AWS Course Syllabus
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Course Content covers all the latest topics from basics to advanced level and prepares for
the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam (SAA-C02). Get Amazon Web
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Module 1: Linux Fundamentals
1. Overview of all basic commands
2. Vim editor modes
3. File system hierarchy – Basic topics
4. File and directories creation
5. Grep
6. Filter commands (head, tail, more, less)
7. Creating users and groups
8. Important files related
9. Modifying, deleting users and group
10. Linux permissions
11. Basic permissions overview
12. Software management
13. Yellow dog update modifier(yum)
14. Yum commands
15. Different run levels
16. Services and daemons
Module 2: Why Cloud?
1. Why Cloud and What is Cloud Computing?
2. Identify the features and benefits of cloud computing
3. Different types of Cloud Computing deployment model
4. Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud
5. Virtualization – An essential in cloud
6. Virtualization in Cloud model
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7. Different types of virtualization
8. Hypervisor – Benefits
9. Different types of services and its difference in Cloud computing
10. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
11. Importance of scaling in cloud computing
12. Different types of scaling and its applications
13. Issues we overcome using cloud and applications
14. Cost model that we use in cloud computing
Module 3: AWS – An overview
1. Describe the features of AWS
2. The features of AWS marketplace
3. Describe the features of Amazon Compute Services
4. Describe the features of Amazon Storage Services
5. Describe the features of Amazon Network Services
6. Describe the features of Amazon Database services
7. Describe about various services in AWS
8. Global Infrastructure – Regions and Availability Zones
9. Create a free tier account in AWS and on boarding
10. Introduction AWS management console
Module 4: Understand Identity Access Management of AWS
1. Protect your AWS by different authentication systems
2. Password policies set for users
3. AWS User Account and Groups in detail
4. Creating custom policies in AWS
5. Introduction about Roles and its use
6. Creating Roles and associating policies
7. Creating programmatic access and management console access for users
8. Associating policies to the user and groups
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Module 5: EC2 Instance
1. Describe AMI and AWS Marketplace templates
2. Launch a basic EC2 instance
3. Different types of Instances Reserved, On-demand, Spot, Dedicated
4. Security groups and tags for EC2 instance
5. Public key – Private key introduction and protecting EC2 with keys
6. Attaching and detaching EBS volumes
7. Launch an EC2 instance from an AMI
8. Create custom AMI and working with different regions
9. Make use of Amazon EBS volume and create snapshots
10. Manage the configuration of your application
11. Deploying a new instance from the created AMI
Module 6: Auto-scaling
1. Get Started with Auto Scaling Using the Console
2. Creating Launch configurations and make use of it for auto-scaling groups
3. Maintain a Fixed Number of Running EC2 Instances
4. Dynamic Scaling
5. The lifecycle of auto-scaling
6. Policies of auto-scaling
Module 7: Load Balancing
1. Introduction to Load balancer (ELB)
2. Different types of Load balancer in AWS
3. Application Load balancer
4. Network Load balancer
5. Classic Load balancer
6. Migrating classic load balancer to new load balancer
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7. Components and types of load balancing
Module 8: EBS (Elastic Block Storage)
1. Create EBS volumes
2. Delete EBS Volumes
3. Attach and detach EBS volumes with EC2 instance
4. Creating and deleting snapshots
Module 9: Object Storage in Cloud
1. Understanding S3 durability and redundancy
2. Introduction about S3 Buckets
3. How S3 Uploading works and how to Download
4. How to S3 Permissions
5. How to implement S3 Object Versioning S3 Lifecycle Policies
6. Storage Gateway
7. Import Export
8. S3 Transfer Acceleration
9. Glacier storage
Module 10: Cloud Front
1. Describing cloud front
2. Creating a cloud front distribution
3. Hosting a website of cloud front distribution
4. Implementing global restrictions
5. Configuring origins and behaviours
Module 11: Route53
1. Describe Hosted zones and Domain name understanding
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2. How to create hosted zones
3. Hosting a website with custom domain name
4. Understanding routing policies
Module 12: AWS Security Management
1. Describing Security Practices for Cloud Deployment
2. AWS Shared Responsibilities and Securities
3. Importance of Cloud Trail
4. Describing Trust Advisor
Module 13: Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
1. Introduction to Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
2. VPC Advantages and understanding IP addressing CIDR
3. Default and Non-default VPC
4. Different Components in VPC
5. Describe, create, and manage Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
6. Amazon VPC, Private Subnet, and Public Subnet
7. AWS Networking, Security Groups, and Network ACLs
8. Configuration and management of VPN connectivity
9. Subnet and Subnet Mask
Module 14: Relational Database Service (RDS)
1. Introduction to RDS
2. Different database services of AWS: Amazon RDS, Dynamo DB, Redshift etc.
3. Create MYSQL RDS Instance, Oracle RDS Instance, MS SQL RDS Instance
4. Configuring the database
5. Configuring backups
6. Configuring the maintenance windows
7. Connecting to the database
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Module 15: Dynamo DB
1. Creating a Dynamo DB
2. Adding data manually
3. Learn about strong and eventual consistency
4. Calculating Read write consistency
5. Configuring alarms
Module 16: Monitoring Services
1. Knowledge on Cloud Watch – A monitoring service
2. Create and Configuring Monitoring services
3. How to perform Setting thresholds and Configuring actions?
4. Creating a Cloud Watch alarm
5. Getting statistics for EC2 instances
6. Monitoring other AWS services
7. Configuring Notifications
8. Integrating Cloud Watch with Auto scaling
Module 17: Application Services – An Overview
1. What is SNS
2. Creating a topic
3. Create subscription
4. Subscribed to the subscription
5. SQS & SES
6. Lambda and Elastic Beanstalk
Module 18: AWS Troubleshooting
1. Troubleshooting EC2 instance
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2. Troubleshooting using Cloud Watch
3. Troubleshooting using ELB
4. Troubleshooting by using Cloud Front
Module 19: AWS Architecture and Design
1. Backup and Disaster Recovery
2. How to manage Disaster Recovery and Backups?
3. Best Practice for DR and Backups
4. AWS High Availability Design
Module 20: DevOps Fundamentals
1. An understanding of DevOps and the modern DevOps toolsets
