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 and is provided free of charge*. At the heart of many great sites and applications is a framework that supports it all, AWS.

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

Registration Instructions:

Orientation will be on the May 1st at 12:00 PM Eastern time and can be joined here: https://vetsintech.co/orientation

Submit application through to https://vetsintech.co/scholarship
Create your VetsinTech account at https://vetsintech.co using the SAME email that you use for this Eventbrite ticket.
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 with time specified by the instructor.

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

Preparing for the course
Exam Readiness
How to approach this course?

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

How to design Cloud Services
Planning and Designing
Monitoring and Logging
Hybrid IT architectures

AWS Overview

AWS Overview
History and Evolution of AWS
Overview of AWS Products and Services
Regions and AZ Walkthrough
Take a tour of AWS Console

IAM - Theory and Lab

IAM Introduction: Understanding Users, Groups and Policies
IAM MFA
Understand AWS Access Key and Security Key
Setup AWS CLI and SDK
IAM Roles
IAM Security Tools
Best Practices for IAM

Elastic Compute Cloud - Theory and Lab

EC2 Fundamentals - Overview
Understand the EC2 Instance Types
Understand AMI
Launch an EC2 machine
Launch an EC2 machine with user-data
Understand the basics of Security Groups nd Ports
Connect to the EC2 machine - SSH, Instance Connect
Understand IP - Public, Private and Elastic IP

Elastic Compute Cloud - Intermediate -Theory and Lab

Understand Spot Instance and Spot Fleet
EC2 Launch Types - Deep dive
Placement Groups - EC2
ENI

Instance Storage - Theory and Lab

EBS
EFS
EFS VS EBS

Elastic Load Balancer and Autoscaling Group - Theory and Lab

Achieving High Availability and Scaling
Elastic Load Balancing
Application Load Balancer
Network Load Balancer
SSL Certificates and Connection Draining
Auto Scaling Groups

Databases - Theory and Lab

AWS RDS - Complete Deep Dive
Amazon Aurora
Elastic Cache
S3 Deep Dive
DynamoDB
Neptune Overview - Brief

VPC - Theory and Lab

Default VPC Overview
CIDR, private IP, public IP
VPC, Subnet
Internet Gateway and Route Tables
Bastion Host
NAT Instances
NAT Gateway
NACL and SG
VPC Peering and Endpoint
Extras

Serverless - Theory and Lab

Introduction to Serverless
Lambda Overview
Lambda Deep Dive
API Gateway
Step Function
Amazon Cognito - Brief
Invoking Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, API Gateway

Container on AWS - ECS and EKS - Theory

Introduction to Docker
ECR
ECS
EKS

Additional Services - Part 1 -Theory

Overview of Route 53
Route 53
CloudFront and AWS Global Accelerator
AWS Snow Family
Amazon FSx
Storage Gateway
DataSync (Overview)

Additional Services - Part 2 - Theory

SQS
SNS
Amazon Kinesis
Athena Brief
Redshift Brief
Glue
EMR
Lake Formation
Machine Learning - Services from AWS

AWS Monitoring, Security and Encryption - Theory

Cloud Watch - Theory and Lab
CloudTrail
AWS Config
AWS Security Overview
KMS
SSM

Extras - Exam Prep

WhitePaper (Links)
Example of Architecture
AWS Well-Architected framework and Tool
Reading Material - Extra
Exam Tips
Practice Exam
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.

VetsinTech AWS Solutions Architect sponsored by CNP