Bootcamp: AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Path

Course Description

This is a crash course on Introduction to Cloud Computing with focus on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to prepare students for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam (the “Exam”).

The new AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (Released February 2018) exam validates knowledge of how to architect and deploy secure and robust applications on AWS technologies. We recommend candidates have at least one year of hands-on experience designing available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and scalable and distributed systems on AWS before taking the exam. This exam covers:

• Designing resilient architectures

• Defining performant architectures

• Specifying secure applications and architectures

• Designing cost-optimized architectures

• Defining operationally excellent architectures

What am I going to get from this course?

Students should get three main things from the course:

• A structured path of study towards mastering the subjects on the Exam;

• A system of accountability to foster an environment of discipline and momentum; and

• A challenging review of all concepts on the Exam.

What is the target audience?

Those who have taken a basic course on the fundamentals of AWS and/or those who have registered for the Exam.

• Target AWS Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

Designing and deploying scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS

• Lift and shift of an existing on-premises application to AWS

• Ingress and egress of data to and from AWS

• Selecting the appropriate AWS service based on data, compute, database, or security requirements

• Identifying appropriate use of AWS architectural best practices

• Estimating AWS costs and identifying cost control mechanisms

AWS Subject

Day

Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Friday, December 6, 2018 - 4-6 pm

S3, Glacier, Snowball

Friday, December 6, 2018 - 6-8 pm

Route 53/ Cloudfront

Friday, December 6, 2018 - 8 -10 PM

EC2 Virtual Servers/AMI/EBS/Snapshots

Saturday, December 7, 2018 - 8 - 10 am

Virtual Private Cloud

Saturday, December 7, 2018 - 10 - 12 am

Databases/ ElastiCache

Saturday, December 7, 2018 - 12 -2

Load Balancing/ Auto Scaling and Cloudwatch

Saturday, December 7, 2018 - 3-4 pm

SQS, SNS, SWF + Kinesis

Saturday, December 7, 2018 - 4-5 pm

Elastic Transcoder, API Gateway

Saturday, December 7, 2018 - 6-7 pm

Well Architected Framework (whitepaper)

Saturday, December 7, 2018 - 7-8 pm

Security Overview (whitepaper)

Sunday December 8, 2018 - 10 - 11 am

AWS Risk and Compliance

Sunday December 8, 2018 - 11 - 12 pm

AWS Storage Services Overview

Sunday December 8, 2018 - 12-1 pm

Cost Optimization Overview

Sunday December 8, 2018 - 1-2 pm

What are the requirements?

1.  You must purchase ACloud Guru’s AWS Certified Solution Architect – Associate course. Your presentations begin on  so as to give you some time to make some headway into the acloud guru course.

2. Create an account with Qwiklabs. This is a free environment for you to learn the basics about AWS' essential services. qwiKLABS is AWS approved lab and qwikLABS provide hands-on practice with popular AWS services and real-world cloud scenarios. Please complete all the free labs.

3. Required Reading: Crawl. Walk. Run: My journey to becoming an AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate. This is the roadmap with all of the links to the various resources you need to review before taking the test.

4. This is the link to book your exam. We strongly advise that you sign up as soon as possible. First, it gives you a clear goal and timeline to complete your AWS journey and second, every week more content gets added to the exam. The sooner you take the Exam the less you will ultimately have to study.  

5. Call information: We will be using Gotomeeting. - https://www.gotomeet.me/TheITEMAcademy.

Class times + Focus (subject to change):

Dec 7 - 9

Please make sure before class, you are somewhere quiet and with reliable internet. As there is screen sharing to demonstrate the console. Also, as a general rule, please put yourself on MUTE during class unless you have a question. Ambient noise sometimes can interfere with other students' ability to hear clearly. Thanks for understanding.

*Discount Available for members of The ITEM