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Learning Needs Analysis Question Bank

Overview
The Learning Needs Analysis (LNA) from Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a survey-based skills self-
assessment used to identify and remediate AWS skill gaps.

The LNA identifies an individual’s level of competency by AWS role and generates specific
training and certification recommendations. Individual data is aggregated and used to identify
breadth of coverage of critical AWS roles across an organization, depth of knowledge by role, and
to develop an organization-wide AWS training plan. Overall, the LNA helps organizations focus
their training budgets and programs on areas that need it most.

Survey questions
The following questions are included in the survey.

Work location
The following questions allow for segmentation of results by location:
 In which country do you work?
 In which state or province and city do you work?

Privacy Policy
All respondents must accept the AWS privacy policy.

Name, Email Address, and Team

The following questions allow for individual recommendations, and segmentation of results by
organization.
 What is your name, email address, and title?
 In which team or organization do you work?
o The team or organization is defined by each participating organization.

Training Modality Preference

 Please rank your most preferred to least preferred course delivery modes.
o Options include In a classroom, Over the internet with an instructor delivering the
material in real time, and Self-paced, digital content

Importance and Use of AWS Skills

 How important are AWS skills and knowledge for your job over the next 12 months?
o 6-point scale, ranging from I am not sure to Extremely Important
 How will you use AWS skills and knowledge?

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o Options include:
 I do not know how I will use AWS skills or knowledge
 Apply knowledge to make business decisions
 Apply knowledge to make technical decisions
 Use skills to build prototypes or proof of concept systems
 Use skills to build production systems
 Use skills to analyze data
 Other ________________________________________________

Prior AWS Training and Certifications

 Have you done any self-study for AWS?
o If Yes:
 Approximately when was your most recent AWS Training?
 Please select the vendors who supplied your AWS training?
 Multiple vendors are listed.
 Have you completed any of the following AWS fundamental courses?
 Have you completed any of the following AWS intermediate courses?
 Have you completed any of the following AWS advanced courses?
 Have you completed any of the following AWS exam readiness courses?
 Which of the following certifications have you achieved or renewed in the last three years?
 Which of the following certifications would you like to pursue? Choose at most 2.
(Optional)

AWS Experience
 Have you done any of the following? Select all that apply.
o I have never used AWS skills or knowledge for personal projects or my job
o I have used AWS skills and knowledge in some aspect of my job
o I have used AWS for a personal project
o I helped build a proof-of-concept using AWS skills
o I helped build a production system using AWS skills

Additional Training Requests

 Please select the AWS service categories for which training is important to you. (Optional)

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Roles and Responsibilities

 Which of these categories best describes your position within your organization?
o Options include Individual Contributor, Manager or Supervisor of People, and
Executive
 For Individual Contributor, the following question is asked:
 Please select your primary role.
o See the Skills Assessment section below.
 For Manager or Supervisor of People, the following question is asked:
 What kind of manager or supervisor are you?
o Options include Technical Manager and Business Manager
 Technical Managers are asked if they have
responsibility in one of the following functional
areas:
 Data & Analytics
 Database
 IT Architecture and Design
 IT Operations and Support
 Security
 Software Development

Skills Assessment
AWS skills are assessed by role. Participants are asked to self-assess each skill using the following
knowledge and experience scale:

Rating Meaning
None No knowledge or skill

Basic Basic understanding of this skill or AWS service, but unable to perform work in
this area

Functional Able to perform work using this skill or AWS service, but need help for more
advanced use cases

Proficient Able to perform work using this skill or AWS service, including more advanced
use cases

Expert Expert in this skill or AWS service, others seek you out for advice

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The following are the skill questions by role:

 Executive1
 Technical Manager1
 Business Manager (e.g., IT Finance, Project Management)1
 Software development
o Application or Software Architect*
o Software Engineer, Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer1
 IT infrastructure and operations
o IT Architect1
o Infrastructure Engineer1
o IT Administrator, IT Operations Engineer, Systems Administrator, Site Reliability
Engineer (SRE), Technical Support1,2
 DevOps
o DevOps Engineer1,2
 Analytics and database
o Data Engineer, Data Analytics Engineer, Data Architect
o Database Engineer, Database Administrator (DBA)
 Security
o Security Architect, Compliance/Governance Analyst1
 Machine learning
o Data Scientist
o Machine Learning Developer or Software Engineer
 Planning, Project Management, and Program Management
o Business Analyst, Project Manager
o Systems Analyst, Technical Analyst, Program Manager

1
AWS migration skill questions are added to the assessment if an individual is currently involved, or planning
to be involved, in a migration project.
2
Amazon EKS skill questions are added to the assessment if an individual has fundamental knowledge of
containers, Kubernetes, and Amazon EKS.

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Skill questions by role

Role: Executive back
Rate your knowledge and experience for the following AWS foundational skills (None, Basic, Functional,
Proficient, or Expert):

Skill Course
Describe the benefits of cloud computing What is Cloud Computing?

Describe the business value of AWS What is AWS?

Describe the different AWS cost tools and resources Introduction to AWS Billing
and Cost Management

Define the general business case for machine learning Machine Learning for
Business Challenges

Define a cloud transformation strategy Strategies for Cloud

Transformation

Define what the AWS Cloud is and its architectural principles Cloud Practitioner Essentials

Understand the AWS Cloud value proposition Cloud Practitioner Essentials

Compare the different methods of interacting with AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials

Given a scenario, identify an appropriate solution using AWS Cloud Cloud Practitioner Essentials
services

Understand the Well-Architected Framework Cloud Practitioner Essentials

Define the Shared Responsibility model Cloud Practitioner Essentials

Understand security services with the AWS Cloud Cloud Practitioner Essentials

Define the billing, account management, and pricing models for the AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
platform

Apply best practices in the design, delivery, and maintenance of AWS Introduction to AWS Well-
environments (CIO/CTO/CISO only) Architected Framework

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Role: Technical Manager back

Rate your knowledge and experience for the following AWS foundational skills (None, Basic, Functional,
Proficient, or Expert):

Skill Course
Recognize terminology and concepts as they relate to the AWS platform Technical Essentials

Navigate the AWS Management Console Technical Essentials

Understand the foundational services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Technical Essentials
Cloud (EC2), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Simple Storage
Service (S3), and Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

Understand the security measures AWS provides and key concepts of Technical Essentials
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Understand AWS database services, including Amazon DynamoDB and Technical Essentials
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

Understand AWS management tools, including Auto Scaling, Amazon Technical Essentials
CloudWatch, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), and AWS Trusted Advisor

See the migration section. Assessed only if involved in a migration

project.

The Technical Manager role is also assessed by functional area, depending on the area of
management responsibility.

Role: Business Manager (e.g., IT Finance, Project Management) back

Rate your knowledge and experience for the following AWS foundational skills (None, Basic, Functional,
Proficient, or Expert):

Skill Course
Describe the benefits of cloud computing What is Cloud Computing?

Describe the business value of AWS What is AWS?

Describe the different AWS cost tools and resources Introduction to AWS Billing
and Cost Management

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Define the general business case for machine learning Machine Learning for
Business Challenges

Define a cloud transformation strategy Strategies for Cloud

Transformation

Define what the AWS Cloud is and its architectural principles Cloud Practitioner Essentials

Understand the AWS Cloud value proposition Cloud Practitioner Essentials

Compare the different methods of interacting with AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials

Given a scenario, identify an appropriate solution using AWS Cloud Cloud Practitioner Essentials
services

Understand the Well-Architected Framework Cloud Practitioner Essentials

Define the Shared Responsibility model Cloud Practitioner Essentials

Understand security services with the AWS Cloud Cloud Practitioner Essentials

Define the billing, account management, and pricing models for the AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
platform

See the migration section. Assessed only if involved in a migration

project.

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Role: Application or Software Architect back

Rate your knowledge and experience for the following AWS architect skills (None, Basic, Functional, Proficient, or
Expert):

Skill Course
Recognize terminology and concepts as they relate to the AWS platform Technical Essentials

Navigate the AWS Management Console Technical Essentials

Understand the foundational services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Technical Essentials
Cloud (EC2), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Simple Storage
Service (S3), and Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

Understand the security measures AWS provides and key concepts of Technical Essentials
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Understand AWS database services, including Amazon DynamoDB and Technical Essentials
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

Understand AWS management tools, including Auto Scaling, Amazon Technical Essentials
CloudWatch, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), and AWS Trusted Advisor

Select AWS Regions and Availability Zones for your architecture Architecting on AWS

Use AWS compute services (AMIs, Amazon EC2, EBS, EFS, and FSx) Architecting on AWS

Use AWS database services (Amazon RDS, DynamoDB) Architecting on AWS

Design and configure networking in AWS Architecting on AWS

Use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Architecting on AWS

Understand IAM policies and best practices Architecting on AWS

Use AWS security mechanisms Architecting on AWS

Understand design patterns for scalability Architecting on AWS

Understand design patterns for high availability Architecting on AWS

Collect monitoring operational data Architecting on AWS

Automate infrastructure deployments Architecting on AWS

Understand design patterns for decoupled architectures Architecting on AWS

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Skill Course
Understand microservices and serverless architectures Architecting on AWS

Define backup and recovery processes Architecting on AWS

See the migration section. Assessed only if involved in a migration

project.

Role: Software Engineer, Quality Assurance Engineer back

Rate your knowledge and experience for the following AWS skills (None, Basic, Functional, Proficient, or Expert):

Skill Course
Recognize terminology and concepts as they relate to the AWS platform Technical Essentials

Navigate the AWS Management Console Technical Essentials

Understand the foundational services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Technical Essentials
Cloud (EC2), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Simple Storage
Service (S3), and Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

Understand the security measures AWS provides and key concepts of Technical Essentials
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Understand AWS database services, including Amazon DynamoDB and Technical Essentials
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

Understand AWS management tools, including Auto Scaling, Amazon Technical Essentials
CloudWatch, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), and AWS Trusted Advisor

Set up the AWS SDK and developer credentials for Java, C#/.NET, Python, Developing on AWS
and JavaScript

Interact with AWS services and develop solutions by using the AWS SDK Developing on AWS

Use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) for service Developing on AWS
authentication

Use Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Developing on AWS
DynamoDB as data stores

Develop NoSQL solutions with Amazon DynamoDB Developing on AWS

Create event-driven solutions in AWS Lambda Developing on AWS

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Skill Course
Develop solutions with Amazon API Developing on AWS

Develop messaging and workflow solutions using Amazon SQS and SNS Developing on AWS

Develop solutions with AWS Step Functions Developing on AWS

Use Amazon ElastiCache to improve application scalability Developing on AWS

Use containers in the development process Developing on AWS

Secure and authenticate applications Developing on AWS

Leverage the CI/CD pipeline to deploy applications on AWS Developing on AWS

Deploy applications by using AWS Elastic Beanstalk and AWS Developing on AWS
CloudFormation

Analyze a monolithic application architecture to determine logical or Advanced Developing on

programmatic break points where the application can be broken up AWS
across different AWS services

Apply Twelve-Factor Application manifesto concepts and steps while Advanced Developing on
migrating from a monolithic architecture AWS

Recommend the appropriate AWS services to develop a microservices Advanced Developing on

based cloud-native application AWS

Use the AWS API, CLI, and SDKs to monitor and manage AWS services Advanced Developing on
AWS

Migrate a monolithic application to a microservices application using the Advanced Developing on

6 Rs of migration AWS

Understand the SysOps and DevOps interdependencies necessary to Advanced Developing on

deploy a microservices application in AWS AWS

See the migration section. Assessed only if involved in a migration

project.

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Role: IT Architect, Infrastructure Engineer back

Rate your knowledge and experience for the following AWS skills (None, Basic, Functional, Proficient, or Expert):

Skill Course
Recognize terminology and concepts as they relate to the AWS Technical Essentials
platform

Navigate the AWS Management Console Technical Essentials

Understand the foundational services, including Amazon Elastic Technical Essentials

Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon
Simple Storage Service (S3), and Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

Understand the security measures AWS provides and key concepts of Technical Essentials
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Understand AWS database services, including Amazon DynamoDB Technical Essentials

and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

Understand AWS management tools, including Auto Scaling, Amazon Technical Essentials
CloudWatch, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), and AWS Trusted Advisor

Select AWS Regions and Availability Zones for your architecture Architecting on AWS

Use AWS compute services (AMIs, Amazon EC2, EBS, EFS, and FSx) Architecting on AWS

Use AWS database services (Amazon RDS, DynamoDB) Architecting on AWS

Design and configure networking in AWS Architecting on AWS

Use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Architecting on AWS

Understand IAM policies and best practices Architecting on AWS

Use AWS security mechanisms Architecting on AWS

Understand design patterns for scalability Architecting on AWS

Understand design patterns for high availability Architecting on AWS

Collect monitoring operational data Architecting on AWS

Automate infrastructure deployments Architecting on AWS

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Skill Course
Understand design patterns for decoupled architectures Architecting on AWS

Understand microservices and serverless architectures Architecting on AWS

Define backup and recovery processes Architecting on AWS

Apply the AWS Well-Architected Framework Advanced Architecting on AWS

Manage multiple AWS accounts for your organization Advanced Architecting on AWS

Connect an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud Advanced Architecting on AWS

Move data from an on-premises data center to AWS Advanced Architecting on AWS

Design large data stores for the AWS Cloud Advanced Architecting on AWS

Understand different architectural designs for scalability Advanced Architecting on AWS

Understand different architectural designs for high availability Advanced Architecting on AWS

Protect your infrastructure from a DDoS attack Advanced Architecting on AWS

Secure your data on AWS with encryption Advanced Architecting on AWS

Enhance the performance of your solutions Advanced Architecting on AWS

Select the most appropriate AWS deployment mechanism Advanced Architecting on AWS

Manage application deployments on AWS Advanced Architecting on AWS

Explain the cost of core AWS services Advanced Architecting on AWS

Determine and estimate costs associated with current and future AWS Cloud Financial
cloud workloads Management for Builders

Use strategies and best practices to reduce AWS costs AWS Cloud Financial
Management for Builders

Use AWS tools to manage, monitor, alert, and optimize your AWS AWS Cloud Financial
spend Management for Builders

Apply strategies to monitor service costs and usage AWS Cloud Financial
Management for Builders

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Implement governance standards, including resource tagging, AWS Cloud Financial
account structure, provisioning, permissions, and access Management for Builders

See the migration section. Assessed only if involved in a migration

project.

Role: IT Administrator, IT Operations Engineer, Systems Administrator back

Rate your knowledge and experience for the following AWS skills (None, Basic, Functional, Proficient, or Expert):

Skill Course
Recognize terminology and concepts as they relate to the AWS Technical Essentials
platform

Navigate the AWS Management Console Technical Essentials

Understand the foundational services, including Amazon Elastic Technical Essentials

Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon
Simple Storage Service (S3), and Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

Understand the security measures AWS provides and key concepts of Technical Essentials
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Understand AWS database services, including Amazon DynamoDB Technical Essentials

and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

Understand AWS management tools, including Auto Scaling, Amazon Technical Essentials
CloudWatch, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), and AWS Trusted Advisor

Understand the AWS infrastructures as it relates to system Systems Operations on AWS

operations such as the global infrastructure, core services and
account security

Use the AWS Command Line Interface, and understand additional Systems Operations on AWS
administration and development tools

Manage, secure, and scale compute instances on AWS Systems Operations on AWS

Understand container services and services available for serverless Systems Operations on AWS
computing

Build virtual private networks with Amazon VPC Systems Operations on AWS

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Skill Course
Configure and manage storage options utilizing the storage services Systems Operations on AWS
offered with AWS

Monitor the health of your infrastructure with services such as Systems Operations on AWS
Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config

Manage resource consumption in an AWS account using tags, Systems Operations on AWS
Amazon CloudWatch, and AWS Trusted Advisor

Create and configure automated and repeatable deployments with Systems Operations on AWS
tools such as AMIs and AWS CloudFormation

See the migration section. Assessed only if involved in a migration

project.

Role: DevOps Engineer back

Rate your knowledge and experience for the following AWS skills (None, Basic, Functional, Proficient, or Expert):

Skill Course
Recognize terminology and concepts as they relate to the AWS Technical Essentials
platform

Navigate the AWS Management Console Technical Essentials

Understand the foundational services, including Amazon Elastic Technical Essentials

Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon
Simple Storage Service (S3), and Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

Understand the security measures AWS provides and key concepts of Technical Essentials
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Understand AWS database services, including Amazon DynamoDB Technical Essentials

and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

Understand AWS management tools, including Auto Scaling, Amazon Technical Essentials
CloudWatch, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), and AWS Trusted Advisor

Understand the AWS infrastructures as it relates to system Systems Operations on AWS

operations such as the global infrastructure, core services and
account security

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Skill Course
Use the AWS Command Line Interface, and understand additional Systems Operations on AWS
administration and development tools

Manage, secure, and scale compute instances on AWS Systems Operations on AWS

Understand container services and services available for serverless Systems Operations on AWS
computing

Build virtual private networks with Amazon VPC Systems Operations on AWS

Configure and manage storage options utilizing the storage services Systems Operations on AWS
offered with AWS

Monitor the health of your infrastructure with services such as Systems Operations on AWS
Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config

Manage resource consumption in an AWS account using tags, Systems Operations on AWS
Amazon CloudWatch, and AWS Trusted Advisor

Create and configure automated and repeatable deployments with Systems Operations on AWS
tools such as AMIs and AWS CloudFormation

Use DevOps best practices to develop, deliver, and maintain DevOps Engineering on AWS
applications and services at high velocity on AWS

Understand the advantages, roles and responsibilities of small DevOps Engineering on AWS
autonomous DevOps teams

Design and implement an infrastructure on AWS that supports DevOps Engineering on AWS
DevOps development projects

Leverage AWS Cloud9 to write, run and debug code DevOps Engineering on AWS

Deploy environments with AWS CloudFormation DevOps Engineering on AWS

Host secure, highly scalable, and private Git repositories with AWS DevOps Engineering on AWS
CodeCommit

Integrate Git repositories into CI/CD pipelines DevOps Engineering on AWS

Automate build, test, and packaging code with AWS CodeBuild DevOps Engineering on AWS

Securely store and leverage Docker images and integrate them into DevOps Engineering on AWS
your CI/CD pipelines

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Skill Course
Build CI/CD pipelines to deploy applications on Amazon EC2, DevOps Engineering on AWS
serverless applications, and container-based applications

Implement common deployment strategies such as “all at once,” DevOps Engineering on AWS
“rolling,” and “blue/green”

Integrate testing and security into CI/CD pipelines DevOps Engineering on AWS

Monitor applications and environments using AWS tools and DevOps Engineering on AWS
technologies

See the migration section. Assessed only if involved in a migration

project.

Role: Data Engineer, Data Analytics Engineer back

Rate your knowledge and experience for the following AWS skills (None, Basic, Functional, Proficient, or Expert):

Skill Course
Recognize terminology and concepts as they relate to the AWS Technical Essentials
platform

Navigate the AWS Management Console Technical Essentials

Understand the foundational services, including Amazon Elastic Technical Essentials

Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon
Simple Storage Service (S3), and Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

Understand the security measures AWS provides and key concepts of Technical Essentials
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Understand AWS database services, including Amazon DynamoDB Technical Essentials

and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

Understand AWS management tools, including Auto Scaling, Amazon Technical Essentials
CloudWatch, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), and AWS Trusted Advisor

Define types of data including structured, semistructured, and Data Analytics Fundamentals
unstructured data

Analyze the characteristics of and differences in batch and stream Data Analytics Fundamentals
processing

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Analyze the characteristics of OLTP and OLAP systems Data Analytics Fundamentals

Define how Amazon EMR, AWS Glue, and Amazon Redshift each Data Analytics Fundamentals
work to process, cleanse, and transform data within a data analysis
solution

Analyze the properties and characteristics of compliance for data Data Analytics Fundamentals
stores (ACID, BASE)

Understand big data streaming and Amazon Kinesis Big Data on AWS

Choose appropriate AWS data storage options Big Data on AWS

Understand big data processing and analytics, including Amazon Big Data on AWS
Athena

Use Apache Hadoop with Amazon EMR Big Data on AWS

Launch and configure an Amazon EMR cluster Big Data on AWS

Use common programming frameworks for Amazon EMR, including Big Data on AWS
Hive, Pig, and Streaming

Use Hue to improve the ease-of-use of Amazon EMR Big Data on AWS

Use in-memory analytics with Spark on Amazon EMR Big Data on AWS

Use Amazon Glue to automate ETL workloads Big Data on AWS

Understand Amazon Redshift and its architecture Big Data on AWS

Secure deployments Big Data on AWS

Manage big data costs Big Data on AWS

Use visualization software to depict data and queries Big Data on AWS

Understand big data design patterns Big Data on AWS

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Role: Database Engineer back

Rate your knowledge and experience for the following AWS skills (None, Basic, Functional, Proficient, or Expert):

Skill Course
Recognize terminology and concepts as they relate to the AWS Technical Essentials
platform

Navigate the AWS Management Console Technical Essentials

Understand the foundational services, including Amazon Elastic Technical Essentials

Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon
Simple Storage Service (S3), and Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

Understand the security measures AWS provides and key concepts of Technical Essentials
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Understand AWS database services, including Amazon DynamoDB Technical Essentials

and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

Understand AWS management tools, including Auto Scaling, Amazon Technical Essentials
CloudWatch, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), and AWS Trusted Advisor

Identify and compare the three available data source types: AWS Database Offerings
structured, unstructured, and semistructured

Identify different database types and for which use cases they are AWS Database Offerings
best suited

Compare and categorize AWS relational and non-relational database AWS Database Offerings
services

Identify methods of migrating data to AWS AWS Database Offerings

Describe server-based and serverless architectures, including use AWS Database Offerings
cases for each type

Determine the right database to support a given application AWS Database Offerings
requirement

Apply database concepts, database management, and data modeling Planning and Designing
techniques Databases on AWS

Evaluate hosting databases on Amazon EC2 instances Planning and Designing

Databases on AWS

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Evaluate relational AWS database services and their features Planning and Designing
(Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, and Amazon Redshift) Databases on AWS

Evaluate nonrelational AWS database services and their features Planning and Designing
(Amazon DocumentDB, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon ElastiCache, Databases on AWS
Amazon Neptune, and Amazon QLDB)

Examine how the design criteria apply to each service Planning and Designing
Databases on AWS

Apply management principles based on the unique features of each Planning and Designing
service Databases on AWS

Role: Security Architect, Compliance Analyst back

Rate your knowledge and experience for the following AWS skills (None, Basic, Functional, Proficient, or Expert):

Skill Course
Select AWS Regions and Availability Zones for your architecture Architecting on AWS

Use AWS compute services (AMIs, Amazon EC2, EBS, EFS, and FSx) Architecting on AWS

Use AWS database services (Amazon RDS, DynamoDB) Architecting on AWS

Design and configure networking in AWS Architecting on AWS

Use AWS Identify and Access Management (IAM) Architecting on AWS

Understand IAM policies and best practices Architecting on AWS

Use AWS security mechanisms Architecting on AWS

Understand design patterns for scalability Architecting on AWS

Understand design patterns for high availability Architecting on AWS

Collect monitoring operational data Architecting on AWS

Automate infrastructure deployments Architecting on AWS

Understand design patterns for decoupled architectures Architecting on AWS

Understand microservices and serverless architectures Architecting on AWS

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Skill Course
Define backup and recovery processes Architecting on AWS

Identify the security benefits and responsibilities when using the AWS AWS Security Essentials
Cloud

Describe the access control and management features of AWS AWS Security Essentials

Understand the different data encryption methods to secure AWS Security Essentials
sensitive data

Describe how to secure network access to your AWS resources AWS Security Essentials

Determine which AWS services can be used for security logging and AWS Security Essentials
monitoring

Use the AWS shared security responsibility model Security Engineering on AWS

Architect and build AWS application infrastructures that are Security Engineering on AWS
protected against the most common security threats

Use encryption to protect data at rest and in transit Security Engineering on AWS

Apply security checks and analyses in an automated and reproducible Security Engineering on AWS
way

Configure authentication for resources and applications in the AWS Security Engineering on AWS
Cloud

Gain insight into events by capturing, monitoring, processing, and Security Engineering on AWS
analyzing logs

Identify and mitigate incoming threats against applications and data Security Engineering on AWS

Perform security assessments to ensure that common vulnerabilities Security Engineering on AWS
are patched and security best practices are applied

See the migration section. Assessed only if involved in a migration

project.

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Role: Data Scientist back

Rate your knowledge and experience for the following AWS skills (None, Basic, Functional, Proficient, or Expert):

Skill Course
Understand the fundamentals of managing, analyzing, and The Elements of Data Science
visualizing data

Understand best practices for data processing The Elements of Data Science

Identify how to continuously improve machine learning models The Elements of Data Science
through training, tuning, and debugging

Select AWS services to store, monitor, and maintain aspects of The Elements of Data Science
model production

Determine when to employ data readiness as part of your ML Machine Learning Data Readiness
process

Use the KNIME Analytics tool to prepare ML models with Machine Learning Data Readiness
respect to data readiness

Understand Amazon Sagemaker and how to use its three main Developing Machine Learning
components Applications

Identify the different types of machine learning algorithms and Developing Machine Learning
the problems they solve Applications

Understand the process for building recommendation systems Developing Machine Learning
with MXNet and GluOn Applications

Prepare a dataset for training Practical Data Science with Amazon

SageMaker

Train and evaluate a Machine Learning model Practical Data Science with Amazon
SageMaker

Automatically tune a Machine Learning model Practical Data Science with Amazon
SageMaker

Prepare a Machine Learning model for production Practical Data Science with Amazon
SageMaker

Evaluate Machine Learning model results Practical Data Science with Amazon
SageMaker

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Skill Course
Describe the key outcomes of each phase of the Machine The Machine Learning Pipeline on
Learning pipeline AWS

Compare and contrast the different types of Machine Learning The Machine Learning Pipeline on
AWS

Convert a business problem into an Machine Learning problem The Machine Learning Pipeline on
AWS

Select the appropriate algorithm type to use for a particular The Machine Learning Pipeline on
business problem AWS

Perform statistical exploratory data analysis with visualization The Machine Learning Pipeline on
techniques AWS

Identify if a variable will be important in prediction The Machine Learning Pipeline on

AWS

Describe general approaches to cleaning data The Machine Learning Pipeline on

AWS

Justify the formatting of data based on use case The Machine Learning Pipeline on
AWS

Format and split data into train/test/validation sets The Machine Learning Pipeline on
AWS

Understand the role of Amazon SageMaker in the Machine The Machine Learning Pipeline on
Learning pipeline AWS

Launch, navigate, and manage SageMaker notebooks The Machine Learning Pipeline on
AWS

Store data in S3 The Machine Learning Pipeline on

AWS

Call the built-in SageMaker jobs with the SM library (SDK) and The Machine Learning Pipeline on
its API AWS

Run a Sagemaker hyperparameter job The Machine Learning Pipeline on

AWS

Understand the various techniques used in evaluating a The Machine Learning Pipeline on
Machine Learning model (e.g., confusion matrix, R-squared AWS
error)

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Evaluate the model based on the test data and check for its The Machine Learning Pipeline on
precision and recall AWS

Analyze the loss function and evaluation metrics The Machine Learning Pipeline on
AWS

Identify when it's necessary to convert or transform features The Machine Learning Pipeline on
AWS

Apply different feature engineering techniques (e.g., conduct a The Machine Learning Pipeline on
polynomial transformation) AWS

Evaluate a model in production via A/B testing The Machine Learning Pipeline on
AWS

Deploy two models with production invariant and configure a The Machine Learning Pipeline on
Sagemaker endpoint AWS

Understand the access control and access management Machine Learning Security
features of AWS and data encryption methods to secure
sensitive data

Use AWS services for security logging and monitoring, and Machine Learning Security
determine which can be used for network security

Ensure strong governance of your AWS resources and identify Machine Learning Security
the services used to maintain governance of control
environments

Use the AWS audit feature, audit an AWS environment, and Machine Learning Security
determine whether AWS audits and attestations that validate
security controls are implemented and operating effectively

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Role: Machine Learning Developer or Software Engineer back

Rate your knowledge and experience for the following AWS skills (None, Basic, Functional, Proficient, or Expert):

Skill Course
Understand the machine learning process, including Machine Learning Building Blocks
terminology, common techniques, and details of each step Services and Terminology

Understand the CRISP-DM methodology and framework Process Model CRISP-DM on the AWS
Stack

Understand the fundamentals of managing, analyzing, and The Elements of Data Science
visualizing data

Understand best practices for data processing The Elements of Data Science

Identify how to continuously improve machine learning models The Elements of Data Science
through training, tuning, and debugging

Select AWS services to store, monitor, and maintain aspects of The Elements of Data Science
model production

Understand Amazon Sagemaker and how to use its three main Developing Machine Learning
components Applications

Identify the different types of machine learning algorithms and Developing Machine Learning
the problems they solve Applications

Understand the process for building recommendation systems Developing Machine Learning
with MXNet and GluOn Applications

Prepare a dataset for training Practical Data Science with Amazon

SageMaker

Train and evaluate a Machine Learning model Practical Data Science with Amazon
SageMaker

Automatically tune a Machine Learning model Practical Data Science with Amazon
SageMaker

Prepare a Machine Learning model for production Practical Data Science with Amazon
SageMaker

Evaluate Machine Learning model results Practical Data Science with Amazon
SageMaker

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Learning Needs Analysis Question Bank

Skill Course
Describe the key outcomes of each phase of the Machine The Machine Learning Pipeline on
Learning pipeline AWS

Compare and contrast the different types of Machine Learning The Machine Learning Pipeline on
AWS

Convert a business problem into an Machine Learning problem The Machine Learning Pipeline on
AWS

Select the appropriate algorithm type to use for a particular The Machine Learning Pipeline on
business problem AWS

Perform statistical exploratory data analysis with visualization The Machine Learning Pipeline on
techniques AWS

Identify if a variable will be important in prediction The Machine Learning Pipeline on

AWS

Describe general approaches to cleaning data The Machine Learning Pipeline on

AWS

Justify the formatting of data based on use case The Machine Learning Pipeline on
AWS

Format and split data into train/test/validation sets The Machine Learning Pipeline on
AWS

Understand the role of Amazon SageMaker in the Machine The Machine Learning Pipeline on
Learning pipeline AWS

Launch, navigate, and manage SageMaker notebooks The Machine Learning Pipeline on
AWS

Store data in S3 The Machine Learning Pipeline on

AWS

Call the built-in SageMaker jobs with the SM library (SDK) and The Machine Learning Pipeline on
its API AWS

Run a sagemaker hyperparameter job The Machine Learning Pipeline on

AWS

Understand the various techniques used in evaluating a The Machine Learning Pipeline on
Machine Learning model (e.g., confusion matrix, R-squared AWS
error)

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Skill Course
Evaluate the model based on the test data and check for its The Machine Learning Pipeline on
precision and recall AWS

Analyze the loss function and evaluation metrics The Machine Learning Pipeline on
AWS

Identify when it's necessary to convert or transform features The Machine Learning Pipeline on
AWS

Apply different feature engineering techniques (e.g., conduct a The Machine Learning Pipeline on
polynomial transformation) AWS

Evaluate a model in production via A/B testing The Machine Learning Pipeline on
AWS

Deploy two models with production invariant and configure a The Machine Learning Pipeline on
Sagemaker endpoint AWS

Understand the access control and access management Machine Learning Security
features of AWS and data encryption methods to secure
sensitive data

Use AWS services for security logging and monitoring, and Machine Learning Security
determine which can be used for network security

Ensure strong governance of your AWS resources and identify Machine Learning Security
the services used to maintain governance of control
environments

Use the AWS audit feature, audit an AWS environment, and Machine Learning Security
determine whether AWS audits and attestations that validate
security controls are implemented and operating effectively

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Role: Business Analyst, Project Manager back

Rate your knowledge and experience for the following AWS foundational skills (None, Basic, Functional,
Proficient, or Expert):

Skill Course
Define what the AWS Cloud is and its architectural principles Cloud Practitioner

Understand the AWS Cloud value proposition Cloud Practitioner

Compare the different methods of interacting with AWS Cloud Practitioner

Given a scenario, identify an appropriate solution using AWS Cloud Cloud Practitioner
services

Understand the Well-Architected Framework Cloud Practitioner

Define the Shared Responsibility model Cloud Practitioner

Understand security services with the AWS Cloud Cloud Practitioner

Define the billing, account management, and pricing models for the Cloud Practitioner
AWS platform

Role: Systems Analyst, Technical Analyst, Program Manager back

Rate your knowledge and experience for the following AWS skills (None, Basic, Functional, Proficient, or Expert):

Skill Course
Recognize terminology and concepts as they relate to the AWS Technical Essentials
platform

Navigate the AWS Management Console Technical Essentials

Understand the foundational services, including Amazon Elastic Technical Essentials

Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon
Simple Storage Service (S3), and Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

Understand the security measures AWS provides and key concepts of Technical Essentials
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Understand AWS database services, including Amazon DynamoDB and Technical Essentials
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

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Skill Course
Understand AWS management tools, including Auto Scaling, Amazon Technical Essentials
CloudWatch, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), and AWS Trusted Advisor

Select AWS Regions and Availability Zones for your architecture Architecting on AWS

Use AWS compute services (AMIs, Amazon EC2, EBS, EFS, and FSx) Architecting on AWS

Use AWS database services (Amazon RDS, DynamoDB) Architecting on AWS

Design and configure networking in AWS Architecting on AWS

Use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Architecting on AWS

Understand IAM policies and best practices Architecting on AWS

Use AWS security mechanisms Architecting on AWS

Understand design patterns for scalability Architecting on AWS

Understand design patterns for high availability Architecting on AWS

Collect monitoring operational data Architecting on AWS

Automate infrastructure deployments Architecting on AWS

Understand design patterns for decoupled architectures Architecting on AWS

Understand microservices and serverless architectures Architecting on AWS

Define backup and recovery processes Architecting on AWS

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Migration back

Rate your knowledge and experience for the following AWS migration skills (None, Basic, Functional, Proficient,
or Expert):

Skill Course
Describe the primary drivers for moving to the AWS Cloud Strategies and Tools to Perform
Large-Scale Migrations

Describe the migration process Strategies and Tools to Perform

Large-Scale Migrations

Describe the Migration Readiness and Planning process Strategies and Tools to Perform
Large-Scale Migrations

Describe common application migration strategies Strategies and Tools to Perform

Large-Scale Migrations

Describe AWS tools and services that can accelerate the migration Strategies and Tools to Perform
process Large-Scale Migrations

Explain the various cloud migration strategies Migrating to AWS

Assess cloud migration readiness Migrating to AWS

Discover your portfolio and plan for migration Migrating to AWS

Plan and design application migration strategy Migrating to AWS

Perform and validate database and application migration to the Migrating to AWS
cloud

Optimize applications and operations after migrating to the cloud Migrating to AWS

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Amazon EKS back

Rate your knowledge and experience for the following Amazon EKS skills (None, Basic, Functional, Proficient, or
Expert):

Skill Course
Build an Amazon EKS cluster by selecting the correct compute Running Containers on Amazon Elastic
resources to support worker nodes Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

Secure your environment with AWS Identity and Access Running Containers on Amazon Elastic
Management (IAM) authentication by creating an Amazon EKS Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
service role for your cluster

Publish container images to ECR Running Containers on Amazon Elastic

Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

Automate and deploy applications Running Containers on Amazon Elastic

Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

Collect monitoring data through metrics, logs, and tracing Running Containers on Amazon Elastic
with AWS X-Ray Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

Running Containers on Amazon Elastic

Configure the AWS networking services to support the cluster Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

Running Containers on Amazon Elastic

Upgrade your Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, and third party tool Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

To get started
Contact your AWS account, professional services, or training representative for more information.

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