AWS Solution Architect Certification Training Course

Course Content

Introduction to AWS

 Classic Data Center

 Virtualization

 Cloud and Cloud Computing

 Cloud Computing Service Models

 Cloud Computing Deployment Models

 Service Comparison: AWS, Azure, and GCP

 Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its Benefits

 AWS Global Infrastructure

 AWS Regions and Replication of data between the Regions

 Availability Zones and High Availability

 AWS Edge Location

 Different Amazon Web Services

 Ways to access AWS: CLI, Console, and SDKs

 Hands-On

Security Management in AWS

 User management through Identity Access Management (IAM)

 Various access policies across AWS Services

 Security Token Services

 AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)

 AWS Single Sign-On (SSO)

 AWS Cognito

 AWS Security & Encryption: KMS, CloudHSM, Shield, WAF, Guard Duty

 API keys service access

 Best practices for IAM

 Access billing and create alerts on billing

 Hands-On

Amazon EC2

 Virtualization

 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Its Benefits

 Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

 Security Groups in AWS

 Authentication through Key-pair

 Hardware Tenancy – Shared vs. Dedicated

 Networking Layer in EC2: VPC

 Elastic Network Interface (ENI) and Its Attributes

 Different Categories of IP Address

 Public IP vs. Elastic IP

 Instance Store

 Elastic Block Store (EBS), Its Features and Volume Types

 Solid State Drive: General Purpose SSD and Provisioned IOPS

 Hard Disk Drive: Throughput Optimized HDD and Cold HDD

 Snapshots

 Elastic File System (EFS) and Its Features

 EBS vs. EFS

 Amazon FSx: Windows File Server and Lustre

 Hands-On

Object Storage Options

 Traditional Storage

 Need to Move to Cloud Storage

 Traditional vs. Cloud Storage Cost

 Cloud Storage

 Different Storage Options Available on AWS

 Simple Storage Service (S3) and Its Components

 Working of S3

 Difference Between S3, EBS and EFS

 Bucket Policy

 Access Control List(ACL)

 Versioning

 Cross-Region Replication (CRR) and Its Use Case

 Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration

 Choice of Storage Classes on S3

 Lifecycle Policy of S3 Bucket

 CDN: CloudFront and AWS Global Accelerator

 Storage Gateways

 Hands-On

Load Balancing, Auto-Scaling, and Route 53

 Elastic Load Balancer and its types

 Advanced features of ELB

 Launch Templates

 Launch Configurations

 Comparison of Classic, Network and Application Load Balancer

 Auto-Scaling

 Components of Auto-Scaling

 Lifecycle of Auto-Scaling

 Auto-Scaling policy

 Working of Route 53

 Various Routing Policies

 Hands-On

Database Services and Analytics

 Amazon RDS and its benefits

 Read Replica

 RDS IAM Authentication

 DynamoDB

 ElastiCache: Working, Redis vs Memcached

 Amazon RedShift

 Kinesis: AWS Kinesis Data Streams, AWS Kinesis Data Firehouse

 AWS Lake Formation

 AWS Athena

 AWS QLDB

 Hands-On

Networking and Monitoring Services

 VPC – Benefits and Components

 CIDR Notations

 Network Access Control List v/s Security Groups

 NAT (Network Address Translation): NAT Devices, NAT Gateway and NAT instance

 VPC peering

 Direct Connect

 Private Link

 AWS CloudWatch

 AWS CloudTrail

 AWS Config

 Trusted Advisor

 Hands-On

Applications Services and AWS Lambda

 AWS Simple Email Service (SES)

 Implement SES

 Demonstrate the working of SNS

 SQS: Work with SQS, ASG with SQS

 Amazon MQ

 Amazon Event Bridge

 AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS)

 AWS Simple Work Flow (SWF)

 AWS Lambda

 AWS Serverless Application Model

 Hands-On

Configuration Management and Automation

 Infrastructure as Code

 CloudFormation and its components

 Templates in CloudFormation

 Stack in CloudFormation

 Resource deletion policies in CloudFormation

 Introduction to AWS OpsWorks

 AWS OpsWorks services

 Components of AWS OpsWorks Stack

 OpsWorks Lifecycle Events and Deployment Commands

 OpsWorks for Chef Automate

 AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise

 Auto Healing

 Elastic Beanstalk

 Components of Elastic Beanstalk

 Beanstalk v/s OpsWorks v/s CloudFormation

 Hands-On

AWS Architectural Designs – I

 AWS Well-Architected Framework

 How to Build Well Architected Framework

 Pillars of AWS Well-Architected Framework

 Resilience

 Design Highly Available and/or Fault-Tolerant Architectures

 Choose Appropriate Resilient Storage

 Designing Decoupling Mechanisms Using AWS Services

 Design a Multi-tier Architecture Solution

 Disaster Recovery (DR)

 Options to Implement DR Plans

 Design High-Performance Architecture

 Achieve Performance Efficiency using Selection

 Achieve Performance Efficiency using Review

 Achieve Performance Efficiency by Monitoring

 Achieve Performance Efficiency by Performing Trade-offs

 Hands-On

AWS Architectural Designs – II (Self-Paced)

 Design Secure Applications and Architectures

 Cloud Security

 IAM

 How IAM Secures your Resources

 Identity and Federation

 Shared Responsibility Model

 Shared Responsibility Model for Infrastructure Services

 Shared Responsibility Model for Container Services

 Shared Responsibility Model for Abstraction Services

 Network Security Layer

 Multi-Layer Architecture With Network Security

 AWS HSM and its working

 AWS S3 Security

 AWS Security and Compliance Centre

 Design Cost-Optimized Architectures

 Cost Optimization

 Cost Optimization Design Principles

 Cost Effective Resources

Migration to AWS (Self-Paced)

 Why Cloud Migration

 What is Cloud Migration

 Migration Phases

 CAF Perspectives and their Roles

 AWS Migration Hub and ways to use AWS Migration Hub

 AWS Migration Hub use cases

 AWS Application Discovery Service

 Application Discovery Tools

 Application Migration to AWS

 Application Migration Phases

 AWS Server Migration Service(SMS) and its working

 Database Migration Service

 Working of DMS

 AWS Database Migration use cases

 Types of data transfer: Homogenous and Heterogenous

 Database Schema Migration tool

 Database Migration best practices

 Hands-On

AWS Solution Architect Associate Exam Questionnaires (Self-Paced)

 AWS Solution Architect Certification Exam Guide

 Certification Exam Questionnaires

DevOps on Cloud (Additional Content)

 Different software release methodologies

 DevOps Lifecycle and its Building Blocks

 DevOps and cloud relation

 Different AWS Developer tools

 AWS CodeCommit

 Versioning in S3 vs. CodeCommit

 Working of AWS CodeCommit

 AWS CodePipeline and its working

 Concepts of CodePipeline

 Input and Output Artifacts

 AWS CodeBuild and its working

 AWS CodeDeploy

 Primary Components

 Deployment Workflow: On Lambda Platform and On EC2 Platform

 Application Specification File

 Deployment Types: In-Place Deployment and Blue/Green Deployment

 AWS CodeStar and its working

 Hands-On