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Amazon AWS exam prep workshop - Architecting Associate

  • CMDBID 1000874
  • Course Code CMAWSAA
  • Duration 2 Days
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Overview

This exam readiness course is designed to prepare learners for the AWS Solution Architect Exam. Covering key topics in architecture, compute, database, encryption, high availability, management, security, and storage. Through a combination of theoretical knowledge, topic reviews, knowledge check questions and hands-on practice in a dedicated AWS sandbox playground, participants will gain the skills and confidence needed to excel in the certification exam.

Additionally, learners will have one month of access to the Cloud Academy platform, providing a wealth of supplementary resources and practice exams.

Audience

This course is intended for:

Individuals who want to earn an AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certification

Individuals who want an instructor-led course to help them focus on preparing for their certification exam

Customers and APN Partners who have six to 12 months of experience with AWS including a strong architecture background and experience

Individuals in roles such as solutions architect and cloud architect who are designing services or architectures in the AWS Cloud

Individuals who have not taken Architecting on AWS in approximately the last six months

Skills Gained

In this course, you will learn to:

  • Make architectural decisions based on AWS architectural principles and best practices
  • Leverage AWS services to make your infrastructure scalable, reliable, and highly available
  • Leverage AWS Managed Services to enable greater flexibility and resiliency in an infrastructure
  • Make an AWS-based infrastructure more efficient to increase performance and reduce costs
  • Use the Well-Architected Framework to improve architectures with AWS solutions
  • Navigate the logistics of the examination process, exam structure, and question types
  • Identify how questions relate to AWS architectural concepts
  • Interpret the concepts being tested by an exam question

Prerequisites

Learners should be preparing to write the AWS Solution Architect certification and have attended the official AWS Solution Architect course or have gained equivalent knowledge.

Outline

Day 1: Foundation and Core Services
Compute Services
  • Introduction to EC2 Instances and Families
  • Auto Scaling and Load Balancing
  • Containers
  • Lambda
Storage Solutions
  • Amazon S3 for Object Storage
  • EBS (Elastic Block Store) and Instance Storage
  • EFS (Elastic File Store) and FSX
  • Storage Gateway
  • AWS Backup
Network
  • AWS Global Infrastructure
  • VPC
  • VPN and Direct Connect
  • Endpoints
  • Global Accelerator
  • AWS CloudFront
  • Route 53
Database Services
  • Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service)
  • Amazon DynamoDB
  • Amazon ElastiCache
  • Amazon Redshift
High Availability and Management
  • Design for Failure
  • Backup and Disaster Recovery
  • RDS Multi AZ
  • Aurora HA
AWS Architecture
  • AWS Step Functions
  • Amazon Kinesis
  • Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
  • Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
  • Multi-Tier Architecture
  • API Gateway
Day 2:
Security
  • Identity Access Management (IAM)
  • Amazon Cognito
  • IAM Identity Centre
  • AWS WAF
  • AWS Firewall Manager
  • AWS Shield
  • Amazon Inspector
  • Amazon Guard Duty
Management
  • Amazon CloudWatch
  • AWS CloudTrail
  • AWS Config
  • AWS Organisations
  • AWS Control Tower
  • AWS Service Catalog
  • AWS Systems Manager
  • AWS CloudFront
  • VPC Flow Logs
  • Dashboards
  • Cost Management
  • ETL
  • AWS Artifact
  • AWS CloudFormation
Encryption
  • Encryption
  • AWK KMS
  • CloudHSM
  • Amazon S3 Encryption
  • AWS Secrets Manager
  • AWS Certificate Manager
Lab Challenge
  • AWS Solution Architect Lab Challenge.
Exam Question Techniques
  • Different techniques on how to breakdown and tackle exam questions.
  • Review a number of different example question types.
  • Direction for continued self-study and practice on the Cloud Academy platform.

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