AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate Boot Camp

DreamsPlus presents a comprehensive AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate Boot Camp, offered in Chennai and through an interactive online platform. This boot camp is designed to provide immersive, hands-on experience and expert guidance, preparing you thoroughly for the AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate certification

What’s in the Course?

• Learn AWS architecture best practices
• Understand AWS services and deployment models
• Develop skills in designing scalable architectures
• Gain hands-on experience through interactive workshops

Syllabus 

Domain 1: Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity

Task Statement 1.1: Architect network connectivity strategies.

• Global Infrastructure on AWS
• Concepts related to AWS networking, such as transitive routing, AWS container services, Amazon VPC, AWS Direct Connect, and AWS VPN
• Concepts related to hybrid DNS (such as on-premises DNS integration and Amazon Route 53 Resolver).
• Network segmentation (IP addressing, subnetting, and communication between VPCs, for instance)
• Traffic monitoring on networks 

Task Statement 1.2: Prescribe security controls.

• AWS IAM Identity Centre (AWS Single Sign-On) and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Network ACLs, security groups, and route tables
• Key management and encryption (such as AWS Key Management Service [AWS KMS] and AWS Certificate Manager [ACM]).
• AWS identity, security, and compliance tools (such as Amazon Inspector, AWS Security Hub, AWS CloudTrail, and AWS Identity and Access Management Access Analyser) 

Task Statement 1.3: Design reliable and resilient architectures.

• RTOs and RPOs, or recovery time and recovery point objectives
• Disaster recovery techniques (such as pilot light, warm standby, multi-site, and AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery)
• Data recovery and backup 

Task Statement 1.4: Design a multi-account AWS environment.

• Notifications of events for many accounts
• Sharing of Amazon resources throughout environments
• AWS Organisations and AWS Control Tower 

Task Statement 1.5: Determine cost optimization and visibility strategies.

• Tools for tracking AWS consumption and costs, such as AWS Budgets, AWS Pricing Calculator, AWS Trusted Advisor, and AWS Cost Explorer
• Purchasing alternatives for AWS (such as Spot Instances, Savings Plans, and Reserved Instances)
• Tools for AWS rightsizing visibility (like Amazon S3 Storage Lens and AWS Compute Optimiser) 

Domain 2: Design for New Solutions

Task Statement 2.1: Design a deployment strategy to meet business requirements.

• Infrastructure as code, or IaC (AWS CloudFormation, for instance)
• Continuous Delivery and Integration (CI/CD)
• Procedures for change management
• Tools for configuration management (like AWS Systems Manager) 

Task Statement 2.2: Design a solution to ensure business continuity

• Concepts related to AWS networking (such as Route 53 and routing techniques)
• RTOs and RPOs; • Disaster recovery plans (such as multi-site, pilot light, backup and restore, and warm standby).
• AWS disaster recovery options 

Task Statement 2.3: Determine security controls based on requirements.

• AWS service endpoints
• IAM
• route tables, 
• security groups, and network ACLs
• encryption choices for data in transit and at rest
• Credential management services
• Managed security services offered by AWS (such as Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Security Hub, AWS Shield, and AWS WAF). 

Task Statement 2.4: Design a strategy to meet reliability requirements.

• Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon ElastiCache, and other AWS storage services and replication schemes; 
• multi-AZ and multi-region designs; auto scaling policies and events
• • Application integration, such as AWS Step Functions, Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), and Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS).
• Service caps and quotas

Task Statement 2.5: Design a solution to meet performance objectives.

• Technologies for performance monitoring; 
• AWS storage choices; 
• instance families and use cases; 
• purpose-built databases 

Task Statement 2.6: Determine a cost optimization strategy to meet solution goals and objectives

• Pricing models (like Reserved Instances, Savings Plans)
• AWS cost and use monitoring tools (like Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor, AWS Pricing Calculator)
• AWS managed service solutions
• Data transfer expenses
• Storage tiering 

Domain 3: Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions

Task Statement 3.1: Determine a strategy to improve overall operational excellence.

• Disaster recovery planning; alerting and automated repair techniques
• Monitoring and recording systems (e.g., Amazon CloudWatch)
• CI/CD pipelines and deployment techniques (such rolling, all-at-once, and blue/green)
• Tools for configuration management (like Systems Manager)

Task Statement 3.2: Determine a strategy to improve security.

• Requirements for data retention, sensitivity, and regulation
• Strategies for automated monitoring and remediation (like AWS Configuration rules)
• Secrets management (using AWS Secrets Manager, for instance, or Systems Manager)
• Least privilege access principle
• AWS security-specific solutions 
• Patching procedures;
• Backup procedures and techniques 

Task Statement 3.3: Determine a strategy to improve performance.

• High-performing system architectures, including as placement groups, instance fleets, and auto scaling
• Worldwide service options (such as edge computing services, Amazon CloudFront, and AWS Global Accelerator).
• Toolkits and services for monitoring (like CloudWatch)
• Key performance indicators (KPIs) and service level agreements (SLAs) 

Task Statement 3.4: Determine a strategy to improve reliability.

• High availability and resilience 
• AWS Global Infrastructure
• Data replication techniques 
• Scaling approaches (e.g., load balancing, auto scaling) 
• Disaster recovery techniques and resources
• Service caps and quotas 

Task Statement 3.5: Identify opportunities for cost optimizations.

• Adoption of price models (such as Reserved Instances, Savings Plans) 
• Cost-conscious architectural decisions (such as employing Spot Instances, scaling rules, and rightsizing resources)
• The price of networking and data transfer
• Reporting, alerting, and cost management 

Domain 4: Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization

Task Statement 4.1: Select existing workloads and processes for potential migration.

• Tools for tracking and evaluating migrations (like AWS Migration Hub)
• Portfolio evaluation; Asset planning; Workload migration and prioritisation (e.g., wave planning) 

Task Statement 4.2: Determine the optimal migration approach for existing workloads.

• Tools and alternatives for data migration (such as S3 Transfer Acceleration, AWS DataSync, AWS Transfer Family, and AWS Snow Family)
• Applications that migrate (such as AWS Application Migration Service and Application Discovery Service).
• AWS DNS and networking services (Direct Connect, AWS Site-to-Site VPN, Route 53, etc.)
• Identity services (such as AWS Directory Service and IAM Identity Centre).
• Database conversion tools (such as AWS Schema Conversion Tool [AWS SCT] and AWS Database conversion Service [AWS DMS])
• Tools for governance (like AWS Control Tower and Organisations) 

Task Statement 4.3: Determine a new architecture for existing workloads.

• Compute services (like Elastic Beanstalk and Amazon EC2)
• Containers (e.g., AWS Fargate, Amazon Elastic Container Registry [Amazon ECR], Amazon Elastic Container Service [Amazon ECS], and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service [Amazon EKS]).
• AWS storage services, such as Volume Gateway, Amazon FSx, Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic File System, and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS).
• Databases (such as self-managed databases on Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon OpenSearch Service)

Task Statement 4.4: Determine opportunities for modernization and enhancements.

• Offerings for serverless computing (like AWS Lambda)
• Containers (e.g., Fargate, Amazon EKS, and Amazon ECS)
• Storage services provided by AWS (such as Amazon S3, Amazon EFS)
• Databases created specifically for a given purpose (such as DynamoDB, Amazon Aurora Serverless, ElastiCache) 
• Integration services (for example, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, Amazon EventBridge, Step Functions)

Training Locations

Chennai: Participate in interactive classroom sessions at our state-of-the-art training center.

Online: Engage in live, virtual training with expert instructors from any location