📅 7-Day DOP-C02 Crash Plan

An intensive one-week study plan for experienced AWS professionals who want a focused review of DevOps Engineer Professional topics.

Prerequisites

  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and IaC on AWS
  • Familiarity with CloudFormation, CodePipeline, and monitoring tools
  • 5–6 hours of study time per day

Study Schedule

Day 1CI/CD Pipelines & Deployment Strategies
  • CodePipeline stages, actions, and cross-account setup
  • CodeDeploy deployment types (EC2, Lambda, ECS)
  • Blue/green, canary, rolling, and immutable deployments
  • Practice: 40 Domain 1 questions
Day 2CloudFormation & IaC
  • Templates, stacks, stack sets, change sets, drift detection
  • Custom resources, nested stacks, DeletionPolicy
  • CDK constructs, CDK Pipelines, SAM templates
  • Practice: 40 Domain 2 questions
Day 3Monitoring & Observability
  • CloudWatch metrics, alarms, composite alarms, anomaly detection
  • CloudWatch Logs, subscription filters, Logs Insights
  • X-Ray tracing, sampling, annotations, service maps
  • Practice: 40 Domain 4 questions
Day 4Resilience & DR
  • Multi-AZ, multi-region architectures, fault isolation
  • DR strategies: pilot light, warm standby, active-active
  • Auto Scaling, health checks, self-healing
  • Practice: 40 Domain 3 questions
Day 5Incident Response & Automation
  • EventBridge rules, event-driven remediation
  • Systems Manager Automation, Run Command, Patch Manager
  • Runbooks, OpsCenter, operational readiness
  • Practice: 40 Domain 5 questions
Day 6Security & Compliance
  • IAM for DevOps, cross-account roles, permission boundaries
  • Config rules, conformance packs, auto-remediation
  • Security Hub, GuardDuty, Secrets Manager rotation
  • Practice: 40 mixed questions
Day 7Full Mock Exam & Review
  • Take a full 75-question mock exam (180 min)
  • Review all incorrect answers and explanations
  • Revisit weak domains and cheat sheets
  • Final review of deployment strategies and IaC patterns

Study Tips

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Focus on CI/CD and IaC — they dominate the exam

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Know cross-account patterns inside and out

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Practice designing automated remediation workflows end-to-end

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