AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Professional Certificate

AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Professional Certificate

Start here to become an AWS Solutions Architect. Gain the skills and knowledge to design architectural solutions on AWS and prepare for your AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam.

Instructors: Alex G.

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4 course series

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2 months, 10 hours a week

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4 course series

Earn a career credential that demonstrates your expertise

4.8

(1,466 reviews)

Intermediate level

Recommended experience

Flexible schedule

2 months, 10 hours a week

Learn at your own pace

Build toward a degree

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What you'll learn

Make informed decisions about when and how to apply key AWS Services for compute, storage, database, networking, monitoring, and security.
Design architectural solutions, whether designing for cost, performance, and/or operational excellence, to address common business challenges.
Create and operate a data lake in a secure and scalable way, ingest and organize data into the data lake, and optimize performance and costs.
Prepare for the certification exam, identify your strengths and gaps for each domain area, and build strategies for identifying incorrect responses.

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Professional Certificate - 4 course series

This professional certificate provides the knowledge and skills you need to start building your career in cloud architecture and helps you prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam. You will start by learning key AWS Services for compute, storage, database, networking, monitoring, and security, then dive into how to design architectural solutions, how to create and operate a data lake, and how to prepare for the certification exam.

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification showcases knowledge and skills in AWS technology across a wide range of AWS services. The certification focuses on the design of cost and performance optimized solutions and demonstrating a strong understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework. This AWS Certification is one of the top-paying IT certifications, per the SkillSoft IT Skills and Salary report. Per Enterprise Strategy Group, surveyed AWS Certification holders credited their certification for their higher earnings (74%), increased confidence (87%), and increased influence among coworkers (79%).

To prepare for your AWS Certification exam, we recommend that — in addition to attaining this professional certificate — candidates review the free exam guide, sample questions, and AWS technical documentation (e.g. white papers and product FAQs) on the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam page to understand what content and services are covered by the exam.

Applied Learning Project

Through 15 hands-on labs, you’ll use the AWS Management Console to apply skills learned in the videos.

For example:

In Architecting Solutions on AWS, you’ll use Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Amazon SQS, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon SNS to build a serverless web backend.
In Introduction to Designing Data Lakes, you’ll use Amazon S3, Amazon OpenSearch Service, AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway to create an Amazon OpenSearch Service Cluster. You’ll also use Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics, Amazon Elasticsearch Service to create a data ingestion pipeline with the use of high-scale AWS Managed services.
In Cloud Technical Essentials, you’ll design a 3-tier architecture using services like Amazon VPC, Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS with high availability and Elastic Load Balancing following AWS best practices. You’ll upload an architecture diagram laying out your design including the networking layer.

AWS Cloud Technical Essentials

Course 121 hours4.8 (5,798 ratings)

What you'll learn

Describe terminology and concepts related to AWS services
Articulate key concepts of AWS security measures and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
You will learn to distinguish among several AWS compute services, including Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, and Amazon ECS.
Understand AWS database and storage offerings, including Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon S3.

Architecting Solutions on AWS

Course 222 hours4.8 (445 ratings)

What you'll learn

Are you looking to get more technical? Are you looking to begin working in the cloud, but don’t know where to go next? Are you looking to up your game by prepping for the AWS Solutions Architect Associate Exam? Do you see yourself as a cloud consultant, but can’t quite envision how your days would be? Are you puzzled how to match a customer’s requirements with the right AWS services/solutions? If so, you are in the right place!! You’ll learn how to plan, think, and act like a Solution Architect in a real-life customer scenario.

In this course, you’ll get prepared to begin your career architecting solutions on AWS. Through a series of use case scenarios and practical learning, you’ll learn to identify services and features to build resilient, secure, and highly available IT solutions in the AWS Cloud. Each week, a fictional customer will present a different need. We will then review the options, choose the best one for the use case and walk you through the architecture design on a whiteboard. You’ll learn about event-driven architectures with a focus on performance efficiency and cost. You’ll then gain knowledge on how to architect a solution using many purpose-built AWS services. With this understanding, you’ll get a sense of hybrid architectures with a refined focus on reliability and operational efficiency. Finally, you’ll wrap up your learning by understanding a multi-account strategy centered on security and cost.

Skills you'll gain

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Building Data Lakes on AWS

Course 311 hours4.7 (283 ratings)

What you'll learn

Apply data lake methodologies in planning and designing a data lake.
Describe the components and services required for building an AWS data lake.
Compare the ways data can be ingested, stored, and transformed in a data lake.
Explain how to secure a data lake with appropriate permissions.

Exam Prep: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Course 48 hours4.7 (203 ratings)

What you'll learn

The 4 domains -Designing Resilient, High-Performing, Secure, Cost-optimized Architectures- in the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam
Certification exam-level practice questions written by experts from AWS
Optional hands-on exercises designed to solidify understanding of cloud concepts you need to know for the exam

Instructors

Alex G.

Amazon Web Services

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Build toward a degree

When you complete this Professional Certificate, you may be able to have your learning recognized for credit if you are admitted and enroll in one of the following online degree programs.¹