Course Description

This track includes:

Advanced Architecting on AWS - 3 Days

Exam Readiness: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional - 1 Day

Advanced Architecting on AWS - intended for individuals who are experienced with designing scalable and elastic applications on the AWS platform. Building on concepts introduced in Architecting on AWS, this course covers how to build complex solutions that incorporate data services, governance, and security on AWS. This course introduces specialized AWS services, including AWS Direct Connect and AWS Storage Gateway to support hybrid architecture. It also covers designing best practices for building scalable, elastic, secure, and highly available applications on AWS.

Exam Readiness: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional - The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional exam validates advanced technical skills and experience in designing distributed applications and systems on the AWS platform.

People with two or more years of hands-on experience designing and deploying cloud architecture on AWS should join this advanced full-day workshop to learn how to prepare to successfully pass the exam. The workshop explores the exam’s topic areas, shows how they relate to architecting on AWS, and maps them to specific areas for future self-study. It includes sample exam questions from each domain and discussions of concepts being tested to help test-takers better eliminate incorrect responses.

Topics in the course will address each of the exam’s five subject domains. 

• Design for Organizational complexity 

• Design for New Solutions 

• Migration Planning 

• Cost Control 

• Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions

Certification bundle includes:

• Advanced Architecting on AWS

• AWS Certification Exam Readiness Workshop: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional Exam

Objectives

This course teaches you how to: 

• Apply the AWS Well-Architected Framework 
• Manage multiple AWS accounts for your organization 
• Connect an on-premises datacenter to the AWS Cloud 
• Discuss billing implications of connecting multi-region VPCs 
• Move large data from an on-premises datacenter to AWS 
• Design large data stores for the AWS Cloud 
• Understand different architectural designs for scaling a large website 
• Protect your infrastructure from distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks 
• Secure your data on AWS with encryption 
• Design protection of data at rest and data in transit 
• Enhance the performance of your solutions 
• Select the most appropriate AWS deployment mechanism
• Navigate the logistics of the examination process
• Understand the exam structure and question types
• Identify how questions relate to AWS architectural concepts
• Interpret the concepts being tested by exam questions
• Allocate time spent preparing for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional exam

Audience

This workshop is intended for:

• Individuals who are preparing to take the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional exam
• This course is intended for experienced IT professionals who are already familiar with AWS services.

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• Architecting on AWS
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification
• Two or more years of hands-on experience designing and deploying cloud architectures on AWS
• Experience evaluating cloud application requirements and making architectural recommendations for their implementation, deployment, and provisioning
• Proficiency at providing guidance in using best practices in architectural design across multiple applications/projects in an enterprise
• An understanding of hybrid cloud infrastructures
• Familiarity with the AWS CLI, the AWS Management Console, AWS APIs, the AWS Billing Console, and AWS CloudFormation

Content

Advanced Architecting on AWS teaches you:
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• AWS Account Management
• Advanced Networking on AWS
• Deployment Management on AWS
• Build a Hybrid Architecture
• Optimize your use of Amazon S3
• Leverage Amazon ElastiCache to handle and store data at scale
• Build a Failover Solution with Amazon Route 53 and Amazon RDS Read Replication
• AWS Snowball
• Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
• AWS Storage Gateway
• Backing up and archiving data on AWS
• Migrating databases into AWS
• Designing for Big Data
• Amazon DynamoDB for Big Data
• DynamoDB Streams
• DynamoDB for Big Data Design Patterns
• Design for Large Scale Applications
• Deployment with Elastic Beanstalk
• Build Resilient Architectures Part A
• CloudFront Content Delivery and Automating WAF Rules
• Encryption and data security
• KMS Envelope Encryption

Exam Readiness Workshop: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional teaches you:

• Testing center information and expectations
• Exam overview and structure
• Content domains and question breakdown
• Topics and concepts within content domains
• Question structure and interpretation techniques