AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Bootcamp
Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Learn the basics of AWS and prepare for the exam
Course outcomes
- Understand AWS economics and how to build in the cloud
- Understand key AWS serverful and serverless resources
- Be prepared for the cloud practitioner certification exam
Course description
Join expert Bill Boulden to gain basic fluency with cloud concepts and the AWS platform, one of the world’s leading cloud providers. You’ll get up to speed on every topic that will be covered on AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam, including serverful, serverless, organizations, support and budgets, identity and access management (IAM), encryption, the well-architected framework, the shared responsibility model, the basics of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), networking, Simple Storage Service (S3), and more.
What you’ll learn and how you can apply it
- Understand the Well-Architected Framework and shared responsibility model
- Understand AWS economics and ways of building in the cloud
- Familiarize yourself with key AWS serverful and serverless services
- Be well prepared to pass the cloud practitioner certification exam
This live event is for you because...
- You have beginner or intermediate experience using AWS in any capacity.
- You’re preparing for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam.
- You’re a technical decision maker who’s considering a cloud migration and wants to understand AWS services.
- You’re a professional at any level in information technology who wants to understand cloud computing.
Prerequisites
- Take Understanding AWS in 90 Minutes (live online course with Bill Boulden)
Recommended follow-up:
- Take AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (Pearson practice test)
- Attend AWS Certification Prep: Developer - Associate (live online course with Bill Boulden)
Schedule
The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.
Day 1
Cloud concepts, billing, support, and compliance (150 minutes)
- Presentation: Why AWS?; total cost of ownership, capitalization expense, and operating expense; design principles; the difference between serverful and serverless; on-demand, reserved, and spot; organizations; support
- Break
- Presentation: Budgets and tags; budget explorer; the shared responsibility model; AWS Artifact; encryption; observability; root account versus IAM; understanding IAM
- Break
- Demonstration: IAM policies
- Q&A
Day 2
Security and technology (150 minutes)
- Presentation: AWS security services; Trusted Advisor; global, regions, AZs, edge; ways of working; serverful versus serverless redux; EC2, Auto Scaling, load balancing, Elastic Beanstalk
- Break
- Demonstration: EC2 wizard
- Presentation: S3 storage classes; networking services; databases
- Break
- Group discussion: General exam tips; practice questions
- Q&A
Your Instructor
Bill Boulden
Bill Boulden (they/them) brings tech startups from idea to prod for a living. Over a dozen startups in, Bill is currently the Fractional CTO at somewhere between six and nine tech startups. They are an AWS Certified Developer and a former AWS Certified Solutions Architect. In their spare time, they're the EDM producer "Downupright".