Did you know that the average salary for IT professionals with this certification is over $150,000?
 
Solutions Architects are in extremely high demand, and for good reason. They work with all levels of an organization from executives to developers and everything in between, to implement various cloud architectures.
 
This course is designed to help you pass the SAA-C03 exam to demonstrate that you are a competent professional. Over the next 12 weeks, you will be well equipped with a solid foundational level of knowledge and experience. At that point, it is on you to go out and ace your exam so you can get hired and acquire real world experience.
 
In this study guide you will receive:
    - The 294 slide powerpoint study guide
    - Private links to video lectures for each topic
    - Two 40 question practice exams you can take unlimited times
    - 42 Hands on labs for real experience
 
Upon purchase you will be emailed links and instructions in a text file for all of your content (make sure to check spam/social/other folders).
 
Below is the complete syllabus for this course so you know exactly what you are getting:
 
Week 1: 
   - Lecture topics
      - Course intro / exam tips and psychology of taking exams
      - Cloud Architecture fundamentals
   - Recommended labs
      - Creating IAM admin user, and enabling billing access from root account
      - Billing dashboard/console
      - Creating and managing budgets
 
Week 2:
   - Lecture Topics
      - AWS Compute
   - Recommended labs
      - Create an EC2 instance and connect to it to verify status
      - Setup an EC2 auto scaling group/template
      - Setup an ELB with target groups, listeners, and rules
      - Create and trigger a lambda function
 
Week 3:
   - Lecture topics
      - AWS Storage
      - AWS Compute review
   - Recommended labs
      - S3 deep dive, hosting a static website on S3
      - Using EFS to create and mount a file system
      - EBS deep dive
 
Week 4:
   - Lecture topics
      - AWS Databases
      - AWS Storage review
   - Recommended labs
      - Creating an RDS database
      - Creating a DynamoDB table
      - Creating an Elasticache cluster
      - Create a Neptune database 
      - Create a Redshift cluster 
      - Creating an Aurora master database with multiple read replicas 
 
Week 5:
   - Lecture Topics
      - AWS Networking
      - AWS Databases review
   - Recommended Labs
      - Using elastic IPs associated with instances
      - Configuring NACLs and Security Groups
      - Configuring NAT and Internet gateways 
      - Setting up a VPC peering connection with another account 
      - Setting up VPC endpoints
 
Week 6:
   - Lecture Topics
      - AWS High Availability 
      - AWS Architecture
      - AWS Networking review
   - Recommended Labs
      - Configuring a highly available web application
      - Backup/restoration/encryption of DynamoDB tables
      - Configure an SQS queue
      - Configure an SNS topic 
      - Configure a hands-off web app with beanstalk
 
Week 7:
   - Lecture Topics
      - AWS Security
      - AWS Architecture/HA review
   - Recommended Labs
      - Configuring cross-account access in IAM 
      - Creating IAM groups/policies and checking permissions
      - Configuring a WAF rule
 
Week 8:
   - Lecture Topics
      - AWS Encryption
      - AWS Security review
   - Recommended Labs
      - Encrypting EBS snapshots and S3 buckets/objects
      - Backup/restoration/encryption of DynamoDB tables
      - Managing encryption keys with AWS KMS
      - Using AWS Secrets Manager for credentials
 
Week 9:
   - Lecture Topics
      - AWS Management/Logging
      - AWS Encryption review
   - Recommended Labs
      - Setting up an AWS Organization and enabling Service Control Policies (SCPs)
      - Utilizing AWS Config
      - Setting up a CloudTrail trail and logs deep dive
      - CloudWatch logs deep dive
      - Working with CloudFormation stacks and templates
   - Practice Tests
      - Do 1 of the 2 practice tests this week
 
Week 10:
   - Lecture Topics
      - AWS Cost management concepts
      - AWS Management/Logging review
   - Recommended Labs
      - Cost Explorer lab
      - Best practices for using tags
      - Pricing calculator lab
 
Week 11:
   - Lecture Topics
      - AWS Support/related services
      - AWS Cost management concepts review
   - Recommended Labs
      - AWS Support plan walkthrough
      - AWS Marketplace overview
      - AWS Service/Personal health dashboard
   - Practice Tests
      - Do the other quiz you did not do already
 
Week 12:
   - Lecture Topics
      - Service Definitions review
   - Recommended Labs
      - Any that you struggled with
 
Week 13:
   - If you are not taking the exam by now, retake quizzes and aim for a higher score.
   - Review section summaries