Overview of AWS SysOps Associate
This course on AWS SysOps explores some of the more advanced aspects of the AWS platform from an Administrator point of view and it is recommended that the participants do this course after completing the AWS Certified Solutions Architect course or AWS Certified Developer Course.
Duration
3 Days
Prerequisite for AWS SysOps Associate
Participant must fulfill the following prerequisites:
- Complete AWS Technical Essentials course or significant hands-on professional experience in AWS-based applications
- Experience provisioning, operating and maintaining systems running on AWS
- Ability to define a solution to be built and operated on AWS
- Capabilities to provide AWS operations and deployment guidance and best practices throughout the lifecycle of a project
Course Outline for AWS SysOps Associate
Introduction
- Introduction to the AWS SysOps Administrator – Associate
- How To Find The Resources For This Course.
- Exam Blueprint
Monitoring & Reporting
- Cloudwatch Introduction
- Monitoring EC2 With Custom Metrics
- Monitoring EBS
- Monitoring ELB
- Monitoring Elasticache
- Metrics From Multiple Regions & Custom Dashboards
- Create A Billing Alarm
- AWS Organisations Lab
- AWS Resource Groups & Tagging
- Cost Explorer and Cost Allocation Tags
- EC2 Pricing Models
- AWS Config 101
- AWS Config Lab
- AWS Config Vs AWS CloudTrail Vs CloudWatch
- Health Dashboards
- Monitoring & Reporting Summary
- Monitoring & Metrics Quiz
Deployment & Provisioning
- Deploy An EC2 Instance Lab
- EC2 Launch Issues
- EBS Volumes And IOPS
- What Is A Bastion Host?
- Elastic Load Balancers
- ELB Error Messages
- ELB CloudWatch Metrics
- Deploying An Application Load Balancer Lab
- AWS Systems Manager
- Deployment & Provisioning Summary
- Deployment & Provisioning Quiz
High Availability
- Elasticity & Scalability 101
- RDS And Multi-AZ Failover
- RDS & Using Read Replicas
- RDS & Using Read Replicas Lab
- RDS What Versions
- Encrypting RDS Snapshots
- Sharing Encrypted RDS Snapshots With Other AWS Accounts
- Which Services Have Maintenance Windows
- Elasticache
- Aurora 101
- Aurora Lab
- Trouble Shooting Potential Autoscaling Issues
- CloudFront & Cache Hit Ratios
- High Availability Summary
- High Availability Quiz
Storage & Data Management
- Introduction to S3
- S3 Lab
- S3 Lifecycle Policies
- MFA Delete
- S3 Encryption
- S3 Encryption Lab
- EC2 Volume Types
- Upgrading EC2 Volume Types – Lab
- Encryption & Downtime
- KMS & CloudHSM
- AMIs
- Sharing AMIs
- Snowball & Snowball Edge
- Storage Gateway
- Introducing Athena
- Athena Lab
- Storage & Data Management Summary
- Data Management Quiz
Security
- Compliance On AWS
- DDOS
- AWS Marketplace Security Products
- IAM Custom Policies Lab
- Roles & Custom Policies Lab
- MFA & Reporting With IAM Lab
- Security Token Service
- Security & Logging
- AWS WAF
- AWS Hypervisors
- Dedicated Instances Vs Dedicated Hosts
- AWS Systems Manager EC2 Run Command
- AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store
- AWS Config With S3
- Presigned URLs
- S3 – Restrict IP Addresses
- Inspector Vs Trusted Advisor
- AWS Service Limits
- Shared Responsibility
- Other Security Aspects
- CloudTrail – Turning It On and Validating Logs
- CloudTrail – Protecting Your Logs
- Security Summary
- Security Quiz
Networking & Route53
- DNS 101
- Register Your Domain Name
- DNS Routing 101
- Simple Routing Policy Lab
- Weighted Routing Policy Lab
- Latency Routing Policy Lab
- Failover Routing Policy Lab
- Geolocation Routing Policy Lab
- Multivalue Routing
- DNS Summary & Exam Tips
- Networking Quiz
VPCs
- VPC Overview
- Build a custom VPC – Part 1
- Build A Custom VPC – Part 2
- Network Address Translation (NAT)
- Access Control Lists (ACLs)
- VPC End Points
- Custom VPC’s and Application Load Balancers
- VPC Flow Logs
- NAT’s vs Bastions
- VPC Clean Up
- VPC Summary
Automation
- Introducing CloudFormation
- CloudFormation Lab
- Introducing ElasticBeanstalk
- Elastic Beanstalk Lab
- AWS OpsWorks
- Automation Summary
- Automation Quiz