AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional (DOP-C02) Domain 5

Incident and Event Response

Official Exam Guide: Domain 5: Incident and Event Response

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Domain Overview

Domain 5 (14%) focuses on managing event sources, implementing configuration changes in response to events, and troubleshooting failures.

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Task 5.1: Manage event sources to process, notify, and take action

Essential Documentation:

• Amazon EventBridge User Guide
• AWS Health User Guide
• AWS CloudTrail User Guide
• Amazon SNS Developer Guide
• Amazon SQS Developer Guide
• Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
• AWS Step Functions Developer Guide

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Task 5.2: Implement configuration changes in response to events

Essential Documentation:

• AWS Systems Manager User Guide
• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
• AWS Config Developer Guide
• AWS Config Remediation

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Task 5.3: Troubleshoot system and application failures

Essential Documentation:

• Amazon CloudWatch Monitoring
• AWS X-Ray Developer Guide
• Systems Manager OpsCenter
• Troubleshooting CodePipeline
• Troubleshooting CodeDeploy

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AWS Service FAQs

• Amazon EventBridge FAQs
• AWS Systems Manager FAQs
• AWS Step Functions FAQs

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Study Tips

1. Master EventBridge - Event patterns, rules, targets (Lambda, SNS, SQS, Step Functions), event buses, archives.

2. Learn event-driven architectures - Fan-out patterns (SNS to multiple SQS), event streaming (Kinesis), dead-letter queues.

3. Understand automated remediation - AWS Config rules with auto-remediation, Systems Manager Automation documents, EventBridge triggers.

4. Practice troubleshooting - CodePipeline failures, CodeDeploy rollbacks, Auto Scaling issues, container health checks.

5. Study incident response - AWS Health dashboards, CloudWatch alarms, X-Ray service maps, OpsCenter for incident management.

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Note: This is Domain 5 of 6, representing 14% of exam content.