AWS SOLUTION ARCHITECT – ASSOCIATE

Overview

In this four day intensive program, you will get technical expertise on cloud infrastructure and computing, and will understand how to handle the provisioning, operating and managing of distributed application systems on the AWS platform. You will be guided through navigating the AWS Management console and will learn to differentiate between AWS storage, networking, deployment and management options in order to pick the best possible solutions. By understanding the best practices and recommended architectural principles, you can make the right decisions and create a sustainable cloud migration plan.

KnowledgeHut’s AWS courses are conducted through instructor-led classes conducted by expert instructors, and hands-on labs that will impart the necessary practical skills.

 

AGENDA

DAY 1- AWS Technical Essentials
Module 1: User Sign up
  • User Sign Up
  • Overview Amazon Management Console
  • Management Activity and Billing overview
  • Amazon Pricing

Module 2: AWS Big Picture – 10000 feet overview

  • An overview of AWS
  • EC2- An overview
  • EBS- An Overview
  • Security Group-An Overview
  • Elastic IP- An overview
  • Cloud Front-An Overview
  • S3- An overview
  • Glacier- An overview
  • IAM – An Overview
  • RDS- AN overview
  • Trusted Advisor- Overview
  • Cloudtrial-overview

Module 3: Amazon EC2- Win server 2012     ( Hands on lab by students)

  • Launch Windows server 2012 Instance
  • Decrypt Password and download RDP shortcut client
  • Connect to the EC2 Windows 2012 instance
  • Terminate the Windows server 2012 Instance

Module 4: Amazon EC2- Security Groups  ( Hands on lab by students)

  • Creating Security Groups
  • Modify Security Groups
  • Delete Security Groups

Module 5 : Amazon Elastic Block Store  ( Hands on lab by students)

  • Create Standard Volume
  • Create Provisioned I/o Volume
  • Assign volumes to Windows server 2012 and Ubuntu 14.04 server
  • Disassociate and Delete volumes

Module 6 : Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)   ( Hands on lab by students)

  • Lab 6.1
    1. Launch Two Ubuntu EC2 Instances- apache web servers with user data
    2. Edit HTML files to both the servers
    3. Test your web Servers through internet
  • Lab 6.2
    1. Create Elastic Load Balance
    2. Add both the Ubuntu servers to ELB
    3. Test your Elastic Load Balancer
    4. Delete your Elastic Load Balancer

Module 7 : AWS Route53

  • What is Route53
  • Route-53 demo integration with ELB you created ( Performed by Instructor only)

Module 8 : AWS s3  ( Hands on lab by students)

  • AWS s3- Overview and pricing
  • Create Bucket  and Folder
  • Upload, download, share and delete object
  • Delete Bucket

DAY 2 AWS ( EC2 with user data, Cloud Formation and s3,Glacier)

Module 1 : Amazon EC2- Ubuntu 14.04 with user data  ( Hands on lab by students)

  • Launch the EC2 Ubuntu cloud server
  • Using User-data of web-server
  • Validate user data is executed successfully

Module 2 : Amazon EC2- Ubuntu 14.04 with Meta data  ( Hands on lab by students)

  • Metadata an overview
  • Fetch metadata information about your ec2 instance
  • Terminate Ubuntu server

Module 3  : Amazon  Glacier   ( Hands on lab by students)

  • AWS Glacier overview and pricing
  • Create life cycle policies for your  bucket
  • Access data from Glacier
  • Setting auto delete to your data from s3 based on rules

Module 4  : AWS-  RDS

  • RDS- An overview
  • RDS –read replica
  • RDS snapshots
    1. Lab 1 : Create a RDS instance
    2. Lab 2 : connecting to an RDS instance
    3. Lab 3 : creating a RDS snapshots and restoring snapshot
    4. Lab 4: Deleting RDS snapshots
    5. Lab 5 : Deleting RDS instance

Module 5  : AWS-  RDS

  • Deploy Web application in Amazon Ec2 ( media wiki)
  • Deploy  Amazon RDS instances ( multi AZ)
  • Connect your Media wiki web application with RDS instances securely
  • Make media wiki available on public url for user sign up and write knowledge wiki

DAY 3-  AWS (IAM, Autoscaling)

 

Module 1 : AWS- IAM (Identity and Access Management)

  • What is IAM? – A comprehensive introduction
  • AWS federation with Active directory- Theory only
  • Getting started with IAM
  • IAM roles – Delegation and federation  ( Hands on lab by students)
    1. Creating a role
    2. Assuming a role
    3. Deleting a role
  • IAM   user- groups ( Hands on lab by students)
    1. Creating a user and group
    2. Adding a user to the group
    3. Password policy setup for users
    4. Attaching policy to users
    5. Enabling dual factor authentication to the users
  • Launching a EC2 instance using a S3 full access role  ( Hands on lab by students)
  • Configure AWS cli client and making api calls to access S3 storage  ( Hands on lab by students)

Module 2 : Auto Scaling and Bootstrapping   ( Hands on lab by students)

  • Overview Of   Autoscaling
  • ELB: Configuring The Elastic Load Balancer  for Autoscaling group
  • Configuring The AMI For Our Web Application
  • Auto Scaling And Bootstrapping
  • Scale out  VM’s though stress test
  • Scaling VM ‘s based on low utilization

Module 3 : Important services High level overview ( one slide per service)

  • Trusted Advisor
  • CloudTrail
  • Cloudwatch
  • DynamoDB
  • AWS workspace
  • Cloudfront

DAY 4- AWS ( VPC,Cloud formation,SNS,SQS,SWF)

Module 1 : AWS- Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

  • What is VPC? – A comprehensive introduction
  • Understanding VPC configurations
    1. VPC with single public subnet
    2. VPC with public and private subnet
    3. VPC Peering
    4. Access control List

Configuring VPC Instances ( Hands on lab by students)

  • Creating a VPC
  • Subnets
  • Internet Gateway
  • Routing
  • Configuring a NAT instance
  • Creating security groups
  • Launching instances
  • VPC peering ( Peer VPC 1 with VPC-02 within same account)

Module 2  : AWS Cloud Formation

  • Infrastructure as Code using Cloud Formation
  • Cloud formation – Create a new stack
  • Using AWS cloud former to create templates
  • Create and deploy sample template in JSON format
  • Use existing templates and deploy

Module 3 : AWS- SNS-SQS and SWF

  • Simple Notification Service (SNS) – Overview  and use case
  • Simple Queue Service (SQS) – Overview and use case
  • Simple Workflow (SWF) –  Overview and use case
  • Live demo by Instructor on Using batch processing