AWS SysOps Associate Certification Training

AWS SysOps Associate Certification Training Course Agenda

Lesson 1: Monitoring and Metrics

• Overview of Cloud Monitoring
• CloudWatch: key concepts
• CloudWatch: Logs
• AWS CloudTrail overview
• Third-party Monitoring apps
• Cloudwatch metrics
• CloudWatch Log analysis
• Cloudtrail logs
• Monitoring and Security
• Troubleshooting
• Quick quiz
• Lab

Lesson 2: High Availability

• Scaling: overview
• Elastic Load Balancing overview
• Auto Scaling overview
• Route 53 overview
• Scaling Examples
• ELB: Creating
• ELB: How it Works
• ELB: Cross Zone load balancing
• ELB: Connection Draining
• ELB: Sticky Sessions
• ELB and databases
• AS: Main parts
• AS: Instance Health
• AS Termination policies
• AS: Steady Group
• AS: Typical lifecycle
• AS: Alarm sustain and cooldown
• AS : Event hooks
• Route53: Concepts
• Route53: Record types
• Route53: Features
• Route53: Latency Based Routing
• Route53 and ELB
• Troubleshooting Scalability
• Quiz
• Lab

Lesson 3: Analysis

• Cost reduction opportunities
• Tagging: overview: What tags are
• Tagging: CLI commands
• Tagging: Parameters and Restrictions
• Tagging: Examples of tags
• Tagging: Cost management
• Tagging: Billing (Demo included)
• Cloudwatch: Billing alarms
• Cost Explorer (Demo included)
• AWS Trusted Advisor
• Lab

Lesson 4: Deployment and Provisioning

• Cloud Deployments Overview
• Deployment with Auto Scaling
• Blue / Green Deployment
• Version Updates with Auto Scaling
• Overview of the technologies for automated deployment
• CloudFormation: Terminology
• CloudFormation: Structure of the template
• CloudFormation: Maintaining Templates
• CloudFormation: Working with Stacks
• CloudFormation: Ref functions
• CloudFormation: Parameters
• CloudFormation: Mappings
• CloudFormation: Resources
• CloudFormation: Init
• CloudFormation:Init and User Data
• CloudFormation: WaitCondition
• CloudFormation: Outputs
• CloudFormation: Errors
• CloudFormation: Demo
• CloudFormation: Creating Base templates
• CloudFormation: Troubleshooting templates
• Lab

Lesson 5: Data Management

• Introduction to the section
• EC2 volume/storage types
• EC2 EBS snapshots overview
• S3 overview
• Glacier overview
• Concepts of Data lifecycle on AWS
• Some storage limits important to know
• How to work with EBS volumes
• EBS RAID
• EBS Snapshots in details
• Using Amazon S3 in details
• S3 access (with console demo)
• Demo #2: create IAM group policy with Policy Generator
• S3 versioning
• S3 CORS
• S3 Reduced Redundancy storage
• Using Amazon Glacier (with demo #3)
• Storage Security
• EBS and encryption
• S3 and encryption
• Storage troubleshooting
• Storage Pricing
• Quiz
• Lab

Lesson 6: Security

• IAM Overview
• IAM User Administration
• IAM Groups
• IAM User Permissions
• MFA
• Securing AWS Master Account

Lesson 7: Networking

• Section overview
• Cloud Networking Basics
• VPC
• CIDR Notation
• Private IP Ranges and Limits for VPC
• VPC and Subnets
• VPC Custom Route Tables
• Default VPC
• VPC peering
• Connecting VPC and on-premises datacenter
• VPC hard and soft Limits
• Public and Private Subnets
• Configuring Subnets
• Bastion Host and security groups for it
• NAT: basic principles
• NAT: route tables
• NAT: NAT server and NAT Gateway
• NAT: High Availability design
• NAT: Port forwarding
• Security Groups limits
• VPC and DNS
• ENI
• Demo
• Security: overview
• Security: Security Groups and network ACL’s
• Placement groups
• Troubleshooting
• Quiz
• Lab