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AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate

Standardize your team on AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate with a structured AWS training path — a blueprint-weighted practice exam and team admin reporting included on every CBT Nuggets Teams seat.

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Course
1
Practice exam
8
Core skills
$150
Exam fee (AWS)
AWS cloud engineering team reviewing architecture diagrams together
Difficulty
Difficulty: 3 of 5 (Moderate)
Moderate
Exam fee (AWS)
$150
Courses on path
1
Official source
AWS’s official exam page
Exam code
  • SOA-C03

Exam datasheet

Format
Multiple choice, multiple response
Prerequisites
None
Recommended experience
1 year of experience in deployment, management, and operations on AWS
Recertification
3 years
Testing center

Exams

Exams for this certification

Exam fees per engineer, paid to the exam vendor$150

Exam — Required

Every engineer on the AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate path takes SOA-C03.

  1. SOA-C03AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate (SOA-C03)Practice exam included on every Teams seat
    Exam fee
    $150
    Exam length
    130 minutes
    Questions
    65
    Passing score
    720/1000

Skills your team builds

AWS Management ConsoleAWS CLIMonitoring and ReportingHigh AvailabilityData ManagementSecurity and ComplianceNetworkingAutomation

Training path

Your team's training path

One CBT Nuggets course covers the full AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate path. Your team can start today and have admin reporting visible from day one.

  1. Start here · primary course

    AWS CloudOps Engineer​

    This AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate training course prepares you to manage and scale cloud environments like a modern operations professional. This course focuses on high-level automation and observability. You’ll learn the deployment of infrastructure via CDK templates, secure hybrid environments with IAM Roles Anywhere, and maintain visibility through advanced CloudWatch and EKS/ECS metric collection. By the end of this course, you’ll have the technical skills to manage complex cloud initiatives, and the knowledge required to pass the COA-C03 exam and earn your CloudOps certification (formerly known as the SysOps Associate Certification). Start training now with unlimited practice exams and expert guidance.

    Scott Pletcher
    150 videosPractice exam20h
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Every certification course includes

  • Expert-led video training
  • Certification practice exams
  • Per-team completion reporting

AWS career ladder

Where AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate sits in your team's AWS progression

The cert your team is on now, plus the levels above and below. Use this to map an engineer's next-step credential or to plan headcount coverage across tiers.

  1. Entry level

    2 certs

    AWS Certified AI Practitioner

    AIF-C01

    AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

    CLF-C02

  2. Associate level

    5 certs

    AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate

    SOA-C03

    You are here

    AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate

    DEA-C01

    AWS Certified Developer – Associate

    DVA-C02

    AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate

    MLA-C02

    AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

    SAA-C03

  3. Professional level

    2 certs

    AWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional

    AIP-C01

    AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

    SAP-C02

  4. Specialist level

    2 certs

    AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty

    ANS-C01

    AWS Certified Security – Specialty

    SCS-C03

Customer outcome

Build AWS capability across the whole team, not one engineer

Assign the AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate course to the engineers who need it, and the team report shows who has started, who has finished, and who has passed the practice exam — the view leadership uses to see AWS skills coverage across the team and where the gaps are.

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Team capability

Make AWS a number on your team capability sheet, not a single engineer’s certificate.

Standardizing your team on AWS gives leadership a clear picture of AWS skills coverage — who has completed the training, who is still on the path, and where the gaps are — so staffing and escalation plans rest on known capability instead of on one engineer.

Credential: AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate

Exam
  • SOA-C03

Frequently asked questions about AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate training

Common questions IT directors ask when evaluating AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate training for their team.

How does AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate fit into our internal compliance and governance program?

Teams often cite the SOA-C03 credential when documenting who is trained to operate AWS workloads, covering IAM basics, network connectivity and resiliency practices. CBT Nuggets team reporting supplies per-learner completion exports as audit evidence, while your auditor's control crosswalk decides how the certification maps to your framework.

Who on the team should hold AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate, and what can a certified team own?

IT leaders typically assign it to the cloud administrators and systems engineers who run day-to-day AWS operations. Certified engineers can own EC2 compute, VPC networking and DNS, storage and database options, IAM access, AWS Systems Manager, and infrastructure as code with AWS CloudFormation and the CDK. The linked course also works through resiliency, scalability, data migration and a hands-on Nextcloud deployment on AWS.

What does CBT Nuggets AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate training include for a team?

CBT Nuggets AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate courses are built by named expert trainers. Where a course includes hands-on virtual labs or a practice exam mapped to AWS's published exam objectives, the course list on this page says so. Team admin reporting tracks assignment, completion and exam readiness per engineer — the view managers use to run a team training program.

How do I assign and track AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate training for my team?

From the admin console, managers assign the AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate courses directly to specific engineers or role groups and track completion and practice-exam scores per learner. Team-wide reporting rolls up to a single dashboard you can review or export for leadership reviews or compliance reporting.

How long does it take to certify a team on AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate?

The linked live courses add up to about 20 hours of video training for each engineer. Total time to certify depends on the team's starting point with AWS and how much weekly time each engineer can give the training and practice exams.

What if AWS updates the AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate exam objectives?

CBT Nuggets updates AWS course content as exam objectives refresh, and this page shows the current exam's status and any retirement date the vendor has announced. When AWS restructures or renames a track, the assigned training stays aligned with the same team training plan, and the training stays current without anyone losing their progress mid-stream.

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