AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
About This Course
Skills You’ll Get
Get the support you need. Enroll in our Instructor-Led Course.
Interactive Lessons
34+ Interactive Lessons | 2+ Exercises | 457+ Quizzes | 341+ Flashcards | 322+ Glossary of terms
Gamified TestPrep
165+ Pre Assessment Questions | 2+ Full Length Tests | 140+ Post Assessment Questions | 280+ Practice Test Questions
Hands-On Labs
41+ LiveLab | 00+ Minutes
Introduction
The Cloud
- Introduction
- What Is Cloud Computing?
- Server Virtualization: The Basics
- Cloud Platform Models
- Scalability and Elasticity
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
Understanding Your AWS Account
- Introduction
- The Free Tier
- Product Pricing
- Service Limits
- Billing and Cost Management
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
Getting Support on AWS
- Introduction
- Support Plans
- Documentation and Online Help
- Trusted Advisor
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
Understanding the AWS Environment
- Introduction
- AWS Global Infrastructure: AWS Regions
- AWS Global Infrastructure: Availability Zones
- AWS Global Infrastructure: Edge Locations
- The AWS Shared Responsibility Model
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
Securing Your AWS Resources
- Introduction
- AWS Identity and Access Management
- Encryption
- Regulatory Compliance (AWS Artifact)
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
Working with Your AWS Resources
- Introduction
- The AWS Management Console
- The AWS Command Line Interface
- Software Development Kits
- CloudWatch
- CloudTrail
- Cost Explorer
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
The Core Compute Services
- Introduction
- Deploying Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Servers
- Simplified Deployments Through Managed Services
- Deploying Container and Serverless Workloads
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
The Core Storage Services
- Introduction
- Simple Storage Service
- S3 Glacier
- AWS Storage Gateway
- AWS Snowball
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
The Core Database Services
- Introduction
- Database Models
- Amazon Relational Database Service
- DynamoDB
- Amazon Redshift
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
The Core Networking Services
- Introduction
- Virtual Private Cloud
- Route 53
- CloudFront
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
Automating Your AWS Workloads
- Introduction
- CloudFormation
- AWS Developer Tools
- EC2 Auto Scaling
- Configuration Management
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
Common Use-Case Scenarios
- Introduction
- The Well-Architected Framework
- A Highly Available Web Application Using Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing
- Static Website Hosting Using S3
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
Appendix A: Additional Services
- Athena
- AWS Backup
- AWS Glue
- Batch
- Cognito
- Database Migration Service
- Elastic File System
- Elastic MapReduce
- Inspector
- Kinesis
- Macie
- Neptune
- Simple Queue Service
- WorkDocs
- WorkSpaces
Introduction
- What this course covers?
- What you need for this course?
- Who this course is for?
- Conventions
An Introduction to Amazon Web Services
- A background of AWS and its needs
- The AWS Management Console
- AWS security measures
- AWS interaction through the SDK and IDE tools
- Summary
Working with AWS Storage Services
- AWS storage options
- Working with Amazon EBS
- Working with AWS
- AWS Glacier
- Summary
Computing and Networking Services
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
- Best practices
- Tools
- Computing and networking tools and libraries
- Summary
Managed Services and the Databases
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Amazon RDS
- Database tools and libraries
- DynamoDB local
- The RDS command-line tool
- Summary
Deployment and Management
- AWS CloudFormation
- Alarms with Amazon CloudWatch
- Identity and Access Management
- Application deployment using AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- Summary
Working with the AWS Simple Notification Service – SNS
- Identifying Amazon SNS
- The service models of Amazon SNS
- Accessing SNS using the Management Console
- The sample code and libraries of SNS
- Summary
Working with AWS SQS
- AWS SQS
- The baseline concept and object models of SQS
- Code and libraries of the AWS SQS service
- Summary
Building an Application Using AWS
- An overview of an application
- Tool selection
- Creating an application
- Summary
Introduction
- What Does this Course Cover?
- Exam Objectives
- Objective Map
Introduction to Systems Operations on AWS
- Systems Operators
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
- Which AWS Services Should You Study?
- Reference Architecture: The Three-Tier Design
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
Working with AWS Cloud Services
- Introduction to AWS Cloud Services
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- Resources to Review
- Exercises
Security and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Security on AWS
- Securing Your AWS Account with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Securing Your AWS Cloud Services
- Monitoring to Enhance Security
- AWS Cloud Service-Specific Security
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- Exercises
Compute
- Introduction to AWS Compute Services
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
- Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS)
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- AWS Lambda
- Amazon Lightsail
- AWS Batch
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- Resources to Review
- Exercises
Networking
- Introduction to Networking on AWS
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
- AWS Direct Connect
- Load Balancing
- Virtual Private Network (VPN)
- Amazon Route 53
- Amazon CloudFront
- Summary
- Resources to Review
- Exam Essentials
- Exercises
Storage Systems
- Understanding Different Storage Options
- Block Storage on AWS
- Object Storage on AWS
- Systems Operator Scenario: The Newspaper
- Additional Storage Solutions
- Summary
- Resources to Review
- Exam Essentials
- Exercises
Databases
- Introduction to AWS Databases
- Monitoring Amazon RDS
- Non-Relational Databases
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Amazon Redshift
- Databases
- Amazon ElastiCache
- Summary
- Resources to Review
- Exam Essentials
- Exercises
Application Deployment and Management
- Introduction to Application Deployment and Management
- Deployment Strategies
- Deployment Services
- Summary
- Resources to Review
- Exam Essentials
- Exercises
Monitoring and Metrics
- Introduction to Monitoring and Metrics
- An Overview of Monitoring
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Amazon CloudWatch Events
- Amazon CloudWatch Logs
- Monitoring AWS Charges
- AWS CloudTrail
- AWS Config
- Summary
- Resources to Review
- Exam Essentials
- Exercises
High Availability
- Introduction to High Availability
- Amazon Simple Queue Service
- Amazon Simple Notification Service
- Highly Available Architectures
- Multi-Region High Availability
- Highly Available Connectivity Options
- Disaster Recovery
- Summary
- Resources to Review
- Exam Essentials
- Exercises
Securing Your AWS Resources
- Creating an IAM Role
- Creating an IAM Group
- Creating an IAM User
The Core Compute Services
- Launching an EC2 Instance
- Creating an Encrypted EBS Volume
- Configuring an AWS Elastic Beanstalk Application
- Creating the AWS Lambda Function and Invoking It
The Core Storage Services
- Creating an S3 Bucket and Enabling Versioning On It
The Core Database Services
- Creating a DynamoDB Table and Adding an Item to It
- Creating an Amazon Redshift Cluster
The Core Networking Services
- Creating a Network ACL and Adding an Inbound Rule to It
- Creating a Security Group
- Creating a VPC and Subnets
An Introduction to Amazon Web Services
- Creating an AMI from an EC2 Launched Instance
- Enabling CloudTrail
Working with AWS Storage Services
- Attaching Amazon EBS to an Instance
- Creating a Glacier Vault
Computing and Networking Services
- Using Amazon EC2
Deployment and Management
- Creating a CloudWatch Alarm
Working with the AWS Simple Notification Service – SNS
- Creating an Amazon SNS Topic
Working with AWS SQS
- Enabling Long Polling in Amazon SQS from the AWS Management Console
- Publishing a Message
Security and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Creating a Linux Instance
- Attaching an AWS IAM Role to an Instance
Compute
- Configuring an Amazon Linux Instance
- Creating a Template from an Instance
- Assigning an Elastic IP Address to an EC2 Instance
- Allocating an Elastic IP Address
Networking
- Creating a VPC Peering Connection
- Creating a Network Interface
- Creating an Image from an Instance
- Creating an Auto Scaling Group with a Single Instance
- Creating a Health Check
- Deleting a VPC
Storage Systems
- Creating a Snapshot
Databases
- Creating a New Option Group Using the Console
Application Deployment and Management
- Creating an Application in Elastic Beanstalk
- Creating a CloudFormation Template
- Using the AWS Command Line Interface
Monitoring and Metrics
- Creating a CloudWatch Dashboard and Adding a Metric to It
High Availability
- Creating an Amazon SQS Queue