I just passed the AWS SysOps exam today.
Preparation:
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About the exam:
All most the questions in the exam is the “how to troubleshoot” or “how to use them to solve a problem”. AWS Organization (how to restrict accounts) CLI (familiarize yourself with this), NAT Gateway, NAT Instance, Storage/ Data management, Autoscaling, AWS Service Catalog, A few questions on Systems Manager, MultiAZ & Read Replica, Nothing on Beanstalk and Kinesis. Lots of questions on VPC (know how to fix problems in the VPC). I also got 2 questions on Loadbalancing how to attach a certificate to load balancer, A lot of questions about the details of S3 access (Bucket Policies, ACL, Policy details), EFS, Cloudfront, Cloudtrail, Config, Cost Reporting, Scalability, know when to use Cloudwatch, different EBS types, Personal health dashboard (how to set up automatic alerts)