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Exam Prep: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate

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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 SysOps Administrator – Associate exam. You will learn how to prepare for the exam by exploring the exam’s topic areas and how they map to SysOps Administration 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 SysOps Administrator – Associate (SOA-C02) exam is intended for system
administrators in a cloud operations role. The exam validates a candidate’s ability to deploy, manage, and
operate workloads on AWS and their ability to complete the following tasks: Support and maintain AWS workloads according to the AWS Well-Architected Framework, perform operations by using the AWS Management Console and the AWS CLI, implement security controls to meet compliance requirements, monitor, log, and troubleshoot systems, apply networking concepts (for example, DNS, TCP/IP, firewalls), implement architectural requirements (for example, high availability, performance, capacity), perform business continuity and disaster recovery procedures and identify, classify, and remediate incidents

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Intermediate Level

Completed training on systems operations on AWS and 1 year of hands-on experience with deployment, management, networking, and security on AWS.

Approx. 7 hours to complete

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What you will learn

Assess your ability to identify how questions on the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate exam relate to concepts about SysOps on AWS
Interpret the concepts that are being tested by an AWS Certification exam question
Gauge your preparedness to sit for the AWS Certified SysOp Administrator - Associate exam

Skills you will gain

Cloud Computing Security
Software Deployment
AWS cloud

Flexible deadlines

Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.

Shareable Certificate

Earn a Certificate upon completion

100% online

Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.

Coursera Labs

Includes hands on learning projects.

Learn more about Coursera Labs

Intermediate Level

Completed training on systems operations on AWS and 1 year of hands-on experience with deployment, management, networking, and security on AWS.

Approx. 7 hours to complete

English

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Instructors

Seph Robinson

Cloud Technologist

AWS Training and Certification

220,691 Learners

15 Courses

Blaine Sundrud
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Senior Technical Trainer

AWS Training and Certification

492,309 Learners

5 Courses

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Amazon Web Services

Since 2006, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 90 fully featured services for compute, storage, networking, database, analytics, application services, deployment, management, developer, mobile, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence, security, hybrid and enterprise applications, from 44 Availability Zones across 16 geographic regions. AWS services are trusted by millions of active customers around the world — including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies — to power their infrastructure, make them more agile, and lower costs.

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week1

Week 1

1 hour to complete

Week 1

Welcome to Exam Prep: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate! In this course, we present content about the six knowledge domains that are covered in the exam. All domains on the exam are covered. However, we don't present the domains in the order they are listed in the exam guide. We cover the domains in a specific sequence so that we can build on various concepts from module to module, and to help you identify areas for further study. It's important to understand that on the exam, questions from all domains are presented in random order.

1 hour to complete

7 videos (Total 25 min), 3 readings

7 videos

Welcome to Exam Prep: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate3mIntroduction to AWS Certification: What Is an AWS Certification?1mIntroduction to AWS Certification: Why Is Certification Important?1mIntroduction to AWS Certification: What Certifications Are Available?1mIntroduction to AWS Certification: What Is a Certification Exam Like?7mIntroduction to AWS Certification: What Are the Exam Labs Like?4mIntroduction to AWS Certification: Preparing, Registering, and Taking the Exam5m

3 readings

Pre-Course Survey10mNotes: Introduction to AWS Certification10mMid-Course Survey10m

Week2

Week 2

2 hours to complete

Week 2

Welcome to Week 2! This week, you will review relevant concepts and services for Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation (Domain 3) and Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation (Domain 1) so you can get a benchmark of your knowledge in these areas. Question walkthroughs for Domain 3 address the topics of provisioning and maintaining cloud resources, and automating manual or repeatable processes. For Domain 1, question walkthroughs cover using AWS monitoring and logging services, and remediating issues. In addition, this week features optional hands-on exercises for both domains so that you can practice your skills with creating a basic environment and automating with a monitoring solution. Accompanying video walkthroughs show one possible solution for addressing the requirements for each exercise.

2 hours to complete

10 videos (Total 46 min), 2 readings, 6 quizzes

10 videos

Introduction to Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation5mQuestion Walkthrough: Provision and Maintain Cloud Resources6mLab Introduction: Creating a Basic Environment2mPossible Lab Solution: Creating a Basic Environment8mUnderstanding Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation3mIntroduction to Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation3mQuestion Walkthrough: Using AWS Monitoring and Logging Services5mLab Introduction: Automating with Monitoring55sPossible Lab Solution: Automating with Monitoring6mUnderstanding Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation4m

2 readings

Creating a Basic Environment10mAutomating with Monitoring10m

6 practice exercises

Practice Question 1: Check Your Knowledge5mPractice Question 2: Check Your Knowledge5mPractice Question 3: Check Your Knowledge5mPractice Question 1: Check Your Knowledge5mPractice Question 2: Check Your Knowledge5mPractice Question 3: Check Your Knowledge5m

Week3

Week 3

1 hour to complete

Week 3

Welcome to Week 3! This week, you will get an overview of relevant concepts and services for Reliability and Business Continuity (Domain 2) and Networking and Content Delivery (Domain 5) so you can get a benchmark of your knowledge in these areas. For Domain 2, the question walkthroughs focus on implementing high availability, implementing scalability, and implementing backup and restore policies. Question walkthroughs for Domain 5 address implementing networking, working with Domain Name System (DNS) services and content delivery, and troubleshooting network issues. An optional exercise for Domain 5 gives you an opportunity to practice configuring an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket through AWS CloudFormation. This exercise has an accompanying video walkthrough that shows one possible solution for completing the exercise.

1 hour to complete

8 videos (Total 28 min), 1 reading, 6 quizzes

8 videos

Introduction to Reliability and Business Continuity5mQuestion Walkthrough: Implement High Availability3mUnderstanding Reliability and Business Continuity2mIntroduction to Networking and Content Delivery4mQuestion Walkthrough: Implement Networking4mLab Introduction: Configuring Amazon S3 Buckets47sPossible Lab Solution: Configuring Amazon S3 Buckets2mUnderstanding Networking and Content Delivery4m

1 reading

Configuring Amazon S3 Buckets10m

6 practice exercises

Week4

Week 4

3 hours to complete

Week 4

Welcome to Week 4! This week, you will review relevant concepts and services for on Security and Compliance (Domain 4) and Cost and Performance Optimization (Domain 6) so you can get a benchmark of your knowledge in these areas. The Domain 4 question walkthroughs cover data and infrastructure protection, and security and compliance policies. For Domain 6, the question walkthroughs focus on cost-optimization strategies and performance-optimization strategies. This week also includes a practice assessment that includes questions from all exam domains.

3 hours to complete

8 videos (Total 38 min), 1 reading, 7 quizzes

8 videos

Introduction to Security and Compliance5mQuestion Walkthrough: Data and Infrastructure Protection9mUnderstanding Security and Compliance4mIntroduction to Cost and Performance Optimization4mQuestion Walkthrough: Cost Optimization Strategies6mUnderstanding Cost and Performance Optimization4mIntroduction: Practice Assessment3mCourse Close57s

1 reading

Post-Course Survey10m

7 practice exercises

Practice Question 1: Check Your Knowledge5mPractice Question 2: Check Your Knowledge5mPractice Question 3: Check Your Knowledge5mPractice Question 1: Check Your Knowledge5mPractice Question2: Check Your Knowledge5mPractice Question 3: Check Your Knowledge5mBenchmark Assessment1h 30m

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Exam Prep: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate

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