AWS Certified Solutions Architect 4-day Live Online

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This 4-day Live Online course will teach you how to become an AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate!

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

A staggering 21.7% of respondents in the United States and Canada plan to pursue the Associate- or Professional-level of this certification in 2019. Of all cloud professionals surveyed, 43% are cloud architects who must be able to design and deploy scalable solutions. AWS Certified Solutions Architect demonstrates those critical cloud skills have been achieved.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate is also one of this year’s highest-paying certifications, coming in fourth at $132,840. Those pursuing this certification are most likely to be cross-certified in CompTIA, Microsoft and ITIL®.

While most certification exams focus on one primary technology, AWS certifications often cover a couple dozen AWS services. AWS Certified Solutions Architects have verified their skills to:

– Design and deploy scalable, highly available and fault-tolerant systems on AWS.
– Lift and shift of an existing on-premises application to AWS.
– Select the appropriate AWS service based on data, compute, database or security requirements.
– Identify appropriate use of AWS architectural best practices.
– Estimate AWS costs and identify cost control mechanisms.

AWS CERTIFIED SOLUTIONS CERTIFICATION BOOT CAMP

Our AWS Certified Solutions Architect Certification Boot Camp is a comprehensive review of AWS technical knowledge & industry best practices merged with Training Camp’s award-winning comprehensive exam preparation for the AWS SAA-C02 exam.

Our AWS Certified Solutions Boot Camp represents the culmination of hundreds of hours of instructional design, thousands of hours of exam-focused instruction, and tens of thousands of efficiently and effectively skilled, certified students.

AWS CERTIFICATION – SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT COURSE OUTLINE

MODULE 1: AWS OVERVIEW

– How to become an AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

– The evolution of AWS

– Learn basic concepts about regions and availability zones

– Understand the many service offerings of AWS at a high level and the use cases for each

 

MODULE 2: SECURITY BASICS WITH AWS IAM

– Understand the importance of a strong security posture

– Understand the basic features of Identity and Access Management (IAM) including multi-factor authentication, usernames and passwords, and permissions

Hands-on Lab 1: Introduction to AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

 

MODULE 3: STORAGE

–  Learn about S3 simple file storage and identify durability characteristics and use cases

– Understand objects and the components that they include such as keys, values, versions, and metadata

– Define an S3 bucket and learn how to configure them in the AWS Console

– Understand how to secure an S3 bucket

– Differentiate between S3 tiers including Infrequent Access, Reduced Redundancy, and Glacier

– Understand the CloudFront Content Delivery Network and how it can be used to improve website performance

– Understand the use cases for a Gateway Stored Volumes, Gateway Cached Volumes, and Virtual Tape Libraries

– Differentiate Import/Export, Snowball, and Transfer Acceleration, and how each can be used to move large amounts of data into AWS

Hands-on Lab 2: Introduction to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

Hands-on Lab 3: Protecting Data with S3 Versioning

Hands-on Lab 4: S3 Cross-Region Replication

Hands-on Lab 5: S3 Lifecycle Management

Hands-on Lab 6: Create a CloudFront Distribution

 

MODULE 4: EC2

–  Understand virtual server and EC2 instance concepts

– Differentiate EC2 tiers and their use cases

– Understand Spot Instances and savings plans

– Differentiate EC2 instance types that are optimized for different workloads

– Understand general purpose and provisioned IOPs volume types

– Create virtual disks for an instance

– Create a Windows EC2 instance

– Create an EC2 Instance Store

– Create a custom AMI

– Configure a Security Group that controls inbound and outbound traffic

– Apply a Security Group to one or more EC2 instances

– Understand the concept of a Stateful Firewall

Hands-on Lab 7: Introduction to Amazon EC2

Hands-on Lab 8: Configure Security Group rules

Hands-on Lab 9: Working with AMIs and Volumes

 

MODULE 5: MANAGING EC2 INSTANCES

– Configure Elastic Load Balancer and use health checks to monitor instances

– Understand CloudWatch and use it to monitor resources and applications

– Log AWS API calls using CloudTrail

– Monitor traffic within a VPC using VPC Flow Logs

– Use the AWS Command Line to manage EC2 instances

– Use Auto Scaling to increase or reduce EC2 capacity based on conditions that you configure

Hands-on Lab 10: Working with Elastic Load Balancing

Hands-on Lab 11: Assign a Role to an EC2 instance and use the AWS CLI

Hands-on Lab 12: Create CloudWatch Alarms

Hands-on Lab 13: Create an EC2 Auto Scaling Group

 

MODULE 6: ROUTE53

– Learn the fundamentals of DNS

– Configure a hosted zone in Route53

– Modify DNS records

– Differentiate and configure Route53 Routing Policies

Hands-on Lab 14: Working with Route53

 

MODULE 7: DATABASE SERVICES

– Understand different database types

– Create an RDS Instance

– Back-up and take snapshots of RDS database instances

– Scale-out RDS using Read Replicas

– Use Multi-AZ RDS to create a highly-available database service

– Understand DynamoDB concepts

– Create a DynamoDB table

– Understand Elasticache at a high level

– Create an Aurora instance that is compatible with MySQL

Hands-on Lab 15: Introduction to RDS

Hands-on Lab 16: RDS Backups and Snapshots

Hands-on Lab 17: Introduction to DyanmoDB

 

MODULE 8: VIRTUAL PRIVATE CLOUD

– Create a logically isolated section of the AWS cloud and define your own virtual network

– Create different network zones for publicly accessible instances and backend systems

– Connect your site to the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) over a secure Virtual Private Network (VPN)

– Configure Network Address Translation (NAT) to translate public IP addresses to a private IP address range

– Create an Access Control List (ACL) to secure a network

Hands-on Lab 18: Build a VPC

Hands-on Lab 19: Network Address Translation

Hands-on Lab 20: Create a Network ACL

 

MODULE 9: AWS APPLICATION SERVICES

– Understand the value of creating de-coupled applications

– Create a messaging queue using Amazon Simple Queuing Service (SQS)

– Use Simple Workflow (SWF) to order complex processes

– Send email, text, and HTTP notifications and alerts using Simple Notification Service (SNS)

– Import code and automatically create AWS resources using Elastic Beanstalk

– Create templates that ca be used to automate the entire AWS infrastructure using Cloud Formation

– Use Lambda to create serverless functions and eliminate management tasks and resource waste

– Understand Microservices, Serverless, and Containers

– Use ECS, EKS, and Fargate to manage and orchestrate containers