DevOps and IT professionals are in higher demand than ever.
 
This certification validates your skills as an IT system/development operations manager on the AWS platform.
 
This course is designed to help you pass the SOA-C02 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 308 slide powerpoint study guide
    - Private links to video lectures for each topic
    - Two 40 question practice exams you can take unlimited times
    - 45 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 you can find the syllabus for this course so you know what you will be getting:
 
Week 1: 
    - Lecture topics
        - Course intro / exam tips and psychology of taking exams
        - Exam format overview (6 domains), what is a SysOps admin
    - Recommended labs
        - Billing dashboard and console
        - Creating and managing budgets
Week 2:
    - Lecture Topics
        - AWS Compute, auto scaling, and load balancing
    - 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
        - Using ELB and Auto scaling together
Week 3:
    - Lecture topics
        - AWS Storage management and configuration
        - AWS Compute/AS/LB review
    - Recommended labs
        - S3 deep dive, hosting a static website on S3
        - S3 bucket options
        - S3 bucket policies/ACL's
        - S3 Server Access logging
        - S3 encryption options
        - 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
        - Working with RDS Snapshots/Backups
        - Creating/restoring 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 Route 53 routing policies
        - Configuring NAT and Internet gateways
        - Setting up a VPC peering connection with another account
        - Setting up VPC endpoints
Week 6:
    - Lecture Topics
        - Automation and Optimization
        - AWS Networking review
    - Recommended Labs
        - Defining RTO/RPO and the 4 most common DR strategies
        - Create and deploy a CloudFormation stack from a template
        - Configure an SQS queue
        - Configure an SNS topic
        - Configure a hands-off web app with beanstalk
Week 7:
    - Lecture Topics
        - AWS Management and Logging
        - AWS Automation and Optimization review
    - Recommended Labs
        - Configuring cross-account access in IAM
        - Working with CloudWatch dashboards
        - CloudWatch logs deep dive
        - CloudTrail logs deep dive
        - VPC flow logs deep dive
Week 8:
    - Lecture Topics
        - AWS Security, Compliance, and Encryption
        - AWS Management/Logging review
    - Recommended Labs
        - Encrypting EBS snapshots and S3 buckets/objects
        - Managing/creating encryption keys with AWS KMS
        - Using AWS Secrets Manager to retrieve secrets of a DB
        - Configuring a WAF rule
        - Checking compliance with AWS Config rules
        - IAM Access analyzer
        - IAM deep dive
        - Setting up an AWS Organization and enabling Service Control Policies (SCPs)
 
Week 9:
    - Lecture Topics
        - AWS Cost management concepts
        - AWS Security/Compliance review
    - Recommended Labs
        - Best practices for using tags
        - Pricing calculator lab
        - Creating a cost/usage report
        - Cost Explorer deep dive

Week 10:
    - Lecture Topics
        - Common errors for popular AWS services/Services review
        - AWS Cost management concepts review
    - Recommended Labs
        - Any that you struggled with
    - Take/Retake practice tests
Week 11:
        - Use this week to review anything you don't feel comfortable with
        - Take/Retake practice tests
Week 12:
    - If you are not taking the exam by now, retake quizzes and aim for a higher score.
    - Review section summaries