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AWS Certified Solutions Architect Study Guide: Associate (SAA-C03)

(SAA-C03.AE1)/ISBN:978-1-64459-408-7

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AWS Certified Solutions Architect Study Guide: Associate (SAA-C03)

Gain the hands-on experience to pass the AWS SAA-C03 exam with the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Study Guide: Associate (SAA-C03) course. The AWS training comprehensively covers AWS SAA-C03 certification exam objectives. It provides knowledge in areas such as cloud computing and AWS, compute services, AWS storage, VPC, AWS IAM, CloudTrail, Cloud Watch, AWS config, and many more.

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The AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certification exam is ideal for professionals working in solutions architect roles and having one or more years of hands-on experience designing cloud solutions that use AWS services. The AWS Solutions Architect certification validates a candidate's ability 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, and review existing solutions and determine improvements Passing the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam requires understanding the components and operation of the core AWS services as well as how those services interact with each other. 

Lessons

14+ Lessons | 334+ Exercises | 280+ Quizzes | 181+ Flashcards | 181+ Glossary of terms

TestPrep

65+ Pre Assessment Questions | 2+ Full Length Tests | 65+ Post Assessment Questions | 130+ Practice Test Questions

Hands-On Labs

38+ LiveLab | 38+ Video tutorials | 01:21+ Hours

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Lessons 1: Introduction

  • What Does This Course Cover?
  • Exam Objectives
  • Objective Map

Lessons 2: Introduction to Cloud Computing and AWS

  • Cloud Computing and Virtualization
  • The AWS Cloud
  • AWS Platform Architecture
  • AWS Reliability and Compliance
  • Working with AWS
  • Migrating Existing Resources to AWS
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials

Lessons 3: Compute Services

  • Introduction
  • EC2 Instances
  • EC2 Storage Volumes
  • Accessing Your EC2 Instance
  • Securing Your EC2 Instance
  • EC2 Auto Scaling
  • AWS Systems Manager
  • Running Containers
  • AWS CLI Example
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials

Lessons 4: AWS Storage

  • Introduction
  • S3 Service Architecture
  • S3 Durability and Availability
  • S3 Object Life Cycle
  • Accessing S3 Objects
  • Amazon S3 Glacier
  • Other Storage-Related Services
  • AWS CLI Example
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials

Lessons 5: Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

  • Introduction
  • VPC CIDR Blocks
  • Subnets
  • Elastic Network Interfaces
  • Internet Gateways
  • Route Tables
  • Security Groups
  • Network Access Control Lists
  • AWS Network Firewall
  • Public IP Addresses
  • Elastic IP Addresses
  • AWS Global Accelerator
  • Network Address Translation
  • Network Address Translation Devices
  • AWS PrivateLink
  • VPC Peering
  • Hybrid Cloud Networking
  • High-Performance Computing
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials

Lessons 6: Database Services

  • Introduction
  • Relational Databases
  • Amazon Relational Database Service
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Nonrelational (NoSQL) Databases
  • DynamoDB
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials

Lessons 7: Authentication and Authorization—AWS Identity and Access Management

  • Introduction
  • IAM Identities
  • Authentication Tools
  • AWS CLI Example
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials

Lessons 8: CloudTrail, CloudWatch, and AWS Config

  • Introduction
  • CloudTrail
  • CloudWatch
  • AWS Config
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials

Lessons 9: The Domain Name System and Network Routing: Amazon Route 53 and Amazon CloudFront

  • Introduction
  • The Domain Name System
  • Amazon Route 53
  • Amazon CloudFront
  • AWS CLI Example
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials

Lessons 10: Data Ingestion, Transformation, and Analytics

  • Introduction
  • AWS Lake Formation
  • AWS Transfer Family
  • Kinesis
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials

Lessons 11: Resilient Architectures

  • Introduction
  • Calculating Availability
  • EC2 Auto Scaling
  • Data Backup and Recovery
  • Creating a Resilient Network
  • Simple Queue Service
  • Designing for Availability
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials

Lessons 12: High-Performing Architectures

  • Introduction
  • Optimizing Performance for the Core AWS Services
  • Infrastructure Automation
  • Reviewing and Optimizing Infrastructure Configurations
  • Optimizing Data Operations
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials

Lessons 13: Secure Architectures

  • Introduction
  • Identity and Access Management
  • Detective Controls
  • Protecting Network Boundaries
  • AWS Firewall Manager
  • Data Encryption
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials

Lessons 14: Cost-Optimized Architectures

  • Introduction
  • Planning, Tracking, and Controlling Costs
  • Cost-Optimizing Compute
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials

Hands-on LAB Activities

Compute Services

  • Creating a Linux Instance
  • Creating a Placement Group
  • Creating a Snapshot
  • Creating an Encrypted Amazon EBS Volume with a Cold HDD
  • Creating an EC2 Auto Scaling Group
  • Creating an ECS Cluster

AWS Storage

  • Creating an S3 Bucket and Enabling Versioning On It
  • Creating an Amazon S3 Glacier Vault
  • Creating and Customizing an EFS File System

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

  • Creating a VPC
  • Creating a Subnet
  • Creating a Network Interface
  • Creating an Internet Gateway
  • Configuring a Route Table
  • Creating a Security Group
  • Creating a Network ACL
  • Creating a VPC Peering
  • Creating a Virtual Private Gateway
  • Creating a Transit Gateway
  • Creating a VPN Connection

Database Services

  • Creating an Amazon DynamoDB Table

Authentication and Authorization—AWS Identity and Access Management

  • Configuring a Key
  • Creating an AWS CloudHSM Cluster

CloudTrail, CloudWatch, and AWS Config

  • Creating CloudTrail
  • Creating a Rule in Amazon EventBridge
  • Creating a CloudWatch Alarm

The Domain Name System and Network Routing: Amazon Route 53 and Amazon CloudFront

  • Creating a Hosted Zone Using Amazon Route 53
  • Creating CloudFront

Data Ingestion, Transformation, and Analytics

  • Creating a Kinesis Firehose Delivery Stream
  • Creating a Kinesis Data Stream

Resilient Architectures

  • Creating an Amazon SQS Queue

High-Performing Architectures

  • Creating an Elastic Load Balancer
  • Using ElastiCache
  • Creating a CloudFormation Template
  • Creating a CloudWatch Dashboard and Adding a Metric to it

Secure Architectures

  • Enabling and Disabling Amazon Inspector
  • Enabling and Disabling GuardDuty
  • Creating an AWS WAF Web ACL

Exam FAQs

USD 150

PSI or Pearson VUE

Multiple choice, multiple answer

The exam contains 65 questions.

130 minutes

720

(on a scale of 100-1000)

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