Solutions Architect—Associate Certification for AWS (2016)

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AVG Duration18h

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If you want to be a part of the Cloud Computing revolution, you simply can't afford to ignore the well-integrated services and tools offered by Amazon's AWS. And if you want to demonstrate that you can effectively design and manage application infrastructure using AWS, then earning AWS's own Solutions Architect Associate level certification is the best place to start. This Cloud Academy learning path - drawing on our foundation-level courses for background, and on the brand new Solutions Architect preparation course for the certification-specific principles and skills - can get you ready for the exam.

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Training Content

1

Course - Beginner - 46m

Technical Fundamentals for AWS

This course is the introduction to Cloud Academy's comprehensive Amazon Web Services learning tracks series.

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Course - Beginner - 55m

Compute Fundamentals for AWS

This course offers you an updated introduction to AWS's cornerstone compute services, and provides a foundation as you build your compute skills for AWS.

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Hands-on Lab - Beginner - 1h

Create Your First Amazon EC2 Instance (Linux)

By completing this hands-on lab, you will be able to create your first Amazon EC2 instance using the AWS Management Console.

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Hands-on Lab - Beginner - 1h 15m

Create Your First Amazon EC2 Instance (Windows)

You will learn the steps to launch and configure a Windows virtual machine using Amazon AWS.

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5

Quiz - Beginner - 4m

Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2

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Course - Beginner - 1h 24m

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Storage Fundamentals for AWS

This course covers the wide range of storage services within AWS, their key features, and when and why you would use them.

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Quiz - Beginner - 4m

Amazon Glacier

Amazon Glacier

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Hands-on Lab - Beginner - 50m

Create Your First Amazon S3 Bucket

Learn to create your first Amazon S3 bucket, create a logical folder for organizational purposes, and upload content to it and set custom metadata using the S3 console

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Quiz - Beginner - 4m

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

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Hands-on Lab - Beginner - 1h

Managing Instance Volumes Using EBS

EC2 instances can use multiple storage volumes, learn how to add and manage them using EBS.

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Hands-on Lab - Beginner - 30m

Creating an EBS-Backed Linux AMI

You will learn how to create custom Amazon Machine Images (AMI) starting from a customized EC2 instance.

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Quiz - Beginner - 4m

Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS)

Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS)

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Course - Beginner - 19m

Networking Fundamentals for AWS

This course covers some of the key structural elements of AWS traffic control, as well as critical networking services such as CloudFront, Route53, Auto Scaling, and Load Balancing.

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Quiz - Beginner - 4m

Amazon VPC

Amazon VPC

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Hands-on Lab - Beginner - 1h 30m

Introduction to Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Learn how to create an isolated network using Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

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Course - Beginner - 1h 17m

FREE

Working with AWS Networking and Amazon VPC

This course gives you an overview of the AWS Virtual Private Cloud and its associated networking components.

17

Hands-on Lab - Beginner - 2h 35m

Securing your VPC using Public and Private Subnets

Learn how to increment the network security creating a public and private subnet on VPC and filter traffic using network ACL

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Quiz - Intermediate - 5m

Amazon VPC

Amazon VPC

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Course - Beginner - 1h 9m

Database Fundamentals for AWS

This course provides you with an introduction to the cloud database services offered by AWS and how to use them.

20

Hands-on Lab - Beginner - 1h 15m

Create Your First Amazon RDS Database

You will learn the steps to create and use the MySQL Relational Database using Amazon RDS.

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21

Quiz - Beginner - 4m

Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS

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Hands-on Lab - Beginner - 1h 10m

Introduction to DynamoDB

Move your first steps using DynamoDB. Create tables with and withoud secondary indexes, learn how to add new rows and query your data by using the AWS Management Console.

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Quiz - Beginner - 4m

Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon DynamoDB

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Course - Beginner - 1h 16m

Security Fundamentals for AWS

This course covers the most important topics of the AWS Shared Responsibility model, the AWS Acceptable Use policy, and penetration testing rules.

25

Quiz - Beginner - 4m

Storage for AWS

Storage for AWS

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Course - Intermediate - 32m

Working with Amazon CloudFront

This course explains the various features and use cases of Amazon CloudFront and includes a walkthrough of how to create a Web Distribution.

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Hands-on Lab - Beginner - 1h 30m

Serve your files using the CloudFront CDN

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery web service. It integrates with other Amazon Web Services products to give developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no minimum usage commitments.

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28

Quiz - Beginner - 4m

Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront

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Course - Advanced - 1h 30m

Solutions Architect Associate Level Certification for AWS (2016)

This course covers all the skills you'll need to make effective use of Amazon's wildly popular AWS platform.

30

Quiz - Intermediate - 5m

Storage for AWS

Storage for AWS

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Hands-on Lab - Beginner - 1h 30m

Introduction to CloudWatch

CloudWatch is a monitoring service that AWS provides. You can use it to monitor AWS resources or custom resources, inside or outside AWS.

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Hands-on Lab - Beginner - 1h

Creating your first Classic Load Balancer

In this lab, we are going to create an Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) within the AWS console. In the next steps, we are going to create a Classic Load balancer to forward the web traffic to a couple of EC2 instances

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Hands-on Lab - Beginner - 2h

Working with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Groups and Network Load Balancer

You will learn the steps to automatically scale up or down your EC2 infrastructure using Auto Scaling Groups.

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Certification - Intermediate - 0m

Solutions Architect for AWS Associate

Solutions Architect for AWS Associate

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Covered Topics

Amazon Web Services Networking for AWS Security for AWS Storage for AWS Monitoring for AWS Content Delivery Networking for AWS Development for AWS Compute for AWS Databases for AWS Management for AWS Amazon VPC Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS)AWS Storage Gateway AWS Elastic Beanstalk Amazon DynamoDB Amazon CloudWatch Elastic Load Balancing AWS Lambda Amazon EC2 AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Amazon CloudFront Amazon RDS AWS Auto Scaling Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)Amazon Route 53 Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)Amazon Simple Workflow AWS Directory Service Amazon S3 Amazon S3 Glacier Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)NoSQL Serverless Containers Virtualization Messaging Identity and Access Management SQL Networking Security Storage Monitoring Compute Content Delivery Networking Development Databases Management High Availability