Exam Readiness Intensive Workshop: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Program Code: 3038

Overview
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What you'll learn
Outline
Prerequisites
Who should attend
Certification

Overview

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) authorized Exam Readiness Intensive Workshop for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Level certification exam helps busy architects get away from their day-to-day life and prepare thoroughly for the AWS certification exam. The course covers the fundamentals of building IT infrastructure on AWS to help participants learn how to build scalable and resilient solutions in the cloud. The course begins by getting participants in an exam readiness mindset with a bonus end of module quizzes. From there, the discussion moves to strategies to answer exam questions and avoid common mistakes. The course aims at broadening the participants’ knowledge of AWS services with deep dives into Amazon Redshift, Amazon Kinesis, and AWS Key Management Service.

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Course Delivery

This course is available in the following formats:

Live Classroom
Duration: 5 days

Live Virtual Classroom
Duration: 5 days

What You'll learn

Make architectural decisions based on AWS architectural principles and best practices
Leverage AWS services to make your infrastructure scalable, reliable, and highly available
Leverage AWS Managed Services to enable greater flexibility & resiliency in an infrastructure
Make an AWS-based infrastructure more efficient to increase performance and reduce costs
Use the Well-Architected Framework to improve architecture with AWS solutions
Navigate the logistics of the examination process, exam structure, and question types
Identify how questions relate to AWS architectural concepts
Interpret the concepts being tested by an exam question

Outline

Module 1: Architecting on AWS - I

Introduction
The simplest architectures
Lab: hosting a static website
Adding a compute layer
Adding a database layer
Lab: Deploying a web application on AWS
Networking in AWS (Part I)
Lab: Creating a Virtual Private Cloud

Module 2: Architecting on AWS – II

Networking in AWS (Part II)
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Elasticity, high availability, monitoring
Lab: Creating a highly available environment
Automation
Lab: Automating infrastructure deployment with AWS CloudFormation
Caching

Module 3: Architecting on AWS – III

Building decoupled architectures
Microservices and serverless architectures
Lab: Implementing a serverless architecture with AWS managed services
RTP/RPO and Backup Recovery Setup
Optimization and review

Module 4: Exam Readiness: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

The Exam
Design resilient architectures
Design performant architectures
Specify secure applications and architectures
Design cost-optimized architectures
Define operationally excellent architectures

Module 5: Exam Readiness - I

Additional deep dive of AWS services
Quiz # 1

Module 6: Exam Readiness – II

Practice exam: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Quiz # 2
Wrap-up

Prerequisites

Participants of this course are recommended to have:

At least 6 to 12 months of hands-on experience designing with AWS services
Hands-on experience using compute, networking, storage, and database AWS services
An understanding of the basic architectural principles of building on the AWS cloud
An understanding of the AWS global infrastructure

Who Should Attend

The Exam Readiness Intensive Workshop: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate is intended for –

Solutions architects and cloud architects seeking their AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Certification
Customers and APN Partners who have 6 to 12 months of experience with AWS including a strong architecture background and experience
Individuals who prefer an instructor-led course for training & exam readiness
An understanding of the AWS global infrastructure

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Certification

This AWS Exam Readiness Intensive Workshop helps participants prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Certification Examination. On clearing the certification exam, an individual holds the credential of an AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate. The credential validates the individual’s ability to design and implement distributed systems on AWS. The certification is immensely useful for anyone with one or more years of hands-on experience designing available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems on AWS.

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Certification Examination comprises of 65 questions – either multiple choice or multiple response. Participants get 130 minutes to complete the exam. The AWS Certification Examination is offered in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish.