AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional – Overview

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Section 1: Getting started with the course

  • New Exam Blueprint 2019
    • Well Architected Framework is HUGE!

Section 2: New Domain 1 – Design for Organizational Complexity (12.5%)

  • Multiple Accounts
    • Multi-Account Strategy for Enterprises
    • Identity Account Architecture
    • Creating Cross-Account IAM Roles
    • Document – Cross Account IAM Policy Document
  • AWS Organizations
    • AWS Organizations
    • Creating first AWS Organization & SCP
  • AWS License Manager
    • Overview of AWS License Manager
    • License Manager – Practical
  • Centralize Logging
    • Centralized Logging Architecture
    • Cross-Account Logging for CloudTrail and Config
  • S3 Bucket Policies
    • S3 Bucket Policies
    • Bucket Policy Document – Condition based on IP Address
    • Cross Account S3 Bucket Configuration
    • Document – Cross Account S3  Bucket Policy
  • Cloud Watch Logs
    • Understanding CloudWatch Logs
    • Pushing Linux system logs to CloudWatch
  • Service Catalog
    • Overview of Service Catalog
    • Creating Product and Portfolio in Service Catalog
    • Document Code – AWS Service Catalog
  • CloudFormation
    • Overview of CloudFormation Stack Sets
    • Creating Stack Sets for Deployment

Section 3: New Domain 2 – Design for New Solutions (31%)

  • Understanding DOS Attacks
  • Mitigating DDOS attacks
  • Document – DDoS Link
  • AWS Shield
  • IDS/IPS in Cloud
  • Understanding Prinicple of Least Privilage
  • IAM Policy Evaluation Logic
  • AWS Security Token Service
  • AWS STS – Migration EC2 Credentials – Part 2
  • AWS STS – Architecting IAM user keys the right way
  • AWS STS – Automate temporary credentials
  • AWS Key Management Service
  • AWS Key Management Service – Part 2
  • NAXL
  • DynamoDB Global Tables
  • EC2 Auto-Recovery
  • Amazon Rekognition
  • AWS Personal Health Dashboard
  • Understanding the Streaming Data
  • Configuring our first stream with Kinesis
  • AWS Kinesis – Practical
  • RTO & RPO
  • Scalability with RDS Read Replicas – Part 1
  • Implementing & Analyzing RDS Read Replicas – Part 2
  • Automatic Failover with RDS Multi-AZ Deployments
  • S3 – Cross Region Replication
  • Disaster Recovery Models
  • Overview of Route53 for Multi-Site Failover
  • Advanced Route53 Configurations
  • Route53 – Understanding Health Checks
  • Route53 – Implementing Health Checks on NGINX
  • Route53 – Understanding Failover Routing Policy
  • Implementing Failover Routing Policy
  • Establishing Private Links with VPC Endpoints
  • Understanding Enhanced Networking
  • Eventual Consistency in Distributed Systems
  • Improving performance for EBS with RAID
  • S3 – Optimizing Performance – Part 1
  • Implementing NAT Gateway design for Higher Performance
  • Understanding Memcached Engine
  • Understanding Redis Engine
  • Understanding Redis Data Types & Pub/Sub Capabilities
  • Understanding ElastiCache in AWS
  • ElastiCache – Deploying Memcached Cluster Engine
  • ElastiCache – Deploying Redis Cluster Engine
  • Decision Factor – Memcached vs Redis
  • Understanding Business Intelligence & Data Warehouse
  • Deploying RedShift Cluster
  • RedShift WLM
  • Overview of Elastic File System (EFS)
  • AWS EFS – Creating and Mounting EFS
  • Document – EFS Commands
  • Placement Groups (S)
  • Overview of ECS
  • ECS – Task Definition and Services
  • Getting started with Elastic Beanstalk
  • Elastic Beanstalk – Part 2

Section 4: New Domain 3 – Migration Planning (15%0

  • Migration Strategies
  • AWS Import/Export
  • AWS Snowball
  • Understanding DataPipeline
  • Deploying first job with Data Pipeline
  • VMWare vCenter Migrations
  • AWS Server Migration Service

Section 5: New Domain 4 – Cost Control (12.5%)

  • Implementing Resource lavel tags
  • Detailed billing Report with Tags
  • Resource Groups
  • AWS Budget Alarms
  • The Architecture of Consolidated Billing
  • Understanding EC2 Instance Types
  • EC2 Pricing Models
  • Reserved Instances
  • Understanding the Normalization factor
  • Quiz 1: Costing Quix

Section 6: New Domain 5 – Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions (29%)

  • AWS Secrets Manager
  • RDS Integration with Secrets Manager
  • Data LifeCycle Manager for EBS Snapshots
  • Understanding Infrastructure as Code (IAC)
  • Getting started with CloudFormation
  • Understanding Deletion Policies in CloudFormation
  • S3 – Multi-Part Uploads
  • Multi-Part Uploads – Command Document
  • Multi-Part Upload – Practical
  • Understanding Elastic Transcoder
  • Implementing first transcoding job with Elastic Transcoder
  • S3 Transfer Acceleration
  • AWS Athena
  • Understanding Federation – Part 1
  • Understanding Federation – Part 2
  • Federation – External Resources
  • Understanding SAML for SSO
  • Capturing SAML assertion packets with Tracer
  • Establishing trust between IdP and SP
  • Choosing a right IdP
  • SNS & Mobile Plush
  • SNS – PArt 2
  • Revising the ELB Listener Configuration
  • ELB Listeners – Understanding HTTP vs TCP Listeners
  • Understanding AWS Certificate Manager
  • Provisioning first TLS Certificate Manager
  • Provisioning first TLS Certificate with ACM
  • Configuring ELB with HTTPS for SSL Offloading
  • ELB 0 Cross Zone Load Balancing
  • Server Name Indication in TLS Protocol
  • CloudWatch Events
  • Overview of AWS Transit Gateways
  • Trannsit Gateway Practical
  • CloudHSM

 

 

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How to take the course

  • Watch the videos and perform the Hands On
  • Coordinate with Instructor for Problem Solving
  • Completing the exercises, quizzes and reference material

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