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Start guided practiceThe operations-focused associate exam: monitoring and remediation, reliability, provisioning automation, networking and cost control for running AWS workloads day to day.
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate is AWS's associate-level devops & sre certification, sat as exam SOA-C02. The exam runs for 2 hours 10 minutes and presents up to 65 questions, with a pass mark of 720 / 1000 (scaled). It costs US$150 at the standard rate.
AWS publishes the syllabus as 6 weighted domains. Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation carries the most weight at 20%, and the three largest domains together account for roughly 56% of the scored content — worth knowing before you decide where study time goes.
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The published exam guide for SOA-C02, in the vendor's own order.
01Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation
20%02Reliability and Business Continuity
16%03Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation
18%04Security and Compliance
16%05Networking and Content Delivery
18%06Cost and Performance Optimization
12%One year of hands-on operations experience on AWS, including Linux or Windows administration.
Associate level — Role-based credentials for practitioners with hands-on experience.
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AWS lists up to 65 questions, to be completed in 2 hours 10 minutes. Question counts can vary slightly between exam forms, and unscored trial questions are sometimes included.
720 / 1000 (scaled). Confirm the current figure on the official exam page before booking, as vendors adjust cut scores when an exam form is refreshed.
The standard price is US$150. Local pricing, taxes and any retake policy vary by region, so check the official page for the figure that applies to you.
One year of hands-on operations experience on AWS, including Linux or Windows administration.
The exam guide covers Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation, Reliability and Business Continuity, Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation, Security and Compliance and Networking and Content Delivery, plus 1 further domain. The full weighted breakdown is listed above.
Yes — this exam has 475 practice questions available here, each with the correct answer marked. They are community-contributed, compiled from exam discussions posted publicly by other people rather than written here, and most do not carry an explanation.