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AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate Exam Cram Sheet (2026)
The highest-yield points on the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associateexam, grouped by the exam's real content areas. Print it, review the ones you keep missing, then drill them with free practice questions.
130 mintime limit
720 / 1000to pass
5content areas
Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation
20% of the exam- CloudWatch metrics and alarms
- Centralized logging
- Auditing with CloudTrail
- Automated remediation
Reliability and Business Continuity
18% of the exam- Elasticity with Auto Scaling
- High availability across AZs
- Backup and recovery
- Recovery objectives and DR
Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation
20% of the exam- Infrastructure as code with CloudFormation
- Operational automation with Systems Manager
- Parameters and secrets in operations
- Managing at scale
Security and Compliance
16% of the exam- IAM and access operations
- Data protection and key management
- Continuous compliance
- Protecting the network edge
Networking, Content Delivery, and Cost
26% of the exam- VPC connectivity
- DNS and load balancing
- Content delivery and caching
- Cost and performance optimization
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