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This new intermediate-level course from Amazon Web Services (AWS) is designed to help you to assess your preparedness for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam. You will learn how to prepare for the exam by exploring the exam’s topic areas and how they map to architecting on AWS. You will review sample certification questions in each domain, practice skills with hands-on exercises, test your knowledge with practice question sets, and learn strategies for identifying incorrect responses by interpreting the concepts that are being tested in the exam. At the end of this course you will have all the knowledge and tools to help you identity your strengths and weaknesses in each certification domain areas that are being tested on the certification exam. 
The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam is intended for individuals who perform in a solutions architect role. The exam validates a candidate’s ability to design secure and robust solutions by using AWS technologies. The exam also validates a candidate’s ability to complete the following tasks: Design a solution by using appropriate AWS services and by following architectural principles based on requirements. Provide implementation guidance based on best practices to the organization throughout the workload lifecycle.

This course covers material specific to the SAA-C03 version of the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam. 

In the new version of the exam, many of the domains and task statements were reordered or renumbered; however, most of the content is the same.

Only one task statement for the new version of the exam is NOT included in this course:
Domain 3: Design High-Performing Architectures, Task Statement 5: Determine high-performing data ingestion and transformation solutions.

At the end of the course materials, you will find a new section (“SAA-C03 Updates”) that contains additional information about differences between the exam versions:
SAA-C02 versus SAA-C03
SAA-C03 New Material

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Intermediate Level

Completed training on architecting on AWS and 1 year of hands-on experience with designing cloud application architectures, especially on AWS.

Approx. 10 hours to complete

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What you will learn

The 4 domains -Designing Resilient, High-Performing, Secure, Cost-optimized Architectures- in the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam
Certification exam-level practice questions written by experts from AWS
Optional hands-on exercises designed to solidify understanding of cloud concepts you need to know for the exam

Skills you will gain

Cloud Computing Security
Cloud Computing Architecture
AWS cloud

Flexible deadlines

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Shareable Certificate

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Coursera Labs

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Course 4 of 4 in the

AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Professional Certificate

Intermediate Level

Completed training on architecting on AWS and 1 year of hands-on experience with designing cloud application architectures, especially on AWS.

Approx. 10 hours to complete

English

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week1

Week 1

3 hours to complete

Week 1

Welcome to Exam Prep: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate! In this course, we present content on all four knowledge domains that are covered in the exam. It's important to understand that on the exam, questions from all domains are presented in random order. This week, you will get an overview of relevant concepts and services for Designing Resilient Architectures (Domain 1). For this domain, question walkthroughs cover designing a multi-tier architecture solution, designing highly available or fault-tolerant architectures, and decoupling mechanisms by using AWS services. In addition, this week features an optional hands-on exercise for this domain so that you can practice creating a serverless architecture with an AWS Lambda function. The Lambda function inserts a test item into an Amazon DynamoDB table and uploads a test object to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket. An accompanying video walkthrough shows one possible solution for addressing the requirements for the exercise.

3 hours to complete

13 videos (Total 56 min), 5 readings

13 videos

Welcome to Certified Solutions Architect Associate Exam Prep3mCourse Feedback1mMulti-tier Solutions5mMulti-tier Solutions: Question Walkthrough4mHigh Availability and Fault Tolerance4mHigh Availability and Fault Tolerance: Question Walkthrough3mDecoupling Mechanisms3mDecoupling Mechanisms: Question Walkthrough4mResilient Storage3mResilient Storage: Question Walkthrough3mDesign Resilient Architectures: Close4mTesting Permissions: Exercise Introduction2mTesting Permissions: Exercise Walkthrough10m

5 readings

Welcome to the Course10mPre-Course Survey2mDesign Resilient Architectures30mLab Exercise: Testing Permissions30mMid-Course Survey30m

Week2

Week 2

2 hours to complete

Week 2

Welcome to Week 2! This week, you will review relevant concepts and services for Designing High-performing Architectures (Domain 2) so you can get a benchmark of your knowledge in this area. Question walkthroughs for this domain address the topics of identifying and selecting storage, network, and database solutions that are elastic, scalable, and high performing. An optional exercise for Domain 2 gives you an opportunity to practice creating a VPC with two public and two private subnets. You will then launch an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance into the public subnet. This exercise has an accompanying video walkthrough that shows one possible solution for completing the exercise.

2 hours to complete

11 videos (Total 61 min), 2 readings

11 videos

Elastic and Scalable Compute Solutions for a Workload4mElastic and Scalable Compute Solutions for a Workload: Question Walkthrough6mHigh-performing and Scalable Storage Solutions for a Workload4mHigh-performing and Scalable Storage Solutions for a Workload: Question Walkthrough4mHigh-performing Networking Solutions for a Workload5mHigh-performing Networking Solutions for a Workload: Question Walkthrough5mHigh-performing Database Solutions for a Workload4mHigh-performing Database Solutions for a Workload: Question Walkthrough5mDesign High-performing Architectures: Close7mCreating a Network: Exercise Introduction1mCreating a Network: Exercise Walkthrough10m

2 readings

Design High-performing Architectures30mLab Exercise: Creating a Network30m

Week3

Week 3

2 hours to complete

Week 3

Welcome to Week 3! This week, you will get an overview of relevant concepts and services for Designing Secure Applications and Architectures (Domain 3) so you can get a benchmark of your knowledge in this area. For this domain, the question walkthroughs focus on designing secure access to AWS resources, designing secure application tiers, and selecting the appropriate data security options. This week features an optional hands-on exercise for Domain 3, where you compare and contrast two AWS database services: Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon DynamoDB. An accompanying video walkthrough shows one possible solution for addressing the requirements for the exercise.

2 hours to complete

9 videos (Total 40 min), 2 readings

9 videos

Secure Resource Access4mSecure Resource Access: Question Walkthrough3mSecure Application Tiers3mSecure Application Tiers: Question Walkthrough4mData Security Options3mData Security Options: Question Walkthrough3mDesign Secure Applications and Architectures: Close5mComparing Databases: Exercise Introduction57sComparing Databases: Exercise Walkthrough10m

2 readings

Design Secure Applications and Architectures30mLab Exercise: Comparing Databases30m

Week4

Week 4

4 hours to complete

Week 4

Welcome to Week 4! This week, you will review relevant concepts and services on Designing Cost-optimized Architectures (Domain 4) so you can get a benchmark of your knowledge in this area. The question walkthroughs for this domain cover identifying cost-effective storage solutions, selecting compute and database services, and designing cost-optimized network architectures. In this week’s optional exercise, you will launch a pre-written employee directory application on Amazon EC2. The application must be scalable and highly available. This week also includes a practice assessment that includes questions from all exam domains.

4 hours to complete

11 videos (Total 53 min), 5 readings, 1 quiz

11 videos

Cost-effective Storage Solutions3mCost-effective Storage Solutions: Question Walkthrough4mCost-effective Compute and Database Services5mCost-effective Compute and Database Services: Question Walkthrough5mCost-optimized Network Architectures3mCost-optimized Network Architectures: Question Walkthrough3mDesign Cost-optimized Architectures: Close3mImplementing Elasticity: Exercise Introduction55sImplementing Elasticity: Exercise Walkthrough17mBenchmark Assessment Introduction2mCertified Solutions Architect - Associate Exam Prep: Course Close1m

5 readings

Design Cost-optimized Architectures30mLab Exercise: Implementing Elasticity30mPost-Course Survey30mSAA-C02 versus SAA-C035mSAA-C03 New Material10m

1 practice exercise

Benchmark Assessment1h

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About the AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Professional Certificate

This professional certificate provides the knowledge and skills you need to start building your career in cloud architecture and helps you prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam. You will start by learning key AWS Services for compute, storage, database, networking, monitoring, and security, then dive into how to design architectural solutions, how to create and operate a data lake, and how to prepare for the certification exam.

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification showcases knowledge and skills in AWS technology across a wide range of AWS services. The certification focuses on the design of cost and performance optimized solutions and demonstrating a strong understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework. This AWS Certification is one of the top-paying IT certifications, per the SkillSoft IT Skills and Salary report. Per Enterprise Strategy Group, surveyed AWS Certification holders credited their certification for their higher earnings (74%), increased confidence (87%), and increased influence among coworkers (79%). To prepare for your AWS Certification exam, we recommend that — in addition to attaining this professional certificate — candidates review the free exam guide, sample questions, and AWS technical documentation (e.g. white papers and product FAQs) on the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam page to understand what content and services are covered by the exam.

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