ExamPrep SAA-C03 AWS Archi.
Offline or Online ExamPrep SAA-C03 AWS Architect training course.
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Course Description
This AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Associate (SAA-C03) training program is designed to give you hands-on exposure to gain technical expertise in architecting, deploying, managing, and operating highly scalable fault tolerant system on the AWS platform.
Audience:
- As an Cloud engineer want to get the practical hands-on knowledge of AWS services and pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Associate (SAA-C03).
- Anyone want to learn and implement the AWS practically after the AWS Cloud Practitioner .
Prerequisite:
- IT professionals with 2+ years experience
- Knowledge such as OSI model, TCP/IP model, IP addressing details
- Recommended training: AWS Cloud Practitioner completed.
- Attend our FREE introductory Cloud Computing Essentials webinar.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03) exam details:
- Exam Code: SAA-C03 - AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate.
- Exam Duration: 130 minutes.
- Number of Questions: 65 questions; either multiple choice or multiple response.
- Passing Score: Your results for the exam are reported as a scaled score of 100–1000. The minimum passing score is 720.
- Exam Fee: $150 USD.
- Validity: The certification is valid for one year and can be renewed by passing a free online assessment.
- Scheduling: The exam can be scheduled and taken at a Pearson VUE test center or through online proctoring.
Syllabus
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The AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03) exam domains:
- Domain 1: Design Secure Architectures (30% of scored content)
- Domain 2: Design Resilient Architectures (26% of scored content)
- Domain 3: Design High-Performing Architectures (24% of scored content)
- Domain 4: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures (20% of scored content)
What You'll Learn
01
Cloud Computing and AWS Cloud Concepts
- What is a Cloud and Cloud Services?
- AWS Certification Tracks
- Understanding AWS Global Infrastructure
- AWS Data Centers
- AWS Services and Categories
- Setting Up Your AWS Subscription
- Understanding AWS Free Usage Tier
- Understanding billing and Management Portals
02
Understaing AWS Services
- Amazon VPC
- Security Groups
- Amazon EC2
- EBS
- Amazon S3
- AWS Database Solutions
03
Domain 1: Design Secure Architectures
Task 1.1: Design secure access to AWS resources
- Skills in:
- Applying AWS security best practices to IAM users and root users (for example, multi-factor authentication [MFA])
- Designing a flexible authorization model that includes IAM users, groups, roles, and policies
- Designing a role-based access control strategy (for example, AWS Security Token Service [AWS STS], role switching, cross-account access)
- Designing a security strategy for multiple AWS accounts (for example, AWS Control Tower, service control policies [SCPs])
- Determining the appropriate use of resource policies for AWS services
- Determining when to federate a directory service with IAM role
Task 1.2: Design secure workloads and applications
- Skills in:
- Designing VPC architectures with security components (for example, security groups, route tables, network ACLs, NAT gateways)
- Determining network segmentation strategies (for example, using public subnets and private subnets)
- Integrating AWS services to secure applications (for example, AWS Shield, AWS WAF, IAM Identity Center, AWS Secrets Manager)
- Securing external network connections to and from the AWS Cloud (for example, VPN, AWS Direct Connect)
Task 1.3: Determine appropriate data security controls
- Skills in:
- Aligning AWS technologies to meet compliance requirements
- Encrypting data at rest (for example, AWS Key Management Service [AWS KMS])
- Encrypting data in transit (for example, AWS Certificate Manager [ACM] using TLS)
- Implementing access policies for encryption keys
- Implementing data backups and replications
- Implementing policies for data access, lifecycle, and protection
- Rotating encryption keys and renewing certificates
04
Domain 2: Design Resilient Architectures
Task 2.1: Design scalable and loosely coupled architectures
- Skills in:
- Designing event-driven, microservice, and/or multi-tier architectures based on requirements
- Determining scaling strategies for components used in an architecture design
- Determining the AWS services required to achieve loose coupling based on requirements
- Determining when to use containers
- Determining when to use serverless technologies and patterns
- Recommending appropriate compute, storage, networking, and database technologies based on requirements
- Using purpose-built AWS services for workloads
Task 2.2: Design highly available and/or fault-tolerant architectures
- Skills in:
- Determining automation strategies to ensure infrastructure integrity
- Determining the AWS services required to provide a highly available and/or fault-tolerant architecture across AWS Regions or Availability Zones
- Identifying metrics based on business requirements to deliver a highly available solution
- Implementing designs to mitigate single points of failure
- Implementing strategies to ensure the durability and availability of data (for example, backups)
- Selecting an appropriate DR strategy to meet business requirements
- Using AWS services that improve the reliability of legacy applications and applications not built for the cloud (for example, when application changes are not possible)
- Using purpose-built AWS services for workloads
05
IAM (Identity & Access Management)
Task 3.1: Determine high-performing and/or scalable storage solutions
- Skills in:
- Determining storage services and configurations that meet performance demands
- Determining storage services that can scale to accommodate future needs
Task 3.2: Design high-performing and elastic compute solutions
- Skills in:
- Decoupling workloads so that components can scale independently
- Identifying metrics and conditions to perform scaling actions
- Selecting the appropriate compute options and features (for example, EC2 instance types) to meet business requirements
- Selecting the appropriate resource type and size (for example, the amount of Lambda memory) to meet business requirements
Task 3.3: Determine high-performing database solutions
- Skills in:
- Configuring read replicas to meet business requirements
- Designing database architectures
- Determining an appropriate database engine (for example, MySQL compared with PostgreSQL)
- Determining an appropriate database type (for example, Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB)
- Integrating caching to meet business requirements
Task 3.4: Determine high-performing and/or scalable network architectures
- Skills in:
- Creating a network topology for various architectures (for example, global, hybrid, multi-tier)
- Determining network configurations that can scale to accommodate future needs
- Determining the appropriate placement of resources to meet business requirements
- Selecting the appropriate load balancing strategy
Task 3.5: Determine high-performing data ingestion and transformation solutions
- Skills in:
- Building and securing data lakes
- Designing data streaming architectures
- Designing data transfer solutions
- Implementing visualization strategies
- Selecting appropriate compute options for data processing (for example, Amazon EMR)
- Selecting appropriate configurations for ingestion
- Transforming data between formats (for example, .csv to .parquet)
06
Domain 4: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures
Task 4.1: Design cost-optimized storage solutions
- Skills in:
- Designing appropriate storage strategies (for example, batch uploads to Amazon S3 compared with individual uploads)
- Determining the correct storage size for a workload
- Determining the lowest cost method of transferring data for a workload to AWS storage
- Determining when storage auto scaling is required
- Managing S3 object lifecycles
- Selecting the appropriate backup and/or archival solution
- Selecting the appropriate service for data migration to storage services
- Selecting the appropriate storage tier
- Selecting the correct data lifecycle for storage
- Selecting the most cost-effective storage service for a workload
Task 4.2: Design cost-optimized compute solutions
- Skills in:
- Determining an appropriate load balancing strategy (for example, Application Load Balancer [Layer 7] compared with Network Load Balancer [Layer 4] compared with Gateway Load Balancer)
- Determining appropriate scaling methods and strategies for elastic workloads (for example, horizontal compared with vertical, EC2 hibernation)
- Determining cost-effective AWS compute services with appropriate use cases (for example, Lambda, Amazon EC2, Fargate)
- Determining the required availability for different classes of workloads (for example, production workloads, non-production workloads)
- Selecting the appropriate instance family for a workload
- Selecting the appropriate instance size for a workload
Task 4.3: Design cost-optimized database solutions
- Skills in:
- Designing appropriate backup and retention policies (for example, snapshot frequency)
- Determining an appropriate database engine (for example, MySQL compared with PostgreSQL)
- Determining cost-effective AWS database services with appropriate use cases (for example, DynamoDB compared with Amazon RDS, serverless)
- Determining cost-effective AWS database types (for example, time series format, columnar format)
- Migrating database schemas and data to different locations and/or different database engines
Task 4.4: Design cost-optimized network architectures
- Skills in:
- Configuring appropriate NAT gateway types for a network (for example, a single shared NAT gateway compared with NAT gateways for each Availability Zone)
- Configuring appropriate network connections (for example, Direct Connect compared with VPN compared with internet)
- Configuring appropriate network routes to minimize network transfer costs (for example, Region to Region, Availability Zone to Availability Zone, private to public, Global Accelerator, VPC endpoints)
- Determining strategic needs for content delivery networks (CDNs) and edge caching
- Reviewing existing workloads for network optimizations
- Selecting an appropriate throttling strategy
- Selecting the appropriate bandwidth allocation for a network device (for example, a single VPN compared with multiple VPNs, Direct Connect speed)
06
AWS Certifications & exam registration process
- AWS Certifications
- Exam details
- Exam preparation tips
- Exam registration and scheduling
- Taking the Exam
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