How I Passed the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (DOP-C02) Exam

TL;DR I prepared for DOP-C02 by studying multi-account CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code governance, resilient multi-Region architectures, centralized observability, automated incident response, and enterprise security controls. The exam required me to connect delivery automation with reliability, operations, and security decisions across AWS environments. Certification earned You can view my AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (DOP-C02) certification on Credly. ...

October 15, 2026 · 28 min · Nabil Noh

How I Passed the AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate (SOA-C03) Exam

TL;DR I prepared for SOA-C03 by mastering observability & alerting (CloudWatch Agent, Logs Insights, Data Protection), automated systems management (Systems Manager runbooks, Session Manager, Patch Manager), reliability & disaster recovery (RTO/RPO, AWS Backup, Auto Scaling lifecycle hooks), security guardrails (AWS Config, SCPs, KMS cross-account access), and VPC networking (Route tables, Security Groups vs. NACLs, Gateway VPC Endpoints). Combining operational automation with hands-on AWS administration patterns helped me pass the exam. Certification earned You can view my AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate (SOA-C03) certification on Credly. ...

October 5, 2026 · 16 min · Nabil Noh

How I Passed the AWS Certified Developer – Associate (DVA-C02) Exam

TL;DR I prepared for DVA-C02 by mastering serverless architectures (Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway), application security (IAM roles, Cognito, KMS, Secrets Manager), CI/CD pipelines (SAM, Code Suite), and observability (CloudWatch, X-Ray). Connecting SDK code implementation details with core AWS developer patterns helped me pass the exam. Certification earned You can view my AWS Certified Developer – Associate (DVA-C02) certification on Credly. ...

October 5, 2026 · 19 min · Nabil Noh

How I Passed the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) Exam

TL;DR I prepared for CLF-C02 by studying the four exam domains in order, learning the AWS shared responsibility model, and connecting each service to a practical cloud, security, or cost-management scenario. This approach helped me pass the certification exam. Certification earned You can view my AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) certification on Credly ...

September 9, 2026 · 12 min · Nabil Noh