AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03)

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Description

Course description 

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate course prepares you for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-CO3) exam while helping demonstrate knowledge of how to architect and deploy secure and robust applications on AWS technologies. This course focuses on designing secure architectures, designing resilient architectures, designing high-performing architectures, and designing cost-optimized architectures.

The goal of this course is to provide you with all the tools you need to prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam — including text explanations, video demos, lab activities, self-assessment questions, and a practice exam— to increase your chances of passing the exam on your first try.

Duration 

Instructor-led: 4 days

Self-paced: 32 hours(approximate)

Audience 

Individuals working as solutions architects, designing AWS solutions using AWS services.

Prerequisites 

  • At least 1 year of experience solving problems and implementing AWS services
  • Experience in AWS technology
  • Strong on-premises IT experience
  • Understanding of mapping on-premises technology to the cloud
  • Experience with other cloud services

Course objectives 

Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

  • Display knowledge and skills in the AWS services: compute, networking, storage and database and deployment and management services
  • Demonstrate knowledge and skills deploying, managing and operating AWS workloads and implementing security controls and compliance requirements
  • Identify which AWS service meets technical requirements
  • Define technical requirements for AWS-based applications
  • Identify which AWS services meet a given technical requirement

Required course materials

  • Pearson CertPREP AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Courseware

Course Outline

Lesson 1: Understanding the Foundations of AWS Architecture (1 hour and 48 minutes)

    • Essential Characteristics of AWS Cloud Computing (12 minutes)
    • AWS Cloud Computing and NIST (12 minutes)
    • Moving to AWS (12 minutes)
    • Operational Benefits of AWS (12 minutes)
    • Cloud Providers Responsibilities (12 minutes)
    • Security at AWS (12 minutes)
    • Migrating Applications (12 minutes)
    • The AWS Well-Architected Framework (12 minutes)
    • Summary

Lesson 2: The AWS Well-Architected Framework (36 minutes)

    • The Well-Architected Framework (12 minutes)
    • Designing a Workload SLA (12 minutes)
    • Deployment Methodologies (12 minutes)
    • Summary

Lesson 3: Designing Secure Access to AWS Resources (1 hour and 24 minutes)

    • Identity and Access Management (IAM) (12 minutes)
    • IAM Users and Groups (12 minutes)
    • Creating IAM Policies (12 minutes)
    • IAM Roles (12 minutes)
    • AWS Organizations (12 minutes)
    • AWS Resource Access Manager (12 minutes)
    • AWS Control Tower (12 minutes)
    • Summary

Lesson 4: Designing Secure Workloads and Applications (1 hour and 12 minutes)

    • Securing Network Infrastructure (12 minutes)
    • Amazon Cognito (12 minutes)
    • External Connections (12 minutes)
    • Amazon GuardDuty (12 minutes)
    • Amazon Macie (12 minutes)
    • Security Services for Securing Workloads (12 minutes)
    • Summary

Lesson 5: Determining Appropriate Data Security Controls (1 hour)

    • Data Access and Governance (12 minutes)
    • Amazon EBS Encryption (12 minutes)
    • Amazon S3 Bucket Security (12 minutes)
    • AWS Key Management Service (12 minutes)
    • AWS Certificate Manager (12 minutes)
    • Summary

Lesson 6: Designing Resilient Architecture (1 hour)

    • Scalable and Resilient Architecture (12 minutes)
    • Application Integration Services (12 minutes)
    • Amazon API Gateway (12 minutes)
    • Automating AWS Infrastructure (12 minutes)
    • AWS Elastic Beanstalk (12 minutes)
    • Summary

Lesson 7: Designing Highly Available and Fault-Tolerant Architecture (1 hour and 24 minutes)

    • High Availability and Fault Tolerance (12 minutes)
    • AWS Regions and Availability Zones (12 minutes)
    • Choosing an AWS Region (12 minutes)
    • Distributed Design Patterns (12 minutes)
    • Failover Strategies (12 minutes)
    • AWS Service Quotas (12 minutes)
    • Amazon Route 53 (12 minutes)
    • Summary

Lesson 8: High-Performing and Scalable Storage Solutions (1 hour and 24 minutes)

    • AWS Storage Options (12 minutes)
    • Amazon Elastic Block Store (12 minutes)
    • Amazon Elastic File System (12 minutes)
    • Amazon FSx for Windows File Server (12 minutes)
    • Amazon Simple Storage Service (12 minutes)
    • Amazon S3 Glacier (12 minutes)
    • AWS Data Lake (12 minutes)
    • Summary

Lesson 9: Designing High-Performing and Elastic Compute Solutions (1 hour)

    • AWS Compute Services (12 minutes)
    • AWS Lambda (12 minutes)
    • Amazon Container Services (12 minutes)
    • Monitoring with AWS CloudWatch (12 minutes)
    • Auto Scaling Options at AWS (12 minutes)
    • Summary

Lesson 10: Determining High-Performing Database Solutions (1 hour and 12 minutes)

    • AWS Cloud Databases (12 minutes)
    • Amazon Relational Database Service (12 minutes)
    • Amazon Aurora (12 minutes)
    • Amazon DynamoDB (12 minutes)
    • Amazon ElastiCache (12 minutes)
    • Amazon Redshift (12 minutes)
    • Summary

Lesson 11: High-Performing and Scalable Networking Architecture (1 hour and 24 minutes)

    • Amazon CloudFront (12 minutes)
    • AWS Global Accelerator (12 minutes)
    • Elastic Load Balancing Service (12 minutes)
    • AWS VPC Networking (12 minutes)
    • Subnets (12 minutes)
    • IP Address Types (12 minutes)
    • Connectivity Options (12 minutes)
    • Summary

Lesson 12: Designing Cost-Optimized Storage Solutions (1 hour and 12 minutes)

    • Calculating AWS Costs (12 minutes)
    • Cost Management Tools (12 minutes)
    • Storage Types and Costs (12 minutes)
    • AWS Backup (12 minutes)
    • Data Transfer Costs (12 minutes)
    • AWS Storage Gateway (12 minutes)
    • Summary

Lesson 13: Designing Cost-Effective Compute Solutions (36 minutes)

    • EC2 Instance Types (12 minutes)
    • EC2 Instance Purchasing Options (12 minutes)
    • Strategies for Optimizing Compute (12 minutes)
    • Summary

Lesson 14: Designing Cost-Effective Database Solutions (36 minutes)

    • Database Design Choices (12 minutes)
    • Database Data Transfer Costs (12 minutes)
    • Database Retention Policies (12 minutes)
    • Summary

Lesson 15: Designing Cost-Effective Network Architectures (24 minutes)

  • Networking Services and Connectivity Costs (12 minutes)
  • Data Transfer Costs (12 minutes)
  • Summary

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