September 20, 2017

AWS Solutions Architect Professional Series

COMING SOON! This series is designed to help you pass the AWS Solutions Architect Professional exam, the series follows the official certification blueprint published by Amazon.

Find the schedule and links below will take you to the videos for each section.

Preparation

There are several great resources available to help you prepare for this series and the exam:

AWS Solutions Architect Professional Exam Path

Domain 1.0 – High Availability and Business Continuity
Objectives
– Demonstrate ability to architect the appropriate level of availability based on stakeholder requirements
– Demonstrate ability to implement DR for systems based on RPO and RTO
– Determine appropriate use of multi-Availability Zones vs. multi-Region architectures
– Demonstrate ability to implement self-healing capabilities
Services – EBS, Snowball, S3, Glacier, Direct Connect, Storage Gateways, Route53, ELB, RDS, DR Scenarios (Pilot Light, etc)

Domain 2.0 – Costing
Objectives
– Demonstrate ability to make architectural decisions that minimize and optimize infrastructure cost
– Apply the appropriate AWS account and billing set-up options based on scenario
– Ability to compare and contrast the cost implications of different architectures
Services – EC2, Cross Account Access, Consolidated billing, Resource Groups, CloudWatch Alarms

Domain 3.0 – Deployment Management
Objectives
– Ability to manage the lifecycle of an application on AWS
– Demonstrate ability to implement the right architecture for development, testing, and staging environments
– Position and select most appropriate AWS deployment mechanism based on scenario
Services – CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk, Opsworks

Domain 4.0 – Network Design for a Complex Large Scale Deployment
Objectives
– Demonstrate ability to design and implement networking features of AWS
– Demonstrate ability to design and implement connectivity features of AWS
Services – VPC, VPC Peering, Direct Connect, Route53, ELB, AutoScale, HPC, Enhanced Networking, Placement Groups, NATs

Domain 5.0 – Data Storage for a Complex Large Scale Deployment
Objectives
– Demonstrate ability to make architectural trade off decisions involving storage options
– Demonstrate ability to make architectural trade off decisions involving database options
– Demonstrate ability to implement the most appropriate data storage architecture
– Determine use of synchronous versus asynchronous replication
Services – Optimizing/Securing S3, RDS Use cases, DynamoDB Use cases, Multi-AZ vs Read Replicas

Domain 6.0 – Security
Objectives
– Design information security management systems and compliance controls
– Design security controls with the AWS shared responsibility model and global infrastructure
– Design identity and access management controls
– Design protection of Data at Rest controls
– Design protection of Data in Flight and Network Perimeter controls
Services – AWS Directory Services, STS, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, HSM, DDoS Mitigation, IAM, IDS, IPS

Domain 7.0 – Scalability and Elasticity
Objectives
– Demonstrate the ability to design a loosely coupled system
– Demonstrate ability to implement the most appropriate front-end scaling architecture
– Demonstrate ability to implement the most appropriate middle-tier scaling architecture
– Demonstrate ability to implement the most appropriate data storage scaling architecture
– Determine trade-offs between vertical and horizontal scaling
Services – CloudFront, ElastiCache, Kinesis, SNS (& Mobile Push)

Domain 8.0 – Cloud Migration and Hybrid Architecture
Objectives
– Plan and execute for applications migrations
– Demonstrate ability to design hybrid cloud architectures
Services – VMware Integration, Storage Gateway, Network Migrations