Content Domain 5: Incident and Event Response - AWS Certification
Task Statement 5.1: Manage event sources to process, notify, and take action in response to events.Task Statement 5.2: Implement configuration changes in response to events.Task Statement 5.3: Troubleshoot system and application failures.

Content Domain 5: Incident and Event Response

Task Statement 5.1: Manage event sources to process, notify, and take action in response to events.

Knowledge of:

  • AWS services that generate, capture, and process events (for example, AWS Health, Amazon EventBridge, AWS CloudTrail)

  • Event-driven architectures (for example, fan out, event streaming, queuing)

Skills in:

  • Integrating AWS event sources (for example, AWS Health, EventBridge, CloudTrail)

  • Building event processing workflows (for example, Amazon Simple Queue Service [Amazon SQS], Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Simple Notification Service [Amazon SNS], AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions)

Task Statement 5.2: Implement configuration changes in response to events.

Knowledge of:

  • Fleet management services (for example, AWS Systems Manager, AWS Auto Scaling)

  • Configuration management services (for example, AWS Config)

Skills in:

  • Applying configuration changes to systems

  • Modifying infrastructure configurations in response to events

  • Remediating a non-desired system state

Task Statement 5.3: Troubleshoot system and application failures.

Knowledge of:

  • AWS metrics and logging services (for example, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray)

  • AWS service health services (for example, AWS Health, CloudWatch, Systems Manager OpsCenter)

  • Root cause analysis

Skills in:

  • Analyzing failed deployments (for example, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CloudFormation, CloudWatch synthetic monitoring)

  • Analyzing incidents regarding failed processes (for example, auto scaling, Amazon Elastic Container Service [Amazon ECS], Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service [Amazon EKS])