Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03)

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - (Associate)
Exam: SAA-C03

This AWS Training will help you prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam SAA-C02. Amazon Web Services (AWS) certification validates the expertise of building an effective and innovative cloud strategy using the AWS cloud

Pre-requisites

There are no prerequisites for this AWS training course. However, prior experience in working with AWS or another cloud computing platform and knowledge of Virtualization, Networking, Security, Storage and operating Systems (windows/Linux) is recommended.

Exam overview – SAA CA03

  • Level: Associate
  • Length: 130 minutes to complete the exam
  • Cost: 150 USD
  • Format: 65 questions, either multiple choice or multiple response

Who should take this exam?

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate is intended for anyone with one or more years of hands-on experience designing available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems on AWS

COURSE TOPICS:

Module 1: Introduction to Cloud Computing

  • Introduction to Cloud Computing
  • Why Cloud Computing
  • Benefits of Cloud Computing
  • Types of Cloud Computing
  • Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud
  • Software as a Service, Platform as a Service Infrastructure as a Service
  • Horizontal vs. vertical scaling

Module 2: Introduction to AWS Services and Free Tier Account

  • Elastic computing
  • Introduction to the AWS products
  • Regions and Availability Zones
  • Signing up for AWS
  • AWS Free usage tier
  • Introduction AWS management console

Module3: Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

  • Instances creation
  • Understanding AMI
  • Launching your first AWS instance
  • On-demand Instance pricing, Reserved Instance pricing
  • Setting up security, Security groups
  • Choosing the AMI
  • Deploying a new instance from the created AMI , Key

Module4: Security Groups and Access Control Lists

  • Security Groups
  • Network Access control Lists - NACLs
  • Differences Between Security Group and NACL

Module 5: Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

  • Introduction to Amazon VPC
  • Creating Custom VPC
  • Public and Private Subnet
  • Internet Gateway (IGW)
  • Create and Configure Route Table

Module6: VPC Peering

  • Peering Basics
  • VPC Peering and Routing
  • VPC Peering Limitations

Module7: Transit Gateway

  • Transit Gateway concepts
  • Transit Gateway attachment
  • Transit Gateway Route table and route Propagation
  • VPC Peering Vs Transit gateway

Module8: AWS Managed VPN Connections

  • AWS Managed VPN Connections
  • Components of site to site VPN
  • Virtual Private gateway
  • Setting up AWS site to site VPN Connection

Module9: AWS Direct Connect

  • What is AWS Direct Connect
  • Direct Connect Components
  • Network Requirements

Module10: Deploying Devices (Firewalls, LB etc.) from AWS Market Place

  • Creating Infrastructure – VPC,Subnets,Interfaces
  • Creating and Configuring Routing
  • Launching EC2 from Market Place
  • Initial configuration

Module 11: Elastic Block storage (EBS)

  • EBS Volumes
  • EBS Volume category and types
  • Attaching and detaching EBS volumes
  • Creating and deleting snapshots
  • Creating volumes from snapshots
  • Difference Between Image and Snapshot

Module 12: Simple Storage Service (S3)

  • What is S3
  • S3 Storage Classes
  • Object Life Cycle Management
  • Creating S3 Buckets
  • S3 Uploading Downloading
  • S3 Permissions
  • S3 Versioning
  • Hosting static website

Module 13: Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

  • What is Elastic File system
  • Creating and Mounting File system on EC2

Module 14: Auto Scaling and Load Balancing (ELB)

  • Create an Auto Scaling group
  • Create a policy for your Auto Scaling group
  • Set up an auto-scaled, load-balanced Amazon EC2
  • application Identity access management
  • Create load balancer (ELB)
  • Manage Load balancer

Module15: Amazon Route 53

  • What is Amazon Route 53
  • Domain Registration
  • Routing Traffic to the website
  • Creating Hosted Zones
  • Understanding and creating Records

Module16: Route 53 Routing Policy

  • Simple Routing Policy
  • Failover routing Policy
  • Weighted routing Policy
  • Multi Value Answer Routing Policy

Module17: Amazon Cloud Front

  • What is cloud front
  • Setup cloud Front to deliver Content

Module 18: Identity Access Management (IAM)

  • What is IAM
  • Creating Users and Groups
  • IAM Roles
  • Managing IAM Policies

Module 19: Introduction of Containerization & Kubernetes

  • What is Containerization
  • Virtualization Vs Containerization
  • Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
  • Amazon Elastic Kubernetes (EKS)

Module 20: Management and Governance

  • Cloud watch
  • Cloud Formation
  • Cloud Trail