Certified AWS Solutions Architect (Voucher Included)   

The AWS Architect Associate course is designed for solutions architects and solution design engineers who want to learn fundamental skills to architect their IT solutions on AWS and more.

Requirements:

Hardware Requirements:

• This course can be taken on either a PC, Mac, or Chromebook.

Software Requirements:

• PC: Windows 8 or later.
• Mac: macOS 12 or later.
• Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox is preferred. Microsoft Edge and Safari are also compatible.
• Virtual Labs included with the course
• Microsoft Word Online
• Adobe Acrobat Reader
• Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.

Other:

• Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.

Instructional Material Requirements:

The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and available online.

• Study guide
• Virtual labs
• Practice exams

In this online training course, you will be taught the fundamental skills to architect your IT solutions on AWS. AWS Architect Associate is a course for system engineers and system developers that will cover how to optimize the AWS Cloud by understanding AWS services and how they fit into cloud-based solutions.

This course can be used to prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam. This course offers enrollment with a voucher. The voucher is prepaid access to sit for the certifying exam upon eligibility.

1. Course Overview
1. Introduction to AWS Architect Associate Course and Exam Objectives
2. The Well Architected Framework and the AWS Global Architecture
1. AWS Well Architected Framework
2. AWS Global Architecture
3. Building a Server-based Architecture in AWS
1. Virtual Private Cloud (VPC): Overview and Subnets
2. Virtual Private Cloud (VPC): Internet Connectivity, Routing, NAT, Network Firewall
3. Virtual Private Cloud (VPC): Security Groups and ACLs
4. Virtual Private Cloud (VPC): VPNs, Direct Connect, Peering, Transit Gateways, and Endpoints
5. Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2): Overview, Architecture and Pricing
6. Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2): Launching and Accessing a Linux and Windows Server
7. Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2): AMIs and Instance Types
8. Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2): Storage: IS, EBS, EFS, FSx, S3
9. Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2): IP addressing, Network Interfaces, Security Groups and Placement Groups
10. Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2): Auto Scaling
11. Application AutoScaling
12. Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2): Elastic Load Balancers
13. Elastic Container Service and Elastic Kubernetes Service
14. Relational Database Service (RDS): Overview, Pricing, Instances, Storage, Encryption, and Backups
15. Relational Database Service (RDS): Multi-AZ, Read Replicas, RDS Proxy
16. Relational Database Service (RDS): Amazon Aurora
17. Amazon Elasticache
4. Architecting with Amazon S3 Storage
1. Simple Storage Service (S3): Storage Review, S3 Overview, and Architecture
2. Simple Storage Service (S3): Storage Classes, Lifecyle Policies and Performance
3. Simple Storage Service (S3): Permissions, Encryption, Versioning, MFA Delete, and Object Lock
4. Simple Storage Service (S3): Static Website Hosting
5. Simple Storage Service (S3): Additional Services and Tools
5. Improving Access and Reliability to your AWS Services
1. Amazon CloudFront & AWS Global Accelerator
2. Amazon Route 53
6. Building a Server-based Architecture in AWS
1. Introducing the Serverless Architecture
2. Lambda and API Gateway
3. AWS Step Functions
4. Amazon DynamoDB
5. DocumentDB, Redshift, Lake Formation, and Neptune
6. Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, Amazon SES, Amazon Pinpoint, and Amazon MQ
7. Migrating, Transferring, and Syncing Data with Amazon S3
1. AWS Storage Gateway and AWS Backup
2. AWS Snowcone, Snowball and Snowmobile
3. AWS DataSync, AWS Transfer, AWS Database Migration Service, and AWS Batch
8. Authentication and Security in AWS
1. Identity and Access Management: Users, Groups, and Roles
2. Identity and Access Management: Permissions and Policies
3. Identity Providers and Cognito
4. AWS Certificate Manager, Secrets Manager, WAF, Shield
5. AWS Key Management Service and AWS CloudHSM
6. Amazon Inspector, Macie, and Guard Duty
9. Managing and Monitoring in AWS
1. AWS Systems Manager
2. Amazon CloudWatch: Metrics, Logs, Alarms, Dashboards
3. AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config
4. Amazon EventBridge
5. AWS Organizations, Control Tower, and Resource Groups
6. AWS Billing, Cost Management, and Trusted Advisor
10. Additional Services You Need to Know
1. Amazon Translate, Transcribe, Textract, Comprehend, and Rekognition
2. Amazon Athena, QuickSight, Glue, and AppFlow
3. Amazon Kinesis and Amazon Elastic Beanstalk
11. How to Approach Exam Questions and Course Wrap-Up!
1. Practice Questions
2. Course Wrap-Up!

What you will learn

• 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

How you will benefit

• You will be prepared to sit for the AWS Solutions Architect: Associate Exam
• Gain valuable career skills that you can apply immediately
• Increase your earning potential
• Complete your program in 3 months or less
• Certificate of completion from the school or organization that you registered through (upon successfully passing the final exam)

Raymond Lacoste

Raymond Lacoste is a highly recognized instructor and IT professional who holds the Cisco Sirius Instructor Award. He has authored Cisco Press publications on the Cisco ENARSI and Cisco TSHOOT exams.

Raymond's areas of expertise include Cisco Enterprise networking, Cisco Routing, and Switching, Cisco Datacenter Networking, ITIL, and Amazon AWS. He also holds certifications in Cisco CCSI, Cisco CCNP Routing and Switching, Cisco CCNP Enterprise, ITIL Foundations, ITIL Practitioner, ITIL Intermediate, Amazon AWS System Operations, Amazon AWS Architect, Amazon AWS Developer, and CISSP.

In addition to his certifications and experience, Raymond's engaging instruction style makes even the most obscenely complicated or obtuse concepts relatable and understandable. Outside of class, he enjoys dominating both on the golf course and the basketball court.