Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate (SOA-C03)
The exam is 65 questions in 130 minutes, multiple choice and multiple response, and none of it is hands-on. That is what these labs are for: a live account to monitor, fix and keep running.
Covers SOA-C03, which replaced the SysOps Administrator exam (SOA-C02) on September 30, 2025.
- Exam domains
- 5
- Mock exam
- 65 questions · 130 min
- Pass mark
- 72%
- Labs in
- 5 of 5 domains
What practice looks like
Measured, then practiced, then measured again
A mock exam that is free
65 questions against a 72% pass mark, timed at 130 minutes in exam mode, free. Every question carries an explanation on your results, and study mode explains each answer as you pick it with Premium.
How the tests workLabs you work, not watch
A terminal and a simulated AWS console in the browser. Your commands build resources, and exam mode grades the state you leave behind.
See the terminalA plan built from a diagnostic
PremiumA short reading across all 5 domains bands each one, and only the ones below the pass mark get work. The plan shrinks as domains close.
How the path worksCoverage
What the exam covers
These are the domains every mock exam and every plan is drawn against, weighted the way the exam weights them. What to practice for each one is in the exam guide.
- 1Monitoring, Logging, Analysis, Remediation, and Performance Optimization22%
- 2Reliability and Business Continuity22%
- 3Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation22%
- 4Security and Compliance16%
- 5Networking and Content Delivery18%
Hands-on
The labs in this certification
Each one is a scenario with a task and a grader. Nothing is provisioned on your side and nothing costs you anything to run.
- medium
Audit a broken AWS account: network, access, encryption and alerting
FreeThe API times out talking to its database, the nightly batch cannot write to S3, a data disk may be unreadable within days, and nobody was paged for any of it. Find each cause across four areas of the account.
LinuxAWS CLIAWS console - medium
Review a platform before go-live: exposure, private access, scaling and operations
FreeFind the one database the internet can really reach, why a private job cannot reach S3, why the web tier is stuck at one instance, and why private hosts cannot use the interface endpoints meant for patching and secrets.
LinuxAWS CLIAWS console
More labs, one set per exam domain, come with Premium. The learning path sequences them; you do not need a path to open one.
Plans
What's free and what's Premium
| Feature | Free | Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Mock exams | included | included |
| Diagram questions | included | included |
| Sandbox | included | included |
| General labs in exam mode | included | included |
| Study mode with explanations | not included | included |
| Domain labs with practical mode | not included | included |
| Learning path with diagnostic | not included | included |
| AI feedback | not included | included |
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