AWS certified sysops administrator associate (SOA-C02)

AWS certified sysops administrator Courses

Best AWS certified sysops administrator associate Courses in Coimbatore

The AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (SOA-C02) certification is designed for system administrators, operations engineers, and IT professionals responsible for managing, maintaining, and operating workloads on the AWS cloud. This course emphasizes hands-on technical expertise in deployment, monitoring, automation, and troubleshooting cloud-based systems using AWS services. 

At Linux Training Center in Coimbatore, we provide industry-aligned training that prepares you to confidently handle real-world cloud operations and pass the SOA-C02 certification exam. The course offers in-depth knowledge of networking, security, cost optimization, performance tuning, backup and recovery, and resource management—all critical for running robust infrastructure on AWS. With our practical labs, exam-focused content, and real-time projects, you’ll develop the skills to manage cloud environments efficiently and ensure business continuity.

Who Should Enroll?

This course is ideal for system administrators, Linux administrators, support engineers, cloud operations professionals, and IT personnel who manage cloud resources and want to specialize in AWS cloud operations. It is also a great next step for those who have completed the AWS Cloud Practitioner certification or equivalent foundational training.

What You Will Learn

You will learn to deploy, manage, and operate scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS, implement security and compliance controls, monitor and log system performance using Amazon CloudWatch and CloudTrail, automate deployments with CloudFormation and Elastic Beanstalk, perform data backup, recovery, and disaster recovery planning, manage billing, cost allocation, and operational health, and identify and resolve incidents in live cloud environments. Our hands-on training ensures that you not only understand these concepts but can implement them confidently.

Prerequisites

A strong understanding of basic AWS services and Linux system administration is recommended. Familiarity with networking, monitoring tools, and shell scripting will enhance your learning experience. Prior cloud operations experience is beneficial but not required, as we provide foundational AWS modules for all learners.

Course Benefits

100% alignment with SOA-C02 certification objectives, live AWS lab access and real-time troubleshooting projects, performance and cost-optimization case studies, mock exams and exam readiness support, guidance from AWS Certified SysOps Trainers, and post-training placement assistance.

Career Opportunities After Certification

On completing this course, you’ll be prepared for roles such as AWS SysOps Administrator, Cloud Operations Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, and Systems Support Specialist – AWS.

Build your expertise in cloud operations and become a certified AWS SysOps Administrator with our SOA-C02 course at Linux Training Center, Coimbatore. Our expert guidance, hands-on labs, and focused certification training will help you confidently operate and optimize AWS infrastructure. 

Enroll now and take your career in system administration to the cloud. Reach out today to reserve your spot in the upcoming batch.

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate Syllabus

Chapter 1

Introduction
Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation
Implement metrics, alarms, and filters by using AWS monitoring and logging services
  • Identify, collect, analyze, and export logs (for example, Amazon CloudWatch Logs, CloudWatch Logs Insights, AWS CloudTrail logs)
  • Collect metrics and logs using the CloudWatch agent
  • Create CloudWatch alarms

    • Remediate issues based on monitoring and availability metrics

  • Troubleshoot or take corrective actions based on notifications and alarms
  • Configure Amazon EventBridge rules to trigger actions
  • Use AWS Systems Manager Automation documents to take action based on AWS Config rules

    • Chapter 2

    Monitoring & Reporting, CloudWatch Introduction, Monitoring EC2 With Custom Metrics, Monitoring EBS, Monitoring ELB, Monitoring Elasticache, Metrics From Multiple Regions & Custom Dashboards, Create A Billing Alarm, AWS Organizations Lab, AWS Resource Groups & Tagging, Cost Explorer & Cost Allocation Tags, EC2 Pricing Models, AWS Config 101, AWS Config Lab, AWS Config Vs AWS CloudTrail Vs CloudWatch, Health Dashboards, Monitoring & Reporting Summary

    Reliability and Business Continuity

    Implement scalability and elasticity

  • Create and maintain AWS Auto Scaling plans Implement caching
  • Implement Amazon RDS replicas and Amazon Aurora Replicas
  • Implement loosely coupled architectures Differentiate between horizontal scaling and vertical scaling

    • Implement high availability and resilient environments

  • Configure Elastic Load Balancer and Amazon Route 53 health checks
  • Differentiate between the use of a single Availability Zone and Multi-AZ deployments (for example, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon FSx, Amazon RDS)
  • Implement fault-tolerant workloads (for example, Amazon Elastic File System [Amazon EFS], Elastic IP addresses), Implement Route 53 routing policies (for example, failover, weighted, latency based)

    • Chapter 3

    Deployment & Provisioning, Deploy An EC2 Instance Lab, EC2 Launch Issues, EBS Volumes And IOPS, What Is A Bastion Host?, Elastic Load Balancers, ELB Error Messages, ELB CloudWatch Metrics, Deploying An Application Load Balancer Lab, AWS Systems Manager, Placement Groups, Deployment & Provisioning Summary

    Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation

    Provision and maintain cloud resources

  • Create and manage AMIs (for example, EC2 Image Builder)
  • Create, manage, and troubleshoot AWS CloudFormation
  • Provision resources across multiple AWS Regions and accounts (for example, AWS Resource Access Manager, CloudFormation StackSets, IAM cross-account roles)
  • Identify and remediate deployment issues (for example, service quotas, subnet sizing, CloudFormation and AWS OpsWorks errors, permissions)

    • Chapter 4

    High Availability, Elasticity & Scalability 101, RDS And Multi-AZ Failover, RDS & Using Read Replicas, RDS & Using Read Replicas Lab, RDS - Encrypting RDS Snaps, Sharing Encrypted RDS Snapshots With Other AWS Accounts, RDS What Versions, Aurora 101, Aurora Lab, Which Services Have Maintenance Windows, Elasticache, Cloud Front & Cache Hit Ratios, Trouble Shooting Potential Autoscaling Issues, High Availability Summary

    Security and Compliance

    Implement and manage security and compliance policies

  • Implement IAM features (for example, password policies, MFA, roles, SAML, federated identity, resource policies, policy conditions)
  • Troubleshoot and audit access issues by using AWS services (for example, CloudTrail, IAM Access Analyzer, IAM policy simulator)
  • Review AWS Trusted Advisor security checks Validate AWS Region and service selections based on compliance requirements

    • Implement data and infrastructure protection strategies

  • Enforce a data classification scheme Create, manage, and protect encryption keys Implement encryption at rest (for example, AWS Key Management Service [AWS KMS]) Implement encryption in transit (for example, AWS Certificate Manager, VPN)
  • Securely store secrets by using AWS services (for example, AWS Secrets Manager, Systems Manager Parameter Store)
  • Review reports or findings (for example, AWS Security Hub, Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Config, Amazon Inspector)

    • Chapter 5

    Storage & Data Management, Introduction to S3, S3 Lab, S3 Lifecycle Policies, MFA Delete, S3 Encryption, S3 Encryption Lab, EC2 Volume Types, Upgrading EC2 Volume Types - Lab Encryption & Downtime, KMS & CloudHSM, AMIs, Sharing AMIs, Snowball & Snowball Edge, Storage Gateway, Introducing Athena, Athena Lab, Introduction To EFS, EFS Lab, Storage & Data Management Summary

    Networking and Content Delivery

    Implement networking features and connectivity

  • Configure a VPC (for example, subnets, route tables, network ACLs, security groups, NAT gateway, internet gateway)
  • Configure private connectivity (for example, Systems Manager Session Manager, VPC endpoints, VPC peering, VPN)
  • Configure AWS network protection services (for example, AWS WAF, AWS Shield)

    • Configure domains, DNS services, and content delivery

  • Configure Route 53 hosted zones and records Implement Route 53 routing policies (for example, geolocation, geoproximity)
  • Configure DNS (for example, Route 53 Resolver) Configure Amazon CloudFront and S3 origin access identity (OAI)
  • Configure S3 static website hosting

    • Chapter 6

    Security & Compliance, Compliance On AWS, DDOS, AWS Marketplace Security Products, IAM Custom Policies Lab, Roles & Custom Policies Lab, MFA & Reporting With IAM Lab, Security Token Service, Security & Logging, AWS WAF, AWS Hypervisors, Dedicated Instances Vs Dedicated Hosts, AWS Systems Manager EC2 Run Command, AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store, Pre-signed URLs with S3, S3 - Restrict IP Addresses, AWS Config With S3, Inspector vs Trusted Advisor, AWS Service Limits, Shared Responsibility Model, other Security Aspects, CloudTrail - Turning It On and Validating Logs, CloudTrail - Protecting Your Logs, Security Summary

    Chapter 7

    Networking, VPC Overview, Build Your Own Custom VPC - Part 1, Build Your Own Custom VPC - Part 2, Creating a NAT Instance, Network ACLs and Security Groups, VPC Endpoints, VPC Flow Logs, VPC Clean Up, VPC CIDR Calculations, VPC Summary, DNS 101, Register a Domain Name Lab, Weighted Routing Policy Lab, Latency Routing Policy Lab, Failover Routing Policy Lab, Geolocation Routing Policy Lab, Multivalue Answer Routing, DNS Exam Tips

    Chapter 8

    Automation, Introducing CloudFormation, CloudFormation Lab, Introducing ElasticBeanstalk, Elastic Beanstalk Lab, OpsWorks, Automation Summary

    Cost and Performance Optimization

    Implement cost optimization strategies

  • Implement cost allocation tags Identify and remediate underutilized or unused resources by using AWS services and tools (for example, Trusted Advisor, AWS Compute Optimizer, Cost Explorer)
  • Configure AWS Budgets and billing alarms Assess resource usage patterns to qualify workloads for EC2 Spot Instances
  • Identify opportunities to use managed services (for example, Amazon RDS, AWS Fargate, EFS)

    • Implement performance optimization strategies

  • Recommend compute resources based on performance metrics Monitor Amazon EBS metrics and modify configuration to increase performance efficiency Implement S3 performance features (for example, S3 Transfer Acceleration, multipart uploads)
  • Monitor RDS metrics and modify the configuration to increase performance efficiency (for example, Performance Insights, RDS Proxy) Enable enhanced EC2 capabilities (for example, enhanced network adapter, instance store, placement groups)

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