AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional (E-Study Guide & Lab Guides Included)

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional (Self-Paced)

Prepare for and pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional (SAP-C02) exam comfortably. This course has already helped thousands pass the exam. Get ready to delve into deep architecture and solutions discussions which will take your AWS knowledge to a new level by the time you complete this course. Although not required, it is highly recommended to have the AWS Solutions Architect Associate knowledge and hands-on skills for the maximum benefit out of this course.

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Curriculum

1. Course Introduction
  FREE PREVIEW
2. Suggested Study Plan Discussion
  FREE PREVIEW
3. Different Slide Designs - Remark
4. Resources Download
1. Section Outline
2. HA and Business Continuity Architecture Considerations on AWS
3. Fault Tolerance - AMI and EBS
  FREE PREVIEW
4. Fault Tolerance - Auto Scaling and ELB
5. Fault Tolerance - Regions and Availability Zones
6. Fault Tolerance - S3 and RDS
7. Introduction to Disaster Recovery (DR) on AWS
8. DR - Storage Gateway - AWS Import/Export - VM Import/Export
9. DR - Networking & Database
10. DR Strategies and Approaches on AWS - Introduction
11. DR Strategies and Approaches - Backup and Restore
12. DR Strategy/Approach - Pilot Light
13. DR Strategy/Approach - Warm Standby
14. DR Strategy / Approach - Multi Site
15. Data Replication and Self Healing on AWS
16. Elastic Disaster Recovery Service(AWS DRS)
17. Application Migration Service(MGN) (CloudEndure migration )
18. Section Quiz
19. Scenario Based Question Tutorial 1
  FREE PREVIEW
20. Scenario Based Question Tutorial 2
1. Resource Download
2. Section Outline
3. Billing and Cost Management in AWS
4. Cost Explorer and AWS Budgets
5. Consolidated Billing
6. Billing Alerts, SNS notifications, and Billing Scenarios
7. Tags, Cost Allocation Tags, and Resource Groups
8. Cost Optimization Strategies on AWS
9. Cost Optimization on AWS - EC2 Purchase Options
10. AWS Service Quotas
11. AWS Compute Optimizer
12. AWS Organizations - Covered Topics
  FREE PREVIEW
13. AWS Organizations - Introduction
14. AWS Organizations - Components
15. AWS Organizations - Features
16. Hands-On Lab - AWS Organizations
17. AWS Organizations - Feature Sets (Modes of Operations)
18. AWS Organizations - Integration with other AWS Services
19. AWS Organizations - Best Practice
20. AWS Control Tower
21. Section Quiz
1. CloudFormation - Introduction
2. CloudFormation - Template Components
3. CloudFormation- Intrinsic Functions and Resource Attributes
4. Hands On Labs - Creating a CF Stack, Updating a Stack, and Stack Change Sets
5. CloudFormation - Sample Templates and Deletion Policy Resource Attribute
6. CloudFormation - Nested Stacks, Stack Cross Reference, Best Practices, Logging
7. CloudFormation StackSets
8. AWS OpsWorks - Introduction
9. AWS OpsWorks Components - Stacks and Layers
10. AWS OpsWorks Components - The Instance
11. AWS OpsWorks - Apps, Resource Management, IP addresses, and IAM
  FREE PREVIEW
12. AWS OpsWorks - Integrating Elastic Load Balancers, Monitoring and best practices
13. Amazon Elastic BeanStalk - Introduction
14. AWS Elastic Beanstalk - Concepts and Components
15. AWS Elastic BeanStalk - Web App Containers and Web Server Tier example
16. AWS Elastic BeanStalk - Custom Platforms and Custom AMIs
17. AWS Elastic BeanStalk - Docker Containers on EB
18. AWS Elastic BeanStalk - Integration of EB with S3, EFS, RDS, and DynamoDB
19. AWS Elastic BeanStalk - Monitoing, Logging and Patterns:Anti-Patterns
20. AWS CloudWatch - The Why!
21. Amazon CloudWatch - How it works & Concepts
22. Amazon CloudWatch Alarms
23. Hands On Labs - CloudWatch Alarms
24. CloudWatch Logs - Introduction and Concepts
25. CloudWatch Logs Insights, CW and CloudTrail, EC2, S3 and ElasticSearch
  FREE PREVIEW
26. Hands On Labs - CloudWatch Logs with VPC FlowLogs and CloudWatch Alarms
  FREE PREVIEW
27. AWS CloudWatch Logs - CW Agent, Real Time Processing, and Cross Account Logging
28. AWS CloudWatch Events
29. Hands On Labs - CloudWatch Events
30. CloudWatch ServiceLens and Synthetics
31. Amazon EventBridge
32. AWS Config
33. AWS Config - Delivery Options, Rules, and Integration with SNS
34. AWS Config - Multi Account Multi Region Aggregation , Querying and Monitoring
35. AWS Service Catalog - How it works and its components
36. AWS Service Catalog - Scope, Permissions, Constraints & Sharing across accounts
37. AWS Systems Manager - Introduction
38. AWS Systems Manager Capabilities - Resource Groups, Insights, Inventory Manager
39. AWS Systems Manager Capabilities - Actions - Automation & RUN Command
40. AWS Systems Manager Actions - State, Session, Patch Managers, Distributor
41. AWS Systems Manager - Shared Resources, Use Cases, and Pricing
42. AWS Systems Manager - Parameter Store
43. AWS Secrets Manager
44. Hands-On Lab : Parameter Store and Secrets Manager
45. Trusted Advisor
46. Scenario Based Question Tutorial
47. CloudFormation Lab Template
48. AWS Health Dashboard and AWS service Health Dashboard
49. Section Quiz
1. Virtual Private Cloud - VPC Refresher
2. AWS VPC - Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
3. AWS VPC - Direct Connect (DX)
4. AWS VPC - Direct Connect - Routing Deep Dive
5. AWS Direct Connect - Routing Control using BGP Communities
6. Hybrid Cloud Connectivity - Route Priority and Traffic forwarding
7. Hybrid Connectivity Use Cases : Scenarios
8. AWS Direct Connect Gateway
9. Direct Connect - Direct Connect Gateway Current Limits
10. AWS VPC - VPC Peering
11. AWS VPC - Transit Gateway
12. AWS VPC- Enhanced Networking & Placement Groups [For High Performance Computing]
13. AWS EC2 - NAT Instance vs NAT Gateway & Bastion Hosts
14. AWS EC2 - ENI and Fixed MAC Address - Elastic IP failover techniques
15. AWS VPC - VPC Endpoints - Gateway Endpoint
16. AWS VPC - Hands On Lab - Gateway Endpoint
17. AWS VPC - Interface VPC Endpoint
18. AWS VPC - Hands-On Lab - Interface Endpoint
19. AWS VPC - VPC FlowLogs and DHCP Option Sets
20. AWS Network Firewall
1. ELB Target Groups Listeners and Health Checks
2. Hands-On Lab : ELB Target Groups
3. ELB Cross Zone Load Balancing & Subnet Design HA
4. ELB Security Groups
5. ELB and SSL Certificates
6. ELB Client IP Monitoring Scaling and PFS n HoL
7. Hands-On Lab : ELB & Client IP address
8. Application Load Balancer : Specific Features
9. Network Load Balancer : Specific Features & Endpoint Services
10. Section Quiz
1. CloudFront Deeper Dive
2. CloudFront Additional Features
3. CloudFront - Viewer Policy
4. CloudFront HoL
5. CloudFront Alternate Domain Names and Time To Live (TTL)
6. Route53
7. Route53 Lab Setup and Alias and Simple Routing HoL1
8. Alias Record and Simple Routing
9. Failover and Latency Routing HoL
10. Complex/Nested Routing Policies
11. Route53 Routing Policies (cont) R53 Resolver
12. Weighted Geolocation Multi Value Routing HoL
13. Global Accelerator
14. Global Accelerator HoL
15. Hands-On Lab : Route53 Resolver
16. Route53 Resolver (cont.)
17. Section Quiz
1. Auto Scaling - Refresher
2. Auto Scaling - Launch templates Scaling Policies
3. Hands-On Lab : Auto Scaling - Launch Templates Scaling Policies
4. Auto Scaling - Life Cycle Hooks Timers Termination Policy
5. Hands-On Lab : AS Manual Scaling
6. Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
7. Hands-On Lab : Building a Docker Image and Pushing to ECR
8. ECS Other Features
9. Hands-On Lab : ECS and ALB
10. Amazon ECS Anywhere
11. Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
12. Amazon EKS Distro EKS-D
13. Aamzon EKS Anywhere EKS-A
14. AWS App Runner
15. AWS Porton
16. AWS Lambda Refresher
17. Lambda Custom Runtimes and Lambda Layers
18. Hands-On Lab : Lambda
19. AWS Lambda Scaling, Versioning, and Aliases
20. Amazon API Gateway
21. Lambda@Edge
22. API Gateway - Method Requests and Backend Integration Explained
23. Hands-On Lab : API Gateway
24. API Gateway Scaling, Caching, and Throttling
25. API Gateway - CORS and Monitoring
26. API Gateway - Controlling Access to APIs
27. API Gateway - Using X-Ray for Troubleshooting
28. AWS Serverless Application Model
29. AWS SAM - Automating Deployments, Working with Logs, Serverless App Repository
30. AWS Batch
31. AWS SAM - Templates, Resources, Using AWS SAM, and Access Control to APIs
32. AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) - A Simple and Secure Way to Sharing Resources in AWS.
33. Amazon Appflow
34. AWS Outposts
35. AWS LightSail
36. Section Quiz
1. Multi AZ and Backups
2. Hands-On Lab : Amazon RDS Database
3. Scaling Read Replicas Snapshot operations and Security
4. Hands-On Lab : Scaling, Read Replicas, Snapshot Operations, and Security
5. Amazon Aurora
6. Hands-On Lab : Amazon Aurora
7. Amazon Aurora Cloning, Parallel Query, and Monitoring
8. Amazon Aurora Serverless version 2
9. Amazon Redshift
1. NoSQL DB DynamoDB
2. Hands-On Lab : DynamoDB
3. DynamoDB Features
4. DynamoDB Partitions
5. DynamoDB Partition and Composite Keys, Scan and Query Operations
6. Amazon DynamoDB - Example on Partition Key design, Query:Scan Operations
7. Hands On Labs - Creating a DynamoDB SImple Key table and Global Tables
8. Amazon DynamoDB - Indexing and Secondary Indexes
9. Amazon DynamoDB - Local and Global Secondary Indexes
10. DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) - Detailed
11. DynamoDB Transactions
12. DynamoDB - Storing Large Items & Sparse Indexes
13. Amazon ElastiCache
14. Amazon DocumentDB and Amazon Neptune
15. Amazon Timestream
16. Amazon KeySpaces
17. Amazon Quantum Ledger DB
18. Section Quiz
1. S3 overview and Data Consistency Model
2. S3 Tiered Storage Classes
3. S3 Glacier- Archiving Classes
4. S3 Intelligent-Tiering Class
5. S3 Storage Classes- Lifecycle Policies
6. S3- Enaryption At Rest and In-Transit
7. S3 Server-Side Encryption SSE-S3
8. Hands-On Lab : S3 Access Management ACLs
9. S3 Server-Side Encryption SSE-KMS
10. S3 SSE - Customer Provided Keys SSE- C
11. S3 Buckets - Default Encryption
12. Understanding S3 Access Management and Object Ownership
13. S3 Bucket Policies
14. Hands-On Lab : S3 Bucket Policies
15. S3 Static Website Hosting and HoL
16. Versioning and CRR SRR
17. Hands-On Lab : Versioning and CRR SRR
18. Hands-On Lab : Object Lock
19. S3 and Glacier SELECT, Performance Considerations, and Transfer Family
20. S3 CORS Batch Operations Billing
21. Pre Signed URLs Tr Acc Requester Pays
22. Hands-On Lab : Pre Signed URLs Tr Acc Requester Pays
23. Monitoring Notification and Server Access Logs
24. S3 Additional Features
1. EBS and its types
2. EBS Snapshots Encryption Copying Sharing
3. EBS HoL Snapshots Encryption Copying Sharing
4. Sharing Copying EC2 AMI
5. RAID and AWS Batch
6. Elastic File System (EFS) - Refresher
7. AWS Elastic File System - EFS - On Premise Servers, Use Cases, and Storage Classes
8. Hands-On Lab : EFS
9. AWS Elastic File System - EFS - Data Encryption, Backup, Monitoring
10. AWS EFS - Data Consistency, Performance, and Throughput
11. AWS FSx for Windows File Server - Introduction, Deployment Options & Encryption
12. Hands On Labs - Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
13. Amazon FSx - Data Protection, Backup:Restore, Access, Monitoring and Security
14. Amazon FSx for Lustre
15. Amazon EFS vs FSx for Windows vs FSx for Lustre
16. Hands On labs - Amazon FSx for Lustre
1. Amazon Redshift Spectrum
2. Amazon Athena
3. Hands-On Lab : Amazon Athena
4. Elastic Map Reduce (EMR)
5. AWS Glue
6. Hands-On Lab : AWS Glue
7. AWS Glue - Use Cases, Patterns and Anti-Patterns
8. Kinesis Data Streams
9. Hands-On Lab : Kinesis Data Streams
10. Kinesis Lab
11. Kinesis Data Firehose and Analytics
12. Hands-On Lab : Kinesis Data Firehose
13. Amazon QuickSight
14. AWS Data Pipeline
15. Data Pipeline - Detailed
16. AWS Data Pipeline - Use Cases
17. Kinesis Video Streams
18. Kinesis Video Streams APIs and Playback
19. Amazon OpenSearch
20. AppSync
21. Section Quiz
1. Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
2. Hands-On Lab - SQS
3. Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
4. Hands-On Lab : SNS
5. Amazon MQ
6. Amazon Mechanical Turk (mTurk)
7. Amazon Step Functions
8. Step Functions - Use Cases
9. Section Quiz
10. Scenario Based Question Tutorial #1
11. Scenario Based Question Tutorial # 2
12. Scenario Based Question Tutorial # 3
13. Scenario Based Question Tutorial # 4
1. Identity-based policies
2. Hands-On Lab : Identity-based policies
3. STS and IAM Roles
4. Hands-On Lab : AssumeRole and IAM Roles
5. AssumeRole With External ID
6. STS - Deep Dive
7. Web ID Federation - Using AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity API
8. Enterprise ID Federation Using SAML 2.0
9. Single Sign-On using SAML 2.0 and GetFederationToken
10. Amazon Cognito
11. AWS Directory Services
12. AWS IAM Identity Center (Formerly - AWS Single Sign-On)
13. KMS CMKs and Data (Encryption) Keys - Refresher
14. AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)
15. S3 SSE - Refresher
16. Cloud HSM
17. Resource Based Policies, Permissions Boundary, and Policy Evaluation Logic
18. Hands-On Lab : Resource Based Policies, Permissions Boundary, and Policy Evaluation Logic
19. CloudTrail
20. CloudTrail - Event Types and Server Side Encryption of logs
21. CloudTrail - Logging Use Cases
22. CloudTrail Integration with SNS and CloudWatch & VPC Endpoints
23. CloudTrail Log Integrity Validation
1. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks - Introduction
2. DDoS Examples - UDP and TCP DDoS Attacks
3. DDoS Mitigation Techniques
4. AWS Shield
5. AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF)
6. WAF Attack Examples - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) and SQL Injection
7. WAF Web ACLs - Detailed
8. Hands-On Lab : AWS WAF
9. Amazon GuardDuty
10. Amazon Inspector
11. Amazon Macie
12. Amazon Detective
13. AWS Network Firewall
14. AWS Security Hub
15. Defence In-Depth in AWS
16. Section Quiz
1. Amazon Elastic Transcoder
2. Amazon WorkDocs
3. Amazon WorkSpaces
4. Amazon Pinpoint
5. AWS AppSync
6. AWS Amplify
7. AWS Device Farm
8. Amazon App Stream
1. CI CD Introduction
2. CodeBuild
3. CodeDeploy
4. CodePipeline
5. CI CD Use Cases
1. Amazon Forecast
2. Amazon Sagemaker
3. Amazon Rekognition
4. Amazon Rekognition - Supported Operations
5. Amazon Polly
6. Amazon Lex
7. Amazon Connect
8. Amazon Transcribe
9. Amazon Comprehend and Comprehend Medical
10. Amazon Translate
11. Amazon Alexa
12. Amazon Kendra
13. Amazon Textract
14. Amazon persnalize
15. Amazon Fraud Detector
1. AWS Application Discovery Service
2. Storage Gateway - Presenting S3 as a Backup or Block Storage Solution for On-Premises Servers
3. Hands-On Lab : Storage Gateway
4. Snow Family
5. Hands-On Lab : Snow Family
6. Snow Family Services - Detailed
7. AWS DataSync and AWS Backup
8. AWS Migration Hub
9. Server Migration Service (SMS)
10. Server Migration Service (SMS) - Migrating Applications (not just VMs)
11. Database Migration Service (DMS)
12. Database Migration Service (DMS) and Schema Conversion Tool (CST ) - Detailed
13. Database Migration Service (DMS) - Supported Sources and Targets
14. AWS Migration Strategies - The 7 R's
15. Section Quiz
16. Scenario Based Question Tutorial # 1
1. AWS Data Exchange
2. Amazon FSx File Gateway
3. AWS Audit Manager
4. AWS License Manager
5. AWS Lake formation
6. AWS Service Catalog
7. AWS Service Quotas
8. EFS - Additional Features
9. Serverless Application Repository
10. SQS - Temporary Queues
11. Amazon MSK (Managed Streaming For Apache Kafka)
12. AWS Proton
13. EFS Storage Classes
14. KMS Multi-Region keys
15. AWS Compute Optimizer
16. Amazon Managed Service For Prometheus AMP
17. AWS Artifact
1. Exam Blueprint - Walkthrough
2. Exam Information - Highlights
3. Booking the exam and requesting 30 Minutes exam extra Time (if English is your second language)
4. Mock Exam - Time yourself to 180 minutes
5. The exam taking strategy - The last piece of advice
6. Additional Practice Exams
7. Additional Practice - Highly Recommended

About this course

385 lessons
44.5 hours of video content
Professional
Hands-On labs
Study Guide

Instructor

Eissa Abousherif

Lead - Consulting, Architecture, Training, and Content Development

A passionate cloud and DevOps architect, consultant, content developer, and trainer with 20+ years of IT experience, holding many industry certificates from AWS, Hashicorp, Azure, and Cisco to name a few. During his career, Eissa led consulting, training, Pre and post-sales activities for projects totaling USD250M+ in TCV across multiple industry verticals. Eissa had the privilege of working for IBM, Cisco and Global knowledge in the USA, Canada, and Dubai. Eissa’s passion is focused on enabling enterprises and professionals to prosper and reach their technology adoption goals. Eissa has authored a number of the highest-rated AWS courses on the internet, both at the associate and professional levels. Moreover, he trained 110,000+ learners from 175+ countries many are leading successful Cloud and DevOps careers today.

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