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AWS DevOps Engineer Professional

Automating software delivery and infrastructure operations on AWS, including monitoring and recovery.

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Understand the subject

Automating software delivery and infrastructure operations on AWS, including monitoring and recovery.

Apply it to the work

Useful when your team needs repeatable releases, visible failures and a rollback that works under pressure.

Build practical evidence

Bring AWS operations and development experience. Build a pipeline that tests, deploys and recovers a change instead of only demonstrating a successful release.

Level
Intermediate

What you will learn to do

Understand the subject

Automating software delivery and infrastructure operations on AWS, including monitoring and recovery.

Apply it to the work

Useful when your team needs repeatable releases, visible failures and a rollback that works under pressure.

Build practical evidence

Bring AWS operations and development experience. Build a pipeline that tests, deploys and recovers a change instead of only demonstrating a successful release.

Certification essentials

Requirements, costs and keeping it current.

Check the vendor record and ongoing commitment alongside the career guidance.

Pricing view
Market

Vendor record

Live

Live, DOP-C02, 180 minutes, 75 questions. The Korean version of the exam retires after 31 December 2026; English is unaffected.

Current name
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
Exam code
DOP-C02
Vendor-stated experience
AWS recommends two or more years provisioning, operating and managing AWS environments, plus experience of the software development lifecycle and programming or scripting.

Source: Amazon Web Services · Read 17 September 2026

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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional

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Costs and renewal

Exam cost
US$300
Exam format
Exam format not yet verified — check the vendor's exam page
Keeping it current

Valid for 3 years. Renew through the current DevOps Engineer Professional exam; exam fees apply.

Renewal sources & exceptions

Alternatively, eligible active holders can complete paid Skill Builder maintenance within 90 days of expiry for a 1-year extension from completion, rather than a 3-year exam renewal.

Renewal policy checked 2026-09-28. Check the linked provider policy for current fees and eligibility.

Professional-level exam. Taxes may apply; training and retakes are separate. Vendor price checked 2026-09-24. Check the vendor record before booking.

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Preparation and practical skills

Recommended prior knowledge

  • AWS operations plus scripting and delivery automation experience

Common misconceptions

  • AWS DevOps Engineer Professional may meet a named requirement; it does not guarantee shortlisting or replace documented work.

What this cert does NOT guarantee

  • A job offer or salary increase without relevant evidence
  • You have not built or maintained a delivery pipeline
Alternatives and related certifications

Where this fits

Prerequisites
  • None required
This cert
AWS DevOps Engineer Professional
Stronger / next
  • Top of this lane

Alternative routes

No single right path. These adjacent options reach similar roles.

  • A production-style delivery and recovery case study
    Common follow-on or adjacent credential, see the graph for full lineage.

Adjacent & overlapping

Adjacent
  • A production-style delivery and recovery case study
Career outcomes and limitations

Realistic first roles

You own AWS delivery automation, monitoring or recovery

How people actually get here

    Real-world career variations

    Timeline expectations

    1. Months 0–2Foundation reading, concepts, vocabulary.
    2. Months 2–4Hands-on labs, documented home projects.
    3. Months 4–6Practice exams, weak-area drills, exam.
    4. Post-examUse target vacancies to guide applications and projects. There is no guaranteed time to a first role.

    Study resources

    Study options

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    Practice environments

    Explore suitable environments for practical work. Check the tools, features and access you need.

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    AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional

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    Optional home projects

    Build something you can explain.

    Ideas to explore after choosing a certification, using your own tools and keeping evidence of your work.

    Example project evidence
    Project evidence map (example)
    Pipeline definition and release timelineScope and inputs
    Rollback results and monitoring evidenceDecisions and reasoning
    Evidence record (example)
    EvidenceWhat to capture
    Pipeline definition and release timelineShow the inputs, scope and decisions behind this record. The unhealthy version cannot be promoted after the gate fails.
    Rollback results and monitoring evidenceInclude the evidence supporting your conclusion. Rollback restores the known working version and passes the health request.

    Stop a faulty release before it reaches everyone

    A service release passes unit checks but raises errors under real traffic. The delivery system needs a measured promotion decision and a reliable rollback.

    Cloud sandbox Your own tools Evidence guidance
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    What this is based on

    Editorial route and career guidance. No separate external evidence review is recorded for this assessment.

    Editorial evidence review: pending · UK market. Vendor facts and prices elsewhere on this page have their own sources and check dates.