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AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) Crash Course

Published by Pearson

Intermediate content levelIntermediate

Get ready to crush the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam!

What is this training about, and why is it important?

  • Review the objectives in the SAA-C03 exam
  • Focus on the Well-Architected Framework pillars that the exam covers
  • Participate in quiz drills that teach you how to navigate and answer real-world questions
  • Learn best practices for passing the exam

Get ready for the all-new AWS Certified Solutions Architect SAA-C03 exam! In this all-new live training course, Chad Smith will introduce you to the concepts and objectives in the updated SAA-C03 exam and walk you through the key topics so you get the edge you need to successfully study for and pass the test. This 2-day / 8-hour live training follows the updated SAA-C03 exam question domains and will provide a deep dive into the Well-Architected Framework and the pillars which are covered on this major exam refresh!

Included in this course are introductions and explanations of each of the four exam question domains, with a strong focus on the strategies and principles that the exam scenarios will be drawn from. You will also explore how to approach, decipher and answer real-world practice questions throughout so you can learn how to eliminate the incorrect answers and navigate the exam. Finally, Chad will share his extensive knowledge of the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate materials so you can learn best practices and prepare for exam day with confidence.

AWS Certifications are among the most sought-after in the Technology sector, and Amazon’s certification exams cover a wide range of services, technologies, and implementation patterns. This course is designed to give you the advantage you need to successfully study for this core AWS exam.

What you’ll learn and how you can apply it

By the end of the live online course, you’ll understand:

  • How to design secure applications and architectures
  • How to design resilient architectures
  • How to design performant architectures
  • How to design and recognize cost-optimized architectures

And you’ll be able to:

  • Design solutions that incorporate AWS services to meet current business requirements and future projected needs
  • Design architectures that are secure, resilient, high-performing, and cost-optimized
  • Review existing solutions and determine improvements

This live event is for you because...

  • You are a certification exam candidate seeking to hone your skills on exam topics
  • You are an Infrastructure or Application architect responsible for designing systems that will be deployed in AWS
  • You are a security or network specialist who will be managing/auditing AWS resources
  • You are a programmer or application engineer who will be developing code to be deployed in AWS
  • You are a functional or technical manager whose team is responsible for AWS infrastructure

Prerequisites

  • Solid understanding of common technology topics including ipv4 networking, virtual machines, storage choices and multi-tier application architecture
  • Basic working knowledge of common AWS services such as VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, IAM and others

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Schedule

The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.

Day 1

Exam guide and general strategies - 30m

  • Exam logistics
  • Exam guide discussion
  • Question domain explanation

Well-Architected Framework - 20m

  • Introduction to Pillars
  • Break - 10m

Design Secure Architectures - 130m

  • Implement a strong identity foundation
  • Enable traceability
  • Apply security at all layers
  • Break - 10m

Automate security best practices

  • Protect data in transit and at rest
  • Keep people away from data
  • Prepare for security events
  • Break - 10m

Design Resilient Architectures Part 1 - 50m

  • Automatically recover from failure
  • Test recovery procedures
  • Q&A - 10m

Day 2

Design Resilient Architectures Part 2 - 50m

  • Scale horizontally to increase aggregate workload availability
  • Stop guessing capacity
  • Manage change in automation

Design High-Performing Architectures - 100m

  • Democratize advanced technologies
  • Break - 10m
  • Go global in minutes
  • Use serverless architectures
  • Experiment more often
  • Break - 10m
  • Consider mechanical sympathy

Design Cost-Optimized Architectures - 80m

  • Implement Cloud Financial Management
  • Adopt a consumption model
  • Measure overall efficiency
  • Break - 10m
  • Stop spending money on undifferentiated heavy lifting
  • Analyze and attribute expenditure
  • Q&A - 10m

Your Instructor

  • Chad Smith

    Chad Smith is a technology professional, author and trainer focused on cloud infrastructure and management. He is the Principal Cloud Architect at Brightkey.cloud and has a wealth of personal real-world experience in cloud adoption, infrastructure design, operations and security. Chad holds current AWS certifications in Architecture, SysOps, Security, Networking and Databases and is also certified in CompTIA Cloud+.

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