As you have seen from the content of this book and the exam blueprint, a broad range of knowledge is required to pass the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate exam. AWS recommends that anyone attempting to pass the exam have at least one year experience working with AWS. In my own opinion, that's a reasonable requirement, but due to the broad range of topics that we have covered, anyone working with AWS for one year might not even scratch the surface.
Due to different business drivers for cloud adoption, some SysOps engineers might be highly proficient in EC2, RDS, S3, load balancing, VPCs, and other network components, but due to the nature of the applications they maintain in AWS, they might have never even touched any of the serverless technologies. Quite the opposite might occur on the other side, where the business driver is getting rid...