AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer Associate SOA-C03 [2026] (Udemy.com)
Pass your AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer Associate Exam [SOA-C03] Earn your AWS CloudOps Certification in 21 Days
Created by: Neal Davis
Last updated September 2026
What you will learn
- THE ULTIMATE EXAM PREP: We’ll teach you everything you need to know to pass your AWS CloudOps Engineer Associate exam with confidence
- 12 HOURS OF INSTRUCTOR-GUIDED LECTURES: With our practical exercises, you'll learn how to architect and build applications on Amazon Web Services
- BONUS PRACTICE TEST: Get familiar with the real AWS exam format, style and difficulty with this full-length practice exam that is timed and scored
- STUDY PLAN: Get certified in 21 days with our free study plan
- ACTIVE Q&A FORUM: Our discussion board provides a platform for students to ask questions, share their recent exam experiences, and offer feedback on exam topics
- RESPONSIVE SUPPORT: Our team of AWS experts respond to all of your questions, concerns or feedback
- ALWAYS UP TO DATE: Our teachings reflect the latest SOA-C03 exam. Students have lifetime access to all future updates
Course Description
This comprehensive course is packed with 12 hours of video lessons, hands-on lessons and a full-length practice exam simulation. With our mixture of in-depth theory, architectural diagrams and hands-on training, you'll learn how to architect and build applications on Amazon Web Services, fully preparing you for the AWS CloudOps certification exam. With this comprehensive Udemy AWS CloudOps training course, you have everything you need to comfortably pass the AWS CloudOps certification exam with confidence.
HOW IS THIS COURSE DIFFERENT?
We are big believers in using practical exercises to improve memory retention and contextualize knowledge. We have included many hours of hands-on guided exercises, so you get to build a practical skillset. The course also includes many visual slides to help you understand the concepts. All practical exercises are backed by architectural diagrams so you can visualize what you're building and operating on Amazon Web Services. By the end of this course, you will have acquired a strong experience-based skillset on AWS along with the confidence to ace your AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer Associate exam.
With this Udemy AWS CloudOps Engineer training, you'll learn how to deploy and operate elastic infrastructure with Amazon EC2, Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing, use AWS Lambda for event-driven architectures, operate with AWS Systems Manager, manage EFS file systems and EBS block volumes, deploy infrastructure as code using AWS CloudFormation, networking with Amazon VPC, databases such as RDS and ElastiCache and AWS Route 53 DNS.
PREVIEW THIS COURSE
There are many FREE previews so you can see how we prepare you for the AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer Associate (SOA-C03) exam - using a combination of theoretical lectures and guided practical hands-on lessons.
TOPICS WE COVER IN THIS COURSE
This course covers all of the following topics that are included in the AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer Associate (SOA-C03) exam guide and are featuring on the exam today:
Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, EBS, EFS, and AWS Storage Gateway
AWS Systems Manager, AWS OpsWorks, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS CloudFormation, and Amazon VPC
Amazon Route 53, Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, AWS Organizations, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail
AWS Config, AWS Service Catalog, AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS IAM, Amazon Inspector, AWS KMS, AWS CloudHSM, AWS WAF & Shield, AWS Artifact, and AWS Directory Services
FOLLOW THE STUDY PLAN TO GET CERTIFIED IN 21 Days
You get a free study plan in PDF format (optional, requires name/email) to help you plan your study so you can pass your AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer Associate exam in 21 days or less! Allocate around 60-90 min each day to studying and you'll be ready to earn your AWS certification in no time at all.
THIS COURSE IS YOUR BEST CHANCE TO ACE YOUR AWS EXAM
HANDS-ON LESSONS: To gain more practical experience with AWS services, you have the opportunity to explore our guided hands-on exercises
HIGH-QUALITY VISUALS: We've spared no effort to create a highly visual training course with lots of table and diagrams to illustrate the concepts
BONUS PRACTICE TEST: Assess your exam readiness with a full-length AWS CloudOps Associate practice exam that is included in your course. This practice test is timed and scored simulating the real exam environment so you get familiar with the AWS exam format, style and difficulty
DETAILED EXPLANATIONS & REFERENCE LINKS: Every question includes deep-dive reference links and detailed explanations that describe why each answer is correct or incorrect
PRESENTED IN A PROFESSIONAL WAY: Your instructor (native speaker) uses clear and easy to understand language and presents the material in a professional way - focused and to the point
CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION: Upon course completion, you get to download your certificate of completion
ACCESS ALL DIAGRAMS, SLIDES & FILES: All diagrams, code and files presented throughout the course are available for download. Course slides (in PDF format) are also accessible by our students
CODE SAMPLES PROVIDED: All code samples are provided so you can become competent on the AWS Cloud by practicing in your own AWS Free Tier account
ALWAYS UP TO DATE: Our teachings reflect the latest SOA-C03 exam blueprint. Students have lifetime access to all future updates
RESPONSIVE SUPPORT: Our team of AWS experts comprehensively respond to all of your questions, concerns and feedback
ACTIVE Q&A DISCUSSION BOARD: Join the discussion on AWS related topics in our discussion forum where our students share their recent exam experience offering feedback on which topics were covered
MOBILE ACCESS: Study on the go and access all resources from your mobile phone - anywhere, anytime
PREREQUISITES
The AWS CloudOps Engineer Associate exam is the hardest of the associate level certifications. Though not mandatory, it is recommended that you complete the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or AWS Certified Developer Associate first. This will give you a broader knowledge base and more experience with AWS services. If you don't have these certifications - but you have plenty of work experience deploying and operating on AWS - then you should be fine.
WHAT DO OTHER STUDENTS SAY?
Check out the excellent course reviews from our many students who passed their AWS exam with an average passing score of over 850:
"Great experience, clearly presented and lots of hands on practice demos."
"Detailed AWS CloudOps course. Love the exam scenarios!"
"Instructor does a great job of teaching the subjects. Detailed and to-the-point and the most up-to-date CloudOps course available"
YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
2,754 Reviews
Neal Davis
Hi, my name's Neal. I am the founder of Digital Cloud Training, a highly experienced AWS Cloud Solutions Architect and a successful IT instructor. I've been working in IT for over 20 years in a variety of roles ranging from support to architecture. Over the last 15 years, I have mainly worked as a Solutions Architect in the systems integration space designing solutions for enterprise organizations.
My experience in IT has included working with virtualization and cloud computing since it's inception. In my most recent consulting role I worked as an Enterprise Architect designing Hybrid IT and Digital Transformation solutions.
I have always enjoyed earning IT certifications and they have helped me immensely with moving upwards throughout my career. These days, my passion is to help others to achieve their career goals through in-depth AWS certification training resources.
That's why I started digitalcloud.training - to provide certification training resources for Amazon Web Services (AWS) certifications that represent a higher quality standard than is otherwise available in the market.
Connect with me on Facebook, LinkedIn, Youtube or Twitter.
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Reviews
By A.Yakubi on 2/26/2026
I’m giving this course a rating of 4 upfront, only because it helped me pass the exam. Pros: • Includes laboratory exercises—although somewhat superficial, they are better than nothing; • Well-chosen questions in the final test; • Covers many small details that are important for exam questions. Cons: • A few questions have incorrect explanations that contradict the answer; • You need to enter your email to access the slides, which is inconvenient; • There is frequent promotion of an additional course, sold separately on the DigitalCloud website. It gives the impression that this course was intentionally made incomplete, leaving students feeling unprepared so they would purchase the subscription. Overall, the course leaves a positive impression and can be recommended for study, but it is essential to supplement it with material from another instructor to be fully prepared for the exam.
By Sufyaan Aziz on 12/3/2025
I took this course and just passed on first try ! absolutely awesome course, I love the in-depth explanations and diagrams specially as I am more of a visual learner this helped me understand the concepts a lot better this along with the excellent practice tests was all I needed, plus this was my very first AWS exam which says a lot about this course thanks Neil !!
By Nibu Kurian on 11/30/2025
I just passed the exam. Like some of other reviewers have said this course will be good if you are taking the solution architect associate exam. But for the CloudOps engineer associate which is the hardest of the associate exams this course alone will not cut it. There are a lot of in-depth questions around CloudWatch, AWS Config and Systems Manager which this course does not cover.
By Ben O on 9/29/2025
Excellently designed course. Explains details which connect the dots between resources in AWS. The explanations in this course allow users (new or AWS veterans) to piece the AWS environment together in a sensible way rather than leaving large gaps I've seen in other courses. The topics are explained neatly and in an organized fashion. Again, this helped me more than other courses, as it doesn't use broad/indecisive verbiage which leaves you guessing what resource is being talked about or how it works. Excellent course! Highly Recommend!
By Siddhartha Ghosh on 3/11/2023
DCT has been always been a partner for learning and getting AWS Certified but only gripe with this course some topics are missing like gateway load balancer and interface has changed a lot requesting to update the course. Hoping to get sysops certified soon.
By Bryan Na on 5/23/2021
This course is great for learning AWS sysops administration, I personally jumped head first with no prior knowledge on AWS. The course is explained in a way for someone to learn it from the bottom up. If I were to provide advice to my fellow students is to make documents taking notes while studying and then perform the use of services. Secondly study practice exams after you've learned everything from the course and you will be bound to pass. If there is anything I think students would appreciate is more details in the beginning on setting up CLI for students as its the only area I had to search outside of the course for help. I currently have passed and have gotten my AWS sysops Cert. I wish everyone else the best of luck on your studies.
By Shilpi Singh Gupta on 5/19/2021
The course covered maximum portion of the sysop exam. However I saw few question from Route53, which i never studied. Since there is lot of practicals and hands on training in the course, it helped me to pass the Lab test portion of the exam. That became very easy due to this course. Just request, if the sound quality or volume of the course can be increased, I cannot hear it on speaker loudly
By Mohit Kumar Sharma on 3/12/2021
Thank you Neal for this wonderful course and really speechless about your exam scenario lecture in each section that really helped me in real exam. I got 10-15 question from exam scenario only. I cracked certification by scoring 904 in exam. Again thanks a lot and keep making these type of course and helping us.
By Драган Вучановић on 3/6/2021
I'm leaving review after passing my exam. This course helped a lot. A way better than ACloudGuru course, excellent work Neal ! I suggest to expand AWS organization lectures to include steps how to increase its auditing and compliance capabilities. Also, how to use CloudFormation to update current and new EC2 instances. Highlights of this courses are exam scenarios at the end of each chapter and practice tests
By Vasudeva Nayak Kukkundoor on 12/15/2020
Hi All, Just now PASSED the exam. Thank you Neal for your courses, tests and cheatsheets. I started with many courses but I was not quite there ! Then I purchased this course and it was amazing. Neal's course will prepare you to answer the questions without having to remember. Also check the course's extensive Exam scenarios at end of each sections from Neal, that will give you definitely at least 30-40% For more information, please visit my post : https://www.linkedin.com/posts/vasudeva-nayak-kukkundoor-04183816_new-aws-certified-sysops-administrator-activity-6746891072246431745-79jZ Good luck !
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Overall Score : 92 / 100
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