learning pathSolutions Architect—Associate Certification for AWS (2016)
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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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Covered Topics
Amazon Web ServicesNetworking for AWSSecurity for AWSStorage for AWSMonitoring for AWSContent Delivery Networking for AWSDevelopment for AWSCompute for AWSDatabases for AWSManagement for AWSAmazon VPCAmazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS)AWS Storage GatewayAWS Elastic BeanstalkAmazon DynamoDBAmazon CloudWatchElastic Load BalancingAWS LambdaAmazon EC2AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Amazon CloudFrontAmazon RDSAWS Auto ScalingAmazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)Amazon Route 53Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)Amazon Simple WorkflowAWS Directory ServiceAmazon S3Amazon S3 GlacierAmazon Simple Email Service (SES)NoSQLServerlessContainersVirtualizationMessagingIdentity and Access ManagementSQLNetworkingSecurityStorageMonitoringComputeContent Delivery NetworkingDevelopmentDatabasesManagementHigh Availability