The Amazon AWS Certified: Solutions Architect – Associate program covers the fundamentals of building IT infrastructure on Amazon Web Services, or AWS. The course is designed to teach solutions architects how to optimize the use of the AWS Cloud by understanding AWS services and how these services fit into cloud-based solutions. Because architectural solutions can differ depending on industry, type of applications, and size of business, this course emphasizes best practices for the AWS Cloud, and it recommends various design patterns to help you think through the process of architecting optimal IT solutions on AWS. It also presents case studies throughout the course, which showcase how some AWS customers have designed their infrastructures, and the strategies and services that they implemented. Finally, this course also provides opportunities to build a variety of infrastructures via a guided, hands-on approach.
Competency Goals
- Describe how cloud adoption transforms the way IT systems work and the benefits of cloud computing with AWS
- Discuss how to design systems that are secure, reliable, high performing, and cost efficient
- Describe principles to consider when migrating or designing new applications for the cloud
- Define high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability, and discuss how to avoid single points of failure
- List AWS services that have built-in fault tolerance or can be designed for fault tolerance
- Describe why load balancing is key architectural component for AWS-powered applications
- Identify the benefits of Infrastructure as Code
- Describe how to leverage the capabilities of AWS to support automation
- Create, manage, provision, and update related resources using AWS CloudFormation
- Articulate the importance of making systems highly cohesive and loosely coupled
- Describe system coupling to support the distributed nature of applications built for the cloud
- Describe database services for storing and deploying web-accessible
- Compare structured query language—or SQL—databases with NoSQL databases
- Describe how the AWS Well-Architected Framework improves cloud-based architectures
- Describe the business impact of design decisions
- Identify the design principles and best practices of the Operational Excellence pillar
- Describe how to secure data at every layer in the application
- Describe the appropriate tools and services to provide security focused content
- Describe the design principles and the best practices of the Reliability pillar
- Select compute, storage, database, and networking resources to improve performance
- Evaluate the most important performance metrics for your applications; eliminate unneeded costs or suboptimal resources
- Troubleshoot common errors
Sample Job Titles
Computer Support Specialist, Helpdesk Support, Desktop Support, Information Technology Specialist (IT Specialist), Support Specialist, Computer Technician, Help Desk Analyst, Technical Support Specialist, Network Support Specialist, Network Technician, Computer Specialist, or other similar jobs.
Learning Methodology: Blended
Credential Awarded: Certificate of Completion
Length of Program: 72 Clock Hours (1-2 Months)
Lecture/Lab Hours: 43/29
Maximum Student/Teacher Ratio: 25:1
Withdrawal Fee: $100.00
Prerequisites: Either 1 year relevant work experience, 1 year postsecondary education at an accredited institution in a related field, or 1 industry certification in a related field
Tuition for Program: $3,750.00
Course Materials Fee (nonrefundable): $250.00
Included in Course Materials Fee
Digital Course Content: $50.00
Virtual Labs: $100.00
Practice Tests: $75.00
eBooks: $25.00