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Management and Governance

Core

AWS CloudFormation

Explicit provisioning, deployment troubleshooting, cross-account/Region, and automation skills.

Key points

  • CloudFormation manages declarative stacks, change sets, events, updates, outputs, and rollback across their lifecycle.

Best-known use cases

  • D1.1, D1.2, and D3.1: provision or repair the named stack and follow events to the first failed resource.

What candidates often confuse it with

  • CloudFormation provisions stack resources; StackSets extends stack instances across accounts and Regions, while RAM shares supported existing resources.

Key takeaway

Use stack events and the service error to diagnose configuration, dependency, permission, or capacity failure.

Related services

  • AWS Auto Scaling
  • AWS CDK
  • AWS CloudTrail

Relevant exam tasks

  • D1.1 — Task 1.1: Implement metrics, alarms, and filters by using AWS monitoring and logging services.
  • 1.1.1 — Use AWS services (for example, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus) to configure monitoring and logging for workloads (for example, serverless, compute, AI).
  • D1.2 — Task 1.2: Identify and remediate issues by using monitoring and availability metrics.
  • 1.2.1 — Analyze performance metrics and automate remediation strategies by using AWS services and functionality (for example, CloudWatch, Lambda, AWS Systems Manager, CloudTrail, Kiro, AWS DevOps Agent).
  • D3.1 — Task 3.1: Provision and maintain cloud resources.
  • 3.1.1 — Create and manage AMIs and container images (for example, EC2 Image Builder).

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SOA-C03 at a glance

Category
Associate
Duration
130 minutes
Questions
65 total; 50 scored and 15 unidentified unscored
Formats
Multiple choice and multiple response
Scoring
100–1,000 scaled score; 720 minimum passing score

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