The AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate certification (Exam SOA-C02) validates your ability to deploy, manage, and operate scalable, highly available systems on AWS. It covers monitoring, networking, security, automation, and cost optimization. Note that AWS has renamed and evolved this certification into the AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate (SOA-C03).

Key Domains Covered

Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation: Using Amazon CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Systems Manager.
Reliability and Business Continuity: High availability, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), and Route 53.
Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation: Infrastructure as Code (AWS CloudFormation) and Systems Manager.
Security and Compliance: Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS Organizations, and Key Management Service (KMS).
Networking and Content Delivery: Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), security groups, Network ACLs, and Route 53.
Cost and Performance Optimization: Monitoring usage, Right-sizing instances, and billing alarms.