AWS Solutions Architect Associate
COURSE #CD-340-AWSSAA
The AWS Solutions Architect Associate Cours” is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the components and operation of the core AWS services as well as how those services properly interact. Successful course completion will prepare students for the AWS SAA-CO3 Exam, which is the requirement to achieve the “AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate” Certification.
The course includes practical discussions, exercises, and practice exam questions to assist students in the application of the knowledge gained (Classroom Component), as well as requiring students perform a series of exercises independently (Independent Study Component). The focus of this Course is:
- The design of cost & performance optimized solutions
- Demonstrating a strong understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework
Course Duration
- 40 Total Running Classroom Hours
- Daytime (Standard) Format = 5 Days (8 hours per day)
- Evening / Short Format
- 10 each – 4 Hour Evening Sessions (VILT Delivery)
- 8 each – 5 Hour Evening Sessions (VILT Delivery)
- 27 CPE Hours
- 2 Semester-Hours Equivalent
Course Objectives
This course assists the student in developing expertise in architecting, designing, building, deploying and managing AWS Cloud Solutions. It is the appropriate starting point on the AWS Certification path. To that end, the course targets the following major objectives:
- Demonstrating knowledge and skills in compute, networking, storage, and database AWS services as well as AWS deployment and management services
- Demonstrating knowledge and skills in deploying, managing, and operating workloads on AWS as well as implementing security controls and compliance requirements
- Demonstrating knowledge and skills in using the AWS Management Console and the AWS Command Line Interface
- Demonstrating understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, AWS networking, security services, and the AWS global infrastructure
- Demonstrating ability to identify which AWS services meet a given technical requirement and to define technical requirements for an AWS-based application
Who Should Attend
The AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Course will assist individuals who may possess the following:
- Some experience in AWS technology (or other Cloud Services)
- Strong on-premises IT experience and an understanding of mapping on-premises to cloud
- Experience working in other cloud services
Course Outline
Chapter 1: Introduction to Cloud Computing
- Introduction
- Cloud Computing & Virtualization
- The AWS Cloud
- AWS Platform Architecture
- AWS Reliability and Compliance
- Working with AWS (in general)
- Migrating Existing Resources to AWS
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- Review Questions
Chapter 2: Compute Services
- Introduction & Overview
- EC2 Instances
- EC2 Storage Volumes
- Accessing EC2 Instances
- EC2 Auto Scaling
- AWS Systems Manager
- Running Containers
- AWS CLI Example
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- Review Questions
Chapter 3: AWS Storage
- Introduction & Overview
- S3 Service Architecture
- S3 Durability &Availability
- S3 Object Lifecycle
- Accessing S3 Objects
- Amazon S3 Glacier
- Other Storage Related Services
- AWS CLI Example
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- Review Questions
Chapter 4: Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
- Introduction
- VPC CIDR Blocks
- Subnets
- Elastic Network Interfaces
- Internet Gateways
- Route Tables
- Security Groups
- Network Access Control Lists
- AWS Network Firewall
- Public IP Addresses
- Elastic IP Addresses
- AWS Global Accelerator
- Network Address Translation
- Network Address Translation Devices
- AWS PrivateLink
- VPC Peering
- Hybrid Cloud Networking
- High Performance Computing
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- Review Questions
Chapter 5: Database Services
- Introduction
- Relational Databases
- Amazon Relational Database Service
- Amazon Redshift
- NoSQL Databases
- DynamoDB
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- Review Questions
Chapter 6: Authentication & Authorization – AWS Identity & Access Management
- Introduction
- IAM Identities
- Authentication Tools
- AWS CLI Example
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- Review Questions
Chapter 7: CloudTrail, CloudWatch and AWS Config
- Introduction
- CloudTrail
- CloudWatch
- AWS Config
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- Review Questions
Chapter 8: DNS & Network Routing – Amazon Route 53 & Amazon CloudFront
- Introduction & Overview
- Domain Name System (DNS)
- Amazon Route 53
- Amazon CloudFront
- AWS CLI Example
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- Review Questions
Chapter 9: Data Ingestion, Transformation, and Analytics
- Introduction
- AWS Lake Formation
- AWS Transfer Family
- Kinesis
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- Review Questions
Chapter 10: Resilient Architectures
- Introduction
- Calculating Availability
- EC2 Auto Availability
- Data Backup & Recovery
- Creating a Resilient Network
- Simple Queue Service
- Designing for Availability
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- Review Questions
Chapter 11: High Performing Architectures
- Introduction
- Optimizing Performance for the Core AWS Services
- Infrastructure Automation
- Reviewing & Optimizing Infrastructure Configurations
- Optimizing Data Operations
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- Review Questions
Chapter 12: Secure Architectures
- Introduction
- Identity and Access Management
- Detective Controls
- Protecting Network Boundaries
- AWS Firewall Manager
- Data Encryption
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- Review Questions
Chapter 13: Cost-Optimized Architectures
- Introduction
- Planning, Tracking, and Controlling Costs
- Cost-Optimizing Compute
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- Review Questions
