AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
Master advanced architectural concepts and prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional exam with this intensive course. Dive deep ...
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Master advanced architectural concepts and prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional exam with this intensive course. Dive deep into designing and deploying dynamically scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant, and reliable applications on AWS. Explore advanced topics such as multi-tier architecture, hybrid cloud deployments, migration strategies, and disaster recovery solutions. Learn to optimize AWS services for performance, cost, and security, including EC2, S3, RDS, and VPC. This course emphasizes architectural best practices, automation, and infrastructure as code using tools like CloudFormation and AWS CLI. Ideal for experienced cloud architects and IT professionals seeking to validate their advanced skills in architecting complex AWS environments.
Domain 1: Desing Solutions for Organizational Complexity
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Architect network connectivity strategies- AWS Global Infrastructure
- AWS networking concepts (Amazon VPC, AWS Direct Connect, AWS VPN, transitive routing, AWS container services)
- Hybrid DNS concepts (Amazon Route 53 Resolver, on-premises DNS integration)
- Network segmentation (subnetting, IP addressing, connectivity among VPCs)
- Network traffic monitoring
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2
Describe security controls
- AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) and AWS IAM Identity Center (AWS Single Sign-On)
- Route tables, security groups, and network ACLs
- Encryption keys and certificate management (AWS Key Management Service, AWS Certificate Manager)
- AWS security, identity, and compliance tools (AWS CloudTrail, AWS Identity and Access Management Access Analyzer, AWS Security Hub, Amazon Inspector)
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3
Design reliable & resilient architectures
- Recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs)
- Disaster recovery strategies (AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, pilot light, warm standby, and multi-site)
- Data backup and restoration
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4
Design a multi-account AWS environment
- AWS Organizations and AWS Control Tower
- Multi-account event notifications
- AWS resource sharing across environments
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5
Determine cost optimization & visibility strategies
- AWS cost and usage monitoring tools (AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Pricing Calculator, AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets)
- AWS purchasing options (Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Spot Instances)
- AWS rightsizing visibility tools (AWS Compute Optimizer, Amazon S3 Storage Lens)
Domain 2: Design for New Solutions
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Design a deployment strategy to meet business requirements
- Infrastructure as code (IaC) (AWS CloudFormation)
- Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)
- Change management processes
- Configuration management tools (AWS Systems Manager)
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Design a solution to ensure business continuity
- AWS networking concepts (Route 53, routing methods)
- RTOs and RPOs
- Disaster recovery scenarios (backup and restore, pilot light, warm standby, multi-site)
- Disaster recovery solutions on AWS
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Determine security controls based on requirements
- 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 (AWS Shield, AWS WAF, Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Security Hub)
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Design a strategy to meet reliability requirements
- AWS storage services and replication strategies (Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon ElastiCache)
- Multi-AZ and multi-Region architectures
- Auto scaling policies and events
- Application integration (Amazon Simple Notification Service, Amazon Simple Queue Service, AWS Step Functions)
- Service quotas and limits
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Design a solution to meet performance objectives
- Performance monitoring technologies
- Storage options on AWS
- Instance families and use cases
- Purpose-built databases
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Determine a cost optimization strategy to meet solution goals and objectives
- AWS cost and usage monitoring tools (Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor, AWS Pricing Calculator)
- Pricing models (Reserved Instances, Savings Plans)
- Storage tiering
- Data transfer costs
- AWS managed service offerings
Module 3: Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions
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Determine a strategy to improve overall operational excellence
- Alerting and automatic remediation strategies
- Disaster recovery planning
- Monitoring and logging solutions (Amazon CloudWatch)
- CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies (blue/green, all-at-once, rolling)
- Configuration management tools (Systems Manager)
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13
Determine a strategy to improve security
- Data retention, data sensitivity, and data regulatory requirements
- Automated monitoring and remediation strategies (AWS Config rules)
- Secrets management (Systems Manager, AWS Secrets Manager)
- Principle of least privilege access
- Security-specific AWS solutions
- Patching practices
- Backup practices and methods
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14
Determine a strategy to improve performance
- High-performing systems architectures (auto scaling, instance fleets, placement groups)
- Global service offerings (AWS Global Accelerator, Amazon CloudFront, edge computing services)
- Monitoring tool sets and services (CloudWatch)
- Service level agreements (SLAs) and key performance indicators (KPIs)
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15
Determine a strategy to improve reliability
- Data replication methods
- Scaling methodologies (load balancing, auto scaling)
- High availability and resiliency
- Disaster recovery methods and tools
- Service quotas and limits
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Identify opportunities for cost optimizations
- Cost-conscious architecture choices (Spot Instances, scaling policies, and rightsizing resources)
- Price model adoptions (Reserved Instances, Savings Plans)
- Networking and data transfer costs
- Cost management, alerting, and reporting
Module 4: Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization
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Select existing workloads and processes for potential migration
- Migration assessment and tracking tools (AWS Migration Hub)
- Portfolio assessment
- Asset planning
- Prioritization and migration of workloads (wave planning)
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Determine the optimal migration approach for existing workloads
- Data migration options and tools (AWS DataSync, AWS Transfer Family, AWS Snow Family, S3 Transfer Acceleration)
- Application migration tools (AWS Application Discovery Service, AWS Application Migration Service)
- AWS networking services and DNS (Direct Connect, AWS Site-to-Site VPN, Route 53)
- Identity services (IAM Identity Center, AWS Directory Service)
- Database migration tools (AWS Database Migration Service, AWS Schema Conversion Tool)
- Governance tools (AWS Control Tower, Organizations)
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Determine a new architecture for existing workloads
- Compute services (Amazon EC2, AWS Elastic Beanstalk)
- Containers (Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, AWS Fargate, Amazon ECR)
- AWS storage services (Amazon EBS, Amazon EFS, Amazon FSx, Amazon S3, Volume Gateway)
- Databases (Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon RDS, self-managed databases on Amazon EC2)
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Determine opportunities for modernization and enhancements
Serverless compute offerings (AWS Lambda)
Containers (Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Fargate)
AWS storage services (Amazon S3, Amazon EFS)
Purpose-built databases (DynamoDB, Amazon Aurora Serverless, ElastiCache)
Integration services (Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, Amazon EventBridge, Step Functions)
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