Solutions Architect – Professional Certification Preparation for AWS
Description
Updates:
- 16th August - Added courses 'Using Elastic Load Balancing & EC2 Auto Scaling to support AWS workloads' and 'Deployment Orchestration with AWS Elastic Beanstalk'
- 20th May 2019 - Compute Fundamentals for AWS updated to include content on Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) & Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS)
Overview
Specifically designed to help you prepare for the AWS Solutions Architect - Professional Certification, this hands-on oriented Learning Path provides over 70 hours of interactive content comprised of hands-on labs, video courses, and a preparation exam. This training content has been carefully created to help you study for this AWS certification. The certification demands that the candidate demonstrates the ability to architect and deploy AWS solutions for different scenarios following AWS' best practices. The AWS Solution Architect Professional Certification requires its candidates to be comfortable architecting, securing, migrating, optimizing deployments and managing full production operations on AWS.
Intended Audience
This Learning Path is suitable for those wanting to pass the AWS Solutions Architect - Professional Certification Exam.
Prerequisites
This is one of the 2 Professional level certifications available with AWS and it's guided to those who already have experience with AWS, and ideally, have already passed the AWS Solutions Architect - Associate exam, but this is not a prerequisite in taking this certification.
What's Included
43 high definition video courses, 19 hands-on Labs, 2 blog/ebook resources and a final preparation Exam.
Learning Objectives
The aim of the certification is to validate your knowledge across a number of different key areas, which have been defined by AWS as being able to:
- Design and deploy dynamically scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant, and reliable applications on AWS
- Select appropriate AWS services to design and deploy an application based on given requirements
- Migrate complex, multi-tier applications on AWS
- Design and deploy enterprise-wide scalable operations on AWS
- Implement cost-control strategies
As a means of demonstrating this knowledge, you will be tested across 5 different domains, with each domain contributing to a total percentage of your overall score. These domains are broken down as:
Domain 1: Design for organization complexity 12.5%
Domain 2: Design for new solutions 31%
Domain 3: Migration Planning 15%
Domain 4: Cost Control 12.5%
Domain 5: Continuous improvement for existing solutions 29%
As you progress through the Learning Path, you will gain all the information and knowledge required to fulfill the domain expectations, gaining a deep understanding within each area.
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Learning Path Steps
You will learn the steps to create and apply AWS S3 Bucket Policies with embedded conditions to restrict a user's ability to perform specific functions within S3 Buckets.
Knowledge Check: AWS Storage Fundamentals
Knowledge Check: Database Fundamentals for AWS
Broad introductory lab on Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR). Get started today!
Learn how to use the Amazon Redshift service. Create a cluster with a database, copy data from S3, query data using SQL, and resize the cluster.
Knowledge Check: AWS Compute Fundamentals
Application Load Balancers support content-based routing, and supports applications that run in containers. They support a pair of industry-standard protocols (WebSocket and HTTP/2) and also provide additional visibility into the health of the target instan...
During this lab we will understand how to launch an Auto Scaling group behind a Classic Load Balancer
Knowledge Check: Working with AWS Networking and Amazon VPC
Learn how to increment the network security creating a public and private subnet on VPC and filter traffic using network ACL
Set Up VPN Connections with an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud using dynamic routing (BGP), and manage traffic using multi-homed routers
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a fast, reliable, scalable, fully managed message queuing service. You can use SQS to transmit any volume of data, at any level of throughput, without losing messages or requiring other services to be always available.
Deploy a highly available serverless application using AWS services
Learn how to deploy a highly available website using AWS, with a scenario based on challenges, like time restrictions, and cost limitations many websites face.
Learn how to create and run your first AWS Lambda function.
Automating EBS snapshots with Lambda and CloudWatch EventsAutomating EBS snapshots with Lambda and CloudWatch Events
Knowledge Check: Overview of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Learn how to manage our organization using IAM Users and Groups and IAM Roles
Multiple AWS Account Management using AWS Organizations
In this lab, you'll learn about Amazon Key Management Service to encrypt S3 and EBS Data at an intermediate level. Get started today!
AWS Key Management Service (KMS) Intermediate
Follow the application lifecycle from dev to prod: continuous integration, rollbacks and blue/green deployments with AWS Code Services.
Scalable DevOps: Using CloudFormation for Whole VPC Stacks
A hands-on lab showing you how to use Amazon CodeBuild and EC2 Container Service to perform a blue-green deployment.
Compliance check using AWS Config Rules: See how AWS Config can enhance your security and compliance with AWS managed rules and custom rules with AWS Lambda
AWS Billing and Cost Management Tools eBook
In this lab you will learn how to create EC2 spot instances, how they can be used in AWS and how to handle instance interruptions.
Implement Amazon VPC High Availability Best Practices
Preparation Exam: Certified Solutions Architect - Professional for AWS (February 2019)
Changelog
The logical order of the content relating to AWS VPNs has been changed
Added courses:
- Using Elastic Load Balancing & EC2 Auto Scaling to support AWS workloads
- Deployment Orchestration with AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Added the Implement Amazon VPC High Availability Best Practices Lab Challenge
About the Author
Stuart has been working within the IT industry for two decades covering a huge range of topic areas and technologies, from data centre and network infrastructure design, to cloud architecture and implementation.
To date, Stuart has created 50+ courses relating to Cloud, most within the AWS category with a heavy focus on security and compliance
He is AWS certified and accredited in addition to being a published author covering topics across the AWS landscape.
In January 2016 Stuart was awarded ‘Expert of the Year Award 2015’ from Experts Exchange for his knowledge share within cloud services to the community.
Stuart enjoys writing about cloud technologies and you will find many of his articles within our blog pages.