AWS SysOps Administrator – Associate (SO1-C01) Certification

Name: AWS SysOps Administrator – Associate (SO1-C01) Certification
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An in-depth guide to help you prepare for the AWS SysOps Administrator Certification & become AWS Certified

Created byPackt Publishing

Last updated 1/2019

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What you'll learn

Detailed tuition with hands-on-labs and tutorials to help you confidently pass the AWS-certified SysOps Administrator–Associate Exam
Monitor the availability and performance of AWS resources including EC2, EBS, ELB, RDS, and ElastiCache to demonstrate billing and cost optimization processes
Understand how to build highly available systems offering fault tolerance and redundancy
Demonstrate your understanding of the AWS Shared Security Model and adopt best practices when designing highly secure infrastructure services
Combine identity, access management services, and encryption and ensure data integrity by utilizing monitoring services
Secure your networks and prepare for security assessments
Learn to design and deploy solutions using automation tools such as Cloud Formation, Elastic Beanstalk, and OpsWorks
Demonstrate your ability to design multi-tier architectures and produce stacks of AWS resources that can be deployed in an automated, repeatable fashion
Gain expertise in building scalable, reliable, and dependable resources in the cloud
Manage performance issues and identify and resolve bottlenecks in application and network design

Course content

10 sections • 83 lectures • 11h 25m total length

The Course Overview6:00
This video provides an overview of the entire course.
Introduction6:09
In this video, you will be introduced to the AWS Certification Roadmap and the various tracks available. You learn about the new AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Course (S0A-C01).
• Introduce the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Course
• Introduce the various certification tracks available on the AWS platform
• Explain the exam blueprint for the certification and exam objectives
Set Up an AWS Free Tier Account4:44
In this video, we will look at the demonstration on how to setup an AWS Free Tier Account to help you carry out various lab exercises that will be demonstrated in this course.
• Understand how to set up AWS free tier account
Set Up Your Environment8:25
In this video, we will demonstrate how to setup and install remote access tools on your computer to connect to Windows/Linux based EC2 Instances in the cloud.
• Install Putty and PuttyGen for Windows Users or Use Terminal for Mac Users
Amazon CLI, Tools for PowerShell, and SDKs14:36
In this video, we will demonstrate how to setup and install remote access tools on your computer configure AWS Services in the cloud.
• Install and learn about the Command Line Interface
• Learn about using PowerShell
• Learn about SDKs and BOTO
The AWS Global Infrastructure5:32
In this video, we will learn about the AWS Global Infrastructure and how one can build highly available solutions both within a region and across region at a high level.
• Learn about the AWS Global Regions
Create a Billing Alarm2:16
In this video, we will look at how to use Amazon CloudWatch to create a Billing Alarm.
• Create an AWS Billing Alarm using Amazon CloudWatch
• Specify a maximum dollar value to spend on your AWS Account to testing out labs etc.
• Create a Billing Alarm
Assessment

Introduction to CloudWatch – Part 110:38
In this video, we will learn about the fundamentals of Amazon CloudWatch and how it can be used to monitor AWS services deployed in your account using metrics.
• Learn the basics of Amazon CloudWatch
• Learn about CloudWatch Standard and Custom Metrics
• Learn how to build and deploy CloudWatch Dashboards
Introduction to CloudWatch – Part 26:33
In this video, we will look at concepts related to Authentication and Access Control, how to configure CloudWatch Events and how to setup CloudWatch Logs.
• Learn the fundamentals of Access Control and Authentication required to use CloudWatch
• Learn how to use and configure CloudWatch Events
• Learn about CloudWatch Logs
Monitoring EC27:37
In this video, we will use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor EC2 Instance fleet.
• Learn about System Status Checks and how to recover from failure
• Learn about Instance Status Checks and how to recover from failure
• Learn about common EC2 Metrics
Monitoring EBS9:49
In this video, we will use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor EBS volumes.
• Understand the fundamentals of EBS on the Amazon AWS Platform
• Learn about EBS IOPS and Burst
• Learn about EBS Volume Status Checks
Monitoring ElastiCache5:09
In this video, we will use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor ElastiCache environment.
• Learn about Redis and Memcached
• Learn about common issues related to Amazon ElastiCache and how to resolve
Monitoring ELB3:05
In this video, we will use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor Elastic Load Balancers environment.
• Learn about the ELB Metric reporting
• Learn about common ELB metrics
• Learn about common ELB HTTP Codes and how to troubleshoot them
Monitoring RDS2:59
In this video, we will use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor RDS Database Instances and monitor common metrics for database deployments.
• Evaluate common RDS metrics and learn how to troubleshoot RDS DB Instances
• Understand RDS Events for database deployments
AWS Trusted Advisor2:43
In this video, we will about AWS Trusted Advisor.
• Understand Trusted Advisor Categories
• Learn the Trusted Advisor checks
AWS CloudTrail – Part 18:40
In this video, we will look at CloudTrail services.
• Learn about Amazon CloudTrails
• Understand the difference between All Region Trail vs. Single Region Trail
AWS CloudTrail – Part 29:59
In this video, we will continue learning about CloudTrail services.
• Learn about the CloudTrail Permissions
AWS Config7:14
In this video, we will look at Amazon Config.
• Understand AWS Config Usage
• Learn the AWS Config Rules
• Understand AWS Config Rule Evaluation
AWS Organization and Consolidated Billing6:11
In this video, we will look at Amazon Organization and understand how to consolidate billing.
• Understand the AWS Organizations
• Learn all features available
• Understand Consolidated billing
Monitoring AWS Charges5:33
In this video, we will look at Monitoring AWS charges.
• Use Cost Explorer to visually identify spending patterns
• Use Amazon Budgets to allocate budgets to your AWS Projects
• Understand AWS Tags and Logs to categorize AWS workloads and better manage cost allocations
Assessment

Amazon SQS – Building Decoupled Architecture14:13
In this video, we will look at Amazon SQS and how to build decoupled architecture.
• Use Amazon SQS to build application architecture with decoupled components to improve high availability
• Learn about the Types of SQS Queues
• Learn about SQS Advance concepts include the use of a Dead Letter Queue (DLQ)
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)4:36
In this video, we will look at Amazon Simple Notification services.
• Learn about Amazon SNS Concepts and Use Cases
• Learn the SNS Support Protocols
• Understand the concepts related to the Fan-out Scenario and its use cases
Regional Specific High Availability17:32
In this video, we will understand look at ELB, auto scaling, NAT Gateways and Scaling in RDS.
• Learn about Elastic Load Balancers and Auto Scaling which can be used to build highly available architecture in a given region
• Learn about RDS Multi-AZ Design deployments to offer High Availability for your Databases
Bastion Hosts and High Availability3:16
Bastion hosts are special-purpose instances that hosts a minimal number of administrative applications and enable you to remotely connect to them.
• Learn about how to design and deploy Bastion Hosts for High Availability
Multi-Region High Availability8:43
A number of AWS Services can be designed to offer High Availability of your applications across multiple regions. This extends your regional high availability solutions to cross regional capabilities
• Learn about cross regional options available with Amazon S3
• Learn about cross regional options available with DynamoDB
• Learn about cross regional options available with Route53
Connectivity Options for High Availability5:09
Learn about the best practices to follow when designing connectivity solutions between an on premise datacenter and your Amazon VPC to cater for High Availability
• Learn how to setup VPN for High Availability
• Learn how to setup Direct Connect for High Availability
• Learn how to setup VPN f& Direct Connection combination options or High Availability
Assessment

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)9:47
In this video, we will understand the fundamentals of Amazon Compute Cloud (EC2) Service and the features related to deploying virtual servers (Linux & Windows) in the cloud.
• Understand the EC2 Launch Process
• Learn about the EC2 Hardware Virtualization Types
• Learn about the various EC2 Pricing Options and which option is suitable for which use case
Launching an EC2 Instance18:10
In this video, we will learn about the core steps to launch your own EC2 Instance in the cloud.
• Understand step by step guide to deploy EC2 Instances and key configuration items to be aware of
• Learn about how storage and instance types are decoupled and how root volumes are encrypted
• Learn how Amazon encrypts the root password and admin password using a public/private key pair
Storage for EC25:53
In this video, we will learn the fundamentals of Storage for Amazon EC2.
• Learn about the Instance Store versus Elastic Block Store
• Learn about encryption support for EBS Snapshots and Volumes
Expand an EBS Volume8:30
In this video, we will learn about different EBS Volume Types, which can be used as bootable and which cannot be used as bootable volumes.
• Learn about EBS Volume Types
• Learn to expand an EBS Volume
Creating an AMI10:48
In this video, we will learn how to create our own Amazon AMI and specifically with reference to Windows based operating systems.
• Learn about the SysPrep feature when creating Windows based AMI
Additional EC2 Concepts5:51
In this video, we will learn about Userdata and Metadata features of EC2.
• Learn about EC2 Userdata versus Metadata
• Learn about EC2 Placement Groups
• Understand what is the AWS Service Catalog
Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS)5:21
In this video, we will learn how the EC2 Container Service (ECS) can be used to build container management services that can be used to run and manage Docker containers on EC2 Instances.
• Learn about ECS Clusters
• Learn about the ECS Launch Types for different use cases
• Understand monitoring and security for ECS
Amazon Elastic Beanstalk12:32
In this video, we will learn the basic concepts of the Elastic Beanstalk services and its support environments.
• Understand the Elastic Beanstalk environmental tiers
• Understand how changes can be applied to Elastic Beanstalk environments
• Understand the IAM Roles used by Elastic Beanstalk
Amazon Lambda13:02
In this video, we will learn about the fundamentals of serverless architect and Amazon Lambda.
• Learn the key benefits of Amazon Lambda
• Learn about the tools to create Lambda functions and the Lambda Invocation Types
• Learn about Lambda Event Source Mapping. Learn about the limitations and troubleshooting common issues with Lambda
Amazon Lightsail11:56
In this video, we will learn about the Amazon LightSail and common server configurations with fixed pricing models
• Learn about the benefits of LightSail deploy server in minutes
• Learn how to choose and select your OS as well as common apps for your deployments
• Leverage LightSail for deploying simple workloads or creating a test/dev environment
Assessment

Introduction to Databases on AWS8:44
In this video, we will be introduced to the Databases on AWS.
Learn different Types of Databases on AWS
Understand difference between Relation Databases and Non-Relational Databases
Amazon RDS – Part 110:17
In this video, we will look at Amazon RDS Features and its benefits and Storage.
Understand Amazon RDS Features and benefits
Learn about RDS Storage Types
Amazon RDS – Part 212:54
In this video, we will look at Amazon RDS Backup and Restore.
Learn about Amazon RDS Backup and Restore
Enable Backups on RDS
Amazon RDS – Part 319:32
In this video, we will look at Amazon RDS Multi-AZ Deployments, Read Replicas and Scalability.
Learn about Amazon RDS Multi-AZ
Learn to Simulate RDS Failover
Understand Amazon RDS Read Replicas and Scalability
Amazon RDS – Part 48:44
In this video, we will look at Amazon RDS Security and Encryption.
Understand RDS Security Concepts
Learn Encryption for Amazon RDS
Amazon Aurora6:19
In this video, we will look at Amazon Aurora.
Understand what is Amazon Aurora
Learn different Endpoints with Amazon Aurora
Amazon DynamoDB – Part 14:40
In this video, we will look at Amazon DynamoDB.
Understand what is Amazon DynamoDB
Learn the DynamoDB core components and streams
Amazon DynamoDB – Part 27:36
In this video, we will continue learning about Amazon DynamoDB.
Understand the amazon DynamoDB Consistency
Understand DynamoDB Provisioned Throughput, Auto Scaling
Explain Amazon VPC Endpoint for DynamoDB
Amazon Redshift4:17
In this video, we will look at Amazon Redshift.
Understand what is Amazon Redshift
Learn about Redshift Spectrum
Learn about Redshift Clusters and Nodes
Amazon ElastiCache2:51
In this video, we will look at Amazon ElastiCache.
Understand what is Amazon ElastiCache
Learn about Memcached versus Redis
Assessment

Introduction to Deployment Strategies11:57
In this video, we will look at Deployment Strategies on AWS.
Understand the Deployment Strategies
Learn the Common Approaches
Learn the Deployment Methods
Amazon Elastic Load Balancers13:18
In this video, we will look at Elastic Load Balancer.
Explain Elastic Load Balancer
Understand types of ELB
Configure an Elastic Load Balancer13:18
In this video, we will look at how to configure an ELB.
Learn to configure ELB
Amazon Auto Scaling – Part 17:50
In this video, we will look at Amazon Auto Scaling.
Understand the launch configuration of Auto Scaling
Amazon Auto Scaling – Part 213:37
In this video, we will continue learning about Amazon Auto Scaling.
Explain the Lifecycle Hooks and its process
Assessment

AWS CloudFormation13:26
In this video, we will look at the Amazon CloudFormation.
Expalin the CloudFormation
Understand CloudFormation Components
Learn the Template Structure and Sections
Configure CloudFormation Stack13:14
In this video, we will be configuring CloudFormation stack.
Learn to configure CloudFormation stack
AWS Elastic Beanstalk9:55
In this video, we will be introduced to Elastic Beanstalk.
Understand what is Elastic Beanstalk
Learn supported languages
Learn the application versions of Elastic Beanstalk
Deploy Application Using Elastic Beanstalk8:09
In this video, we will understand how to deploy application using Elastic Beanstalk.
Learn to deploy application using Elastic Beanstalk
Amazon OpsWorks6:09
In this video, we will be introduced to Amazon OpsWorks.
Understand what is OpsWorks
Learn about Chef and OpsWorks components
Explain the Layers and Lifecycle events involved

Amazon S3 – Introduction14:47
In this video, we will look at amazon Simple Storage Service.
Learn what is Amazon S3 and its key features
Understand what is Glacier and Storage classes
Create an S3 Bucket9:18
In this video, we will understand how to create S3 Bucket.
Learn to create an S3 Bucket
Access Policies4:48
In this video, we will look at Policies and Permissions.
Learn access Policies and Permissions
Learn about different Policies
Versioning2:36
In this video, we will learn about Versioning.
Understand what is Versioning
Learn about configuring Versioning and Deleting Objects and Versions
Lifecycle Policies6:18
In this video, we will understand Lifecycle Policies.
Learn about Lifecycle policies
Cross Region Replication6:39
In this video, we will look at Cross Region Replication.
Understand what is Cross Region Replication
Learn how CRR handles delete requests
MFA Delete and Advanced Protection Strategies5:24
In this video, we will look at MFA Delete and Advanced Protection Strategies.
Understand Amazon S3 and MFA Delete
Learn the Advance Protection Strategies
Cross Origin Resource Sharing1:29
In this video, we will look at Cross Origin Resource Sharing.
Understand what is CORS
Encryption6:03
In this video, we will look at Amazon S3 Encryption.
Learn different Encryption options
Amazon Storage Gateway5:55
In this video, we will look at Amazon Storage Gateway.
Understand what is Storage Gateway
Learn about different types of Gateway
Amazon Snowball3:40
In this video, we will learn about Amazon Snowball.
Understand what is Amazon Snowball
Learn different key features of Snowball

AWS Shared Security Model6:41
In this video, we will look at AWS Shared Security Model.
Understand the shared Security Model
AWS Compliance Program7:15
In this video, we will Amazon Compliance program.
Understand AWS Compliance and Artifact
Understand Customer Vulnerability Scanning and Penetration Testing
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)16:12
In this video, we will learn about Custom IAM Policies, Roles and Password Policies.
Learn about IAM in detail
AWS CloudTrail for Security1:47
In this video, we will look at AWS CloudTrail for Security.
Understand AWS CloudTrail for Security
AWS WAF, Inspector and Trusted Advisor8:49
In this video, we will look at AWS WAF, Shield, Inspector and Trusted Advisor.
Learn about WAF
Learn about Shield
Learn about Inspector and Trusted Advisor
AWS EC2 Security4:03
In this video, we will look at Amazon EC2 Security.
Learn what is EC2 Security
Understand what is EC2 Security Hypervisor and Isolation
AWS KMS and CloudHSM7:10
In this video, we will learn about AWS KMS and CloudHSM.
Understand what is AWS KMS
Learn Envelope Encryption and Feature benefits
Understand what is AWS CloudHSM and its benefits

Amazon VPC – Part 116:27
In this video, we will look at Amazon VPC.
Understand the Traditional Network Infrastructure
Learn about different types of VPC
Amazon VPC – Part 214:24
In this video, we will continue learning about Amazon VPC.
Learn about VPC Security
Learn about Gateways and Subnets
Launch an Amazon VPC19:25
In this video, we will look at the launch of Amazon VPC.
Learn to launch Amazon VPC
Amazon VPC Peering3:17
In this video, we will look at Amazon VPC Peering.
Understand what is VPC Peering
Amazon VPC Endpoints1:49
In this video, we will look at Amazon VPC Endpoints.
Learn about VPC Endpoints
Amazon VPC Flow Logs1:27
In this video, we will look at Amazon VPC Flow Logs.
Understand what is VPC Flow Logs
Amazon VPC Direct Connect3:34
In this video, we will look at Amazon VPC Direct Connect.
Understand what is VPC Direct Connect and its key benefits
Amazon CloudFront9:55
In this video, we will understand Amazon CloudFront.
Understand what is Amazon CloundFront and its Origins
Learn CloudFront Distribution
Amazon Route539:58
In this video, we will learn about Amazon Route53.
Understand what is Route53 and its key features
Learn about Health Checks and its types
Learn about Routing Policies and different ways of routing

Requirements

This course is designed for System Administrators and Software Developers who design, deploy and maintain services and resources on the AWS platform looking to appear and clear the AWS SysOps Certification - Associate.

Description

This intensive course is designed to help you prepare for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator exam. This course allows you to gain technical expertise in deployment, management and operations on the AWS platform. With the course, you will gain extensive knowledge and hands-on experience which will allows you to crack the AWS certification. The course teaches skills to create automatable, repeatable deployments and maintain networks and systems on the AWS platform. You also get a hands-on experience at various labs to illustrate best practices, troubleshooting techniques and configuration options, core AWS Services and how to configure, deploy and maintain those services. This course also prepares you for the exam with quizzes and practice exams helping you gain confidence in tackling the official AWS Exam. By the end of the course, you will have gained the essential knowledge and hands-on practice to help you tackle the AWS SysOps Administrator certification and follow the career you have aspired for!

About the Author

Rajesh Daswani is a Senior Solutions Architect, AWS Trainer and Course Content Creator, with over 20 years of experience in the IT Industry. He has worked as a consultant for a wide range of companies across the UK and US and delivered complete end to end Infrastructure solutions both on premise and in the cloud. Rajesh now delivers in-house, corporate and online training services in Amazon AWS.

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If you want to pass the AWS Certification with flying colors, then this course is for you!

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AWS Platform and Certification Overview7 lectures • 48min

Monitoring, Metrics, and Analysis13 lectures • 1hr 26min

High Availability6 lectures • 53min

Compute10 lectures • 1hr 42min

Databases10 lectures • 1hr 26min

Deployment and Provisioning5 lectures • 1hr

Automation and Optimization5 lectures • 51min

Storage and Data Management11 lectures • 1hr 7min

Security and Compliance7 lectures • 52min

Networking9 lectures • 1hr 20min

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