AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate: Certifying Training

Description of the training

This training includes basic technical concepts and prepares participants to design secure, scalable and resilient cloud architectures on AWS. It covers the basic principles of AWS services, good cloud architecture practices, as well as security, performance and cost optimization requirements.

Objectives of training

At the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Design scalable, resilient and highly available architectures on AWS, using good cloud architecture practices.
• Understand and use AWS services to design solutions tailored to business needs (compute, storage, database, networking, etc.).
• Apply security principles on AWS, implementing security strategies to protect cloud resources and manage identities and access.
• Optimize the costs and performance of cloud solutions on AWS, using cost management tools and applying value-for-money concepts.
• Implement network architectures on AWS, including VPCs, sub-networks, gateways and associated services.
• Prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification exam by consolidating the practical and theoretical knowledge needed to pass the exam.

Who is this training for?

The training is aimed at a wide audience, including:

• Solutions Architects and Cloud Engineers: Professionals designing and deploying cloud infrastructure on AWS or wishing to become certified AWS architects.
• System Developers and Engineers: System Developers or Engineers who want to specialize in the design of AWS architectures.
• Technical Leaders and CTO: Technical Leaders seeking to deepen their knowledge to make informed decisions about cloud architecture.
• IT consultants and cloud prescribers: Cloud consultants who want to validate their skills to advise companies on the adoption of AWS.
• Systems Technicians and Administrators: System Administrators seeking to specialize in the architecture and management of cloud solutions on AWS.
• Students and young computer graduates: Students or young computer graduates wishing to acquire practical skills in cloud architecture to improve their employability.

Prerequisites

No specific prerequisites are required. This training is accessible to anyone wishing to discover the design of architectures on AWS, but a basic knowledge of computer science or information systems can be an asset.

Training programme

Introduction to AWS and architecture design

• Introduction to AWS Concepts and Basic Services
• Presentation of AWS and its overall infrastructure (regions, availability areas).
• Computing services: Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda.
• Storage: Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, Amazon Glacier.
• Database management: Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift.
• Practical workshop: Launch an EC2 instance, create a S3 fucket, configure an RDS.
• Designing scalable and resilient architectures
• Design of scalable systems and high availability on AWS (use of Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancer).
• Choice of services based on availability and performance requirements.
• Resilience and fault tolerance concepts.
• Practical workshop: Setting up an Auto Scaling group and a Load Balancer for a web architecture.

Securing, Networking and AWS Resource Management

• Security and Access Management on AWS
• AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM): Creation of users, groups, roles and policies.
• Data security with AWS KMS, CloudTrail, and AWS Shield.
• Security practices for data and application management.
• Practical workshop: IAM policy creation and management, implementation of MFA and good security practices.
• Networking on AWS
• Amazon VPC: Creation and management of VPC, public/private sub-networks, ACLs and Security Groups.
• Configuration of VPN, Direct Connect and Peering gateways.
• Deployment of network architectures in a multi-region environment.
• Practical workshop: Implementation of a VPC, configuration of private and public sub-networks, creation of Security Groups.

Optimization of costs and preparation for review

• Optimization of costs and performance
• Understand the pricing models of AWS services: EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, etc.
• Using AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Cost Explorer and AWS Budgets to track and optimize costs.
• Practical workshop: Using aWS Cost Explorer to analyze expenditures and optimize resources.
• Review and preparation for review
• Review of services and good practices addressed during training.
• Practical exam simulation workshops with standard questions.
• Strategies for passing the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam.
• Practical workshop: Passing a white test to assess the knowledge acquired.

Training assets

• Pedagogical approach: An alternative between theory and practice for better assimilation of concepts.
• Qualified speakers: Specialist trainers with practical experience in the field of cloud.
• Educational tools and materials: Access to online resources, live demonstrations and real-life case studies.
• Accessibility: Training is open to all, without advanced technical prerequisites.

Pedagogical methods and tools used

• Live Demonstrations: Interaction with services in the AWS Cloud.
• Practical workshops Real case studies: Application of concepts in various sectors (industry, trade, health).
• Feedback: Sharing best practices and common mistakes in business.
• Simulations and tools: Using simulators and cloud platforms for interactive workshops.

Evaluation

• MCQ at the end of training.
• Practical case studies.
• Continuous evaluation with personalized feedback.

Normative References

• AWS Well-Architected Framework
• ISO/IEC 19086
• GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)
• NIST Cloud Computing Standards (SP 500-292)
• ISO 27001 Information security