AWS Architect Certification Training

Learning Objectives: In this module, you will learn about security management in AWS using Identity Access Management (IAM) and Key Management Service.

Topics

• Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Components of IAM
• Managing Users with IAM
• Managing Permissions with Groups
• IAM Policy and Its Elements
• Best Practises of IAM
• Identity and Credential Management
• Access and Permission Management
• Delegation and Audit
• Creating API Keys for Accessing AWS Services
• Key Management System (KMS) and its Usage
• AWS Billings
• AWS Alerts and How to create Alerts

Hands-on

• Create new users who can log in to AWS console
• Create a role for an application to access S3
• Create policies for new user to have either admin or limited privileges
• Credential rotation for IAM users
• Login to AWS console via MFA
• Create API keys for accessing AWS Services
• Create a Budget

Learning Objectives: In this module, you will learn about the different Object Storage Services offered by AWS, identify when to use a specific service, how to store/transfer data using these services and optimize the storage cost.

Topics

• Traditional Storage
• Need to move to the cloud storage
• Traditional Vs Cloud Storage (Cost)
• Cloud Storage
• Working of S3
• Difference Between S3, EBS, and EFS
• Bucket Policy
• Access Control List (ACL)
• Versioning
• Cross-Region Replication (CRR) and its Use case
• Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
• Choice of Storage Classes on S3
• Life Cycle Policy of S3 Bucket
• Access S3 And Glacier
• CloudFront and Snowball
• Storage Gateway
• Different modes of Gateway: File, Volume and Tape Gateway

Hands-on

• Hosting a Static Website on Amazon S3
• Versioning in AWS S3
• Replicating data across regions
• S3 Transfer acceleration
• Transfer and retrieve data from Glacier through lifecycle policy
• Upload a file to AWS S3 through a Website
• Accessing a static website through Cloud Front

Learning Objectives: EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is the backbone of AWS. In this module, you will learn about the concepts associated with an EC2 instance and their usage. This module covers different Amazon AMIs, a demo on launching an AWS EC2 instance, ways to connect with an instance and how to host a website on AWS EC2 instance.

Topics

• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Preview
• Amazon Machine Image (AMI) Preview
• Security Groups In AWS
• Authentication Through Key-Pair
• Hardware Tenancy – Shared v/s Dedicated
• The network layer in EC2: VPC
• Elastic Network Interface and its Attributes Preview
• Different Categories of IP Address
• Public IP v/s Elastic IP
• AWS Storage Services and how to select them
• Instance Store
• Elastic Block Store (EBS), its features and volume types
• Solid State Drive: General Purpose SSD and Provisioned IOPS
• Hard Disk Drive: Throughput Optimised HDD and Cold HDD
• Snapshots
• Elastic File System (EFS) and its Features
• EBS v/s EFS

Hands-on

• Host your website inside EC2
• Create an AMI
• Create an Elastic IP
• Attaching an EBS volume externally
• To create a snapshot
• Mount EFS volumes

Learning Objectives: In this module, you will learn the concepts of Load Balancing, Auto-Scaling and Route 53 to manage traffic.

Topics

• Elastic Load Balancer
• Classic Load Balancer
• Network Load Balancer
• Application Load Balancer
• Components of Application Load Balancer
• Application V/S Classic V/S Network Load Balancer
• Load Balancer Troubleshoot
• Auto-Scaling Groups
• Auto-Scaling Components
• Lifecycle of Auto-Scaling
• Working of Load Balancer and Auto-Scaling
• Scaling Policy
• Use case of DNS
• The need of Route 53
• Route 53 and it's working
• Various Routing Policies: Simple, Weighted, Latency-Based, Geolocation and Failover

Hands-on

• Create a Classic Load Balancer
• Create a Network Load Balancer
• Work with Application Load Balancer and Auto-Scaling
• Auto-Scaling and Scaling policy
• Point a sub-domain to EC2 box in Route 53

Learning Objectives: In this module, you will learn about the different database services offered by AWS to handle structured and unstructured data. This module also gives you knowledge on how to analyze your data.

Topics

• Database and Types of AWS Database Services
• Need of Managed Database Services
• Amazon RDS and its Benefits
• Amazon RDS Database Engines
• Amazon RDS – DB Instance
• Read Replica
• DB Instance – Regions, Availability Zones and Failover Scenarios
• Backup and Restore
• Aurora Database
• Storage And I/O Traffic in Aurora
• Crash Recovery in AWS Aurora
• Difference Between SQL And NoSQL Databases
• Amazon DynamoDB
• Read Consistency and Calculation of Throughput Capacity
• Benefits of DynamoDB, use case and working
• Amazon ElastiCache: Memcached and Redis
• Amazon RedShift, its features and Architectures
• AWS Redshift Architecture
• Streaming Data
• Kinesis

Hands-on

• Storing application data in MySQL DB using Relational Database Service (RDS)
• Creating Tables, loading sample data and running queries
• Redis Cache
• Visualize the web traffic using Kinesis Data Stream

Learning Objectives: This module introduces you to the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud. You will learn to implement networking using public and private subnets with VPC. Also, this module demonstrates how to monitor your services.

Topics

• Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and its benefits
• Default and Non-Default VPC
• IP Address
• CIDR- Classless Inter-domain Routing
• Subnet: Subnet Mask and Subnet Mask Classes
• Private and Public Subnet
• IPv4 v/s IPv6 – As in AWS Infrastructure
• Internet Gateway and Route Tables
• Security Group with VPC
• Access Control List, NACL and Security Group
• NAT Devices: NAT Gateway and NAT Instance
• VPC Peering and its working
• VPN and Direct Connect
• The need for Monitoring Services
• AWS CloudWatch and it's working
• CloudTrail, its working and use case
• Trusted Advisor

Hands-on

• Create a Non-default VPC and attach it to an EC2 instance
• Accessing Internet Inside Private Subnet Using NAT Gateway
• Connect two instances in different VPC’s using VPC peering
• Monitoring an EC2 instance using CloudWatch
• Enable CloudTrail and Store Logs in S3
• Explore Trusted Advisor

Learning Objectives: In this module, you will learn about different Application services offered by AWS, that are used for sending e-mails, notifications and processing message queues. This module also deals with the latest trend of Serverless architecture using AWS Lambda.

Topics

• Applications Services And AWS LambdaApplication Services
• Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
• Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) and its working
• SNS Mobile Push
• Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
• Long Polling
• SQS Visibility Timeout
• Dead-Letter Queues
• AWS SWF and its workflow
• Architecture of SWF
• Serverless Computing
• Amazon Lambda and it's working
• Event Sources –Integration with Lambda

Hands-on

• Send an email through AWS SES
• Send notification through SNS
• Send an e-mail through Lambda when an object is added to S3
• Send notification through Lambda when a message is sent to SQS

Learning Objectives: This module helps you gain knowledge on various AWS services and tools used for configuration management and Automation.

Topics

• Need of CloudFormation
• CloudFormation and its components
• Templates in CloudFormation
• Stack in CloudFormation
• AWS OpsWorks
• AWS OpsWorks services
• OpsWorks for Chef Automate
• Cookbooks and Recipies
• AWS OpsWorks Stack
• Components of AWS OpsWorks Stack
• AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise
• Elastic Beanstalk
• Components of Elastic Beanstalk
• Beanstalk v/s OpsWorks v/s CloudFormation

Hands-on

• Installation of LAMP server in EC2 through CloudFormation
• AWS OpsWorks Stack
• Deploy a Web Application with DynamoDB using Beanstalk

Learning Objectives: This module gives you an idea on the importance of AWS guidelines for Well Architected Framework. You will also learn about the Resilient and Performant architecture designs.

Topics

• Basics of Resilient Architecture
• Basics of Performant Architecture

Learning Objectives: Adding to Module 10, this module covers the remaining three concepts behind AWS Well-Architected Framework – Securing Applications and Architectures, Designing Cost-Optimized Architectures, Defining Operationally Excellent Architectures.

Topics

• Well-Architected Framework

Learning Objectives: This module mainly contains exam questionnaires that will be discussed along with the guidance on taking up AWS Solution Architect Certification Exam.

Topics

• AWS Solution Architect Certification Exam Guide
• Certification Exam Questionnaires

On completion of the AWS Architect Certification training, the learner will be able to:

• Design and deploy scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS
• Efficiently handle Ingress and Egress data to and from AWS
• Identify the appropriate AWS service based on data, compute, database, or security requirements
• Identify the appropriate usage of AWS architectural best practices
• Estimate AWS pricing and identify cost control mechanisms

There are no specific prerequisites for taking up AWS Architect Certification Training. Any candidate with an understanding of networking and virtualization can attend this training. Having programming skills and prior working experience with AWS Services is recommended but not mandatory.

AWS is leading the pack in cloud computing. Whether you are a web developer, database or system admin, Big data analyst or IoT developer chances are you have used the service. This AWS Architect Certification Training will help you become an AWS Certified Solutions Architect. Furthermore, you can also pursue other career paths like AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Cloud Architect among others. In order to avail these opportunities, you need structured AWS training with an updated curriculum as per current industry requirements and best practices. Apart from strong theoretical understanding, you need to work on various real-life projects and work on different services for storage, computing, etc. Additionally, you need the advice of an expert who is currently working in the industry and tackling real-life challenges.

This AWS Certification Training is designed for IT professionals who want to pursue a career in cloud computing and become an AWS Certified Solutions Architect. Our AWS Architect Certification Training helps you grab this opportunity and accelerate your career. It is best suited for:

• Professionals who want Project Experience in migrating and deploying AWS solutions
• Professionals with IT Infrastructure background
• Professionals with Virtualisation experience
• DevOps professionals
• Professionals with an understanding of application, server, and network security and compliance

Your career will greatly benefit with the addition of an AWS Certification because:

• Amazon Web Services (CSA) certification is rated as the most valued IT Certification globally – Global Knowledge Study
• In the latest Magic Quadrant report released by Gartner, AWS maintained its position as the king of cloud Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers
• The average salary of AWS Architect is $125k – Indeed.com
• AWS market is expected to reach $236B by 2020 at a CAGR of 22% – Forrester

In AWS Architect Certification Training, you will be working on the cloud servers and various other services that Amazon provides. You can create a Free Tier account on AWS which will give you access to all the AWS services. The step-wise guide for accessing these services will be available in the LMS and Brighter Connects’s support team will assist you 24*7 in case you have any doubts.

The certification project will test your ability to work with AWS services. Following is the problem statement for the same:
Problem Statement: As a cloud architect you must prepare a new environment in the cloud, to which your team will later migrate their applications. The Stakeholders have come up with some Technical and Business requirements:

• They are concerned about the security of the environment, so they have decided to virtually isolate their network from the customers with the help of AWS Cloud Account.
• To store and maintain the customer information received by web application. You must pick the right solution from AWS, which should be a Platform as a Service. It should also provide high availability, patching and back-ups.
• Plan a proper disaster recovery solution for both the Web and Database server.
• Design a dynamic website for the customers to enter their details, which should be stored in a database.
• Due to uncertain traffic pattern the environment should be running at least two EC2 servers all time and Website should remain always operational.
• Setup a proper monitoring solution where you must receive a notification via email for any changes in state of Virtual Machines.
• Your Dynamic Website should also be cached globally, so the users from all around the world can access it with less latency.