Cloud Practitioner Course

Domain 1: Cloud Concepts 

Define the benefits of the AWS Cloud. 

What is Cloud Computing? 

What is a Client-Server Model? 

Deployment Models for Cloud Computing 

Benefits of Cloud Computing 

Understanding the advantages of high availability, elasticity, and agility 

Understand the benefits of and strategies for migration to the AWS Cloud. 

Interacting with AWS 

AWS Global Infrastructure 

AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) 

Migration Strategies 

AWS Snow Family 

Innovation with AWS 

The AWS Well-Architected Framework 

Domain 2: Security and Compliance 

Create an AWS Account 

Protect the AWS Root User 

Understand the AWS shared responsibility model. 

Security and the AWS Shared Responsibility Model 

Introduction to AWS Identity and Access Management 

Role Based Access in AWS 

Following IAM Best Practices 

User Permission and Access 

AWS Organizations 

Compliance 

Denial-of-Service Attacks 

Additional Security Services 

Domain 3: Cloud Technology and Services 

Identify AWS compute services. 

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) 

Amazon EC2 Instance Types 

Amazon EC2 Pricing 

Scaling Amazon EC2 

Elastic Load Balancer 

Directing Traffic with Elastic Load Balancing 

Messaging and Queueing 

Monolithic Applications and Microservices 

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) 

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) 

Additional Compute Services 

Serverless Computing 

Identify AWS database services. 

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) 

Amazon DynamoDB 

Comparing Amazon RDS and Amazon DynamoDB 

Amazon Redshift 

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) 

Additional Database Services 

Identify AWS network services. 

Regions 

Selecting a Region 

Availability Zones 

Edge Locations 

How to Provision AWS Resources 

AWS Elastic Beanstalk and AWS CloudFormation 

Connectivity to AWS 

Subnets and Network Access Control Lists 

Global Networking 

Identify AWS storage services. 

Instance Stores and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) 

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) 

Comparing Amazon EBS and Amazon S3 

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) 

Identify AWS artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) services and analytics services. 

AWS Data Lake Related Services 

Amazon S3 

AWS Glue Data Catalog 

Amazon S3 and Glue Data Catalog 

AWS Services Used for Data Movement 

AWS Services for Data Processing 

AWS Services for Analytics 

AWS Services for Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning 

EMR, Glue Jobs, Lambda, Kinesis Analytics, RedShift 

Introduction to AWS LakeFormation 

Domain 4: Billing, Pricing, and Support 

Amazon CloudWatch 

AWS CloudTrail 

AWS Trusted Advisor 

AWS Free Tier 

AWS Pricing Concepts 

Billing Dashboard 

Consolidated Billing 

AWS Budgets 

AWS Cost Explorer 

AWS Marketplace 

Cloud Architect Course

Domain 1: Design High-Performing Architectures

Design high-performing and elastic compute solutions.

Compute as a Service on AWS

Introduction to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Amazon EC2 Instance Lifecycle

Launch and Corporate Directory Application on Amazon EC2

Container Services on AWS

Introduction to Serverless

Serverless with AWS Fargate

Introduction to AWS Lambda

Choose the Right Compute Service

Serverless and AWS Lambda

Determine high-performing and/or scalable network

Introduction to Amazon VPC

Amazon VPC Routing

Secure Your Network with Amazon VPC Security

Hybrid Connectivity with AWS

Amazon VPC Routing and Security

Creating a VPC and relaunching the Corporate Directory Application on Amazon EC2

Determine high-performing and/or scalable storage solutions.

Storage Types on AWS

Amazon EC2 Instance Storage and Amazon Elastic Block Store

Object Storage with Amazon S3

Choose the Right Storage Service

Create an Amazon S3 Bucket

Determine high-performing database solutions.

Explore Databases on AWS

Amazon Relational Database Service

Purpose Built Databases on AWS

Introduction to Amazon DynamoDB

Choose the Right AWS Database Service

Monitoring & Optimization

Introduction to Amazon CloudWatch

Optimizing Solutions on AWS

Route Traffic with Amazon Elastic Load Balancing

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

Domain 2: Design Resilient Architectures

Designing a serverless web backend on AWS

Selecting a Serverless Compute Service

Compute on AWS

AWS Lambda Exploration

Choosing an AWS Database Service

DynamoDB Exploration

Building Event-Driven Architectures

Decoupling AWS Solutions

SNS Exploration

SQS Exploration

Designing a serverless data analytics solution on AWS

Data Analytics on AWS

AWS Data Services

Exploring Amazon S3

Amazon S3 Cross-Region Replication and Object Lifecycle

Choosing a Service for Data Ingestion

Exploring Amazon Kinesis

Differences Between Amazon Kinesis Services

Accessing the Ingested Data

Exploring Amazon Athena

Visualizing the Data

Amazon QuickSight Features

Designing a hybrid solution for container based workloads on AWS

Hybrid Networking and Connectivity Services

Running Containers on AWS and NAT Gateways

Amazon Relational Database Service

Amazon RDS Exploration

Storage Gateway Exploration

AWS Storage Services

Hybrid Solutions on AWS

AWS Systems Manager Exploration

AWS Services for Hybrid Deployments

Domain 3: Design Secure Architectures

Why Multi-Account Strategies?

IAM Roles - The AWS Authentication Core Mechanism

IAM Roles, Trust Relationships, and Permissions

Organizing Your Accounts Together Using OUs (Organizational Units)

Moving from One Account to Another

AWS IAM Identity Center

Reflecting on AWS Best Practices

Choosing Services for Logging

Automating Account Provisioning and Maintenance

Multi-Account Best Practices