Course Overview

This course will teach students about AWS cloud computing, AWS foundational services, Security and Identify the access management, AWS Databases and Elasticity and management tools. The AWS certification is mainly targeted to those candidates who interested in learning how to get started with using AWS, SysOps administrators, solution architects and developers interested in using AWS services and Individuals responsible for articulating the technical benefits of AWS services to customers. The AWS exam verifies that the candidate possesses the fundamental knowledge and proven skills in the area of AWS platform.

Course Objectives

Course Learning Outcomes

CompTIA Certification

Security +

Associate Level

Contents

Module 1

Module 2

Module 3

Module 4

Module 1  Introduction

Module 2 Introduction to AWS Cloud Computing

Module 3 AWS Foundational Services

Module 4 Security and Identity Access Management

Module 5 AWS Databases

Module 6 Elasticity and Management Tools

Module 17 Conclusion

Course Learning Syllabus

Introduction Lecturer Introduction

Importance of this course

What you will learn in this course

Introduction to AWS Cloud Computing Topic A:

 AWS pace of innovation and the growing customer base

 Overview of the AWS Management Console to access services, regions, and resources

 Benefits of AWS cloud computing

 Layers of the AWS platform, such as platform services, foundation services, and infrastructure

 AWS global infrastructure

AWS Foundational Services Topic A:

 Introduction to AWS Foundational Services

 Learn about Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

 Launching EC2 instances

 Choosing instance types

 Configuring the network

 Amazon Machine Images 

 Choosing and deploying EC2 instances

 Differences of Amazon instance store and Amazon Elastic Block Store

 AWS Marketplace

 Different types of instances

 Adding, using, and retrieving instance metadata and user data

 Amazon EC2 purchasing options for optimizing performance and cost

Topic B:

 Essential concepts and features of Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

 Amazon S3 and includes topics such as pricing, buckets, and object keys

 Amazon S3 security, such as access control lists, bucket policies, and Identity and Access Management

 Amazon S3 versioning to preserve, retrieve, and restore

 Different classes of storage for Amazon S3

 How to manage objects in Amazon S3 

 Amazon Glacier for low cost archiving

 Essentials of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

 Essentials of Amazon EBS pricing and volumes

 Significant differences between Amazon EBS and Amazon S3

 Fundamental information about Amazon EC2 Instance store

 What happens when you reboot, stop, or terminate your instance

 Provisioning a virtual private, isolated network in the cloud with Amazon VPC

 Demo: Build Your VPC and Launch a Web Server

Topic A: 

 Introduction to Security and Identity & Access Management

 Shared Security Model 

 How AWS conducts itself from a physical security standpoint

 Hardware, Software, Auditing and Compliance

 Configuring Security Groups for instance firewall security

 AWS mult-tier Security Groups

 Amazon VPC layer of security

Topic B:

 AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), including authorization, access keys ,and groups

 AWS IAM policies, and assigning them to users, groups, and roles

 How an AWS IAM user can assume a role and the associated temporary credentials

 How an AWS IAM user can assume a role

 Use of temporary security credentials

 Use of IAM authorization and authentication

 AWS IAM best practices, such as using roles, groups, rotating credentials, and monitoring activity

 Assigning policies directly to the AWS resource

AWS Databases Topic A: 

 Introduction to AWS Databases 

 Overview of the AWS managed database services

 Essentials of Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

 Running database instances in a VPC

 Using security groups

 AWS IAM policies for granting access to Amazon RDS instances

 Simple application architecture with an Amazon RDS database instance

 Use of database parameter groups and options for customizing the database configuration

Topic B: 

 Amazon RDS best practices, including monitoring your usage, multi-AZ deployments, and optimizing the I/O capacity of a DB instance

 Essentials of Amazon DynamoDB

 Provisioning the throughput capacity of for read and writes, and the supported operations of Amazon DynamoDB

 Comparing Amazon RDS and Amazon DynamoDB for different types of applications

 How to build your database server

 Deploy an application to your application server

 Create an AWS IAM role, using Amazon RDS and AWS IAM

Elasticity and Management Tools

Topic A: 

 Introduction to Elasticity and Management Tools

 Elasticity and Management Tools

 Essentials of Auto Scaling to automatically scale your Amazon EC3 capacity

 Elastic Load Balancing to evenly distribute traffic across multiple instances

 Amazon CloudWatch to monitor AWS Cloud resources and the applications your are running

Topic B: Demo: Scale and Load-Balance Your Web Application

 How to scale and load-balance your web application and associate a domain name with your website

 Services used include, Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and Amazon Route 53

Conclusion Wrap-Up