Course Highlights
  • 24 HOURS OF INSTRUCTOR-GUIDED LECTURES: With our practical exercises, you'll learn how to architect and build applications on Amazon Web Services
  • EXAM CRAM LECTURES: These fast-paced lectures are perfect for quick revision of the most important facts before sitting your exam
  • FULL-LENGTH PRACTICE TEST: Get familiar with the real AWS exam format, style and difficulty with a complimentary practice exam that is timed and scored
  • QUIZ QUESTIONS: Review your knowledge with quiz questions that test your understanding and measure your progress
  • ALL CODE FILES AND SLIDES: Available for download (.zip file / PDF format)
  • ALWAYS UP TO DATE: Our teachings reflect the latest SAA-C03 exam. Students have lifetime access to all future updates
  • PRESENTED IN A PROFESSIONAL WAY: Focused and to the point, clear language with professional subtitles
  • THE ULTIMATE EXAM PREP: We’ll teach you everything you need to know to ace your exam AND master the cloud in the real world
  • ACTIVE Q&A FORUM: Our discussion board provides a platform for students to ask questions, share their recent exam experiences, and offer feedback on exam topics
  • RESPONSIVE SUPPORT: Our team of AWS experts respond to all of your questions, concerns or feedback
Curriculum

9 Topics
Welcome and How to Use this Course
The SAA-C03 Exam
Hands-On Practice: Free Tier vs Sandbox
AWS Account Overview
[HOL] Create Your AWS Free Tier Account
[HOL] Configure Account and Create a Billing Alarm
[HOL] Setup Individual User Account
[HOL] Install Tools and Configure AWS CLI
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18 Topics
Introduction
AWS IAM Overview
IAM Users Groups Roles and Policies
IAM Authentication and MFA
[HOL] Setup Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
AWS Security Token Service (STS)
[HOL] IAM Password Policy
Identity-Based Policies and Resource-Based Policies
Permissions Boundaries
IAM Policy Evaluation
IAM Policy Structure
[HOL] IAM Policy Simulator
[HOL] Access Evaluation Tools
IAM Best Practices
Exam Cram
Architecture Patterns
IAM Quiz
Cheat Sheets

27 Topics
Introduction
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
[HOL] Launch EC2 Instances (Windows + Linux)
[HOL] EC2 Instance Connect and SSH
[HOL] RDP to Windows Instance
Amazon EC2 User Data and Metadata
[HOL] Launch Instance with User Data and Metadata
Accessing Services – Access Keys and IAM Roles
[HOL] Access Keys and IAM Roles
[HOL] Status Checks and Monitoring
EC2 Placement Groups
Network Interfaces (ENI ENA EFA)
Public Private and Elastic IP Addresses
NAT for Public Addresses
[HOL] Working with ENIs and IP Addresses
Private Subnets and Bastion Hosts
[HOL] Private Subnets and Bastion Hosts
NAT Gateways and NAT Instances Overview
[HOL] Private Subnet with NAT Gateway
EC2 Instance Lifecycle
Nitro Instances and Nitro Enclaves
Amazon EC2 Pricing Options
Amazon EC2 Pricing Use Cases
Exam Cram
Architecture Patterns
EC2 Quiz
Cheat Sheets

23 Topics
Introduction
Elasticity: Scaling Up vs Out
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
[HOL] Create an Auto Scaling Group
Load Balancing and High Availability
Types of Elastic Load Balancer
Routing with ALB and NLB
[HOL] Create Target Groups
[HOL] Network Load Balancer (NLB)
[HOL] Application Load Balancer (ALB)
[HOL] ALB - Query String Routing
Amazon EC2 Scaling Policies
[HOL] Elastically Scale the Application
Cross-Zone Load Balancing
Session State and Session Stickiness
[HOL] Enable Sticky Sessions
Secure Listeners for ELB
[HOL] Create a Secure Listener
[HOL] Clean-up Resources
Exam Cram
Architecture Patterns
ELB & ASG Quiz
Cheat Sheets

11 Topics
Introduction
AWS Organizations
[HOL] Create Organization and add Account
Service Control Policies (SCPs)
[HOL] Create Service Control Policy (SCP)
AWS Control Tower
[HOL] Create a Landing Zone
Exam Cram
Architecture Patterns
AWS Organizations Quiz
Cheat Sheets

25 Topics
Introduction
The AWS Global Infrastructure
IPv4 Addressing Primer
Amazon VPC Overview
Defining VPC CIDR Blocks
[HOL] Create a Custom VPC
[HOL] Launch Instances and Test VPC
Security Groups and Network ACLs
[HOL] Configure Security Groups and NACLs
Amazon VPC Peering
[HOL] Configure VPC Peering
VPC Endpoints
[HOL] Create VPC Endpoint
AWS Client VPN
AWS Site-to-Site VPN
AWS VPN CloudHub
AWS Direct Connect (DX)
AWS Direct Connect Gateway
AWS Transit Gateway
Using IPv6 in a VPC
[HOL] VPC Flow Logs
Exam Cram
Architecture Patterns
VPC Quiz
Cheat Sheets

26 Topics
Introduction
Amazon S3 Overview
Amazon S3 Storage Classes
[HOL] Create Amazon S3 Bucket
[HOL] Amazon S3 Buckets and Objects
IAM Policies Bucket Policies and ACLs
[HOL] S3 Permissions and Bucket Policies
S3 Versioning Replication and Lifecycle Rules
[HOL] Configure Replication and Lifecycle
MFA with Amazon S3
Amazon S3 Encryption
[HOL] Enforce Encryption with AWS KMS
[HOL] S3 Event Notifications
[HOL] Presigned URLs
Multipart Upload & Transfer Acceleration
S3 Select and Glacier Select
Server Access Logging
[HOL] Configure S3 Static Website
Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
Cross Account Access
[HOL] Cross-Account Access
S3 Object Lambda
Exam Cram
Architecture Patterns
S3 Quiz
Cheat Sheets

19 Topics
Introduction
DNS and Amazon Route 53
[HOL] Register Domain with Route 53 (Optional)
Amazon Route 53 Hosted Zones
Route 53 Routing Policies
[HOL] Failover Routing Policy with ALB
Amazon Route 53 Resolver
Amazon CloudFront Origins and Distributions
Amazon CloudFront Caching and Behaviors
CloudFront Signed URLs and OAI/OAC
[HOL] CloudFront Cache and Behavior Settings
CloudFront SSL/TLS and SNI
Lambda@Edge
AWS Global Accelerator
[HOL] Create a Global Accelerator
Exam Cram
Architecture Patterns
DNS Caching and Performance Optimization Quiz
Cheat Sheets

19 Topics
Introduction
Block vs File vs Object Storage
Amazon EBS Deployment and Volume Types
Amazon EBS Copying Sharing and Encryption
Amazon EBS Snapshots and DLM
EC2 Instance Store Volumes
[HOL] EBS Volumes and Snapshots
[HOL] Using Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
[HOL] Create and Manage AMIs
[HOL] Implement EBS Volume Lifecycle
Using RAID with EBS
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
[HOL] Working with Files on EFS
Amazon FSx
AWS Storage Gateway
Exam Cram
Architecture Patterns
Block and File Storage Quiz
Cheat Sheets

16 Topics
Introduction
Docker Containers and Microservices
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
Amazon ECS Launch Types
[HOL] Launch Docker Container on ECS
Amazon ECS and IAM Roles
Scaling Amazon ECS
Amazon ECS with ALB
[HOL] Deploy Tasks on Amazon ECS
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
AWS App Runner
Exam Cram
Architecture Patterns
Containers Quiz
Cheat Sheets

19 Topics
Introduction
Serverless Services and Event-Driven Architecture
AWS Lambda
[HOL] Create Function to Resize Instance
Application Integration Services Overview
Amazon SQS
Amazon SNS
[HOL] Simple Event-Driven App
AWS Step Functions
[HOL] Create a State Machine
Amazon EventBridge
[HOL] Create Event Bus and Rule
Amazon API Gateway
[HOL] Simple REST API
[HOL] Web App with HTTP API
Exam Cram
Architecture Patterns
Serverless Applications Quiz
Cheat Sheets

34 Topics
Introduction
Types of Database
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
Amazon RDS Backup and Recovery
[HOL] Create Amazon RDS Database
[HOL] Read Replicas and Multi-AZ
Amazon RDS Security
[HOL] Create Encrypted Copy of RDS Database
Amazon Aurora
Amazon Aurora Deployment Options
Amazon RDS Proxy
Amazon RDS Anti-Patterns and Alternatives
Amazon ElastiCache
Scaling ElastiCache
[HOL] Create ElastiCache Cluster
Amazon DynamoDB
[HOL] Practice Creating DynamoDB Tables
DynamoDB Streams
DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)
DynamoDB Global Tables
[HOL] Enable Global Table
Amazon RedShift
Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR)
Amazon Kinesis
Amazon Athena and AWS Glue
[HOL] Query S3 ALB Access Logs with Athena
Amazon OpenSearch Service (Elasticsearch)
AWS Batch
Other Database Services
Other Analytics Services
Exam Cram
Architecture Patterns
Databases and Analytics Quiz
Cheat Sheets

18 Topics
Introduction
AWS CloudFormation
[HOL] Create CloudFormation Stack
[HOL] Create Nested Stack using the AWS CLI
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
[HOL] Creating and Updating Environments
SSM Parameter Store
AWS Config
[HOL] SSM Automation and Config Rules
AWS Secrets Manager
AWS OpsWorks
AWS Resource Access Manager
[HOL] Share a Subnet Across Accounts
RPO RTO and DR Strategies
Exam Cram
Architecture Patterns
Deployment and Management Quiz
Cheat Sheets

16 Topics
Introduction
Amazon CloudWatch Overview
[HOL] Create a Custom Metric and Alarm
[HOL] Create a CloudWatch Alarm
Amazon CloudWatch Logs
[HOL] Review CloudWatch Logs
The Unified CloudWatch Agent
AWS CloudTrail
[HOL] Create a CloudTrail Trail
Amazon EventBridge (Refresher)
[HOL] Create EventBridge rule for CloudTrail API calls
Metric Analysis and Tracing
Exam Cram
Architecture Patterns
Monitoring Logging and Auditing Quiz
Cheat Sheets

21 Topics
Introduction
AWS Directory Service
Identity Providers and Federation
[HOL] IAM Identity Center
Amazon Cognito
Encryption Primer
AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
[HOL] Encrypt and Decrypt Data with AWS KMS
AWS CloudHSM
AWS Certificate Manager
[HOL] SSL/TLS Certificate in ACM
AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Amazon Inspector
Amazon Macie
AWS GuardDuty
AWS Shield
Defense In-Depth
Exam Cram
Architecture Patterns
Security Quiz
Cheat Sheets

13 Topics
Introduction
AWS Migration Tools Overview
AWS Application Discovery Service
AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)
AWS Server Migration Service (SMS)
AWS DataSync
AWS Snow Family
The 7 Rs of Migration
Exam Cram
Architecture Patterns
Migration and Transfer Quiz
Cheat Sheets

12 Topics
Introduction
AWS Amplify and AppSync
AWS Device Farm
Machine Learning Services
[HOL] Transcode and Transcribe Video
AWS License Manager
AWS Compute Optimizer
[HOL] AWS Budgets
[HOL] AWS Cost Explorer
[HOL] Cost Allocation Tags
AWS Cost Management Tools
[HOL] AWS Cost Management Tools

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AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Practice Exam

2 Topics
Study & Exam Preparation Tips
Bonus Lesson

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