Beginners welcome: no need to know anything about AWS!
The AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C03 certification is one of the most challenging exams. It's great at assessing how well you understand not just AWS, but making sure you are making the best architectural decisions based on situations, which makes this certification incredibly valuable to have and pass. Rest assured, I've passed it myself with a score of 982 out of 1000. Yes, you read that right, I only made one mistake! Next, I want to help YOU pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate certification with flying colors.
This is going to be a long journey, but passing the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam will be worth it!
This AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate course is different from the other ones you'll find on Yocoach. Dare I say, better (but you'll judge!)
We will spend over three hours discussing solution architecture on AWS in depth.
It covers in-depth all the new topics on the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C02 exam
It's packed with practical knowledge on how to use AWS inside and out as a solutions architect
It teaches you how to prepare for the AWS exam AND how to prepare for the real world
It's a logical progression of topics, not a laundry list of random services
It's fast-paced and to the point
It has professional subtitles
All 800+ slides available as downloadable PDF
Concretely, here's what we'll learn to pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam:
The AWS Fundamentals: IAM, EC2, Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, EBS, EFS, Route 53, RDS, ElastiCache, S3, CloudFront
The AWS CLI: CLI setup, usage on EC2, best practices, SDK, advanced usage
In-Depth Database comparison: RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, DocumentDB, Neptune, Keyspaces, QLDB, Timestream
Analytics services comparison: Athena, EMR, Redshift, OpenSearch, Lake Formation, Kinesis Data Analytics, MSK, QuickSight, Glue
Machine Learning services: Rekognition, Transcribe, Polly, Translate, Lex, Comprehend, SageMaker, Forecast, Kendra, Personalize, Textract.
Monitoring, Troubleshooting & Audit: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, EventBridge, Config
AWS Integration & Messaging: SQS, SNS, Kinesis Amazon MQ
AWS Serverless: AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, Step Functions
AWS Containers Services: ECS, ECR, EKS, App Runner
AWS Security best practices: KMS, SSM Parameter Store, Secrets Manager, IAM Policies, Cognito, Shield, WAF, Firewall Manager, SSO, Certificate Manager, GuardDuty, Inspector, Macie
VPC & Networking in depth
Disaster Recovery & Migrations: DMS, Aurora & RDS Migrations, AWS Backup, Application Migration Service, VMware Cloud on AWS
AWS Other Services Overview: CloudFormation, SES, Pinpoint, SSM Session Manager, Elastic Transcoder, Batch, AppFlow...
Tips to ROCK the exam
This AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate course is full of opportunities to apply your knowledge:
There are many hands-on lectures in every section
There are quizzes at the end of every section
There's an AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate practice exam at the end of the course
We'll be using the AWS Free Tier most of the time
I'll be showing you how to go beyond the AWS Free Tier (you know... the real world!)