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.
Instructor(s):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.
Requirements:
Hardware Requirements:
- This course can be taken on either a PC, Mac, or Chromebook.
Software Requirements:
- PC: Windows 8 or later.
- Mac: macOS 10.6 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
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Lesson 1
- Course Overview and the AWS Global Infrastructure
- Introduction to AWS Architect Associate Course and Exam Objectives
- Regions, Availability Zones, and Edge Locations
- Compute
- EC2: Overview, Architecture, and Pricing
- EC2: Launching and Accessing a Linux and Windows Server
- EC2: AMIs and Instance Types
- EC2: Instance Store, EBS, EFS, FSx
- EC2: IP addressing, Network Interfaces, Security Groups, and Placement Groups
- EC2: Auto Scaling
- EC2: Load Balancers
- ECS: Overview
- Serverless: Lambda
- Serverless: API Gateway
- Databases
- Databases: Overview
- RDS: Overview, Instances, Storage, Encryption, and Backups
- RDS: Multi-AZ, and Read Replicas
- RDS: Amazon Aurora
- Elasticache: Overview
- DynamoDB: Overview
- Redshift: Overview
- Networking
- VPC: Overview, and VPC Subnets
- VPC: Internet Connectivity, Routing, and NAT
- VPC: Security Groups and ACLs
- VPC: VPNs, Direct Connect, Peering, Transit Gateways, and Endpoints
- CloudFront and Global Accelerator
- Route53
- Storage and Migration
- Storage: Overview and Review
- Storage: S3 Introduction, Storage Classes, Lifecycle Policies, and Static Websites
- Storage: S3 Security, Integrity, and Replication
- Storage: Storage Gateway and AWS Backup
- Migration: Snowcone, Snowball, and Snowmobile
- Migration: AWS DataSync, AWS Transfer, AWS Database Migration Service
- Application Integration and Customer Engagement
- SQS, SNS, SES, Amazon MQ
- Security
- IAM: Users, Groups, Policies
- IAM: Temporary Credentials, Roles, Password Policies
- KMS and HSM
- Amazon Inspector, Macie, GuardDuty
- AWS Certificate Manager. Secrets Manager, WAF, Shield
- Monitoring and Management
- Amazon CloudWatch
- AWS CloudTrail, AWS Config
- AWS Organizations and AWS Resource Groups
- AWS Billing and Cost Management
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