This professional exam validates technical expertise in provisioning, operating, and managing distributed application systems on the AWS platform. Exam concepts you should understand for this exam include the ability to:

• Implement and manage continuous delivery systems and methodologies on AWS
• Understand, implement, and automate security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation
• Define and deploy monitoring, metrics, and logging systems on AWS
• Implement systems that are highly available, scalable, and self healing on the AWS platform
• Design, manage, and maintain tools to automate operational processes
• Two or more years’ experience provisioning, operating, and managing AWS environments
• Experience developing code in at least one high-level programming language
• Experience in automation and testing via scripting/programming
• Understanding of agile and other development processes and methodologies