AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Professional Certificate

 

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.