ZONL7042 - AWS Solutions Architect Associate
Course Description
This eight-week asynchronous course is for professionals with at least one year of hands-on experience designing distributed systems on AWS. Students who successfully complete the course are prepared to sit for the AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification exam.
Mastering cloud architecture design requires a strong foundation in IT concepts. Learn how to optimize the use of the AWS cloud by understanding how AWS services fit into cloud-based business solutions.
Interactive online classes offer:
- Hands-on experience with practice-server access
- E-learning portal with interactive content (labs, video, practice exams)
- Knowledge assessments.
- Challenging scenario-based exercises that reinforce curriculum topics.
Learner Outcomes
- Architect and deploy secure and robust AWS applications
- Define solutions using architectural design principles based on customer requirements
- Provide best-practice implementation guidelines
- Identify value and benefits of cloud and AWS
- Understand data protection and methodology
- Explain financial advantages of AWS cloud
- Navigate AWS Management Console
- Understand AWS compute, networking, storage and database options
- Create cloud migration roadmaps and business continuity plans
- Use AWS to make infrastructures scalable
- Automate deployment of cloud resources
- Design architectures to decouple infrastructure and reduce interdependencies
- Optimize data storage for static content
- Identify and solve common configuration and design issues
- Differentiate between architectures for data processing and analytics, mobile backends, and video transcoding
Notes
Prerequisites:
- Understanding of IT technical and business knowledge and general concepts for networks, cloud computing and distributed systems
- Familiarity with computer hardware, operating systems, and basic scripting and programming knowledge
Recommended:
- Basic understanding of global infrastructure and architecture
- Familiarity with common AWS services and how/when they are used