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AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer Prep: SysOps Administrator Foundations

A practical operations-focused path for AWS workloads, monitoring, automation, security, networking, resilience, and exam readiness

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Quick Course Facts
18
Self-paced, Online, Lessons
18
Videos and/or Narrated Presentations
6.7
Approximate Hours of Course Media
About the AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer Prep: SysOps Administrator Foundations Course

AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer Prep: SysOps Administrator Foundations is a Cloud Computing course designed to build practical operations skills for running AWS workloads with confidence. Students learn monitoring, automation, security, networking, resilience, and exam readiness through an AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Prep path focused on real operational responsibilities.

Build Cloud Computing Operations Skills For AWS SysOps Success

  • Follow a practical operations-focused path for AWS workloads from account foundations through troubleshooting and runbooks
  • Learn how to monitor, log, audit, remediate, and optimize AWS environments using core operational services
  • Strengthen security, networking, automation, reliability, and cost management skills for day-to-day cloud operations
  • Prepare for AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Prep with service coverage, exam strategy, and scenario-based readiness

This course teaches the operational foundations needed to manage, secure, monitor, automate, and troubleshoot AWS Cloud Computing environments.

Students begin with certification scope, the Cloud Operations mindset, AWS exam strategy, and the fundamentals of accounts, Regions, Availability Zones, and the shared responsibility model. From there, the course moves into identity and access management, including IAM users, roles, policies, permissions boundaries, and access patterns that support secure AWS operations.

The course provides hands-on operational context for working with the AWS Management Console, CLI, SDKs, and CloudShell, then builds core monitoring and remediation skills with CloudWatch metrics, alarms, dashboards, logs, CloudTrail, AWS Config, EventBridge, and Systems Manager. These lessons help students understand how operational signals, audit trails, patching, Run Command, Session Manager, and fleet management fit into a reliable Cloud Computing workflow.

Students also explore compute, storage, database, networking, and content delivery operations across EC2, AMIs, EBS, snapshots, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, VPCs, load balancing, Auto Scaling, Route 53, CloudFront, and hybrid connectivity. The course emphasizes practical administration decisions such as backup planning, lifecycle policies, encryption, access controls, instance health, route design, and performance monitoring.

Later lessons focus on resilience, deployment, automation, security operations, and optimization. Students learn high availability, fault tolerance, restore testing, disaster recovery, CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk, CodeDeploy, Lambda, EventBridge, Systems Manager Automation, GuardDuty, Inspector, Security Hub, compliance checks, cost controls, capacity planning, and performance tuning.

By the end of the course, students will have a structured AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Prep foundation and a practical operations-focused path for AWS workloads. They will be better prepared to monitor production environments, respond to incidents, automate repeatable tasks, secure cloud resources, troubleshoot service issues, and approach the certification exam with clearer judgment and stronger Cloud Computing operations skills.

Course Lessons

Full lesson breakdown

Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.

Orientation and Foundations

2 lessons

This orientation frames the certification as the current AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate (SOA-C03) , formerly known as AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate. The lesson explains w…

Lesson 2: AWS Accounts, Regions, Availability Zones, and Shared Responsibility

18 min
This lesson establishes the operational map every AWS CloudOps engineer needs before touching services: how AWS accounts define ownership and blast radius, how Regions and Availability Zones shape pla…

Security and Identity Foundations

1 lesson

Lesson 3: IAM Users, Roles, Policies, Permissions Boundaries, and Access Patterns

22 min
This lesson builds the IAM foundation needed for operating AWS workloads safely. You will learn how IAM users, groups, roles, policies, permissions boundaries, and common access patterns fit together …

Operational Tooling

1 lesson

Lesson 4: Operating with the AWS Management Console, CLI, SDKs, and CloudShell

18 min
This lesson introduces the operational toolchain every AWS CloudOps engineer uses daily: the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, AWS SDKs, and AWS CloudShell. Learners will understand when each tool is m…

Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation

3 lessons

Lesson 5: CloudWatch Metrics, Alarms, Dashboards, Logs, and Operational Signals

24 min
This lesson builds the operational monitoring foundation expected of an AWS CloudOps or SysOps administrator. Learners practice reading CloudWatch metrics, choosing useful statistics and periods, crea…

Lesson 6: CloudTrail, AWS Config, EventBridge, and Audit-Ready Operations

22 min
This lesson connects four operational services that commonly appear in real AWS environments and on the SysOps Administrator exam: AWS CloudTrail for API activity history, AWS Config for resource conf…

Lesson 7: Systems Manager for Fleet Management, Patch Operations, Run Command, and Session Manager

25 min
This lesson teaches how AWS Systems Manager supports day-to-day fleet operations for EC2 instances, hybrid servers, and managed nodes. Learners will connect the operational pieces that matter for the …

Compute and Storage Operations

3 lessons

Lesson 8: EC2 Operations, AMIs, EBS Volumes, Snapshots, Placement, and Instance Health

23 min
This lesson focuses on day-to-day EC2 operations for a CloudOps engineer: choosing operationally appropriate instance settings, managing AMIs, attaching and resizing EBS volumes, protecting data with …

Lesson 9: S3 Administration, Lifecycle Policies, Versioning, Encryption, and Access Controls

21 min
This lesson focuses on day-to-day S3 administration from an operations perspective: creating buckets with the right defaults, controlling object retention through lifecycle rules, using versioning saf…

Lesson 10: Databases in Operations: RDS, DynamoDB, Backups, Maintenance, and Monitoring

22 min
This lesson focuses on the day-to-day operational responsibilities for AWS managed databases, especially Amazon RDS and Amazon DynamoDB. You will learn how to monitor database health, manage backups a…

Networking and Content Delivery

2 lessons

Lesson 11: VPC Fundamentals, Subnets, Route Tables, Gateways, NACLs, and Security Groups

24 min
This lesson builds the core networking mental model needed for AWS CloudOps work and the SysOps Administrator exam. You will connect VPC CIDR planning, subnets, route tables, internet gateways, NAT ga…

Lesson 12: Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, Route 53, CloudFront, and Hybrid Connectivity

25 min
This lesson connects the core AWS networking and content delivery services that operations engineers use to keep applications available, scalable, reachable, and performant. You will learn how Elastic…

Reliability and Business Continuity

1 lesson

Lesson 13: High Availability, Fault Tolerance, Backups, Restore Testing, and Disaster Recovery

24 min
This lesson teaches how to operate AWS workloads for business continuity: designing for high availability, reducing single points of failure, choosing backup and restore strategies, and planning disas…

Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation

2 lessons

Lesson 14: Deployment Operations with CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk, CodeDeploy, and Change Control

23 min
This lesson explains how AWS operations teams deploy infrastructure and application changes using CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk, CodeDeploy, and structured change control. The focus is not on writ…

Lesson 15: Automation Patterns with Lambda, EventBridge, Systems Manager Automation, and Infrastructure as Code

22 min
This lesson teaches practical automation patterns for AWS operations using Lambda, EventBridge, Systems Manager Automation, and infrastructure as code. The focus is on choosing the right automation me…

Security and Compliance

1 lesson

Lesson 16: Security Operations: Encryption, Secrets, GuardDuty, Inspector, Security Hub, and Compliance Checks

24 min
This lesson focuses on day-to-day security operations for AWS workloads: protecting data with encryption, managing secrets, detecting threats, assessing vulnerabilities, aggregating findings, and runn…

Cost and Performance Optimization

1 lesson

Lesson 17: Cost, Capacity, and Performance Optimization for Operational Workloads

21 min
This lesson focuses on the operational side of cost, capacity, and performance optimization in AWS. Learners practice how to observe workload demand, choose the right scaling and purchasing approaches…

Practice and Exam Readiness

1 lesson

Lesson 18: Troubleshooting Scenarios, Service Limits, Runbooks, and Final Exam Readiness

25 min
This lesson turns the course material into an operations-ready exam practice framework. You will work through troubleshooting scenarios, service quota risks, runbook design, and final preparation habi…
About Your Instructor
Professor Victor Zane

Professor Victor Zane

Professor Victor Zane guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.