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AutoOps+ is CompTIA's vendor-neutral IT automation certification, live since June 2, 2026. This guide, current as of October 2026, covers the AT0-001 exam, the four domains and their weights, the tools CompTIA expects you to know, cost and renewal, DoD 8140 status, and how it compares with Cloud+, Linux+ and the Terraform Associate.
CompTIA AutoOps+ is a vendor-neutral certification for IT operations staff who automate their work with scripts, infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines. CompTIA launched it on June 2, 2026, under exam code AT0-001.
The exam checks whether you can write and version automation code, keep configuration consistent across many systems, build CI pipelines in tools such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions, and ship changes with canary, blue-green or rolling deployments. The tools CompTIA names run from Bash, PowerShell and Python to Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, Puppet, Chef and SaltStack. None of them belongs to a single cloud, and CompTIA says the skills apply across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and VMware.
AutoOps+ is an expansion certification, which CompTIA defines as shorter and more focused than a job-role cert, and it is the second entry in the Expansion Series after SecAI+. It has no formal prerequisites, but CompTIA recommends two to three years in a core IT operations role, with Network+, Linux+, Cloud+ or Server+ as background. It is issued by CompTIA as a V1 exam, so there is no older version to study from and CompTIA's objectives are the safest guide.
Scripting, Git, infrastructure as code principles and code troubleshooting. The heaviest domain at 31%.
Configuration management, drift, push vs pull, and REST APIs. 25% of the exam.
Pipelines in Jenkins or GitHub Actions, secrets and artifacts. 24% of the exam.
Canary, blue-green and rolling releases, service levels, and IAM for pipelines. 20% of the exam.
Four things that separate AutoOps+ from the platform DevOps exams and from the rest of the CompTIA lineup in 2026.
AutoOps+ is not a rung on the A+ to Security+ ladder. CompTIA built it as an add-on to the infrastructure pathway of Network+, Server+, Linux+ and Cloud+, and it is the second certification in the Expansion Series after SecAI+. The exam is short (60 questions at most in 60 minutes) because it tests one skill set instead of a whole job role.
CompTIA's tool list covers Bash, PowerShell, Python, Git, Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, Puppet, Chef, SaltStack, Jenkins, GitHub Actions and GitLab. You're expected to read and fix work in several of them rather than master one. That breadth is the selling point, and it's also why the exam can feel wide if you've only ever used one toolchain.
Per CompTIA, passing AutoOps+ earns 35 CEUs toward Cloud+, 38 toward Linux+ and 28 toward Security+. Linux+ and Cloud+ each need 50 CEUs per three-year cycle, so one exam covers most of that. Our CPE requirements comparison lays out the renewal rules by certification body.
AutoOps+ is not yet approved for DoD 8140. CompTIA says the exam was designed to comply with ISO 17024 and is pending ANAB review, and that CompTIA plans to seek DoD 8140 approval after launch. Until that happens it won't satisfy a cyber-coded position requirement on its own. The current matrix is published at the DoD Cyber Exchange.
For now its weight comes from CompTIA's name with employers and from the work it describes. Scripting, infrastructure as code and pipeline skills appear in sysadmin, cloud and DevOps postings whether or not a certificate is attached, and AutoOps+ gives you a way to prove them.
The certification, the AT0-001 exam, and what it takes to keep AutoOps+ active, as of October 2026.
CompTIA states plainly that AutoOps+ is not meant to replace platform-specific DevOps certifications. It gives you the vendor-neutral base. The next step is usually the tool or platform your team actually runs, and three directions follow naturally from AT0-001.
If Terraform is your team's IaC tool, the Terraform Associate tests it directly. HashiCorp's one-hour online multiple choice exam costs $70.50 plus taxes and fees and is valid for two years. AutoOps+ treats IaC as one topic among many, while the Terraform Associate goes deep on state, modules and the plan and apply workflow.
When one cloud dominates your environment, that vendor's credentials go further into its services. CompTIA's own comparison names the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer and Microsoft's AZ-400 DevOps Engineer Expert as the platform-specific options. Our guides to the AWS CloudOps Engineer and the Azure Administrator cover the operations exams for each cloud.
If your pipelines deploy to Kubernetes, the CKA is the credential for running the cluster itself. It's a two-hour performance-based exam in a live environment, $445 with one retake included, and valid for two years. Expect a different kind of test from AT0-001, with no multiple choice at all.
AutoOps+ adds automation to an infrastructure base you already have. Start with the core CompTIA infrastructure certs, add AutoOps+, then go deeper into the tool or cloud your team runs.
The infrastructure base
The automation credential
Tool and platform credentials
Two questions to answer before you commit: can you sit it, and should you pursue AutoOps+ specifically. Here's a straight answer to both.
No prerequisite credential required.
CompTIA lists no prerequisites for AutoOps+. Buy a voucher, schedule through Pearson VUE, and test at a center or online through OnVUE. Nobody checks your work history first. The exam is offered in English only.
The exam assumes real operations time.
CompTIA recommends two to three years in a core IT operations role, such as network, cloud or systems administrator, with Network+, Linux+, Cloud+ or Server+ as background. You don't need to be a software developer, but you should be comfortable reading and writing basic Bash, PowerShell or Python and working in Git. If YAML files and REST API calls are still new to you, start there before you book.
CompTIA ties AutoOps+ to infrastructure roles where automation is now part of the job, and to the DevOps-leaning roles people move into next. The six below come from CompTIA's own role guidance for the certification.
Builds and maintains the CI/CD pipelines between development and operations. AutoOps+ covers the pieces this role touches every day: Git workflows, pipeline definitions, secrets handling and deployment strategies.
Keeps servers and operating systems running. AutoOps+ validates the Bash, PowerShell and Python scripting that turns repeated provisioning and configuration work into code you can version and rerun.
Deploys and manages cloud resources. The infrastructure as code, REST API and CI/CD content carries over to AWS, Azure and Google Cloud because the exam is vendor-neutral.
Replaces manual runbooks with scripts, configuration management and pipelines. Of the six roles here, this is the one whose job description reads most like the AT0-001 objectives.
Runs the shared platform and owns the service levels on top of it. The Continuous Delivery domain covers SLOs, SLAs, MTTR and the release strategies that keep those numbers healthy.
Manages network configuration and policy across many devices. CompTIA points to automating configuration, security policies and infrastructure as code as the overlap with this role.
Cloud+ and Linux+ are the certs CompTIA recommends before AutoOps+, and the Terraform Associate is the tool-specific exam CompTIA itself compares it with. Shortest version: Linux+ and Cloud+ run the systems, AutoOps+ automates them, and the Terraform Associate covers one IaC tool in depth.
| CompTIA AutoOps+ | CompTIA Cloud+ | CompTIA Linux+ | Terraform Associate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Issuer | CompTIA | CompTIA | CompTIA | HashiCorp |
| Current Exam | AT0-001 (V1) | CV0-004 (V4) | XK0-006 (V8) | Terraform Associate (004) |
| Focus | Scripting, IaC, CI/CD and secure delivery across platforms | Cloud architecture, deployment, operations and security | Linux system management, security, automation and troubleshooting | Terraform workflow, configuration, state and modules |
| Questions and Time | Up to 60, 60 minutes | Up to 90, 90 minutes | Up to 90, 90 minutes | Count not published, 1 hour |
| Question Types | Multiple choice and performance-based | Multiple choice and performance-based | Multiple choice and performance-based | Multiple choice |
| Passing Score | 600 of 900 | 750 of 900 | 720 of 900 | Not published |
| Domains | 4, weighted | 6, weighted | 5, weighted | 8 objectives, no weights |
| Recommended Experience | 2 to 3 years in IT operations | 2 to 3 years as a sysadmin or cloud engineer | 12 months with Linux servers | Terminal skills, on-premises and cloud architecture basics |
| Exam Cost | $298 | $399 | $399 | $70.50 plus taxes and fees |
| Validity and Renewal | 3 years, 15 CEUs | 3 years, 50 CEUs | 3 years, 50 CEUs | 2 years |
| Best For | Ops staff automating across platforms | Cloud administrators and engineers | Linux administrators and engineers | Engineers who write Terraform daily |
Prices are vendor list prices in USD as of October 2026 and vary by region. The CompTIA certs stack: passing AutoOps+ earns 35 CEUs toward Cloud+ and 38 toward Linux+ renewal. Read the Terraform Associate guide for the full detail on HashiCorp's exam.
Certification Matchups: the published facts, strengths and weak spots of 33 certifications, side by side.
Our CompTIA AutoOps+ boot camp is four days of live, instructor-led training, in person or live online, with one day for each AT0-001 domain. It uses official CompTIA courseware and includes your AT0-001 exam voucher, a free second exam voucher, a free course retake within one year, practice questions and an exam review guide. You can sit the exam in our onsite Pearson VUE center at the end of the week.
The AT0-001 exam guide, the Linux+ base it builds on, where it sits in the CompTIA lineup, and the pipeline and Kubernetes credentials that come after it.
A domain-by-domain walk through AT0-001: what Automation Coding Concepts, System Configuration, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery each test, who the exam is built for, and who should skip it.
The Linux+ V8 exam CompTIA recommends as background for AutoOps+: 90 questions in 90 minutes, five domains, heavier performance-based questions, and why lab time is the real preparation.
CompTIA certifications mapped to the work you want next, from CySA+ for the SOC to Cloud+, Linux+ and AutoOps+ for the people automating the repetitive work.
All six GitHub exams as of September 2026, including GH-200 GitHub Actions, one of the two CI tools AutoOps+ names in its Continuous Integration domain.
Three hands-on Kubernetes exams with no multiple choice, what each one tests, and why the CKA is the usual first step for infrastructure and platform people.
How to read an objectives document line by line, including what its verbs say about depth. Worth the time on a V1 exam like AT0-001, where no older version exists to study from.
Every renewal rule in one place, including CompTIA CEU counts and fees by certification and the fact that CompTIA offers no grace period.
The AT0-001 exam is organized into four domains. Automation Coding Concepts is the largest at 31 percent, and with System Configuration it accounts for 56 percent of the exam, so scripting, Git and configuration management are where most of your study should go. Click any domain for what it covers.
The largest domain. Writing, testing and maintaining automation scripts with variables, functions and loops, versioning code with Git commands, branching strategies and semantic versioning, the infrastructure as code principles of reusability, immutability and idempotency, and troubleshooting the syntax, runtime and merge errors that show up during development and deployment.
Deploying solutions and managing configuration drift with automation tools and state management, comparing remote and local, declarative and imperative, and push and pull approaches, performing create, read, update and delete (CRUD) operations against REST APIs, and fixing API communication failures, certificate problems and syntax errors in configuration files.
The environment around a CI pipeline: secrets management, artifact management and task runners. It also covers orchestration, dependency handling and automated rollback, and configuring hooks, triggers and pipeline definitions in CI tools such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
Releasing changes with canary, blue-green, rolling and in-place deployment strategies, interpreting SLOs, SLAs, uptime, MTTR and feedback loops, and protecting automated delivery pipelines through CLI, SDK and identity and access management (IAM) settings.
Domains and weights reflect the CompTIA AutoOps+ AT0-001 (V1) exam objectives summary on comptia.org, checked October 19, 2026. Some CompTIA blog posts group the same content under other labels, such as Infrastructure as Code or Secure Continuous Delivery. The four names above are the ones in the objectives, so confirm the current objectives on CompTIA's site before scheduling.
The questions candidates ask most often when researching the CompTIA AutoOps+ certification.
CompTIA AutoOps+ is a vendor-neutral certification that validates IT automation skills: writing and versioning automation scripts, managing system configuration and infrastructure as code, building CI pipelines, and delivering changes securely. It's an expansion certification, shorter and more focused than a job-role cert, and it's built for people who already work in network, cloud or systems operations.
CompTIA launched AutoOps+ on June 2, 2026, under exam code AT0-001 (V1). It's the second certification in CompTIA's Expansion Series, after SecAI+. CompTIA estimates the V1 exam will retire about three years after launch, so if you plan to test late in that window, check the certification page for a successor version first.
The AT0-001 exam has a maximum of 60 questions to complete in 60 minutes. It mixes multiple-choice and performance-based questions, and the passing score is 600 on a scale of 100 to 900. CompTIA uses scaled scoring, so 600 doesn't mean 60 percent correct. The exam is offered in English and is delivered by Pearson VUE at a test center or online.
The four domains are Automation Coding Concepts (31 percent), System Configuration (25 percent), Continuous Integration (24 percent), and Continuous Delivery (20 percent). Automation Coding Concepts is the largest, and together with System Configuration it makes up 56 percent of the exam, so scripting, Git and configuration management deserve most of your study time.
No. CompTIA lists no formal prerequisites, so anyone can buy a voucher and sit the exam. It isn't a beginner certification, though. CompTIA recommends two to three years in a core IT operations role, such as network, cloud or systems administrator, and suggests Network+, Linux+, Cloud+ or Server+ (or similar certifications) as background.
As of October 2026, the AutoOps+ AT0-001 exam voucher costs $298 USD in CompTIA's US store, and a voucher with Retake Assurance costs $388. Prices vary by region. Training Camp's AutoOps+ boot camp includes the exam voucher and a free second voucher. Confirm the current price on CompTIA's site before booking.
CompTIA lists Bash, PowerShell, Python, Git, Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, SaltStack, Chef, Puppet, REST APIs, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab, secrets management, IAM, and deployment strategies such as canary, blue-green and rolling deployments. The exam is vendor-neutral, so expect to read and troubleshoot work across several of these tools rather than prove deep mastery of one.
Not yet. CompTIA says AutoOps+ was designed to comply with the ISO 17024 standard and is pending ANAB review, and that it plans to seek DoD 8140 approval after launch. Until that approval is final, don't count on AutoOps+ to meet a DoD 8140 requirement. If you need a credential for a DoD cyber position today, check the current matrix first. See the current DoD 8140 work role paths.
For most people, Linux+ or Cloud+ comes first, because CompTIA recommends them as background for AutoOps+. Linux+ (XK0-006) and Cloud+ (CV0-004) are 90-minute exams with up to 90 questions and a $399 voucher, and they test running Linux systems and cloud environments. AutoOps+ is shorter and narrower and tests automating that work. Passing it later also earns 38 CEUs toward Linux+ renewal and 35 toward Cloud+.
It depends on how wide your automation work is. The Terraform Associate (004) from HashiCorp goes deep on one tool in a one-hour multiple choice exam for $70.50 plus taxes and fees. AutoOps+ covers scripting, configuration management, CI pipelines and delivery across many tools, with performance-based questions. If you spend your day in Terraform, take the Terraform Associate. If you automate across servers, clouds and pipelines, AutoOps+ fits better, and the two pair well.
CompTIA connects AutoOps+ to roles such as systems administrator, cloud administrator or engineer, network operations specialist, infrastructure engineer, DevOps engineer and security operations analyst, and to next-step roles such as automation engineer, platform engineer and site reliability engineer. No certification guarantees a job, but AutoOps+ gives an operations professional a way to show automation skills on paper.
AutoOps+ is valid for three years. You renew it through CompTIA's Continuing Education program by earning 15 CEUs during the three-year cycle and paying the $75 CE fee for that period. CEUs can come from approved training, activities or related certifications under the current program rules.
For operations staff who already script and want that work recognized, yes, especially if you work across more than one cloud or toolset. The exam is short, the voucher is $298, and passing adds CEUs to Linux+, Cloud+ and Security+ renewals. It's a weaker choice if you need DoD 8140 approval today, if you're new to IT, or if your job lives in one platform where that vendor's own DevOps certification goes deeper.
Tell us what you run today and which of AutoOps+, Cloud+, Linux+ or the Terraform Associate you're weighing, for yourself or for a team, and we'll help you work out the order.