AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Exam Crash Training

We offer private customized training for groups of 3 or more attendees.

Course Description

 
Amazon Web Services certifications have never been more popular as they have become the preferred method for showing mastery of knowledge and skills in the Cloud ecosystem. AWS Certification is an increasingly important credential that companies are looking for when hiring for key technology positions. In AWS, no certification is more important than the Certified Solutions Architect Associate. This exam validates the candidates ability to design appropriate architectural solutions in the ever-growing AWS ecosystem.--------------------------- This live virtual training will combine infrastructure diagrams and practice questions that follow the five certification exam question domains. Each question domain point will consist of a summary discussion of the relevant architectural principles and a dissection of practice questions, detailing why each answer choice is either correct or incorrect. This class is an essential part of studying for and passing the test.--------------------------- This Live Virtual Training is for: - Certification exam candidates seeking to hone their skills on exam topics - Infrastructure or Application architects responsible for designing systems that will be deployed in AWS - Security or network specialists who will be managing/auditing AWS resources - Programmers or application engineers who will be developing code to be deployed in AWS - Functional or technical managers whose team is responsible for AWS infrastructure ------------------------------You will learn: - The pillars of the Well-Architected Framework - Most important concepts from each domain in the exam - AWS certification exam general strategies - How to design resilient architectures - How to design performant architectures - How to design secure applications and architectures - How to design and recognize cost-optimized architectures - The principles behind operational excellence and how this relates to DevOps and DevSecOps
Course Length: 2 Days
Course Tuition: $970 (US)

Prerequisites

Solid understanding of technology stacks including ipv4 networking, virtual machines, storage choices and multi-tier application architecture - Basic working knowledge of common AWS services such as VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, IAM and others

Course Outline

 

Segment 1: Exam guide and general strategies – 45 min

Exam logistics

Exam guide discussion

Question domain explanation
 

Segment 2: Design Resilient Architectures – 120 min

Storage principles
 

Break - 10m
 

High Availability and Fault Tolerance


Break - 10m
 

Multi-tier architectures

Decoupling mechanisms
 

Break - 10m
 

Segment 3: Design Performant Architectures, Part 1 – 60 min

Performant storage and databases

Caching solutions

 

Q&A

 

Segment 4: Design Performant Architectures, Part 2 – 30 min

Elasticity and scalability
 

Segment 5: Specify Secure Applications and Architectures – 90 min

Securing application tiers

 

Break - 10m

Securing data

Single-VPC network security
 

Break - 10m
 

Segment 6: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures – 60 min

Cost-optimized storage

Cost-optimized compute resources
 

Break - 10m
 

Segment 7: Define Operationally Excellent Architectures - 30m

Principles for enabling operational excellence


Q&A - 10

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