AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional Interactive Course

AWS Global Infrastructure

AWS networking concepts

Hybrid DNS concepts

Network segmentation

Network traffic monitoring

Evaluating connectivity options for multiple VPCs

Evaluating connectivity options for on-premises, co-location, and cloud integration

Selecting AWS Regions and Availability Zones based on network and latency requirements

Troubleshooting traffic flows by using AWS tools

Using service endpoints for service integrations

AWS Identity and Access Management and AWS IAM Identity Center

Route tables, security groups, and network ACLs

Encryption keys and certificate management

AWS security, identity, and compliance tools

Evaluating cross-account access management

Integrating with third-party identity providers

Deploying encryption strategies for data at rest and data in transit

Developing a strategy for centralized security event notifications and auditing

Recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives

Disaster recovery strategies

Data backup and restoration

Designing disaster recovery solutions based on RTO and RPO requirements

Implementing architectures to automatically recover from failure

Developing the optimal architecture by considering scale-up and scale-out options

Designing an effective backup and restoration strategy

AWS Organizations and AWS Control Tower

Multi-account event notifications

AWS resource sharing across environments

Evaluating the most appropriate account structure for organizational requirements

Recommending a strategy for central logging and event notifications

Developing a multi-account governance model

AWS cost and usage monitoring tools

AWS purchasing options

AWS rightsizing visibility tools

Monitoring cost and usage with AWS tools

Developing an effective tagging strategy that maps costs to business units

Understanding how purchasing options affect cost and performance

Infrastructure as code

Continuous integration and continuous delivery

Change management processes

Configuration management tools

Determining an application or upgrade path for new services and features

Selecting services to develop deployment strategies and implement appropriate rollback mechanisms

Adopting managed services as needed to reduce infrastructure provisioning and patching overhead

Making advanced technologies accessible by delegating complex development and deployment tasks to AWS

AWS Global Infrastructure

AWS networking concepts

RTOs and RPOs

Disaster recovery scenarios

Disaster recovery solutions on AWS

Configuring disaster recovery solutions

Configuring data and database replication

Performing disaster recovery testing

Architecting a backup solution that is automated, is cost-effective, and supports business continuity across multiple Availability Zones or Regions

Using processes and components for centralized monitoring to proactively recover from system failures

Designing an architecture that provides application and infrastructure availability in the event of a disruption

IAM

Route tables, security groups, and network ACLs

Encryption options for data at rest and data in transit

AWS service endpoints

Credential management services

AWS managed security services

Specifying IAM users and IAM roles that adhere to the principle of least privilege access

Specifying inbound and outbound network flows by using security group rules and network ACL rules

Developing attack mitigation strategies for large-scale web applications

Developing encryption strategies for data at rest and data in transit

Specifying service endpoints for service integrations

Developing strategies for patch management to remain compliant with organizational standards

AWS Global Infrastructure

AWS storage services and replication strategies

Multi-AZ and multi-Region architectures

Auto scaling policies and events

Application integration

Service quotas and limits

Designing highly available application environments based on business requirements

Using advanced techniques to design for failure and ensure seamless system recoverability

Implementing loosely coupled dependencies

Operating and maintaining high-availability architectures

Using AWS managed services for high availability

Implementing DNS routing policies

Performance monitoring technologies

Storage options on AWS

Instance families and use cases

Purpose-built databases

Designing large-scale application architectures for a variety of access patterns

Designing an elastic architecture based on business objectives

Applying design patterns to meet performance objectives with caching, buffering, and replicas

Developing a process methodology for selecting purpose-built services for required tasks

Designing a rightsizing strategy

AWS cost and usage monitoring tools

Pricing models

Storage tiering

Data transfer costs

AWS managed service offerings

Identifying opportunities to select and rightsize infrastructure for cost-effective resources

Identifying appropriate pricing models

Performing data transfer modeling and selecting services to reduce data transfer costs

Developing a strategy and implementing controls for expenditure and usage awareness

Alerting and automatic remediation strategies

Disaster recovery planning

Monitoring and logging solutions

CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies

Configuration management tools

Determining the most appropriate logging and monitoring strategy

Evaluating current deployment processes for improvement opportunities

Prioritizing opportunities for automation within a solution stack

Recommending the appropriate AWS solution to enable configuration management automation

Engineering failure scenario activities to support and exercise an understanding of recovery actions

Data retention, data sensitivity, and data regulatory requirements

Automated monitoring and remediation strategies

Secrets management

Principle of least privilege access

Security-specific AWS solutions

Patching practices

Backup practices and methods

Evaluating a strategy for the secure management of secrets and credentials

Auditing an environment for least privilege access

Reviewing implemented solutions to ensure security at every layer

Reviewing comprehensive traceability of users and services

Prioritizing automated responses to the detection of vulnerabilities

Designing and implementing a patch and update process

Designing and implementing a backup process

Employing remediation techniques

High-performing systems architectures

Global service offerings

Monitoring tool sets and services

Service level agreements and key performance indicators

Translating business requirements to measurable metrics

Testing potential remediation solutions and making recommendations

Proposing opportunities for the adoption of new technologies and managed services

Assessing solutions and applying rightsizing based on requirements

Identifying and examining performance bottlenecks

AWS Global Infrastructure

Data replication methods

Scaling methodologies

High availability and resiliency

Disaster recovery methods and tools

Service quotas and limits

Understanding application growth and usage trends

Evaluating existing architecture to determine areas that are not sufficiently reliable

Remediating single points of failure

Enabling data replication, self-healing, and elastic features and services

Cost-conscious architecture choices

Price model adoptions

Networking and data transfer costs

Cost management, alerting, and reporting

Analyzing usage reports to identify underutilized and overutilized resources

Using AWS solutions to identify unused resources

Designing billing alarms based on expected usage patterns

Investigating AWS Cost and Usage Reports at a granular level

Using tagging for cost allocation and reporting

Migration assessment and tracking tools

Portfolio assessment

Asset planning

Prioritization and migration of workloads

Completing an application migration assessment

Evaluating applications according to the seven common migration strategies

Evaluating total cost of ownership

Data migration options and tools

Application migration tools

AWS networking services and DNS

Identity services

Database migration tools

Governance tools

Selecting the appropriate database transfer mechanism

Selecting the appropriate application transfer mechanism

Selecting the appropriate data transfer service and migration strategy

Applying the appropriate security methods to migration tools

Selecting the appropriate governance model

Compute services

Containers

AWS storage services

Selecting the appropriate compute platform

Selecting the appropriate container hosting platform

Databases

Selecting the appropriate storage service

Selecting the appropriate database platform

Serverless compute offerings

Containers

AWS storage services

Purpose-built databases

Integration services

Identifying opportunities to decouple application components

Identifying opportunities for serverless solutions

Selecting the appropriate service for containers

Identifying opportunities for purpose-built databases

Selecting the appropriate application integration service