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AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate

Standardize your team on AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate with a structured AWS training path — virtual labs, N2K practice exams, and team admin reporting included on every CBT Nuggets subscription.

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Course
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Exam cost
8
Core skills
AWS cloud engineering team reviewing architecture diagrams together
Difficulty
Difficulty: 3 of 5 (Moderate)
Moderate
Exam cost
150 USD
Courses on path
1
Official source
Vendor cert page
Exam code
  • SOA-C03

Skills your team builds

AWS Management ConsoleAWS CLIMonitoring and ReportingHigh AvailabilityData ManagementSecurity and ComplianceNetworkingAutomation

Training path

Your team's training path

One CBT Nuggets course covers the full AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate path. Your team can start today and have admin reporting visible from day one.

  1. Start here · primary course

    COA-C03

    This AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate (COA-C03) training course prepares you to manage and scale cloud environments like a modern operations professional. Designed for IT team members who need to move beyond manual administration, this course focuses on high-level automation and observability. You’ll learn the deployment of infrastructure via CDK templates, secure hybrid environments with IAM Roles Anywhere, and maintain visibility through advanced CloudWatch and EKS/ECS metric collection. By the end of this course, you’ll have the technical skills to manage complex cloud initiatives, and the knowledge required to pass the COA-C03 exam and earn your CloudOps certification. Start training now with unlimited practice exams and expert guidance.

    Scott Pletcher
    150 videosPractice exam19h 42m
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Every certification includes

Expert-led video training
Virtual labs
N2K practice exams
Per-team completion reporting

AWS career ladder

Where AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate sits in your team's AWS progression

The cert your team is on now, plus the levels above and below. Use this to map an engineer's next-step credential or to plan headcount coverage across tiers.

  1. Entry level

    1 cert

    AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

    CLF-C02

  2. Associate level

    4 certs

    AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate

    SOA-C03

    You are here

    AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate

    DEA-C01

    AWS Certified Developer – Associate

    DVA-C02

    AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

    SAA-C03

  3. Professional level

    2 certs

    AWS Certified AI Practitioner

    AIF-C01

    AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate

    MLA-C01

  4. Specialty level

    2 certs

    AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty

    ANS-C01

    AWS Certified Security – Specialty

    SCS-C03

Customer outcome

Make AWS a coverage number your auditor can quote

AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate certified engineers are easy to count and easy to prove. CBT Nuggets bundles the prep into a single team playlist so leadership sees who's on the path, who finished, and who's exam-ready — without spreadsheets.

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from foundation to credential — assigned and tracked as one playlist

Coverage proof

Make AWSa number on your team capability sheet, not a single engineer’s certificate.

Standardizing your team on AWS gives leadership and auditors a coverage number they can quote — and gives AWS incident response a baseline of capability you can predict instead of hoping for.

Credential: AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate

Exam
  • SOA-C03

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