Description: The fundamental-level course is intended for individuals who seek an overall

understanding of the AWS Cloud, independent of specific technical roles. It provides a detailed
overview of cloud concepts, AWS services, security, architecture, pricing, and support.

This course also helps you prepare for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam. Intended
Audience This course is intended for: Sales Legal Marketing Business analysts Project
managers AWS Academy students Other IT-related professionals

Course Objectives:
In this course, you will learn how to:
Define what the cloud is and how it works Differentiate between cloud computing and
deployment models Describe the AWS Cloud value proposition Describe the basic global
infrastructure of the cloud Compare the different methods of interacting with AWS Describe and
differentiate between AWS service domains Describe the Well-Architected Framework Describe
basic AWS Cloud architectural principles Explain the Shared Responsibility model Describe
security services with the AWS cloud Define the billing, account management, and pricing
models for the AWS platform.

DAY 1: AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials

I. Intro to AWS Cloud
1. Module goals
a. Define the cloud
b. Compare cloud vs on premise
c. State the benefits of the AWS cloud
d. Identify AWS service categories
e. Describe AWS physical architecture
f. Interact with AWS
2. What is the cloud?
 a. Don’t manage underlying infrastructure in the cloud. Hands on is
significantly less in the cloud. AWS owns and maintains the network connected
hardware. You provision what you need.

b. Many companies are in the hybrid model right now. On premise

infrastructure is connected to some cloud servers.
3. What are the benefits of the cloud?
a. Data center investment based upon forecast
b. Pay only for what you consume
c. Because of aggregate usage from all customers, AWS can achieve
higher economies of scale and pass savings on to customers
d. Stop guessing capacity
i. Overestimated server capacity
ii. Underestimated server capacity
iii. Scaling on demand
e. Increase speed and agility
i. Weeks between wanting resources and having resources
ii. Minutes between wanting resources and having resources
f. Stop spending money on running and maintaining data centers
g. Go global in minutes
h. AWS security
i. Keep your data safe
ii. Meet compliance requirements
iii. Save money
iv. Scale quickly
4. AWS service categories
 a. AWS global infrastructure
Recommend to take a look at https://www.infrastructure.aws/. All
definitions about Global Infrastructure are there in a very graphical way.

5. AWS management console

6. AWS CLI
a. Open source tool for interacting with AWS services
b. Environments
i. Mac
ii. Linux
iii. Windows
7. AWS SDKs
8. https://aws.amazon.com/tools/
II. Getting started with the cloud
1. Module goals:
a. Get started with AWS services
b. Build your infrastructure
c. Store your data
d. Secure your data
2. Get started with AWS services
a. Products
b. What is amazon ec2?

c. Benefits of amazon ec2

i. Very elastic; can grow and shrink your inventory as needed
ii. Control
iii. Flexibility
iv. Integrated
v. Reliable
vi. Secure
vii. Inexpensive
viii. Easy
d. Choosing the right amazon ec2 instance
i. Ec2 instance types are optimized for different use cases,
workloads, and come in multiple sizes. This allows you to
optimally scale resources to your workload requirements
ii. AWS utilizes Intel Xeon processors for EC2
iii. https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/
iv.
 v.

vi.

Knowledge check
1. What are the benefits of using amazon ec2 instances
compared to physical servers in your infrastructure?
Resizable, pay for what you ues, ability to have different
storage requirements.
vii. Amazon elastic block store (amazon ebs)
1. Persistent block storage for instances
2. Protected through replication
3. Different drive types
4. Scale up or down in minutes
5. Pay for what you provision
6. Snapshot functionality
viii. S3 not just a storage bucket
1. Requester pays
 2. Versioning
3. Hosting static websites
4. Object lifestyle management

ix. What is amazon s3 glacier?

1. Low cost data archiving long-term backup
2. Can configure lifecycle archiving of amazon s3 content to
amazon glacier
3. Retrieval options
a. standard : 3-5 hours
b. Bulk 5-12 hours
c. Expedited 1-5 minutes
4. Use cases
a. Media asset workflows
b. Healthcare information archiving
c. Regulatory and compliance training
d. Scientific
5. Vault lock policy
a. Deploy and enforce compliance controls on
individual glacier accounts
b. Vault becomes immutable once locked
6. Amazon virtual private cloud (amazon vpc)
7. Security groups

8. Which of the following best describes the types of data for

which amazon s3 glacier is best suited?
a. Is available after 3-5 hour restore period
b. Is infrequently or rarely accessed
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III. Building in the cloud

1. Module goals:
a. Go beyond servers and storage
b. Monitor aws resources
c. Manage demand efficiently
d. Deploy database services
e. Automate deployment
f. Connect and share data
g. Deliver content faster
2. Improving your initial project

3. Monitor AWS resources

a. What is amazon cloudwatch?
i. Monitors:
1. AWS resources
2. Applications running on AWS
ii. Collects and tracks
 1. Standard metrics
2. Custom metrics
iii. Alarms
1. Sends notifications
2. Automatically make changes based on rules you define

4. How cloudwatch works

5. Clouldwatch benefits
a. Access all your metrics from a single platform
b. Maintain visibility across your applications, infrastructure, and services
c. Reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR) and improve total cost of
ownership
d. Drive insights to optimize application and operational resources
e. Pay as you go
6. Manage demand efficiently
7. Why scaling matters
a. Amazon ec2 auto scaling adjusts capacity as needed
i. Scale out for spikes
ii. Scale in during off peak
iii. Replace unhealthy instances
iv. Pay only for what you use
b. Dynamic scaling with amazon ec2 auto scaling
c. Fleet management with amazon ec2 auto scaling

d. Elastic load balancing

e. Deploy database services

f. What is amazon relational database service?

i. A db service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a
relational database in the cloud
ii. Amazon rds engines: amazon aurora, postgreSQL, mariaDB,
oracle, mySQL, SQL server
iii. Easily scalable
iv. Automatic software patching
v. Automated backups
vi. Database snapshots
vii. Multi a-z deployments
viii. Automatic host replacement
ix. Encryption at rest and in transit
g. What is amazon aurora?
h. What is AWS database migration service?

i. The right tool for the right job

j. Knowledge check
 i. Which of the following is a key value (noSQL) database?
Amazon dynamoDB
k. Automate deployment
l. What is aws cloud formation?

m. Putting it all together

 n. How can I deploy without managing infrastructure?
i. Quickly deploy and manage applications with AWS elastic
beanstalk
1. Upload your application code
2. The service handles
a. Resource provisioning
b. Load balancing
c. Automatic scaling
d. Monitoring
3. Support applications that scale to serve millions of users
8. Connect and share data
9. Challenge: hybrid cloud
 10. What is AWS direct connect?
a. A dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS
i. Reduces network costs
ii. Creates consistent network performance
iii. Provides private connectivity to your Amazon VPC
iv. Scales easily
11. What is Amazon elastic file system (amazon efs)?
a. A scalable, elastic, cloud-native file system for linux
i. Dynamic elasticity
ii. Scalable performance
iii. Shared file storage
iv. Fully managed
v. Cost effective
IV. Secure your cloud applications
V. Support your cloud applications
VI.Architecture
Wondering how to comment about not having technical experience related to the
recommendation above to have 6 month’s hands-on experience? Is this hands-on as it relates
to knowledge of services or actually using them in practice?
A:
https://aws.amazon.com/certification/ this has information on what is expected before taking
tests
Important Links
● Whitepapers - https://aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/
● Blogs - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/
● Podcast - https://aws.amazon.com/podcasts/aws-podcast/
● AWS Monthly Architecture (Free Kindle Subscription) - https://amzn.to/2Q0KupF
● YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/AmazonWebServices
● Free Tier - https://aws.amazon.com/free/
● AWS Infrastructure - http://www.infrastructure.aws/
● AWS Events Channel -
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdoadna9HFHsxXWhafhNvKw

DAY 2: Exam Overview: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

I. The Exam
A. www.aws.amazon.com/certification has all the pieces that you need to know for
the exam
II. Why Certify?
A. Benefits for individuals
1. Demonstrate that you have the expertise
2. Earn recognition and visibility
3. Foster credibility with your employer and peers
B. Benefits for employers
1. Identity skilled IT professionals with an AWS background
2. Reduce skills and cost
3. Increase customer satisfaction
C. Question Allocation
 D. The Exam: Mechanics
1. Multiple choice questions
2. No penalty for guessing, unanswered is scored as incorrect
3. 90 minutes to complete
4. Can make question for future consideration
5. Can review all answers before submitting, and which questions you mark
for review
6. AWS Certification FAQ - https://aws.amazon.com/certification/faqs/?
nc2=sb_ce_faq
7. General FAQ PDF -
https://pages.awscloud.com/AWS_TrainCert_GetCertified_Frequently_As
ked_Questions_2020.html
III. Domain 1: Cloud Concepts
A. Exam Outline
1. 1.1 define AWS cloud and its value proposition
2. 1.2 identify aspects of AWS cloud economics
3. 1.3 list the different cloud architecture design principles
B. Cloud Concepts: Review
1. Pay as you go pricing, cloud services platform delivers:
a) Compute power
b) Storage
c) Database services
d) Other resources
2. Regions and availability zones are more highly available, fault tolerant,
and scalable than traditional data center infrastructures
3. AWS supports three different management interfaces to access your
account
a) SDK
b) CLI
 c) Web based AWS management console (mobile app as well)
4. Cloud Concepts: Review

IV. Domain 2: Security

1. 2.1 Define the AWS shared responsibility model
2. 2.2 Define AWS cloud security and compliance concepts
3. 2.3 Identify AWS access management capabilities
4. 2.4 Identify resources for security support
B. AWS shared responsibility model

C. Security: Review
1. Security is the highest priority
2. The shared responsibility model defines security responsibilities between
AWS and the customer
 3. IAM controls access to AWS services and resources securely
4. Amazon inspector assesses the security of your AWS resource
5. AWS shield protects applications running on AWS against DDoS attacks
6. AWS security assurance programs help customers maintain security and
data compliance
V. Domain 3: Technology
1. 3.1 define methodology of deploying and operating in the AWS cloud
2. 3.2 define the AWS global infrastructure
3. 3.3 identify the core AWS services
4. 3.4 identify resources for the technology support
VI. Domain 4: Billing and Pricing
1. 4.1 compare and contrast the various pricing models for AWS
2. 4.2 recognize the various account structures in relation to AWS billing and
pricing
3. 4.3 identify resources available for billing support
B. Next Steps

C. Exam Prep Resources

D.