AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam (SAA-C03)

What’s included?

• Authorized Courseware
• Intensive Hands on Skills Development with an Experienced Subject Matter Expert
• Hands-on practice on real Servers and extended lab support 1.800.482.3172
• Examination Vouchers & Onsite Certification Testing- (excluding Adobe and PMP Boot Camps)
• Academy Code of Honor: Test Pass Guarantee
• Optional: Package for Hotel Accommodations, Lunch and Transportation

Curriculum

Our courses are boosted with The Academy’s exam prep methodology so your course content will always be up-to-date with the most current version of the exam. The following topics are general guidelines for the content.

Module 1: AWS Overview

• How to become an AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
• The evolution of AWS
• Learn basic concepts about regions and availability zones
• Understand the many service offerings of AWS at a high level and the use cases for each

Module 2: Security Basics with AWS IAM

• Understand the importance of a strong security posture
• Understand the basic features of Identity and Access Management (IAM) including multi-factor authentication, usernames and passwords, and permissions

Hands-on Lab 1: Introduction to AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Module 3: Storage

• Learn about S3 simple file storage and identify durability characteristics and use cases
• Understand objects and the components that they include such as keys, values, versions, and metadata
• Define an S3 bucket and learn how to configure them in the AWS Console
• Understand how to secure an S3 bucket
• Differentiate between S3 tiers including Infrequent Access, Reduced Redundancy, and Glacier
• Understand the CloudFront Content Delivery Network and how it can be used to improve website performance
• Understand the use cases for a Gateway Stored Volumes, Gateway Cached Volumes, and Virtual Tape Libraries
• Differentiate Import/Export, Snowball, and Transfer Acceleration, and how each can be used to move large amounts of data into AWS

Hands-on Lab 2: Introduction to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
Hands-on Lab 3: S3: Multi-region Storage Backup with Cross-Region Replication
Hands-on Lab 4: Introduction to AWS Key Management Service
Hands-on Lab 5: Introduction to CloudFront

Module 4: EC2

• Understand virtual server and EC2 instance concepts
• Differentiate EC2 tiers and their use cases
• Understand Reserved and Spot Instances
• Differentiate EC2 instance types that are optimized for different workloads
• Understand gp2, io1, and st1 volume types
• Create virtual disks for an instance
• Create a Windows EC2 instance
• Configure a RAID array
• Create an EC2 Instance Store
• Create a custom AMI
• Configure a Security Group that controls inbound and outbound traffic
• Apply a Security Group to one or more EC2 instances
• Understand the concept of a Stateful Firewall

Hands-on Lab 6: Introduction to Amazon EC2
Hands-on Lab 7: Working with Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

Module 5: Managing EC2 Instances

• Configure Elastic Load Balancer and use health checks to monitor instances
• Understand CloudWatch and use it to monitor resources and applications
• Log AWS API calls using CloudTrail
• Monitor traffic within a VPC using VPC Flow Logs
• Use the AWS Command Line to manage EC2 instances
• Use Auto Scaling to increase or reduce EC2 capacity based on conditions that you configure

Hands-on Lab 8: Working with Elastic Load Balancing
Hands-on Lab 9: EC2 Auto Scaling

Module 6: Route53

• Learn the fundamentals of DNS
• Configure a hosted zone in Route53
• Modify DNS records
• Differentiate and configure Route53 Routing Policies
  Hands-on Lab 10: Working with Route53

Module 7: Database Services

• Understand different database types
• Create an RDS Instance
• Back-up and take snapshots of RDS database instances
• Scale-out RDS using Read Replicas
• Use Multi-AZ RDS to create a highly-available database service
• Understand DynamoDB concepts
• Create a DynamoDB table
• Understand Elasticache at a high level
• Create an Aurora instance that is compatible with MySQL

Hands-on Lab 11: RDS
Hands-on Lab 12: DynamoDB
Hands-on Lab 13: Aurora

Module 8: Virtual Private Cloud

• Create a logically isolated section of the AWS cloud and define your own virtual network
• Create different network zones for publicly accessible instances and backend systems
• Connect your site to the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) over a secure Virtual Private Network (VPN)
• Configure Network Address Translation (NAT) to translate public IP addresses to a private IP address range
• Create an Access Control List (ACL) to secure a network

Hands-on Lab 14: Build a VPC
Hands-on Lab 15: Audit your AWS Environment

Module 9: AWS Application Services

• Understand the value of creating de-coupled applications
• Create a messaging queue using Amazon Simple Queuing Service (SQS)
• Use Simple Workflow (SWF) to order complex processes
• Send email, text, and HTTP notifications and alerts using Simple Notification Service (SNS)
• Import code and automatically create AWS resources using Elastic Beanstalk
• Create templates that can be used to automate the entire AWS infrastructure using Cloud Formation
• Use Lambda to create serverless functions and eliminate management tasks and resource waste
• Use Elastic Transcoder to convert media into a variety of different formats

Hands-on Lab 16: Build a VPC using Cloud Formation

Note: This is an emerging technology course. The course outline is subject to change as needed.