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AWS System Operations Associate Certification Crash Course

Name: AWS System Operations Associate Certification Crash Course
Rating: 4.5 (73 reviews)

Get the edge you need to take the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate Level

Created byJoseph Holbrook

Last updated 11/2023

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What you'll learn

The services and features that are covered on the Certified Sysops Associate exam
How to implement highly available systems, and the tradeoffs associated with these choices
Where automation can be applied to improve the overall quality of infrastructure
How to implement monitoring for both performance and billing purposes

Course content

8 sections • 146 lectures • 14h 40m total length

Course Overview3:49
Course PreReqs0:49
Download Course Presentation in PDF0:30
Course Download with Test Tips and Review Questions
Introduction to AWS Certifications2:13
AWS Exam Objectives2:22

Section Overview AWS Provisioning, Deployments and Resources1:23
Compute Options6:29
Instance Types18:09
Demo Compute Options16:16
Whiteboard Compute Options2:27
How to find Nitro Enabled Instances3:56
EC2 Instances States4:54
Whiteboard Bastion Hosts2:00
EC2 Launch Issues11:28
EC2 Connection Issues8:18
Connecting to AWS2:11
Demo - Deploy EC216:31
Systems Manager11:20
Placement Groups7:48
EC2 Task Placement Strategies3:38
Load Balancing6:39
Demo ELB Target Groups7:04
EBS Vs Instance Stores9:43
EBS Demo8:38
Lambda19:22
Demo Lambda4:46
Demo Lightsail5:18
Optional Exercise - Deploy EC2 and CodeDepoy2:05
In this tutorial, you will learn how to deploy application code to a virtual machine on AWS. You will use AWS CodeDeploy, a service that automates code deployments to AWS or on-premises servers, to deploy code to virtual machines that you create and manage with Amazon EC2.
AWS Global Infrastructure8:02
Section Review3:11
Section Review Questions10:11

Section Overview - AWS Monitoring and Reporting2:41
CloudWatch Monitoring and Logging5:39
CloudWatch Monitoring Overview12:42
Understanding CloudWatch Monitoring8:54
CloudWatch Custom Metrics11:04
Resource Groups and Tags8:08
CloudWatch Alarms3:10
Centralized Monitoring3:43
Cloudwatch Demo6:35
EC2 Monitoring and Performance18:27
RDS Monitoring and Performance17:06
Monitoring Aurora4:59
Monitoring Elastic Beanstalk13:14
Demo - Elastic BeanStalk19:04
Lightsail Demo3:41
This Lightsail demo walks through creating a WordPress instance, selecting the type, tagging for billing, and deploying in Ohio zone A, with basic connect and management steps.
Monitoring ElasticCache8:31
SNS Notifications3:07
Cloud Logging8:56
Demo CloudWatch Logging6:08
Demo Cost Explorer6:11
Demo CloudWatch Metrics5:23
Demo Systems Manager2:38
Demo Billing Management3:28
Demo Pricing Calculator5:57
Explore how to create estimates for AWS services using the pricing calculator, choosing quick or advanced modes, selecting on-demand or reserved options, and saving or sharing groups.
Demo Trusted Advisor4:38
Demo AWS Service Catalog5:12
EC2 Cost Modeling7:37
Demo Personal Health and Service Dashboards4:12
Section Review1:37
Review Questions3:34
Explore billing management, cost audits, CloudWatch concepts like subscriptions and dashboards, spot instances for non-critical workloads, and SQL query optimization with proper indexing to reduce costs.

Section Overview2:08
Security Services Overview12:25
Demo Security Resources5:03
Demo Shared Responsibility2:35
AWS Security Best Practices4:59
Credentials, Roles, Users, etc10:59
Demo IAM10:12
Demo Security Policies7:16
Demo S3 URLS2:53
Demo Instance Security4:48
Whiteboard EC2 Connect5:04
Security Groups and NACLs5:52
Demo Macie4:59
Demo Security Hub8:28
This demo shows how security hub aggregates alerts from guard duty, inspector, Macy, and ciass benchmarks to monitor security posture and identify compliance findings across resources.
AWS Config3:38
AWS inspector5:10
Leverage AWS inspector to automate security assessments for network and host targets by installing an agent, creating templates and rules, and generating findings and reports with CloudWatch integration.
AWS GuardDuty4:00
Trusted Advisor4:47
Demo Trusted Advisor4:25
CloudTrail3:26
Demo CloudTrail10:01
Section Review3:06
Assess AWS security compliance from audit logs, cloud trail records, policies, credentials, and roles. Use inspector, guard duty, and trusted advisor to identify vulnerabilities and reinforce best practices.
Review Questions6:21

Section Overview1:56
Data and Storage Options1:19
S316:23
Demo S34:18
Demo S3 Glacier6:35
Whiteboard Data Services3:37
Whiteboard - Migrate VMS to AWS3:28
Learn how to migrate virtual machines to AWS from on-premises or other clouds using CloudEndure, migration database service, migration hub, and discovery service.
Demo EC2 Storage4:40
Explore EC2 instance types, AMI images, and deployment options, including marketplace, community, and free tier images, with guidance on judicious resource sizing, volumes, encryption, keys, security groups, and spot pricing.
EC2 Volume Storage2:17
Snow Family1:54
Storage Migration Options13:54
Storage Gateway5:29
Other Data Services1:22
Demo EFS Storage2:32
Section Review2:41
Review Questions6:03

Section Overview2:29
Networking Services and Features0:49
VPC Overview10:07
Demo VPC9:58
NACLS8:32
VPC Flow Logs4:09
Enable VPC flow logs to capture traffic for a VPC, subnet, or ENI, publish to CloudWatch and S3, and use the data to verify rules, monitor destinations, and troubleshoot applications.
Whiteboard VPC Flow Logs4:37
Demo VPC Flow Logs9:11
Demonstrates configuring a VPC flow log per region, selecting filters and aggregation, sending logs to CloudWatch or S3 with log group, and cost and delay considerations.
Demo - Associate Elastic IP3:56
Demo Security Groups and NACLs8:32
Demonstrates security groups and network ACLs in AWS, highlighting two-layer security, inbound and outbound rules, default outbound behavior, and the stateless design of NACLs requiring explicit rules.
Whiteboard VPN9:23
NAT and DNS3:58
Explore nat gateways for address translation and outbound access. Discover Route 53 DNS features, including failover and routing policies like geo location, geo proximity, and weighted routing.
Connectivity Options11:42
Routing Options2:41
Demo API Gateway2:07
Monitoring ELB14:15
Compare classic, application, and network load balancers, and learn how elastic load balancers and auto scaling manage traffic, health checks, TLS termination, and monitoring via CloudWatch and VPC flow logs.
CloudFront2:45
Demo CloudPing Latency2:11
Optional Exercise - Deploy WordPress on Lightsail1:39
WAF3:04
Section Review1:20
Review Questions3:30

Section Overview2:22
Services Overview1:01
Elasticity and Scalability4:09
Explore elasticity and scalability for deploying workloads, including auto scaling, load balancing, and multi-region deployment to meet demand and ensure high availability.
Cloud Spending and Right Sizing15:40
RDS4:53
RDS Read Replicas and Versions3:51
RDS read replicas offload reads from the primary, enable storage type options, and support backups in another AZ. Aurora offers better performance with six replicas, while RDS supports five.
Demo RDS3:16
Demo Aurora6:13
Demonstrates Amazon Aurora, a managed relational database engine compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL, with higher throughput, integrated storage, and scalability up to 64 terabytes.
Maintenance Issues3:25
Autoscaling7:08
HA Overview7:39
Demo DevOps Services6:17
WhiteBoard - Multi Regional Deployments11:09
IaC - CloudFormation7:43
Demo Cloudformation Change Sets4:59
Demo - AWS Whitepapers and Frameworks4:07
Service Catalog6:39
Optional Exercise - Create and Connect to an RDS Instance1:21
Create and connect to a MySQL database named artists, then delete, clean up, and consider database names, subnet groups, and VPC options in a 10-15 minute exercise.
Section Review4:25
Review Questions6:17

Requirements

Strong understanding of operations in a traditional IT infrastructure
Working knowledge of commonly-used AWS services such as EC2, S3, IAM, Cloudwatch, etc
Experience with command-line scripting and operations

Description

Updated 11/07/2023

The AWS SysOps Admin Associate Certification is a great place to start your adventure with AWS.

In this two-day online course you will get targeted training on the topics covered in Amazon’s AWS SysOps Administrator exam. This training course is designed to walk you through the topics covered in the exam so you have the knowledge you need to pass the test. The training follows the exam blueprint domains with specific content to maximize chances of achieving certification

The course covers the full objectives for the AWS Certified SysOps Admin -Associate Exam (SAA-002) Course covers services around the following areas.

Section 1 - AWS Certification Overview

Section 2 - AWS Provisioning, Deployments and Resources

Section 3 - AWS Monitoring and Management

Section 4 - AWS Security and Compliance Services

Section 5 - Storage and Data Management

Section 6 - Networking

Section 7- Automation, Optimization and High Availability

Section 8 - Exam Preparation and Closeout

AWS is a significant competitor in the cloud computing world and learning AWS as an IT Professional is critical to your career.

This course was designed for beginners. Course provides downloadable content, demos and whiteboards to advance your learning.

Course requirements or prerequisites?

· Someone new to AWS

· Someone with under 1 year of cloud experience

· Someone looking to get certified in AWS Technologies

What will students learn in your course?

· Identify Use Cases for AWS

-Deploy Resources in AWS

· Basic Services of AWS such as EC2, S3, Cloud IAM and More

· Monitoring and Management or your cloud resources

· Certification Options

· Additional Resources to learn more.

TechCommanders is an online training platform for both aspiring and veteran IT professionals interested in next generation IT Skills.
TechCommanders is led by Joseph Holbrook, a highly sought-after technology industry veteran.

Techcommanders offers blended learning which allows the students to learn on demand but with live training.

Courses offered are used to prepare students to take certification exams in Cloud, DevOps, IT Security and Blockchain.

Techcommanders was established in Jacksonville, Florida in 2020 by Joseph Holbrook, both a US Navy Veteran and a technology industry veteran. Techcommanders, Advancing your NextGen Technology Skills.

Who this course is for:

Anyone wanting to pass this challenging exam
Anyone wanting to learn all the objectives for the exam

AWS System Operations Associate Certification Crash Course

What you'll learn

Explore related topics

Course content

Section 1 -- AWS Exam Overview5 lectures • 10min

AWS Provisioning, Deployments and Resources26 lectures • 3hr 22min

AWS Monitoring and Reporting30 lectures • 3hr 36min

AWS Security and Compliance Services23 lectures • 2hr 13min

Storage and Data Management16 lectures • 1hr 18min

Networking and Content Services22 lectures • 2hr 1min

Domain 7 HA, Automation and Optimization20 lectures • 1hr 53min

Exam Preparation and Course Closeout4 lectures • 9min

Requirements

Description

Who this course is for: