| Section | Weight | Objectives |
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| Topic 1: High Availability and Disaster Recovery | 16% | - Implement data backup and restore strategies
- 1. Implement validation testing for backups
- 2. Implement cross-region replication
- 3. Design point-in-time recovery solutions
- Design and implement disaster recovery strategies
- 1. Implement pilot light and warm standby architectures
- 2. Design RTO and RPO based DR solutions
- 3. Implement backup and restore mechanisms
- 4. Implement multi-region active-active architectures
- Design and implement high availability and scalability
- 1. Implement auto scaling strategies
- 2. Design multi-AZ and multi-region architectures
- 3. Implement load balancing and traffic management
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| Topic 2: Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code | 22% | - Design and implement infrastructure as code
- 1. Implement modular and reusable infrastructure components
- 2. Design for scalability and repeatability
- 3. Develop IaC templates (AWS CloudFormation, Terraform)
- Implement compliance and configuration monitoring
- 1. Design remediation automation
- 2. Use AWS Config for compliance monitoring
- 3. Implement AWS CloudTrail for auditing
- Design and implement configuration management
- 1. Design patch management strategies
- 2. Implement parameter management (AWS Parameter Store, Secrets Manager)
- 3. Implement AWS Systems Manager for configuration management
- Design and implement data management strategies
- 1. Implement database migration strategies
- 2. Design backup and recovery solutions
- 3. Implement data lifecycle management
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| Topic 3: Incident and Event Response | 18% | - Design and implement chaos engineering practices
- 1. Design resilience testing strategies
- 2. Analyze system behavior under failure conditions
- 3. Implement fault injection experiments (AWS Fault Injection Simulator)
- Design and implement event and incident management
- 1. Implement automated response playbooks
- 2. Implement automated incident detection
- 3. Design event aggregation and correlation
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| Topic 4: Monitoring and Logging | 12% | - Design and implement alerting and incident management
- 1. Implement automated incident response
- 2. Design runbook automation
- 3. Create alarm notification strategies
- Design and implement monitoring and observability strategies
- 1. Implement distributed tracing (AWS X-Ray)
- 2. Implement log aggregation and analysis
- 3. Design custom metrics and alarms (Amazon CloudWatch)
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| Topic 5: Policies and Standards Automation | 10% | - Design and implement preventive and detective controls
- 1. Implement drift detection and remediation
- 2. Implement AWS Organizations and SCPs
- 3. Design and implement security baselines
- Design and implement governance strategies
- 1. Design cost optimization through policies
- 2. Implement tagging policies and resource grouping
- 3. Implement approval workflows and automation
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| Topic 6: SDLC Automation | 22% | - Design and implement CI/CD pipelines
- 1. Implement deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, rolling)
- 2. Design failure handling strategies
- 3. Determine appropriate CI/CD pipeline architecture
- 4. Develop CI/CD pipelines considering testing and security requirements
- Design build and test environments
- 1. Integrate security scanning and compliance checks
- 2. Implement build environments (isolated, reproducible)
- 3. Design test automation frameworks
- Design and implement source code management strategies
- 1. Determine branching strategies
- 2. Design code review and approval processes
- 3. Implement repository configurations and hooks
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