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This exam readiness course is designed to prepare learners for the AWS Solution Architect Exam. Covering key topics in architecture, compute, database, encryption, high availability, management, security, and storage. Through a combination of theoretical knowledge, topic reviews, knowledge check questions and hands-on practice in a dedicated AWS sandbox playground, participants will gain the skills and confidence needed to excel in the certification exam.

Additionally, learners will have one month of access to the Cloud Academy platform, providing a wealth of supplementary resources and practice exams.

Learners should be preparing to write the AWS Solution Architect certification and have attended the official AWS Solution Architect course or have gained equivalent knowledge.

Day 1: Foundation and Core Services

Compute Services

Introduction to EC2 Instances and Families
Auto Scaling and Load Balancing
Containers
Lambda

Storage Solutions

Amazon S3 for Object Storage
EBS (Elastic Block Store) and Instance Storage
EFS (Elastic File Store) and FSX
Storage Gateway
AWS Backup

Network

AWS Global Infrastructure
VPC
VPN and Direct Connect
Endpoints
Global Accelerator
AWS CloudFront
Route 53

Database Services

Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service)
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon Redshift

High Availability and Management

Design for Failure
Backup and Disaster Recovery
RDS Multi AZ
Aurora HA

AWS Architecture

AWS Step Functions
Amazon Kinesis
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
Multi-Tier Architecture
API Gateway

Day 2:

Security

Identity Access Management (IAM)
Amazon Cognito
IAM Identity Centre
AWS WAF
AWS Firewall Manager
AWS Shield
Amazon Inspector
Amazon Guard Duty

Management

Amazon CloudWatch
AWS CloudTrail
AWS Config
AWS Organisations
AWS Control Tower
AWS Service Catalog
AWS Systems Manager
AWS CloudFront
VPC Flow Logs
Dashboards
Cost Management
ETL
AWS Artifact
AWS CloudFormation

Encryption

Encryption
AWK KMS
CloudHSM
Amazon S3 Encryption
AWS Secrets Manager
AWS Certificate Manager

Lab Challenge

AWS Solution Architect Lab Challenge.

Exam Question Techniques

Different techniques on how to breakdown and tackle exam questions.
Review a number of different example question types.
Direction for continued self-study and practice on the Cloud Academy platform.

Upcoming Trainings

Join our public courses in our South Africa facilities. Private class trainings will be organized at the location of your preference, according to your schedule.

Classroom / Virtual Classroom

06 August 2024