Overview What You Will Learn Curriculum Instructor

Course Overview

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate examination is intended for individuals who perform a solutions architect role and have one or more years of hands-on experience designing available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems on AWS. In this course, you’re going to learn how to get started with AWS as a solutions architect so you can pass the exam and officially get certified.

In this practical, hands-on course, the main objective is to provide you education on not just understanding the ins and outs of AWS, but also on how you can apply what you learn to real world scenarios. Blending practical work with solid theoretical training, from the basics of AWS to mastery, you will get the training you need to get certified as a solutions architect. The theory is important to build a solid foundation, however theory alone isn’t going to get the job done so that’s why this course is packed with practical hands-on examples that you can follow step by step.

By the end of this course, you’ll be well-equipped with knowledge about the major components of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and you’ll master how to design secure and robust solutions using AWS technologies. Get ready to see your dreams come true!

What You Will Learn

  • Design systems that are secure, reliable ,high-performing and cost-efficient.
  • Explore migration or designing new applications for the Cloud.
  • Design high availability, fault, tolerance and scalability.
  • Explore how to create, manage, provision and update related resources using AWS Cloud Formation and much more.
  • Learn: IAM, S3, CloudFront, Storage Gateway, Snowball.
  • Learn: EC2, CloudWatch, CLI, Lambda, Route 53 , RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift.
  • Learn: ElastiCache, Aurora, VPC , SQS, SNS, Elastic Transcoder, Kinesis.
  • Learn how to make architectural decisions based on the AWS recommended architectural principles and best practices.
  • Leverage AWS services to make your infrastructure scalable, reliable and highly available.
  • Learn how to make an AWS based infrastructure more efficient in order to increase performance and reduce costs.

Program Curriculum

  • Amazon AWS Resources
  • How to Create AWS Account
  • $7 Million Cybersecurity Scholarship by EC-Council
  • Chapter 1 Quiz

  • Introduction to IAM
  • Hands-on IAM
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • Introduction to Amazon EC2
  • Hands-on Amazon EC2
  • EC2 Instance Connect
  • Installing Git, Docker, and Apache
  • Instance User Data
  • Security Groups
  • Instance Lifecycle
  • Amazon Machine Images (AMI)
  • Placement Groups
  • Instance Types
  • Instance Purchasing Options
  • IP Addressing and Elastic IP Addresses (EIPs)
  • Elastic Network Interfaces (ENIs)
  • Chapter 3 Quiz

  • Introduction to Amazon EBS
  • Amazon EBS: Volumes
  • Amazon EBS: Volumes Hands-on
  • Amazon EBS: Snapshots
  • EBS Encryption
  • Bonus: Lifecycle Manager
  • Instance Store
  • Amazon EFS
  • EBS vs. EFS
  • Chapter 4 Quiz

  • Introduction to Amazon S3
  • Hands-on with S3 Buckets and Objects
  • S3 Versioning
  • S3 Encryption
  • S3 Security and Bucket Policies
  • S3 Websites
  • S3 CORS
  • S3 Data Consistency Model
  • Chapter 5 Quiz

  • Introducing the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)
  • Installing the AWS CLI
  • Configuring the AWS CLI
  • EC2 CLI Configuration, Roles, and Policies
  • Using the AWS CLI with Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and IAM
  • Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata
  • Chapter 6 Quiz

  • Logging with Amazon S3
  • S3 MFA Delete
  • S3 Replication
  • S3 Performance
  • S3 Storage Classes
  • S3 Policies
  • Athena Intro
  • Athena Hands-on
  • Athena vs. Macie
  • Chapter 7 Quiz

  • AWS Databases & RDS Introduction
  • RDS Backups, Multi-AZ & Read Replica
  • Hands-on - Databases
  • Types of Databases in AWS
  • Amazon Aurora
  • Amazon Glue
  • DynamoDB
  • Redshift
  • ElasticCache
  • Amazon S3
  • Athena
  • Glue
  • Neptune
  • ElasticSearch
  • Chapter 8 Quiz

  • Snowball Overview
  • Storage Gateway
  • Storage Gateway (Hands-on)
  • Amazon FSx
  • Amazon FSx (Hands-on)
  • Chapter 9 Quiz

  • Route53 Overview
  • Route53 Hands-on + EC2 Instance + Hosted Zone + SOA NS Records
  • TTL Overview
  • Route 53 Health Checks Hands-on
  • Routing Policy Lab - Simple Hands-on
  • Routing Policy Lab - MultiValue Hands-on
  • Routing Policy Lab - Failover Hands-on
  • Routing Policy Lab - Latency Hands-on
  • Routing Policy lab - Geolocation Hands-on
  • Routing Policy Lab - Weighted
  • CNAME vs. Alias
  • Routing Policy - Geo Proximity
  • 3rd Party Domains & Route 53
  • Chapter 10 Quiz

  • VPC Overview (Default & Custom)
  • Difference Between Public and Private IP
  • VPC Hands-on
  • Subnets
  • Internet Gateway
  • Route Tables
  • NAT Gateways
  • NACL’s & Security Groups
  • VPC Security Groups
  • Flow Logs
  • VPC Peering
  • VPC Endpoints
  • Bastion Hosts
  • Site to Site VPN
  • AWS Direct Connect
  • AWS VPN CloudHub
  • Transit Gateway
  • Chapter 11 Quiz

  • Load Balancers Overview
  • Health Checks
  • Types of Load Balancers in AWS
  • Classic Load Balancer with Hands-on
  • Network Load Balancer with Hands-on
  • Application Load Balancer with Hands-on
  • ELB Stickiness
  • ELB Cross Zone Load Balancing
  • ELB SSL Certs
  • ELB SNI
  • ELB Connection Draining
  • AWS Load Balancer Troubleshooting and Monitoring
  • ASG Overview
  • ASG Alarms & Good to Know
  • ASG Hands-on
  • ASG Policies
  • HA & Fault Tolerance
  • ELB ASG for Solutions Architect
  • Chapter 12 Quiz

  • Serverless Overview
  • Lambda Overview & Concepts
  • Lambda Hands-on
  • Lambda Limits
  • Lambda Edge
  • Dynamo DB Overview
  • DynamoDB Security Hands-on
  • DynamoDB Advanced Features
  • API Gateway Overview
  • API Gateway Hands-on
  • API Gateway Security
  • AWS Cognito
  • Chapter 13 Quiz

  • Disaster Recovery Overview
  • Database Migration Service (DMS)
  • Database Migration Service DMS (Hands-on)
  • On-Premises Strategies with AWS
  • DataSync - Overview
  • Transferring Large Datasets into AWS
  • AWS Backup - Overview
  • AWS Backup – Hands-on
  • Chapter 14 Quiz

  • AWS CloudFront Overview
  • CloudFront Signed URL / Cookies
  • CloudFront Advanced Concepts
  • AWS Global Accelerator - Overview
  • Global Accelerator Hands-on
  • Chapter 15 Quiz

  • AWS CloudWatch Dashboard Overview
  • AWS CloudWatch Logs (Hands-on)
  • AWS CloudWatch Alarms (Hands-on)
  • AWS CloudWatch Events (Hands-on)
  • AWS Config Overview
  • Config Rules
  • AWS Config (Hands-on)
  • AWS CloudTrail Overview
  • CloudTrail Hands-on
  • CloudTrail vs. Config vs. CloudWatch
  • EventBridge Overview
  • EventBridge Hands-on
  • CloudWatch Agent & CloudWatch Logs Agent
  • EC2 Instance Recovery with CloudWatch Alarms
  • Chapter 16 Quiz

  • Intro to Messaging
  • Amazon SQS + Standard Queues Overview
  • SQS - Standard Queue (Hands-on)
  • SQS - Queue Access Policy
  • SQS - Message Visibility Timeout
  • SQS - Dead Letter Queues
  • SQS - Request Response
  • SQS - Delay Queues
  • SQS - FIFO Queues (Hands-on)
  • SQS + Auto Scaling Group
  • Amazon SNS - Overview
  • Amazon SNS - Hands-on
  • SNS and SQS - Fan Out Pattern
  • Kinesis Overview
  • Kinesis Data Streams (Hands-on)
  • Data Ordering for Kinesis vs. SQS FIFO
  • SQS vs. SNS vs. Kinesis
  • Chapter 17 Quiz

  • CICD Introduction
  • CloudFormation Intro
  • CloudFormation Hands-on
  • CloudFormation - Extras (Stacksets)
  • Step Functions & SWF
  • Amazon EMR
  • Amazon Opswork
  • Elastic Transcoder
  • Amazon Workspaces
  • Amazon App Sync
  • Amazon Cost Explorer
  • Chapter 18 Quiz
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Instructor

Juan E. Galvan

Juan E. Galvan has been an entrepreneur since grade school. His background is in the tech space from Digital Marketing, E-commerce, Web Development to Programming. He believes in continuous education with the best of a University Degree without all the downsides of burdensome costs and inefficient methods. He looks forward to helping you expand your skillsets.

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