03:06
  • [SAA] Config Overview04:44
  • [SAA] Config Hands On09:37
  • Config - Aggregators02:10
  • [SAA] CloudWatch vs CloudTrail vs Config02:29
  • Monitoring, Auditing, and Performance Quiz11 questions

  • Section Intro00:26
  • AWS Status Health Dashboard01:23
  • AWS Personal Health Dashboard05:44
  • [SAA] Organizations Overview07:05
  • [CCP/SAA] Organizations Hands-On09:59
  • AWS Organizations for SysOps02:13
  • [CCP] AWS Control Tower Overview00:52
  • [CCP] AWS Control Tower Hands On05:44
  • AWS Service Catalog Overview03:55
  • AWS Service Catalog Hands-On06:36
  • AWS Billing Alarms03:05
  • [SAA] AWS Cost Explorer02:10
  • AWS Budgets06:17
  • AWS Cost Allocation Tags & Cost & Usage Reports05:44
  • [CCP] AWS Compute Optimizer Overview00:51
  • AWS Account Management Quiz14 questions

  • [SAA] AWS DataSync04:45
  • [SAA] AWS Backup03:10
  • [SAA] AWS Backup Hands On04:23
  • Disaster Recovery Quiz2 questions

  • [CCP/SAA] Shared Responsibility Model04:28
  • [CCP] DDoS, AWS Shield and AWS WAF04:43
  • [CCP] Penetration testing on AWS01:48
  • [CCP/SAA/SAP] Amazon Inspector02:12
  • Amazon Inspector - Hands On06:13
  • Logging in AWS02:45
  • [CCP/SAA/SAP] Amazon GuardDuty02:16
  • [CCP/SAA] Amazon Macie01:03
  • [CCP/SAA] Trusted Advisor04:42
  • [SAA/DVA] Encryption 10105:18
  • [SAA/DVA] KMS Overview07:22
  • [SAA/DVA] KMS Hands On w/ CLI09:13
  • [SAA] KMS Key Rotation03:09
  • KMS For SysOps03:18
  • [SAA] CloudHSM Overview04:06
  • [CCP] AWS Artifact Overview01:59
  • [CCP] AWS Certificate Manager Overview (ACM)01:29
  • [DVA] AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Hands On06:27
  • [SAA/DVA] Secrets Manager Overview01:02
  • [SAA/DVA] Secrets Manager Hands On05:48
  • Secrets Manager - Monitoring & Troubleshooting02:59
  • [DVA] SSM Parameter Store vs Secrets Manager02:21
  • Security & Compliance Quiz15 questions

  • [CCP/SAA/DVA] IAM Security Tools00:54
  • [CCP/SAA/DVA] IAM Security Tools Hands On02:25
  • IAM Access Analyzer03:44
  • Identity Federation with SAML & Cognito09:45
  • [SAA] STS & Cross Account Access04:16
  • [DVA] Cognito User Pools Overview03:25
  • [DVA] Cognito Identity Pools Overview07:16
  • [DVA] Cognito User Pools vs Cognito Identity Pools01:49
  • [SAA] AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On)00:27
  • AWS IAM Identity Center05:27
  • Identity Quiz4 questions

  • [SAA/DVA] What is a DNS?06:24
  • [SAA/DVA] Route 53 Overview06:18
  • [SAA/DVA] Route 53 - Registering a Domain02:59
  • [SAA/DVA] Route 53 - Creating our first records03:56
  • [SAA/DVA] Route 53 - EC2 Setup05:40
  • [SAA/DVA] Route 53 - TTL05:28
  • [SAA/DVA] CNAME vs Alias07:00
  • [SAA/DVA] Routing Policy - Simple04:05
  • [SAA/DVA] Routing Policy - Weighted05:02
  • [SAA/DVA] Routing Policy - Latency04:39
  • [SAA/DVA] Route 53 Health Checks04:54
  • [SAA/DVA] Route 53 Health Checks - Hands On04:39
  • [SAA/DVA] Routing Policy - Failover04:12
  • [SAA/DVA] Routing Policy - Geolocation04:15
  • [SAA/DVA] Routing Policy - Geoproximity03:21
  • [SAA/DVA] Routing Policy - Traffic Flow & Geoproximity Hands On07:32
  • [SAA/DVA] Routing Policy - Multi Value03:42
  • [SAA/DVA] 3rd Party Domains & Route 5302:24
  • S3 Website with Route 5305:04
  • Route 53 Resolvers & Hybrid DNS06:40
  • [SAA/DVA] Route 53 - Section Cleanup01:21
  • Route 53 Quiz7 questions

  • Section Introduction01:05
  • [SAA] CIDR, Private vs Public IP06:40
  • [SAA] Default VPC Overview05:24
  • [SAA] VPC Overview01:10
  • [SAA] VPC Hands On02:08
  • [SAA] Subnet Overview01:40
  • [SAA] Subnet Hands On03:53
  • [SAA] Internet Gateways & Route Tables01:13
  • [SAA] Internet Gateways & Route Tables Hands On07:02
  • [SAA] Bastion Hosts02:41
  • [SAA] Bastion Hosts Hands On05:02
  • [SAA] NAT Instances03:41
  • [SAA] NAT Instances Hands On05:58
  • [SAA] NAT Gateways03:47
  • [SAA] NAT Gateways Hands On03:03
  • [SAA] DNS Resolution Options & Route 53 Private Zones02:54
  • [SAA] DNS Resolution Options & Route 53 Private Zones Hands On03:21
  • [SAA] NACL & Security Groups10:43
  • [SAA] NACL & Security Groups Hands On06:32
  • [SAA] VPC Reachability Analyzer01:46
  • [SAA] VPC Reachability Analyzer Hands On04:28
  • [SAA] VPC Peering02:05
  • [SAA] VPC Peering Hands On05:47
  • [SAA] VPC Endpoints05:45
  • [SAA] VPC Endpoints Hands On06:40
  • [SAA] VPC Flow Logs03:56
  • [SAA] VPC Flow Logs Hands On + Athena09:21
  • [SAA] Site to Site VPN, Virtual Private Gateway & Customer Gateway03:58
  • [SAA] Site to Site VPN, Virtual Private Gateway & Customer Gateway Hands On01:54
  • [SAA] Direct Connect & Direct Connect Gateway06:36
  • [SAA] Site to Site VPN as a backup to Direct Connect01:00
  • [SAA] AWS PrivateLink - VPC Endpoint Services03:06
  • [SAA] AWS PrivateLink - VPC Endpoint Services Hands On01:13
  • [SAA] AWS ClassicLink01:22
  • [SAA] Transit Gateway05:10
  • [SAA] VPC Traffic Mirroring02:10
  • [SAA] IPv6 for VPC03:20
  • [SAA] IPv6 for VPC Hands On03:49
  • [SAA] Egress Only Internet Gateway03:08
  • [SAA] Egress Only Internet Gateway Hands On01:00
  • [SAA] VPC Section Cleanup02:22
  • [SAA] VPC Section Summary05:25
  • VPC Quiz14 questions
  • [SAA] Networking Costs in AWS09:17
  • [SAA] Network Firewall03:00

  • Other Services Overview00:26
  • Amazon ElasticSearch is now OpenSearch00:13
  • Amazon ES + Kibana02:53
  • Amazon ES - Production Setup01:15
  • [CCP] X-Ray02:11
  • AWS Amplify01:59
  • Other Services Quiz3 questions

  • Exam Preparation - Section Introduction00:31
  • State of Learning Checkpoint - AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate08:14
  • Exam Labs - AWS Certified SysOps02:37
  • Exam Walkthrough and Signup04:02
  • Save 50% on your AWS Exam Cost!01:41
  • Get an Extra 30 Minutes on your AWS Exam - Non Native English Speakers only01:09
  • Practice Test - AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate65 questions

  • Congratulations - AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate00:36
  • THANK YOU!01:32
  • Bonus Lecture00:49
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