EdyWood Amazon AWS Solution Architect Associate Trainings
Amazon AWS Solution Architect Associate Trainings: Self Paced Online Training

Key Highlights

Benefits of taking this course

The AWS SysOps Associate certification training program is designed for Systems Administrators who have at least one year experience in managing or building applications in the cloud.


By the end of the course you’ll be able to:

  • Deploy, manage, and operate scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS
  • Migrate an existing on-premises application to AWS
  • Ensure data integrity and data security on AWS technology

What you will learn

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam is intended for individuals with experience designing distributed applications and systems on the AWS platform. Exam concepts you should understand for this exam include:

  • Designing and deploying scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS
  • Lift and shift of an existing on-premises application to AWS
  • Ingress and egress of data to and from AWS
  • Selecting the appropriate AWS service based on data, compute, database, or security requirements
  • Identifying appropriate use of AWS architectural best practices
  • Estimating AWS costs and identifying cost control mechanisms

Who should join Amazon AWS Solution Architect Associate Tranings

The course is suitable for following candidates:

Course content

Designing highly available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, scalable systems

Content may include the following:

  • How to design cloud services
  • Planning and design
  • Monitoring and logging
  • Familiarity with:
    • Best practices for AWS architecture
    • Developing to client specifications, including pricing/cost (e.g., on Demand vs. Reserved vs. Spot; RTO and RPO DR Design)
    • Architectural trade-off decisions (e.g., high availability vs. cost, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) vs. installing your own database on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2))
    • Hybrid IT architectures (e.g., Direct Connect, Storage Gateway, VPC, Directory Services)
    • Elasticity and scalability (e.g., Auto Scaling, SQS, ELB, CloudFront)

Implementation/Deployment

Identify the appropriate techniques and methods using Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS CloudFormation, AWS OpsWorks, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to code and implement a cloud solution.

Content may include the following:

  • Configure an Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
  • Operate and extend service management in a hybrid IT architecture
  • Configure services to support compliance requirements in the cloud
  • Launch instances across the AWS global infrastructure
  • Configure IAM policies and best practices AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Exam Blueprint

Data Security

Recognize and implement secure practices for optimum cloud deployment and maintenance. Content may include the following:

  • AWS shared responsibility model
  • AWS platform compliance
  • AWS security attributes (customer workloads down to physical layer)
  • AWS administration and security services
  • AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  • Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
  • AWS CloudTrail
  • Ingress vs. egress filtering, and which AWS services and features fit
  • “Core” Amazon EC2 and S3 security feature sets
  • Incorporating common conventional security products (Firewall, VPN)
  • Design patterns
  • DoS mitigation
  • Encryption solutions (e.g., key services)
  • Complex access controls (building sophisticated security groups, ACLs, etc.)
  • Amazon CloudWatch for the security architect
  • Trusted Advisor
  • CloudWatch Logs

Recognize critical disaster recovery techniques and their implementation.


Content includes the following:

  • Disaster recovery
    • Recovery time objective
    • Recovery point objective
    • Amazon Elastic Block Store
  • AWS Import/Export
  • AWS Storage Gateway
  • Amazon Route53
  • Validation of data recovery method

General troubleshooting information and questions

Amazon AWS Solution Architect Associate Trainings FAQs

There is no prerequisite but it is suggested that a person should have minimum 3 years of experience in Quality field.

Exam Details:

  • No. of questions: 150
  • Exam Format: Multiple Choice & True or
  • False Statements
  • Exam Pass Mark: 70%
  • Level of Qualification: Six Sigma Black Belt
  • Electronic Devices Permitted: No
  • Open Book: No

General FAQs

Online classroom training for courses is conducted via live streaming by a certified trainer with over 15 years of work experience. The class is attended by a global audience to enrich your learning experience.

Our teaching assistants are a dedicated team of subject matter experts here to help you get certified in your first attempt. They engage students proactively to ensure the course path is being followed and help you enrich your learning experience, from class onboarding to project mentoring and job assistance. Teaching Assistance is available during business hours.

All of our highly qualified trainers are TOGAF 9 certified with more than 14 years of experience in implementing TOGAF framework.

All of our highly qualified trainers are ITIL-certified, with more than 15 years of experience in training and working in the IT domain. Each of them have gone through a rigorous selection process which includes profile screening, technical evaluation, and a training demo before they are certified to train for us. We also ensure that only those trainers with a high alumni rating continue to train for us.

Yes, the course fee is inclusive of the examination fee.

Exam prices are governed by the certification body and can change. Price changes are typically announced at the end of the calendar year. If the event that an exam price does go up and you have not yet booked the exam, you will need to pay the difference in amount to Edywood.

The tools you’ll need to attend training are:

  • Windows: Windows XP SP3 or higher
  • Mac: OSX 10.6 or higher
  • Internet speed: Preferably 512 Kbps or higher
  • Headset, speakers and microphone: You’ll need headphones or speakers to hear instruction clearly, as well as a microphone to talk to others. You can use a headset with a built-in microphone, or separate speakers and microphone.

We offer 24/7 support through email, chat, and calls. We also have a dedicated team that provides on-demand assistance through our community forum. What’s more, you will have lifetime access to the community forum, even after completion of your course with us.

Online Classroom:

  • Attend one complete batch.
  • Complete one simulation test with a minimum score of 60%.

Online Self learning:

  • Complete 85% of the course.
  • Complete one simulation test with a minimum score of 60%.

For assistance in scheduling your exam, reach us through our email or contact sales consultant via call. Our EdyWood team will help you

Your exam voucher fee is included in the price of this course. However, you must procure the exam voucher within six months from the date of course purchase. In the event that an exam price does go up and you have not yet booked the exam, you will need to pay the difference in amount to EdyWood.

Exam vouchers are valid for 1 year from the date of issuance. If you do not book the exam within 1 year from purchase of voucher, you will need to buy the voucher again per the actual price.

No, exam voucher cost cannot be refunded once it is issued to a learner as we procure this from third party bodies. EdyWood does not own the voucher policies and cost.

After successful completion of the training, you will be awarded the course completion certificate. Once you clear the exam you will then receive the certification from The Open Group.

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