# Technologies and Concepts
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The following list contains technologies and concepts that might appear on the exam. This list is non-exhaustive and is subject to change. The order and placement of the items in this list is no indication of their relative weight or importance on the exam:
+ Application deployment
+ Application integration
+ Application pipelines
+ Automation
+ Code repository best practices
+ Cost optimization
+ Deployment requirements
+ Hybrid deployments
+ IAM policies
+ Metrics, monitoring, alarms, and logging
+ Network ACL and security group design and implementation
+ Operational best practices
+ Rollback procedures