Question 1

+Introduction - AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

Accepted Answer

Course Introduction - AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
Creating an AWS Account
AWS Account Activation Troubleshooting
AWS Budget Setup
How to read an AWS Bill

Question 2

+AWS Fundamentals: IAM & EC2

Accepted Answer

AWS Fundamentals - Section Introduction
AWS Regions and AZs
IAM Introduction
IAM Hands On
EC2 Introduction
SSH Overview
How to SSH using Linux or Mac
How to SSH using Windows
How to SSH using Windows 10
SSH Troubleshooting
EC2 Instance Connect
Introduction to Security Groups
Security Groups Deep Dive
Private vs Public vs Elastic IP
Private vs Public vs Elastic IP Hands On
Install Apache on EC2
EC2 User Data

Question 3

+High Availability and Scalability: ELB & ASG

Accepted Answer

High Availability and Scalability
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) Overview
Classic Load Balancer (CLB) with Hands On
Application Load Balancer (ALB) with Hands On
Network Load Balancer (NLB) with Hands On
Elastic Load Balancer - Stickiness
Elastic Load Balancer - Cross Zone Load Balancing
Elastic Load Balancer - SSL Certificates
Elastic Load Balancer - Connection Draining
Auto Scaling Groups (ASG) Overview
Auto Scaling Groups Hands On
Auto Scaling Groups - Scaling Policies
Auto Scaling Groups - for Solutions Architects

Question 4

+EC2 Storage - EBS & EFS

Accepted Answer

EBS Intro
EBS Intro Hands On
EBS Volume Types Deep Dive
EBS Operation: Snapshots
EBS Operation: Volume Migration
EBS Operation: Volume Encryption
EBS vs Instance Store
EBS RAID configurations
EFS Overview
EFS Hands On
EBS & EFS - Section Cleanup
EFS vs EBS
EC2 Data Management - EBS & EFS Quiz

Question 5

+AWS Fundamentals: RDS + Aurora + ElastiCache

Accepted Answer

AWS RDS Overview
RDS Read Replicas vs Multi AZ
AWS RDS Hands On
RDS Encryption + Security
Aurora Overview
Aurora Hands On
ElastiCache Overview
ElastiCache Hands On
ElastiCache for Solution Architect
List of Ports to be familiar with

Question 6

+Route 53

Accepted Answer

Route 53 Overview
Route 53 Hands On
Route 53 - EC2 Setup
Route 53 - TTL
Route 53 CNAME vs Alias
Routing Policy - Simple
Routing Policy - Weighted
Routing Policy - Latency
Route 53 Health Checks
Routing Policy - Failover
Routing Policy - Geolocation
Routing Policy - Multi Value
3rd Party Domains & Route 53
Section Cleanup

Question 7

+Classic Solutions Architecture Discussions

Accepted Answer

Beanstalk Overview
Beanstalk Hands On
Solutions Architecture Discussions - Classic

Question 8

+Amazon S3 Introduction

Accepted Answer

Amazon S3 - Section Introduction
S3 Buckets and Objects
S3 Versioning
S3 Encryption
S3 Security & Bucket Policies
S3 Bucket Policies Hands On
S3 Websites
S3 CORS
S3 CORS Hands On
S3 Consistency Model

Question 9

+AWS CLI, SDK, IAM Roles & Policies

Accepted Answer

​ Developing on AWS Introduction
AWS CLI Setup on Windows
AWS CLI Setup on Mac OS X
AWS CLI Setup on Linux
AWS CLI Configuration
AWS CLI on EC2
AWS CLI Practice with S3
IAM Roles and Policies Hands On
AWS Policy Simulator
AWS EC2 Instance Metadata
AWS SDK Overview

Question 10

+Advanced Amazon S3 & Athena

Accepted Answer

​S3 MFA Delete
S3 Default Encryption
S3 Access Logs
S3 Replication (Cross Region and Same Region)
S3 Pre-signed URLs
S3 Storage Tiers + Glacier
S3 Lifecycle Policies
S3 Performance
S3 Select & Glacier Select
S3 Event Notifications
Athena Overview
Athena Hands On
S3 Lock Policies & Glacier Vault Lock
Section Cleanup

Question 11

+CloudFront & AWS Global Accelerator

Accepted Answer

CloudFront Overview
CloudFront with S3 - Hands On
CloudFront Signed URL / Cookies
AWS Global Accelerator - Overview
AWS Global Accelerator - Hands On

Question 12

+AWS Storage Extras

Accepted Answer

Snowball Overview
Snowball Hands On
Storage Gateway Overview
Storage Gateway Hands On
Amazon FSx - Overview
Amazon FSx - Hands On
All AWS Storage Options Compared

Question 13

+Decoupling applications: SQS, SNS, Kinesis, Active MQ

Accepted Answer

Introduction to Messaging
AWS SQS
AWS SQS Console Hands On
AWS SQS FIFO Queues
SQS + Auto Scaling Group
AWS SNS
AWS SNS Hands On
Kinesis Data Streams Overview
Kinesis Data Streams Hands On
Kinesis Firehose & Kinesis Data Analytics
Data Ordering for Kinesis vs SQS FIFO
SQS vs SNS vs Kinesis
Amazon MQ

Question 14

+Serverless Overviews from a Solution Architect Perspective

Accepted Answer

About the Serverless Section
Serverless Introduction
Lambda Overview
Lambda Hands-On
Lambda Limits
Lambda@Edge
DynamoDB Overview
DynamoDB Hands-On
DynamoDB Advanced Features
API Gateway Overview
API Gateway Basics Hands-On
API Gateway Security
AWS Cognito Overview
 Serverless Application Model (SAM) Overview

Question 15

+Databases in AWS

Accepted Answer

Choosing the right database
RDS
Aurora
ElastiCache
DynamoDB
S3
Athena
Redshift
Neptune
ElasticSearch

Question 16

+AWS Monitoring & Audit: CloudWatch, CloudTrail & Config

Accepted Answer

AWS Monitoring - Section Introduction
AWS CloudWatch Metrics
AWS CloudWatch Dashboards
AWS CloudWatch Logs
AWS CloudWatch Alarms
AWS CloudWatch Events
AWS CloudTrail
AWS Config - Overview
AWS Config - Hands On
CloudTrail vs CloudWatch vs Config

Question 17

+Identity and Access Management (IAM) - Advanced

Accepted Answer

Security Token Service (STS) Overview
Identity Federation & Cognito
 [SAA-C02] Directory Services - Overview
Organizations - Overview
Organizations - Hands On
IAM - Advanced
IAM - Policy Evaluation Logic
Resource Access Manager (RAM)
AWS Single Sign On (SSO) - Overview
AWS Single Sign On (SSO) - Hands On

Question 18

+AWS Security & Encryption: KMS, SSM Parameter Store, CloudHSM, Shield, WAF

Accepted Answer

AWS Security - Section Introduction
Encryption 101
KMS Overview
KMS Hands On w/ CLI
SSM Parameter Store Overview
SSM Parameter Store Hands On (CLI)
SSM Parameter Store Hands On (AWS Lambda)
AWS Secrets Manager - Overview
AWS Secrets Manager - Hands On
CloudHSM
Shield - DDoS Protection
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
WAF & Shield - Hands On
Shared Responsibility Model

Question 19

+Networking - VPC

Accepted Answer

Section Introduction
CIDR, Private vs Public IP
Default VPC Overview
VPC Overview and Hands On
Subnet Overview and Hands On
Internet Gateways & Route Tables
NAT Instances
NAT Gateways
DNS Resolution Options & Route 53 Private Zones
NACL & Security Groups
VPC Peering
VPC Endpoints
VPC Flow Logs + Athena
Bastion Hosts
Site to Site VPN, Virtual Private Gateway & Customer Gateway
Direct Connect & Direct Connect Gateway
Egress Only Internet Gateway
AWS PrivateLink - VPC Endpoint Services
AWS ClassicLink
VPN CloudHub
Transit Gateway
VPC Section Summary
Section Cleanup
Networking Costs in AWS

Question 20

+Disaster Recovery & Migrations

Accepted Answer

Disaster Recovery in AWS
Database Migration Service (DMS)
Database Migration Service (DMS) - Hands On
On-Premises Strategies with AWS
DataSync - Overview
Transferring Large Datasets into AWS

Question 21

+More Solution Architectures

Accepted Answer

​Event Processing in AWS
Caching Strategies in AWS
Blocking an IP Address in AWS
High Performance Computing (HPC) on AWS
EC2 Instance High Availability
Bastion Host High Availability

Question 22

+Other Services

Accepted Answer

Other Services Section Introduction
CICD Introduction
CloudFormation Intro
CloudFormation Hands-On
CloudFormation - Extras
ECS Introduction
ECS - Extras
EKS - Overview
Step Functions & SWF
EMR
AWS Glue
OpsWorks
ElasticTranscoder
AWS Workspaces
AppSync
Other Services: Cheat Sheet

Question 23

+Preparing for the Exam + Practice Exam - AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

Accepted Answer

Exam Preparation - Section Introduction
State of Learning Checkpoint - AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
Exam Tips - AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
Exam Walkthrough and Signup
Practice Exam - AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate (SAA-C03) Course Details:

Course Duration

Course Eligibility

Course Curriculum