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AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional Workshop Details

Workshop AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

current course dates can be found at the bottom of this page … company training available on request!

Course description

Designed to complement Advanced Architecting on AWS, this full-day workshop is intended for individuals preparing for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional exam. The workshop provides an overview of the concepts and knowledge areas covered on the exam and walks you through the exam structure and question formats. Labs provide hands-on practice with advanced use cases, while practice exam questions test your understanding of key architectural concepts.

Workshop objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

  • Understand the content domains and how AWS services map to them
  • Combine multiple AWS services to solve complex architectural requirements
  • Understand advanced concepts of core AWS services and associated use cases
  • Identify how questions are written to test AWS architectural concepts

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

  • Attended the Advanced Architecting on AWS course (or have equivalent knowledge)
  • Two or more years hands-on experience designing and deploying cloud architecture on AWS

Activities

This course includes:

  • Training with instructor
  • Practical exercises
  • Group discussions
  • Sample Exam Questions

Course duration / Price

  • 1 day / € 950.00 (excl. tax) per person (DE)

Course outline

This course covers the following concepts:

  • Introduction to content domains and exam structure
  • Detailed discussion of content domains
  • Hands-on labs to reinforce specific use cases
  • Example questions and scenarios for group discussion
  • Practice exam questions

IMPORTANT: Please bring your notebook (Windows, Linux or Mac) to our trainings. If this is not possible, please contact us in advance.

Course materials are in English, on request also in German (if available).
Course language is German, on request also in English.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Workshop Details

Workshop AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

current course dates can be found at the bottom of this page … company training available on request!

Course description

Designed as a complement to Architecting on AWS, this half-day workshop is for attendees preparing for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam. In this workshop, we explain what to expect at the testing center and during the exam. We will introduce you to the structure of the exam, such as the format of the questions, the content areas, and the distribution of questions related to these areas. We will also instruct you on how to interpret the concepts tested by a question so that you can better avoid wrong answers. During the workshop, you will be able to demonstrate your knowledge and test concepts through a series of sample exercise questions.

Workshop objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

  • Navigate the logistics of the examination process
  • Understand the exam structure and question types
  • Identify how questions relate to AWS architectural concepts
  • Interpret the concepts being tested by an exam question
  • Allocate your time studying for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

Activities

This course includes:

  •  presentations
  • group discussion
  • sample exercise questions

Course duration / Price

  • 1/2 day / € 750.00 (excl. tax) per person (DE)

Course outline

  • Testing center information and expectations
  • Exam overview and structure
  • Content domains and question breakdown
  • Topics and concepts within content domains
  • Question structure and interpretation techniques
  • Practice exam questions

IMPORTANT: Please bring your notebook (Windows, Linux or Mac) to our trainings. If this is not possible, please contact us in advance.

Course materials are in English, on request also in German (if available).
Course language is German, on request also in English.

Advanced Architecting on AWS Training

Advanced Architecting on AWS Training

current course dates can be found at the bottom of this page … company training available on request!

Course description

In this course, each module presents a scenario with an architectural challenge to be solved. You will examine available AWS services and features as solutions to the problem. You will gain insights by participating in problem-based discussions and learning about the AWS services that you could apply to
meet the challenges. Over 3 days, the course goes beyond the basics of a cloud infrastructure and covers topics to meet a variety of needs for AWS customers. Course modules focus on managing multiple AWS accounts, hybrid connectivity and devices, networking with a focus on AWS Transit Gateway connectivity, container services, automation tools for continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), security and distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection, data lakes and data stores, edge services, migration options, and managing costs. The course concludes by presenting you with scenarios and challenging you to identify the best solutions

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

  • Apply the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
  • Manage multiple AWS accounts for your organization.
  • Connect on-premises data centers to the AWS Cloud.
  • Understand financial aspects of connecting VPCs in multiple regions.
  • Move large amounts of data from on-premises data centers to the AWS Cloud.
  • Design large data stores for the AWS Cloud.
  • Explore different architectures for scaling a large website.
  • Protect infrastructures against DDoS attacks.
  • Secure data on AWS in an encrypted manner.
  • Identify ways to secure data in transit or at rest
  • Optimize the performance of your solutions.
  • Select the most appropriate AWS deployment mechanism.

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

  • cloud architects, solutions architects, and anyone who designs solutions for cloud infrastructures.

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

Activities

This course includes:

  • Training with instructor
  • Practical exercises

This course provides activities that allow you to test new skills and apply knowledge through practical exercises.

Course duration / Price

  • 3 days
  • € 2,095.00 (excl. tax) per person (DE)
  • CHF 3,200.00 (excl. tax) per person (CH)

Course outline

Day 1

  • Review of architecting concepts for cloud best practices and the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
  • AWS account strategies
  • Advanced Network Architectures
  • Deployment management in AWS

Day 2

  • Setting up large data stores
  • Migrating big data stores to AWS
  • Big Data Architectures
  • Designing for large-scale applications

Day 3

  • Integrate reliability into your architecture
  • Data encryption and key management in AWS
  • Securing data in AWS
  • Improve performance

IMPORTANT: Please bring your notebook (Windows, Linux or Mac) to our trainings. If this is not possible, please contact us in advance.

Course materials are in English, on request also in German (if available).
Course language is German, on request also in English.

Developing on AWS Training

Developing on AWS Training

current course dates can be found at the bottom of this page … company training available on request!

Course description

This course teaches experienced developers how to programmatically interact with AWS services to build web solutions. It guides you through a high-level architectural discussion on resource selection and dives deep into using the AWS Software Development Kits (AWS SDKs) and Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) to build and deploy your cloud applications. You will build a sample application during this course, learning how to set up permissions to the development environment, adding business logic to process data using AWS core services, configure user authentications, deploy to AWS cloud, and debug to resolve application issues. The course includes code examples to help you implement the design patterns and solutions discussed in the course. The labs reinforce key course content and help you to implement solutions using the AWS SDK for Python, .Net, and Java, the AWS CLI, and the AWS Management Console.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

  • Build a simple end-to-end cloud application using AWS Software Development Kits (AWS SDKs), Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), and IDEs.
  • Configure AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions to support a development environment.
  • Use multiple programming patterns in your applications to access AWS services.
  • Use AWS SDKs to perform CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon DynamoDB resources.
  • Build AWS Lambda functions with other service integrations for your web applications.
  • Understand the benefits of microservices architectures and serverless applications to design.
  • Develop API Gateway components and integrate with other AWS services.
  • Explain how Amazon Cognito controls user access to AWS resources.
  • Build a web application using Cognito to provide and control user access.
  • Use DevOps methodology to reduce the risks associated with traditional application releases and identify AWS services that help in implementing DevOps practices.
  • Use AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) to deploy an application.

Intended audience

This course is intended for experienced:

  • Software developers
  • Solution architects
  • IT workers who want to improve their developing skills using AWS Services

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

  • Working knowledge of AWS core services
  • Programming experience in any one of the following languages: Java, C#/.Net or Python

Activities

This course includes:

  • Training with instructor
    Practical exercises

Course duration / Price

  • 3 days
  • € 2,095.00 (excl. tax) per person (DE)
  • CHF 2,500.00 (excl. tax) per person (CH)

Course outline

Day 1: Basics

  • Introduction to development in AWS
  • Selecting a data store
  • Developing storage solutions with Amazon S3
  • Developing Flexible NoSQL Solutions with Amazon DynamoDB

Day 2: Connecting Applications and Data with Event-Driven Processing

  • Working with Events
  • Developing Event Driven Solutions with Amazon Kinesis Stream
  • Developing Event Driven Solutions with Amazon SWF, Amazon SQS, and Amazon SNS
  • Developing Event Driven Solutions with AWS Lambda

Day 3: Developing and Deploying Secure and Scalable Applications

  • Develop secure applications
  • Capture data for scalability in the cache
  • Monitor your applications and AWS resources with Amazon CloudWatch
  • Deploy applications with AWS Elastic Beanstalk and AWS CloudFormation

IMPORTANT: Please bring your notebook (Windows, Linux or Mac) to our trainings. If this is not possible, please contact us in advance.

Course materials are in English, on request also in German (if available).
Course language is German, on request also in English.

AWS Technical Essentials

AWS Technical Essentials

current course dates can be found at the bottom of this page … company training available on request!

Course description

AWS Technical Essentials introduces you to essential AWS services and common solutions. The course covers the fundamental AWS concepts related to compute, database, storage, networking, monitoring, and security. You will start working in AWS through hands-on course experiences. The course covers the concepts necessary to increase your understanding of AWS services, so that you can make informed decisions about solutions that meet business requirements. Throughout the course, you will gain information on how to build, compare, and apply highly available, fault tolerant, scalable, and cost-effective cloud solutions.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

  • Describe terminology and concepts related to AWS services
  • Navigate the AWS Management Console
  • Articulate key concepts of AWS security measures and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  • Distinguish among several AWS compute services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
  • Understand AWS database and storage offerings, including Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
  • Explore AWS networking services
  • Access and configure Amazon CloudWatch monitoring features

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

  • Individuals responsible for articulating the technical benefits of AWS services to customers
  • Individuals interested in learning how to get started with AWS
  • SysOps administrators
  • Solutions architects
  • Developers

Activities

This course includes:

  • presentations
  • hands-on labs
  • demonstrations
  • videos
  • knowledge checks

This course provides activities that allow you to test new skills and apply knowledge through hands-on exercises.

Course duration / Price

  • 1 day / € 775.00 (excl. tax) per person (DE)

Course outline

Module 1: Introduction to Amazon Web Services

  • Introduction to AWS Cloud
  • Security in the AWS Cloud
  • Hosting the employee directory application in AWS
  • Hands-On Lab: Introduction to AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Modul 2: AWS Compute

  • Compute as a service in AWS
  • Introduction to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
  • Amazon EC2 instance lifecycle
  • AWS container services
  • What is serverless?
  • Introduction to AWS Lambda
  • Choose the right compute service
  • Hands-On Lab: Launch the Employee Directory Application on Amazon EC2

Modul 3: AWS Networking

  • Networking in AWS
  • Introduction to Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
  • Amazon VPC routing
  • Amazon VPC security
  • Hands-On Lab: Create a VPC and Relaunch the Corporate Directory Application in Amazon EC2

Modul 4: AWS Storage

  • AWS storage types
  • Amazon EC2 instance storage and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
  • Object storage with Amazon S3
  • Choose the right storage service
  • Hands-On Lab: Create an Amazon S3 Bucket

Modul 5: Databases

  • Explore databases in AWS
  • Amazon Relational Database Service
  • Purpose-built databases
  • Introduction to Amazon DynamoDB
  • Choose the right AWS database service
  • Hands-On Lab: Implement and manage Amazon DynamoDB

Module 6: Monitoring, Optimization, and Serverless

  • Monitoring
  • Optimization
  • Alternate serverless employee directory application architecture
  • Hands-On Lab: Configure High Availability for Your Application

Module 7: Course Summary

 

IMPORTANT: Please bring your notebook (Windows, Linux or Mac) to our trainings. If this is not possible, please contact us in advance.

Course materials are in English, on request also in German (if available).
Course language is German, on request also in English.