AWS Certified Solutions Architect Online Training

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Bart Castle

42skills
305videos
31hours of training
1practice exam

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AWS Certified Solutions Architect Online Training

In this AWS Solutions Architect training, Bart Castle prepares cloud administrators to take the SAA-C01 or SAA-C02 exams, which are the two versions of the one exam required to earn the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification.

SAA-C01 & SAA-C02: What You Need to Know

This AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate training maps to the AWS Certified Solutions Architect exams objectives, and covers topics such as:

Who Should Take AWS Certified Solutions Architect Training?

This AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate course is valuable for new IT professionals with at least a year of experience with cloud infrastructure and experienced cloud administrators looking to validate their AWS skills.

Skills You'll Learn in this Course

Get Started with AWS Solutions Architect Associate

Entry 39 mins5 videos

CBT Nuggets AWS Lab Tools

Entry 45 mins6 videos

Plan for AWS Account Management

Entry1 hr 1 min9 videos

Manage Access to AWS Resources

Intermediate1 hr 16 mins9 videos

Learning Intent

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to design and configure basic access management solutions by using AWS authentication and authorization components. Learn how to delegate permissions by using IAM roles, how to implement dynamic security policy statements by using IAM conditions and variables, and how to work with managed and inline security policies in the management console. Gain an understanding of users, groups, roles, security policies, Amazon Resource Names (ARNs), and the three main resources you can use to administer AWS resources: the management console, command line, and system developer kit.

Skill outline

Work with IAM Security Policies

Entry 33 mins5 videos

Plan for and Run Amazon EC2 Instances

Entry 38 mins9 videos

Learning Intent

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to plan and administer Linux and Windows EC2 instances in AWS. Learn how to create an EC2 launch template by using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), how to connect to an EC2 instance by using the Windows PuTTY client, and how to retrieve the administrator password for a Windows instance by using an EC2 key pair. Gain an understanding of virtualization, storage-volume images (snapshots), compute resources, the management console, SSH keys, and Amazon Machine Images (AMIs).

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Support AWS EC2-Based Workloads

Entry 30 mins7 videos

Learning Intent

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to administer and maintain EC2 instances. Learn how to separate dynamic and static components within EC2 workloads by using data volumes, how to use data volume snapshots to take backups and create new Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), and how to monitor and optimize EC2 instances. Gain an understanding of user data scripts and UserData.

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Plan for VPC Network Traffic

Entry 37 mins7 videos

Network for a Public Web Server

Entry 34 mins6 videos

Network for Management and Private Traffic

Entry 46 mins8 videos

Design for Dynamic EC2 Workloads

Entry 38 mins7 videos

Learning Intent

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to design dynamic EC2-based solutions, ensuring that durability, scalability, and maintenance are efficiently handled. Learn how to grow a web server Target Group by using a new instance and how to burst above a performance baseline level by using CPU credits. Gain an understanding of instance status, health checks, routing options, forwarding rules, EC2 Auto Recovery, and the three types of load balancers offered at AWS: Classic, Application, and Network.

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Design for EC2 Automated Scaling

Intermediate 35 mins7 videos

Learning Intent

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to design, implement, and test Auto Scaling groups and scaling policies. Learn how to set the AMI, instance type, and user data by using a launch configuration; how to externally control the size of Auto Scaling groups by using desired capacity parameters; and how to use CloudWatch to create an Auto Scaling policy that will control the timing of scale-in and scale-out events of scaling group. Gain an understanding of launch configurations and Elastic Beanstalk.

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Design for Web-Scale Application Patterns

Entry 35 mins6 videos

Plan for Messaging at AWS

Entry 53 mins9 videos

Learning Intent

I will know how to apply best-practice asyncronous messaging principals and begin designing messaging solutions using AWS-managed services like the SImple Queue and Notfication Services. I will know how to contrast polling-retrieval, push messaging, and stream messaging solutions.

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Service-To-Service Messaging with SNS and SQS

Intermediate 38 mins7 videos

Learning Intent

I will know how to perform basic integration of AWS Simple Notificaiton Service and Simple Queue Service to enable serverless service-to-service messaging.

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Choose a Datastore at AWS

Entry 56 mins8 videos

Learning Intent

I will know how to identify key data-usage and access pattern criteria and use it to inform the datastore selection process. I will know how to choose an appropriate AWS datastore based on this criteria.

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Design for Amazon DynamoDB

Intermediate 51 mins7 videos

Learning Intent

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to implement and support Amazon DynamoDB solutions. Gain an understanding of DynamoDB, on-demand backups, read capacity units (RCUs), and write capacity units (WCUs). Learn how to choose between SQL and NoSQL solutions, how to create DynamoDB IAM administrative security policies, how to enable global table replication, and more.

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Data Storage with Amazon DynamoDB

Intermediate 44 mins7 videos

Learning Intent

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to create, manage, and design DynamoDB solutions that support common data interactions such as create, read, update, and delete. Learn how to create a DynamoDB table in the management console, how to create a table with the command line by using the create-table command, and how to add items to a table and retrieve items from a table by using the management console and command line. Gain an understanding of read consistency by covering eventually consistent reads and strongly consistent reads; item retrieval by covering scans and queries; and table data by covering expressions, filtering, and input files.

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Network for Hybrid Cloud File System Collaboration

Intermediate 35 mins8 videos

Learning Intent

Join Bart Castle as he covers the cloud-based VPN services you can use to connect AWS and Azure networks together. Learn how to set up an NFS share by using the Elastic File service, how to mount and test an NFS share, and how to update route tables. Gain an understanding of VPN architecture, IPsec VPN, subnets, customer gateways (CGWs), and virtual gateways (VGWs).

Skill outline

Deploy AWS Storage Gateway NFS Share

Entry 27 mins5 videos

Apply the AWS Well-Architected Framework

Intermediate1 hr 20 mins12 videos

Learning Intent

Join Bart Castle as he covers the cloud-computing solutions and best practices of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Learn about the five pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization. Gain an understanding of the best practices included in each pillar and how to implement them.

Skill outline

Plan for Monitoring at AWS

Intermediate1 hr 4 mins9 videos

Learning Intent

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you about the various monitoring solutions at AWS and how to use them. Learn how to choose the best metric for monitoring AWS services, applications, user activity, and admin activity; how to plan and design for metric collection, response timing, thresholds, and alarm limits; and how to use the Simple Notification Service (SNS) and CloudWatch Event Rules to notify you when your root account is used. Gain the skills you need to use the Personal Health Dashboard, automate Landing Zone deployments with AWS Control Tower, create a Metric Filter by using CloudWatch and CloudTrail log shipping, and more.

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Monitor with AWS CloudWatch

Intermediate 53 mins8 videos

Learning Intent

Join Bart Castle as he shows you how to use Amazon CloudWatch to collect and track various types of metrics, set alarms, create custom dashboards, and more. Learn how to use custom CloudWatch metrics, how to review key API calls that enable the publishing of custom metrics, and how to publish custom CloudWatch metrics using AWS CLI scripts and Linux cron jobs. Gain an understanding of the default CloudWatch dashboards, the dual modes of the CloudWatch management console, and the alarm states and actions of CloudWatch.

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Plan for Logging at AWS

Intermediate1 hr 6 mins11 videos

Learning Intent

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to design, plan, and evaluate various security logging solutions at AWS. Gain an understanding of operational log files, CloudWatch, CloudWatch Logs, and the six-step design for AWS logging: collection, transport, storage, taxonomy, analysis, and security. Learn how to access AWS log files that show VPC network traffic, application activity, and datastore actions; how to install the CloudWatch agent with the CLI and the Systems Manager integration; how to design a centralized logging solution; and how to create an ELK stack.

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Plan for Deployment Management

Entry 29 mins5 videos

Manage Systems with AWS Systems Manager

Entry 33 mins6 videos

Manage Resources with AWS CloudFormation

Entry1 hr 10 mins9 videos

Learning Intent

I will know how to describe the basic workings and usage of CloudFormation stacks and templates. I will know how to create simple static ad dynamic templates for a variety of AWS resources as well as how to create, update, and delete stacks.

Skill outline

Implement an AWS Service Catalog

Entry 35 mins6 videos

Plan for Protective Controls at AWS

Entry 30 mins7 videos

Secure EC2 Workloads

Entry 30 mins5 videos

Plan For Data-In-Transit Security at AWS

Entry 29 mins6 videos

Plan for Denial-Of-Service (DoS) Security

Entry 45 mins8 videos

Plan for Data Storage Security at AWS

Entry 38 mins8 videos

Plan for Data Encryption at AWS

Entry 44 mins8 videos

Plan for EC2 Storage Security

Entry 33 mins6 videos

Plan for S3 Integrity and Availability Data Security

Entry 33 mins6 videos

Plan for S3 Confidentiality Data Security

Entry 40 mins6 videos

Work with Cost and Usage Reports

Entry 32 mins5 videos

Automate Cost Management

Entry1 hr 2 mins10 videos

Learning Intent

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to work with AWS!

Skill outline

Plan for DevOps CI/CD Pipelines at AWS

Entry 44 mins7 videos

Learning Intent

I will know how to describe and articulate the components of and the value of Continuous Integration & Delivery for DevOps teams. I will know how to map common open source CI/CD tools to AWS managed-services options.

Skill outline

Migrate Wordpress to EC2 and RDS

Intermediate1 hr 3 mins8 videos

Learning Intent

I will know how to plan-for and execute the migration of an existing LAMP-based Wordpress site to Amazon EC2 and RDS for MySQL.

Skill outline

Prepare for the Solutions Architect Associate Exam

Intermediate 50 mins7 videos

Learning Intent

I will be familiar with the structure of the AWS Solutions Architect Associate Exam and the formatting of questions. I will understand how the pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework apply to the exam learning domains.

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AWS Certified Solutions Architect Learning Resources

Our AWS Certified Solutions Architect training includes videos and in-video quizzes.

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