Amazon AWS Solution Architect Associate

1 Domain 1.0: Designing highly available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, scalable systems

1.1  Identify and recognize cloud architecture considerations, such as fundamental components and effective designs.

Content may include the following:

·         How to design cloud services

·         Planning and design

·         Monitoring and logging

·         Familiarity with:

·         Best practices for AWS architecture

·         Developing to client specifications, including pricing/cost (e.g., on Demand vs. Reserved vs. Spot; RTO and RPO DR Design)

·         Architectural trade-off decisions (e.g., high availability vs. cost, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) vs. installing your own database on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2))

·         Hybrid IT architectures (e.g., Direct Connect, Storage Gateway, VPC, Directory Services)

                      ·         Elasticity and scalability (e.g., Auto Scaling, SQS, ELB, CloudFront)

2 Domain 2.0: Implementation/Deployment

2.1 Identify the appropriate techniques and methods using Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS CloudFormation, AWS OpsWorks, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to code and implement a cloud solution. 

Content may include the following:

·         Configure an Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

·         Operate and extend service management in a hybrid IT architecture

·         Configure services to support compliance requirements in the cloud

·         Launch instances across the AWS global infrastructure

                     ·         Configure IAM policies and best practices AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Exam Blueprint

33 Domain 3.0: Data Security

3.1 Recognize and implement secure practices for optimum cloud deployment and maintenance. Content may include the following:

·         AWS shared responsibility model

·         AWS platform compliance

·         AWS security attributes (customer workloads down to physical layer)

·         AWS administration and security services

·         AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

·         Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

·         AWS CloudTrail

·         Ingress vs. egress filtering, and which AWS services and features fit

·         “Core” Amazon EC2 and S3 security feature sets

·         Incorporating common conventional security products (Firewall, VPN)

·         Design patterns

·         DoS mitigation

·         Encryption solutions (e.g., key services)

·         Complex access controls (building sophisticated security groups, ACLs, etc.)

·         Amazon CloudWatch for the security architect

·         Trusted Advisor

·         CloudWatch Logs

3.2 Recognize critical disaster recovery techniques and their implementation.

Content may include the following:

·         Disaster recovery

·         Recovery time objective

·         Recovery point objective

·         Amazon Elastic Block Store

·         AWS Import/Export

·         AWS Storage Gateway

·         Amazon Route53

·         Validation of data recovery method

 4 Domain 4.0: Troubleshooting Content may include the following:

            ·         General troubleshooting information and questions

The AWS SysOps Associate certification training program is designed for Systems Administrators who have at least one year experience in managing or building applications in the cloud.

By the end of the course you’ll be able to:

• Deploy, manage, and operate scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS
• Migrate an existing on-premises application to AWS
• Ensure data integrity and data security on AWS technology

The course is suitable for following candidates:

• System Administrators
• Network Administrators
• IT Engineers, Support Engineers
• Cloud Technology Engineer
• Technical Team Lead & Managers
• Technical Architect, Solution Architect
• Technical Project Managers
• Manager, Senior Manager, AVP, VP, Technology Leaders