AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C02) Training Course

  Part-1 AWS Certified Solutions Architect Overview
Lecture 1: Well-Architected Framework 
·       Introduction to Well Architected Framework

  Part-2 Design Resilient Architectures
Lecture 2: Design a Multi-Tier Architecture Solution 
·       Resilient VPC Architectures

·       Resilient Application Architectures

·       Resilient Serverless Architectures

·       Provisioning EC2 Instances in Different Availability Zones (Lab)

·       Practical Exercise

Lecture 3: Design Highly Available and/or Fault-Tolerant Architectures 
·       Definitions

·       AWS Global Infrastructure

·       Practical Exercise
Lecture 4: Design Decoupling Mechanisms Using AWS Services 
·       Decoupling with ELB

·       Decoupling with AWS Lambda and S3

·       Decoupling with SNS, SQS and Auto Scaling

·       Configure SQS (Lab)

·       Practical Exercise

Lecture 5: Choose Appropriate Resilient Storage 
·       EBS Resilience

·       EFS Resilience

·       S3 Resilience

·       Creating an EBS Volume (Lab)

·       A Basic EFS Configuration (Lab)

·       Creating a Vault (Lab)

·       Practical Exercise

  Part-3: Design High-Performing Architectures
Lecture 6: Identify Elastic and Scalable Compute Solutions for a Workload 
·       Elasticity with Unified Auto Scaling

·       Elasticity with Managed Services

·       Practical Exercise

Lecture 7: Select High-performing and Scalable Storage Solutions for a Workload 
·       Block-based Storage Performance

·       File-based Storage Performance

·       Object-based Storage Performance

·       Caching Performance in CloudFront

·       Caching Performance in Elasticache

·       Configuring CloudFront (Lab)

·       Configuring a Redis Elasticache Cluster (Lab)

·       Practical Exercise
Lecture 8: Select High-performing Networking Solutions for a Workload 
·       VPC Performance

·       Single-node Performance

·       Hybrid Network Performance

·       Practical Exercise

Lecture 9: Choose High-performing Database Solutions for a Workload 
·       RDS Performance

·       DynamoDB Performance

·       Practical Exercise

  Part 4: Specify Secure Applications and Architectures
Lecture 10: Design Secure Access to AWS Resources 
·       Account-based Access Control

·       User-based Access Control

·       Resource-based Access Control

·       Practical Exercise

Lecture 11: Design Secure Application Tiers 
·       Designing Secure VPC Internal Networks

·       Designing Secure VPC Egress

·       Securing Application Access

·       Monitoring Application Activity

·       Practical Exercise
Lecture 12: Select Appropriate Data Security Options 
·       Securing Data At-rest

·       Securing Data In-transit with SSL

·       Securing Data In-transit with Network Features

·       Key Management Solutions

·       Practical Exercise

  Part-5: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures
Lecture 13: Identify Cost-effective Storage Solutions 
·       Block and File Storage Costs

·       Object Storage Costs

·       Estimating AWS S3 Costs (Lab)

·       Implementing Lifecycle Management (Lab)

·       Changing the Retrieval Rate in Glacier (Lab)

·       Practical Exercise

Lecture 14: Identify Cost-effective Compute and Database Services 
·       EC2 Cost Optimization

·       ECS and Lambda Cost Optimization

·       Database Cost Optimization

·       Using the Cost Explorer (Lab)

·       Practical Exercise