AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate 2020

Name: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate 2020
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Learn how to create automatable and repeatable deployments of networks and systems on the AWS platform

Created byRohan Arora

Last updated 11/2021

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What you'll learn

Pass the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator- Associate Exam -- on your first try!
Learn how to create automatable and repeatable deployments of networks and systems on the AWS platform
Become intimately familiar with the AWS platform
Operate the most important AWS services correctly
Implement and manage the really tricky AWS services -- VPC, IAM, Route 53 (DNS), RDS, Auto Scaling, CloudWatch etc.
Did I mention: pass your AWS SysOps Administration certification the first time you take it?
Manage AWS services securely and in compliance with regulatory and company requirements

Course content

11 sections • 89 lectures • 13h 36m total length

Course Structure5:31
Exam Blueprint2:52
Rate This Course1:40

Section Introduction2:13
This section will help you to acheive an in-depth understanding of CloudWatch, its benefits and configuration. As we move forward, we will learn about different CloudWatch metrics used to guage performance of various resources like EC2, EBS, ElastiCache Nodes, RDS DB Instances and ELB. At the end, there are few lectures based on Billing Alerts, Organizations and Consolidated Billing.
CloudWatch Introduction9:11
This lecture will help you understand the basic fundamentals of CloudWatch, Metrics, Custom Metrics and Alarms.
CloudWatch Demo8:53
This lab session showcases all three functionalities of CloudWatch and how to apply them in real-time scenario.
Amazon EC2 Status Checks12:37
In this lecture, we will focus upon following two EC2 status checks: Instance Status Checks and System Status Checks.
Amazon EC2 Common Metrics3:06
Let's go through a list of some common metrics to analyze the performance of an Amazon EC2 instance.
Lab - Monitoring EC2 with Custom Metrics18:32
This lecture shows a complete process to create and configure custom metrics to analyze the memory and disk utilization of an Amazon EC2 instance.
Monitoring EBS10:43
Let's understand some of the common metrics used to analyze the performance of different EBS volume types.
Monitoring RDS2:54
In this lecture, I have listed and covered all important metrics used to analyze the performance of existing RDS DB instances.
Monitoring ELB7:15
An Elastic Load Balancer is a very critial component of your archirtecture as it helps to distribute and load balance your entire application's traffic automatically. Hence, it is essential that you are well aware of some of the common metrics to analyze the performance of this component.
Monitoring ElastiCache7:12
Let's see how you can monitor both the Memcached and Redis engines within ElastiCache by using some of the common metrics.
Consolidated Billing11:02
This lecture primarily focuses on Consolidated Billing and how it can help you to get volume discounts.
Lab - AWS Organizations12:44
This is a very important lab session showing step-by-step process to configure Organizations on AWS Management Console.
Lab - Billing and Alerts4:11
In this lab session, we configure Billing Alerts to send us notifications just in case our monthly threshold is exceeded.
Quiz

Section Introduction1:22
This section covers all important aspects on High Availability, differences between Elasticity and Scalability, how to troubleshoot potential Auto Scaling issues and implementing Multi-AZ on RDS databases.
Scalability vs. Elasticity19:22
Let's go through and understand the clear differences between the principle of Elasticity and Scalability.
Troubleshooting Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling5:08
This lecture includes all possible reasons behind the unsuccessful launching of EC2 instances within your Auto Scaling groups, and how to fix them.
High Availability with Multi-AZ8:44
In this lecture, I have covered the concepts of Multi-AZ extensively.
Multi-AZ Lab12:18
This lab session showcases the practical implementation of Multi-AZ to achieve high availability of your databases.
Quiz

Section Introduction0:51
This is a bonus section based upon previous section on High Availability. Feel free to skip it if you have already take any of the Solutions Architect - Associate courses out there.
Scaling Up (Changing Instance Type, Volume Size and Type) (Part 1)11:30
This comprehensive lab session shows step-by-step procedure to change the attributes of an existing EC2 instance by changing its instance type, volume size and type.
Scaling Up (Changing Instance Type, Volume Size and Type) (Part 2)3:58
This comprehensive lab session shows step-by-step procedure to change the attributes of an existing EC2 instance by changing its instance type, volume size and type.
Scaling Up (Changing Instance Type, Volume Size and Type) (Part 3)6:57
This comprehensive lab session shows step-by-step procedure to change the attributes of an existing EC2 instance by changing its instance type, volume size and type.
Scaling Up (Changing Instance Type, Volume Size and Type) (Part 4)4:42
This comprehensive lab session shows step-by-step procedure to change the attributes of an existing EC2 instance by changing its instance type, volume size and type.
Implementing Elasticity (Auto Scaling Target Tracking Policy) (Steps 1-3)12:10
In this lab session, we will see that how Auto Scaling scales out through Target Tracking Policy if the average CPU utilization of an existing Auto Scaling group shoots up.
Implementing Elasticity (Auto Scaling Target Tracking Policy) (Steps 4-5)9:51
In this lab session, we will see that how Auto Scaling scales out through Target Tracking Policy if the average CPU utilization of an existing Auto Scaling group shoots up.
Implementing Elasticity (Auto Scaling Target Tracking Policy) (Step 6)14:22
In this lab session, we will see that how Auto Scaling scales out through Target Tracking Policy if the average CPU utilization of an existing Auto Scaling group shoots up.
Implementing Elasticity (Auto Scaling Target Tracking Policy) (Steps 7-11)30:18
In this lab session, we will see that how Auto Scaling scales out through Target Tracking Policy if the average CPU utilization of an existing Auto Scaling group shoots up.
Implementing Elasticity (Auto Scaling Target Tracking Policy) (Steps 12-13)12:29
In this lab session, we will see that how Auto Scaling scales out through Target Tracking Policy if the average CPU utilization of an existing Auto Scaling group shoots up.
Implementing Elasticity (Auto Scaling Scheduled Actions)17:45
This lab session showcases step-by-step procedure to scale out or scale in using scheduled actions.
Manually Scaling your Architecture16:07
Let's see how you can manually scale your architecture by manipulating the desired capacity of an existing Auto Scaling group.

Requirements

An AWS Free Tier account
A computer with an SSH terminal
Your own domain name (optional, but recommended)
Background in software development or systems administration
Basic knowledge of networking protocols, such as TCP/IP and HTTP
Experience maintaining operating systems at the command line, such as PowerShell for Linux, cmd, or Windows PowerShell

Description

In this course, you will create automatable and repeatable deployments of networks and systems on the AWS platform. We will explore the AWS features and tools related to configuration and deployment and common techniques for configuring and deploying systems.

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

Use standard AWS infrastructure features such as Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), and AWS Auto Scaling from the command line
Use AWS CloudFormation to produce stacks of AWS resources that can be deployed in an automated, repeatable fashion
Deploy Amazon EC2 instances using command line calls and troubleshoot common problems with instances
Monitor the health of Amazon EC2 instances and other AWS services
Manage user identity, AWS permissions, and security in the cloud
Manage resource consumption in an AWS account using Amazon CloudWatch, tagging, and AWS Trusted Advisor
Select and implement the best strategy for creating reusable Amazon EC2 instances
Configure a set of Amazon EC2 instances that launch behind a load balancer, with the system scaling up and down in response to demand

The AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate exam validates technical expertise in deployment, management, and operations on the AWS platform. Exam concepts you should understand for this exam include:

Deploying, managing, and operating scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Migrating an existing on-premises application to AWS
Implementing and controlling the flow of data to and from AWS
Selecting the appropriate AWS service based on compute, data, or security requirements
Identifying appropriate use of AWS operational best practices
Estimating AWS usage costs and identifying operational cost-control mechanisms

Who this course is for:

Existing AWS professionals looking forward to gain an in-depth understanding on this subject
Students who have already taken AWS Solutions Architect/Developer - Associate course
System administrators
Software developers in a DevOps role

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Course content

Course Introduction3 lectures • 10min

Monitoring, Metrics and Analysis13 lectures • 1hr 51min

High Availability5 lectures • 47min

Bonus Lectures - High Availability12 lectures • 2hr 21min

Deployment and Provisioning9 lectures • 45min

Data Management7 lectures • 39min

AWS OpsWorks4 lectures • 15min

Security5 lectures • 49min

Route 5312 lectures • 3hr 8min

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)18 lectures • 2hr 49min

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