Overview
The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional exam is a pivotal step to achieving mastery of designing distributed applications and systems on the AWS platform for aspiring tech professionals.
This exam prep workshop explores the exam’s topic areas, shows how they relate to architecting on AWS, and maps them to specific areas for future self-study. It includes sample exam questions from each domain and discussions of concepts being tested to help test-takers better eliminate incorrect responses.
Topics in the AWS course will address each of the exam’s five subject domains.
- Design for Organizational complexity
- Design for New Solutions
- Migration Planning
- Cost Control
- Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions
Candidates with two or more years of hands-on experience designing and deploying cloud architecture on AWS should join this advanced full-day workshop to learn how to prepare to successfully pass the exam.
Skills Covered
This course is designed to teach attendees how to:
- Navigate the logistics of the examination process
- Understand the exam structure and question types
- Identify how questions relate to AWS architectural concepts
- Interpret the concepts being tested by exam questions
- Allocate time spent preparing for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional exam
Who Should Attend
This workshop is intended for:
- Individuals who are preparing to take the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional exam.
- Individuals who have completed the AWS-ADVARC: Advanced Architecting on AWS course.
Course Curriculum
Prerequisites
We recommend that attendees this course have the following:
- Two or more years of hands-on experience designing and deploying cloud architectures on AWS
- Experience evaluating cloud application requirements and making architectural recommendations for their implementation, deployment, and provisioning
- Proficiency at providing guidance in using best practices in architectural design across multiple applications/projects in an enterprise
- An understanding of hybrid cloud infrastructures
- Familiarity with the AWS CLI, the AWS Management Console, AWS APIs, the AWS Billing Console, and AWS Cloud Formation
Course Modules
Exam & Certification
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
This credential helps certified individuals showcase advanced knowledge and skills in providing complex solutions to complex problems, optimizing security, cost, and performance, and automating manual processes. This certification is a means for organizations to identify and develop talent with these critical skills for implementing cloud initiatives.
Familiarity with AWS CLI, AWS APIs, AWS CloudFormation templates, the AWS Billing Console, the AWS Management Console, a scripting language, and Windows and Linux environments
- Ability to provide best practice guidance on the architectural design across multiple applications and projects of the enterprise as well as an ability to map business objectives to application/architecture requirements
- Ability to evaluate cloud application requirements and make architectural recommendations for implementation, deployment, and provisioning applications on AWS
- Ability to design a hybrid architecture using key AWS technologies (e.g., VPN, AWS Direct Connect) as well as a continuous integration and deployment process