professional Cloud — AWS paid
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
Experienced DevOps engineers who provision, operate, and automate highly available AWS environments at scale.
Exam facts
- Provider
- Amazon Web Services
- Exam code
- DOP-C02
- Level
- professional
- Domain
- Cloud — AWS
- Exam format
- Multiple choice + multiple response, online proctored or Pearson VUE test center
- Duration
- 180 minutes
- Cost
- $300 USD
- Renewal
- 3 years
- Prerequisites
- None formally; AWS recommends 2+ years of experience provisioning and managing AWS environments and strong scripting skills.
Recommended preparation
Build end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with CodePipeline, CloudFormation, and automated rollback strategies in a lab account. Study SDLC automation, configuration management, monitoring, and incident response domains from the DOP-C02 exam guide, then validate with the official practice exam.
Follow the free DevOps 90-Day Learning Path — its final phase (days 76–90) is built for certification preparation.
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