Who should attend
This course is intended for:
- Solutions architects and cloud architects seeking their AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification
- Customers and APN Partners who have 6 to 12 months of experience with AWS including a strong architecture background and experience
- Individuals who prefer an instructor led course for training and exam readiness
- Individuals who have not taken the Architecting on AWS course in the last ~6 months
Certifications
This course is part of the following Certifications:
Prerequisites
We recommend that attendees of this course have:
- At least 6 to 12 months of hands-on experience designing with AWS services
- Hands-on experience using compute, networking, storage, and database AWS services
- An understanding of the basic architectural principles of building on the AWS cloud
- An understanding of the AWS global infrastructure
Course Objectives
In this course, you will learn to:
- Make architectural decisions based on AWS architectural principles and best practices
- Leverage AWS services to make your infrastructure scalable, reliable, and highly available
- Leverage AWS Managed Services to enable greater flexibility and resiliency in an infrastructure
- Make an AWS-based infrastructure more efficient to increase performance and reduce costs
- Use the Well-Architected Framework to improve architectures with AWS solutions
- Navigate the logistics of the examination process, exam structure, and question types
- Identify how questions relate to AWS architectural concepts
- Interpret the concepts being tested by an exam question
Course Content
This five-day, instructor-led course helps busy architects get away from the day-to-day to get focused and ready for their AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam. Attendees learn the fundamentals of building IT infrastructure on AWS, so they can build scalable and resilient solutions in the cloud, by spending the first 3 days on the Architecting on AWS course. They’ll start getting in the exam readiness mindset with bonus end of module quizzes. Next, they’ll learn strategies to answer exam questions and avoid common mistakes with the Exam Readiness: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate half-day course. The course broadens attendees’ knowledge of AWS services with deep dives into Amazon Redshift, Amazon Kinesis, and AWS Key Management Service, and then concludes with two quizzes and an instructor guided review of the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate practice exam.
This course includes presentations, hands-on labs, an exam readiness workshop, videos, practice exam, and quizzes.