The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02) video course, led by best-selling author Chad Smith, provides comprehensive coverage of the key topics and concepts needed to pass the certification exam. Throughout the course, Chad explains all four exam domains, guiding you through scenario-based questions to help you understand how to approach and solve real-world problems. The course begins with an overview of the exam logistics and required skill sets, ensuring you know what to expect on test day. You will learn how to design solutions for complex organizational environments, focusing on multi-account and multi-network scenarios, and how to translate business and technical requirements into effective architectural recommendations using AWS Well-Architected Framework principles. The course also covers strategies for continuous improvement and optimization of existing AWS workloads, as well as techniques for accelerating workload migration and modernization, including best practices for re-architecting applications. By sharing his extensive expertise, Chad prepares you to tackle the exam with confidence and equips you with practical knowledge for real-world AWS architecture challenges.
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What you'll learn
Complex workloads that are covered on the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional Exam
Multi-network and multi-account strategies
New workload strategies for complex requirement scenarios
Strategies for deploying cost-optimized infrastructures and for reducing cost of existing deployments
Migration options for single-app or multiple-application infrastructures
Troubleshooting and improving existing deployments
Skills you'll gain
- Amazon Web Services
- Network Architecture
- Hybrid Cloud Computing
- AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Platform As A Service (PaaS)
- Data Migration
- Software Architecture
- Amazon S3
- Cloud Computing Architecture
- Software As A Service
- Scalability
- Service Oriented Architecture
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
- Continuous Improvement Process
- Security Engineering
- Identity and Access Management
- Business Continuity
- Solution Architecture
- Network Security
- Enterprise Architecture
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There are 5 modules in this course
This module introduces the Solutions Architect Professional exam material and sets the stage for the rest of the course. You’ll get an overview of the certification exam, including logistics, required skillsets, and the list of question domains.
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7 videos1 assignment
This module covers the first exam question domain: designing solutions for organizational complexity. This module focuses on multi-account and multi-network scenarios, which are common implementation patterns among customers.
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18 videos2 assignments
This module covers the second exam question domain: designing for new solutions. Lessons focus on deploying network resources using DevOps principles, business continuity, security, reliability, performance, and cost optimization.
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21 videos2 assignments
This module covers the third exam question domain: continuous improvement for existing solutions. You’ll learn how to optimize and improve existing network deployments based on changing requirements.
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18 videos2 assignments
This module explores the fourth and final exam question domain: accelerating workload migration and modernization. Migration scenarios are challenging and may require knowledge of non-AWS technologies.
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15 videos3 assignments
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