AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03) Pearson Skilling Suite
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.
DurationInstructor-led: 4 days
Self-paced: 32 hours(approximate)
AudienceIndividuals 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
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
- Pearson CertPREP AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Courseware
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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