VetsinTech AWS Solutions Architect (Associate) sponsored by CNP

In partnership with Craig Newmark Philanthropies, VetsinTech presents AWS Solutions Architect Associate. This course, valued at more than $5,000, is brought to you by Craig Newmark Philanthropies and is provided free of charge*. At the heart of many great sites and applications is a framework that supports it all, AWS.

*All applicants are required to fill out a course deposit form and a scholarship application form.*

This course is a 4-week commitment at 2 hours per session, Monday thru Thursday

Registration Instructions:

Orientation will be on October 30th at 12:00 PM Eastern time and can be joined here: https://vetsintech.co/orientation

1. Submit application through to https://vetsintech.co/scholarship
2. Create your VetsinTech account at https://vetsintech.co using the SAME email that you use for this Eventbrite ticket.
3. Attend virtual orientation (via zoom) at the link above ⬆️

All students must attend the orientation unless arrangements are made through the education team by emailing smarlow@vetsintech.co or blentell@vetsintech.co

Monday - Thursday 5PM - 7PM Pacific (8-10 Eastern)

IMPORTANT MESSAGE: Pending successful completion of the course, students will get a FULL REFUND

Please be prepared to have cameras on during class, and to be interacting in the video chat/Slack. If you have a second monitor, we recommend using it so that you can be watching the instructor on one screen and completing activities on the other.

Timing: 4 PM to 6 PM Central Time

Prerequisites:

• Should have completed either the AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification OR previously have taken the AWS CCP course with VetsinTech.
• Familiarity with cloud computing concepts.
• Working knowledge of distributed systems(optional).

Hands on Lab: Enrolled students need to create their own AWS Free Tier account to perform all the hands-on portions of the course(s) with their own funding method. Guidelines to create the Free-Tier account will be provided by the instructors. Lab instructions will be shared on the Canvas platform

Quizzes: Quizzes will be administered at the end of various modules to solidify student’s comprehension of the material.

Engagement is a crucial part of the learning process, hence attendance in LIVE class is mandatory. However, in the event a student cannot attend, the lecture will be recorded, and a link will be provided on a case-by-case basis. Excuses are limited to not more than 2 classes with prior information.

Target Certification: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Exam overview:

This is an exam conducted by AWS, the details of which are as follows:

• Exam overview
• Level: Associate
• Length: 130 minutes to complete the exam
• Cost: 150 USD
• Visit Exam pricing for additional cost information
• Format: 65 questions, either multiple choice or multiple responses.
• Delivery method: Pearson VUE testing center or online proctored exam.

This certification is intended for candidates who may be:

• Experience in AWS technology.
• Strong on-premises IT experience and understanding of mapping on-premises to cloud.
• Experience working in other cloud services

Course Outline - Tentative

Class Schedule and Course Curriculum for AWS Solution Architect - Associate level certification

Creation of AWS Free-Tier Account for Hands-On Lab

Setting up Budget Alarm

Course Introduction

1. Preparing for the course
2. Exam Readiness
3. How to approach this course?

Designing Highly Available, Cost-efficient, Fault-tolerant, and Scalable Systems

1. How to design Cloud Services
2. Planning and Designing
3. Monitoring and Logging
4. Hybrid IT architectures

AWS Overview

1. AWS Overview
2. History and Evolution of AWS
3. Overview of AWS Products and Services
4. Regions and AZ Walkthrough
5. Take a tour of AWS Console

IAM - Theory and Lab

1. IAM Introduction: Understanding Users, Groups and Policies
2. IAM MFA
3. Understand AWS Access Key and Security Key
4. Setup AWS CLI and SDK
5. IAM Roles
6. IAM Security Tools
7. Best Practices for IAM

Elastic Compute Cloud - Theory and Lab

1. EC2 Fundamentals - Overview
2. Understand the EC2 Instance Types
3. Understand AMI
4. Launch an EC2 machine
5. Launch an EC2 machine with user-data
6. Understand the basics of Security Groups nd Ports
7. Connect to the EC2 machine - SSH, Instance Connect
8. Understand IP - Public, Private and Elastic IP

Elastic Compute Cloud - Intermediate -Theory and Lab

1. Understand Spot Instance and Spot Fleet
2. EC2 Launch Types - Deep dive
3. Placement Groups - EC2
4. ENI

Instance Storage - Theory and Lab

1. EBS
2. EFS
3. EFS VS EBS

Elastic Load Balancer and Autoscaling Group - Theory and Lab

1. Achieving High Availability and Scaling
2. Elastic Load Balancing
3. Application Load Balancer
4. Network Load Balancer
5. SSL Certificates and Connection Draining
6. Auto Scaling Groups

Databases - Theory and Lab

1. AWS RDS - Complete Deep Dive
2. Amazon Aurora
3. Elastic Cache
4. S3 Deep Dive
5. DynamoDB
6. Neptune Overview - Brief

VPC - Theory and Lab

1. Default VPC Overview
2. CIDR, private IP, public IP
3. VPC, Subnet
4. Internet Gateway and Route Tables
5. Bastion Host
6. NAT Instances
7. NAT Gateway
8. NACL and SG
9. VPC Peering and Endpoint
10. Extras

Serverless - Theory and Lab

1. Introduction to Serverless
2. Lambda Overview
3. Lambda Deep Dive
4. API Gateway
5. Step Function
6. Amazon Cognito - Brief
7. Invoking Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, API Gateway

Container on AWS - ECS and EKS - Theory

1. Introduction to Docker
2. ECR
3. ECS
4. EKS

Additional Services - Part 1 -Theory

1. Overview of Route 53
2. Route 53
3. CloudFront and AWS Global Accelerator
4. AWS Snow Family
5. Amazon FSx
6. Storage Gateway
7. DataSync (Overview)

Additional Services - Part 2 - Theory

1. SQS
2. SNS
3. Amazon Kinesis
4. Athena Brief
5. Redshift Brief
6. Glue
7. EMR
8. Lake Formation
9. Machine Learning - Services from AWS

AWS Monitoring, Security and Encryption - Theory

1. Cloud Watch - Theory and Lab
2. CloudTrail
3. AWS Config
4. AWS Security Overview
5. KMS
6. SSM

Extras - Exam Prep

1. WhitePaper (Links)
2. Example of Architecture
3. AWS Well-Architected framework and Tool
4. Reading Material - Extra
5. Exam Tips
6. Practice Exam
7. Summary - Words of wisdom!

Assignments:

Each lesson will have specific assignments/lab work to be completed during the week after each lecture. The assignments will be typical each week as follows:

• Read respective chapters in the text
• Review chapter
• Take chapter quizzes
• Capstone Project (optional)

Materials:

All materials will be provided through Canvas LMS. There will also be the latest material available from the AWS library and white papers. This is all the material that you will need to pass the exam. Your ability to pass will be based on how well you follow the study plan.