Ben Smith

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Upcoming live online training courses

April 1, 2024

AWS Solutions Architect Associate - Exam Readiness Course

Best-selling author and instructor Chad Smith will walk you through hands-on scenarios that validate your actual architecture skills by recommending new infrastructure as well as optimization of existing infrastructure. ...

April 10 & 11, 2024

AWS Certified Security - Specialty (SCS-C02) Crash Course

Finally, best-selling author and trainer Chad Smith will share his extensive knowledge of the AWS Certified Security Specialty exam so you can learn best practices and prepare for exam day with ...

April 15 & 16, 2024

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (SAP-C02) Crash Course

Finally, Chad Smith will share his extensive knowledge of the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional subject matter so you can learn best practices and prepare for exam day with confidence. ...

April 17, 2024

Hands-on AWS Operations with ChatGPT

Taught by expert trainer and author Chad Smith, Hands-on AWS Operations with ChatGPT provides focused training on using Large Language Models (LLMs) for real work, focusing on security, networking, compute, storage, ...

April 22 & 23, 2024

Getting Started with AWS

Best-selling author and trainer Chad Smith has designed this course to teach the essentials to adopting a cloud-first strategy. This title includes hands-on demos throughout and acts as a deep dive ...

May 6, 2024

Top 5 AWS Architecture and Infrastructure Strategies

Best-selling author and trainer Chad Smith will show you how to execute tasks and assist with managing AWS resources for production and at scale. This focused training will explore 5 key ...

May 13 & 14, 2024

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) Crash Course

In this all-new live training course, Chad Smith will introduce you to the concepts and objectives in the updated SAA-C03 exam and walk you through the key topics so you get ...

May 15, 22 & 29, 2024

Hands-on AWS in 3 Weeks

The AWS ecosystem is expanding rapidly, and it is important to follow best practices and good architecture design at the start, to prevent backtracking later. The Hands-on AWS Bootcamp will help ...

May 20 & 21, 2024

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) Crash Course

In this live course, experienced AWS trainer and best-selling video author Chad Smith will walk you through the important concepts covered in Amazon’s CLF-C02 exam. Designed with a focus on teaching ...

Bio

Ben Smith, a senior security strategist at Microsoft, researches methods to help organizations enhance security through effective management and measurement techniques. He speaks at IT conferences worldwide and was the inaugural chair of the vendor-neutral security certification, CompTIA Security+.