AWS Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C03

Topics:

• What is a computer?
• Hardware and software
• Basic operations

Inside a computer case

• Motherboard
• Processor
• Memory
• Disks
• Input Devices
• Output Devices

Topics:

• What is cloud computing?
• Types of cloud
• Comparison between on-prem and cloud computing
• AWS Terminology
• Advantages and disadvantage

Topics:

• Introduction to IAM: Users, Groups, and Policies
• IAM Policies
• IAM MFA
• AWS Access key, CLI, and SDK
• AWS CLI setup on Windows, MAC OS, and Linux
• AWS cloud shell
• IAM roles for AWS services
• IAM security tools
• IAM best practices

Hands-On :

• Creating IAM Users and Groups
• Create AWS IAM Policies
• Implementing IAM MFA
• Exploring AWS CLI
• Creating IAM Roles
• Implementing IAM Security tools

Topics:

• AWS Budget setup
• Basics of EC2
• Types of EC2 Instance
• Overview of Security groups and classic ports
• Overview of SSH
• EC2 instance connect

Hands-On :

• Creating EC2 instance with user data
• Creating security groups
• Hands-on on SSH
• Demo for EC2 Instance roles

Topics:

• Comparison of Private, Public, and Elastic IP.
• Spot Instances & Spot Fleet
• EC2 Placement Groups
• EC2 Hibernate
• (ENI)Elastic Network Interfaces
• Advanced Concepts of EC2 – Nitro, vCPU, Capacity Reservations

Hands-On :

• Private, Public, and Elastic IP
• Creating EC2 Placement Groups
• Work on Elastic Network Interfaces (ENI)
• Implementing EC2 Hibernate

Topics:

• Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Overview
• Overview of EBS Snapshots
• Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
• EC2 Instance Store
• EBS Volume Types
• EBS Multi-Attach and encryption
• Overview of Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
• EFS and EBS comparison

Hands-On:

• Creating Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
• EBS Snapshots Hands On
• (AMI) Hands On Amazon Machine Image
• Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) Hands-on

Topics:

• High Availability and Scalability
• Overview of Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
• Introduction to Gateway Load Balancer
• Introduction to (CLB) – Classic Load Balancer
• Application Load Balancer (ALB)
• Network Load Balancer
• Elastic Load Balance
• ELB- Cross Zone Load Balancing and SSL Certificates
• ELB- Connection Draining
• Overview of Autoscaling Groups

Hands-On:

• Creating and implementing CLB
• Application Load Balancer (ALB)
• Network Load Balancer (NLB) 
• Autoscaling Groups Hands-on
• Auto Scaling Groups – Scaling Policies

Topics:

• Amazon RDS Overview
• RDS Read Replicas vs Multi-AZ
• RDS Encryption + Security
• Aurora Overview
• Aurora – Advanced Concepts
• ElastiCache Overview
• ElastiCache for Solution Architects

Hands-On :

• ElastiCache Hands-On
• Amazon RDS Hands-On
• Aurora Hands-On

Topics:

• Route 53 Introduction
• Route 53 – EC2 Setup
• Route 53 – TTL
• Route 53 CNAME vs Alias
• Routing Policy – Simple, Latency, and Weighted
• Route 53 Health Checks
• Routing Policy – Failover
• Routing Policy – Geolocation and Geoproximity
• Routing Policy – MultiValue
• 3rd Party Domains & Route 53

Hands-On :

• Route 53 Lab

Topics:

• Amazon S3 – Section Introduction
• S3 Buckets and Objects
• S3 Versioning
• S3 Encryption
• S3 Security & Bucket Policies
• S3 Websites

Hands-On :

• Creating S3 Buckets and Objects
• Hand-on on S3 Versioning
• Implementing S3 Encryption
• Creating and implementing S3 Bucket Policies
• S3 CORS

Topics:

• CloudFront Overview
• CloudFront Signed URL / Cookies
• CloudFront Advanced Concepts
• AWS Global Accelerator – Overview

Hands-On:

• CloudFront with S3 – Hands-On
• AWS Global Accelerator – Hands-On

Topics:

• Introduction to Messaging
• Overview of Amazon SQS – Standard Queues
• SQS Queue Access Policy
• SQS – Message Visibility Timeout
• SQS – Dead Letter Queues
• SQS – Request Response
• SQS – Delay Queues
• SQS – FIFO Queues
• SQS + Auto Scaling Group
• Overview of Amazon SNS

Hands-On

• SNS – Hands-On
• SQS – Standard Queue Hands-On

Topics:

• Docker Introduction
• ECS Overview
• ECS Services & Tasks, Load Balancing
• ECS Scaling
• ECS Rolling Updates
• ECR Overview
• EKS Overview

Hands-on:

• ECS Hands-on

Topics:

• Serverless Introduction
• Lambda Overview
• Lambda Limits
• DynamoDB Overview
• DynamoDB Advanced Features
• API Gateway Overview
• API Gateway Security

Hands-On

1. DynamoDB Hands-On
2. API Gateway Basics Hands-On

Topics:

• RDS
• Aurora
• ElastiCache
• DynamoDB
• S3

Topics:

• CIDR, Private vs Public IP
• Default VPC Overview
• Internet Gateways & Route Tables
• NAT Instances and Gateways
• DNS Resolution Options & Route 53 Private Zones
• NACL & Security Groups
• VPC Peering and Endpoints
• VPC Flow Logs + Athena
• Bastion Hosts
• Site to Site VPN, Virtual Private Gateway & Customer Gateway
• Direct Connect & Direct Connect Gateway
• Egress Only Internet Gateway
• VPC Section Summary
• Section Cleanup
• Networking Costs in AWS
• IPv6 for VPC

Hands-on:

1. IPv6 for VPC – Hands On
2. VPC Overview and Hands On
3. Subnet Overview and Hands On