Welcome to the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate training course.

​This course prepares you to take the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam. This training has been developed to provide you with the requisite knowledge to not only pass the AWS CSA certification exam but also gain the hands-on experience required to become a qualified AWS Solutions Architect working in a real-world environment.

​Our AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification training is for beginners and professionals who run enterprise architecture programs, as well as solutions architects. It covers deployment of AWS systems, AWS best practices, and many other topics. The AWS Course covers skills for working with the Amazon Cloud, Alexa, Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, autoscaling and load balancing, serverless websites and many more.

There are no prerequisites for this AWS training course. However, prior experience in working with AWS or another cloud computing platform is recommended.

Course Introduction
1.1 Course Introduction
1.2 Working as a Solutions Architect Creating an AWS Account, AWS Free Tier, Usage
1.3 Tracking, and Billing Widget

AWS and SA Fundamentals: Architecture 101
2.1 Access Management
2.2 Shared Responsibility/Security Model
2.3 Service Models
2.4 High Availability vs. Fault Tolerance
2.5 RPO vs. RTO
2.6 Scaling
2.7 Tiered Application Design
2.8 Encryption
2.9 Architecture Odds and Ends
2.10 Architecture 101

AWS Architecture 101
3.1 AWS Accounts
3.2 AWS Physical and Networking Layer
3.3 Well-Architected Framework
3.4 Elasticity
3.5 AWS Architecture 101

AWS Product Fundamentals
4.1 Console Tour and Navigation
4.2 Introduction to S3
4.3 Introduction to CloudFormation
4.4 Lab: Getting Started with CloudFormation
4.5 AWS Product Fundamentals

Identity and Access Control: IAM (Identity and Access Management)
5.1 IAM Essentials
5.2 IAM Policies
5.3 IAM Users
5.4 IAM Groups
5.5 IAM Access Keys
5.6 Securing Your Account — Creating an IAM User and Setting Up the CLI
5.7 IAM Roles
5.8 IAM Essentials

Multi-Account Management and Organizations
6.1 AWS Organizations
6.2 Role Switching Between Accounts
6.3 Multi-Account Management and Organizations

Compute: Server-Based Compute (EC2) Fundamentals
7.1 EC2 Architecture: Part 1
7.2 EC2 Architecture: Part 2
7.3 Instance Types and Sizes
7.4 EC2 Storage Architecture: Part 1
7.5 EC2 Storage Architecture: Part 2
7.6 EBS Snapshots
7.7 Security Groups
7.8 Instance Metadata
7.9 Lab: Creating and Working with an EC2 Instance
7.9.1 Server-Based Compute (EC2) Fundamentals

Server-Based Compute (EC2) Intermediate
8.1 AMI
8.2 Bootstrap
8.3 Instance ENI, IP, and DNS: Part 1
8.4 Instance ENI, IP, and DNS: Part 2
8.5 Instance Roles
8.6 Server-Based Compute (EC2) Intermediate
8.7 Lab: Using EC2 Roles and Instance Profiles

Server-Based Compute (EC2) Advanced
9.1 EBS Volume and Snapshot Encryption
9.2 EBS Optimization, Enhanced Networking, and Placement Groups
9.3 EC2 Billing Models: Part 1 – Spot and Spot Fleet
9.4 EC2 Billing Models: Part 2 – Reserved Instances
9.5 Dedicated Hosts
9.6 Server-Based Compute (EC2)

Advanced
Serverless Compute (Lambda)
10.1 What Are APIs and Microservices?
10.2 Serverless and Event-Driven Architectures
10.3 Lambda Essentials: Part 1
10.4 Lambda Essentials: Part 2
10.5 API Gateway Essentials: Part 1
10.6 API Gateway Essentials: Part 2
10.7 Step Functions
10.8 Lab: Building a Serverless Application Using Step Functions, API Gateway, Lambda
and S3
10.9 Serverless Compute (Lambda)

Container-Based Compute and Microservices
11.1 Docker Essentials
11.2 ECS
11.3 Container-Based Compute and Microservices

Networking: Networking Fundamentals
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Seven-Layer OSI Model: Part 1
12.3 Seven-Layer OSI Model: Part 2
12.4 IP Addressing Basics
12.5 Subnetting
12.6 IP Routing
12.7 Firewalls
12.8 Proxy Servers
12.9 Networking Fundamentals

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
13.1 Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and Subnets: Part 1
13.2 Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and Subnets: Part 2
13.3 Routing and Internet Gateway
13.4 Bastion Host/JumpBox
13.5 NAT, NAT Instance, and NAT Gateway: Part 1
13.6 NAT, NAT Instance, and NAT Gateway: Part 2
13.7 Network ACLs
13.8 Lab: Designing and Building a Custom VPC from Scratch
13.9 Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Advanced VPC
14.1 VPC Peering: Part 1
14.2 VPC Peering: Part 2
14.3 VPC Endpoints: Part 1
14.4 VPC Endpoints: Part 2
14.5 IPv6 within AWS
14.6 Egress-Only Gateway
14.7 Lab: Implementing VPC Peering on AWS
14.8 Advanced VPC

Global DNS (Route 53) Fundamentals
15.1 DNS 101
15.2 Domain Registration
15.3 Private vs. Public Hosted Zones
15.4 Record Set Types
15.5 Health Checks
15.6 Global DNS (Route 53) Fundamentals

Global DNS (Route 53) Advanced
16.1 Routing Policy: Simple
16.2 Routing Policy: Failover
16.3 Routing Policy: Weighted
16.4 Routing Policy: Latency
16.5 Routing Policy: Geolocation
16.6 Global DNS (Route 53) Advanced

Storage and Content Delivery: S3 Architecture and Features
17.1 Permissions
17.2 Transferring Data to S3
17.3 Encryption
17.4 Static Websites and CORS
17.5 Object Versioning
17.6 Presigned URLs
17.7 Lab: Creating a Static Website Using Amazon S3

S3 Performance and Resilience
18.1 Storage Tiers/Classes
18.2 Lifecycle Policies and Intelligent-Tiering
18.3 Cross-Region Replication (CRR)

CloudFront
19.1 CloudFront Architecture: Part 1
19.2 CloudFront Architecture: Part 2
19.3 OAI

Network File Systems
20.1 EFS Fundamentals: Part 1
20.2 EFS Fundamentals: Part 2
20.3 Storage and Content Delivery

Databases: Database Fundamentals
21.1 Database Models
SQL — RDS
21.2 RDS Essentials: Part 1
21.3 RDS Essentials: Part 2
21.4 RDS Backups and Restore
21.5 RDS Resiliency: Multi-AZ
21.6 RDS Read Replicas
21.7 Database Fundamentals and SQL — RDS
SQL — Aurora
21.8 Aurora Essentials: Part 1
21.9 Aurora Essentials: Part 2
21.9.1 Parallel Queries and Aurora Global
21.9.2 Aurora Serverless Essentials: Part 1
21.9.3 Aurora Serverless Essentials: Part 2
21.9.4 SQL — Aurora
NoSQL
21.9.5 DynamoDB Essentials: Part 1 — Tables and Items
21.9.6 DynamoDB Essentials: Part 2 — Query and Scan
21.9.7 DynamoDB Essentials: Part 3
21.9.8 DynamoDB Performance and Billing
21.9.9 DynamoDB Streams and Triggers
21.0.1 DynamoDB Indexes: Part 1 — LSI
21.0.2 DynamoDB Indexes: Part 2 — GSI
21.0.3 NoSQL

In-Memory Caching
22.1 DAX
22.2 ElastiCache
22.3 In-Memory Caching

Hybrid and Scaling: Load Balancing and Auto Scaling
23.1 Load Balancing Fundamentals
23.2 Classic Load Balancers and Health Checks: Part 1
23.3 Classic Load Balancers and Health Checks: Part 2
23.4 Classic Load Balancers and Health Checks: Part 3
23.5 Application Load Balancers: Part 1
23.6 Application Load Balancers: Part 2
23.7 Network Load Balancers
23.8 Launch Templates and Configurations
23.9 Auto Scaling Groups: Part 1
23.9.1 Auto Scaling Groups: Part 2
23.9.2 Lab: Implementing an Auto Scaling Group and Application Load Balancer in AWS

VPN and Direct Connect
24.1 VPC VPN (IPsec)
24.2 Direct Connect Architecture
24.3 When to Pick Direct Connect vs. VPN

Snow*
25.1 Snowball, Snowball Edge, and Snowmobile

Data and DB Migration
26.1 Storage Gateway 101
26.2 Database Migration Service 101

Identity Federation and SSO
27.1 What Is Identity Federation?
27.2 When to Use Identity Federation
27.3 Hybrid and Scaling
Application, Analytics, and Operations

Application Integration
28.1 Simple Notification Service (SNS)
28.2 Simple Queue Service (SQS): Part 1
28.3 Simple Queue Service (SQS): Part 2
28.4 Elastic Transcoder
28.5 Application Integration

Analytics
29.1 Athena
29.2 Elastic MapReduce (EMR)
29.3 Kinesis and Firehose
29.4 Redshift
29.5 Analytics

Logging and Monitoring
30.1 CloudWatch
30.2 CloudWatch Logs
30.3 CloudTrail
30.4 VPC Flow Logs
30.5 Lab: Custom Logging Using Cloud Watch and Clout Watch Logs
30.6 Lab: Working with AWS VPC Flow Logs for Network Monitoring
30.7 Logging and Monitoring

Operations
31.1 CloudWatch Events
31.2 KMS Essentials: Part 1
31.3 KMS Essentials: Part 2

Deployment
32.1 Elastic Beanstalk
32.2 OpsWorks
32.3 Operations and Deployment

Course Outline:

Domain 1: Cloud and AWS concepts
• Understand the types of clouds
• Understand cloud concepts and best practices
• Understand the shared responsibility model
• Describe the benefits of cloud
• Describe the AWS global infrastructure
• Create an AWS account
• Manage accounts and access using IAM

Domain 2: Basic services: compute, storage, network, and database
• Understand and use EC2 concepts
• Create an AMI
• Describe the different types of services
• Use S3 for a static website
• Understand how AWS networking works
• Understand the differences between RDS and DynamoDB

Domain 3: Other services
• Understand the differences between SNS, SQS, SES, and SWF
• Use Cloudtrail and Cloudwatch to track data on users and usage
• Use TrustedAdivsor to secure services
• Understand uses of other services

Domain 4: Using services together
• Use VPC to create a secure virtual network
• Implement load balancing and autoscaling
• Use security groups to allow services to securely communicate
• Move data from other services to S3 or Glacier

Domain 5 Billing and Pricing
• Understand which services to deploy to implement a solution
• Create automated infrastructure using CloudFormation
• Create a web platform using Beanstalk
• Create a development platform using Opswork