AWS Solutions Architect Associate - Exam Readiness Course
Published by Pearson
Validate your skills before taking the AWS Solutions Architect Associate Exam
- Experience realistic scenario reviews with interactive discussions
- Test your architecture skills for meeting business and technical requirements
- Evaluate your knowledge of the AWS Well-Architected Framework
Are you ready to take the AWS SAA-C03 exam? You’ve studied and taken practice exams, but how can you really make sure you are test ready? AWS Solutions Architect Associate - Exam Readiness Course is a 3-hour interactive class built to help you determine if you are ready to take the exam. 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. Each section dives into a key architecture and the class encourages attendees to follow along and ask questions during each exercise so you can get immediate feedback on your skills. This class is key to making sure you are ready on exam day.
What you’ll learn and how you can apply it
By the end of the live online course, you’ll understand:
- AWS Well-Architected Framework principles and their application to business and technical requirements
- Architecture improvement strategies for various multi-tier infrastructures
And you’ll be able to:
- Evaluate AWS infrastructure diagrams to apply architecture priorities
- Provide AWS service and features recommendations based on technical requirements
This live event is for you because...
- You want to make sure you’re ready to take the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam
- You’re an AWS technology professional who is interested in testing your architecture skills
Prerequisites
- Intermediate knowledge of AWS services and features, such as: EC2, IAM, VPC, RDS
- Basic understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework
Recommended Preparation
- Listen: AWS Solutions Architect Insights by Chad Smith
- Watch: Amazon Web Services (AWS), 3rd Edition by Chad Smith
- Watch: AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) by Chad Smith
Recommended Follow-up
- Practice: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (Pearson Practice Test)
Schedule
The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.
Exam Question Domain Introduction (15 mins)
Design Secure Architectures (45 mins)
- Network Security Exercise
- Authentication and Authorization Exercise
- Q&A
- Break
Design Resilient Architectures (40 mins)
- Infrastructure Reliability Exercise
- Disaster Recovery Exercise
- Q&A
Design High-Performing Architectures (30 mins)
- Compute Performance Exercise
- Storage Performance Exercise
- Q&A
- Break
Design Cost-Optimized Architectures (20 mins)
- Cost-Optimized Infrastructure Exercise
- Cost Reduction Exercise
- Q&A
Your Instructor
Chad Smith
Chad Smith is a technology professional, author and trainer focused on cloud infrastructure and management. He is the Principal Cloud Architect at Brightkey.cloud and has a wealth of personal real-world experience in cloud adoption, infrastructure design, operations and security. Chad holds current AWS certifications in Architecture, SysOps, Security, Networking and Databases and is also certified in CompTIA Cloud+.