The DOP-C02 syllabus for AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional is organized into six domains: SDLC Automation (22%), Configuration Management and IaC (17%), Resilient Cloud Solutions (15%), Monitoring and Logging (15%), Incident and Event Response (14%), and Security and Compliance (17%). AWS does not publish a public list of individual task statements for this guide, so use the domain weights below to plan your study time.
The DOP-C02 syllabus is how Amazon Web Services groups the skills it tests on the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional (DOP-C02) exam. Instead of a single flat list of topics, AWS organizes the exam into six weighted domains. Each domain's weight tells you roughly what share of the scored questions come from that area, which is the most reliable way to decide where to spend your study time.
What are the six DOP-C02 exam domains?
| Domain | Weight |
|---|---|
| SDLC Automation | 22% |
| Configuration Management and IaC | 17% |
| Resilient Cloud Solutions | 15% |
| Monitoring and Logging | 15% |
| Incident and Event Response | 14% |
| Security and Compliance | 17% |
These six domains make up the full DOP-C02 syllabus. SDLC Automation carries the single largest share of the exam, followed by Configuration Management and IaC and Security and Compliance, which are tied. Resilient Cloud Solutions and Monitoring and Logging are tied in the middle of the table, and Incident and Event Response carries the smallest individual weight - though it is still close to the others, so no domain can be skipped.
What does each domain cover in practice?
AWS's official exam guide for DOP-C02 does not publish a public breakdown of individual task statements for each domain, so this hub describes what each domain name means in practice rather than quoting text AWS has not released.
SDLC Automation is about building and operating continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines for application and infrastructure code - the tooling, stages, and automation that take a code change from commit to a running deployment.
Configuration Management and IaC covers provisioning and managing AWS infrastructure through code and configuration tools, rather than manual console changes, so environments stay consistent and repeatable.
Resilient Cloud Solutions is about designing and implementing highly available, fault-tolerant architectures on AWS, including how systems recover from failure with minimal manual intervention.
Monitoring and Logging covers instrumenting workloads so their health, performance, and behavior are visible, and building the logging and metrics pipelines that make that visibility usable.
Incident and Event Response is about detecting operational events and automating the response to them, so that common failure patterns are handled without a person having to react manually every time.
Security and Compliance covers applying security controls and compliance practices across the deployment pipeline and the running environment, including how secrets, access, and policy are managed.
Why domain weight matters for your study plan
A domain's weight is the closest thing to an official study-time guide that AWS provides for this exam. Treating every domain as equally important would mean under-preparing for SDLC Automation, which carries the largest weight, and over-preparing for a domain like Incident and Event Response relative to how often it actually appears on the exam. Our study plan uses these exact weights to allocate time across a plan, so you are not guessing how to split your preparation.
How this fits with the rest of the exam
Domain weight is only one part of understanding the exam. The exam format page covers how many questions you will see, how long you have, and how the exam is scored against these domains. The prerequisites page explains who this exam suits before you commit study time to it, and the cost and booking page covers what it costs and how to book a seat once you are ready.
Because AWS has not published individual task statements for DOP-C02 domains publicly, treat the domain names and weights above as the syllabus, and use hands-on practice with the services each domain implies - pipelines, infrastructure as code, resilience patterns, observability tooling, automated response, and security controls - as the way to cover the detail beneath each heading.
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