AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials

The fundamental-level full day 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. It includes lab exercises reinforcing some of the core concepts of the lecture. This course also helps you prepare for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam.

Audience

This course is intended for:

• Sales
• Legal
• Marketing
• Business analysts
• Project managers
• AWS Academy students
• Other IT-related professionals
  
  

Goals

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
• Given a scenario, identify an appropriate solution using AWS Cloud services
• 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
• Identify future services and developments built on the cloud
  
  

Course outline

This course covers the following concepts:

• Introduction to the AWS Cloud
• Getting Started in the Cloud
• Building in the Cloud
• Security
• Pricing Models and Cloud Application Support
• Architecture
  
  

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• General IT technical knowledge
• General IT business knowledge
  
  

Study materials

Amazon Web Services authorized e-book included.

Following courses

Architecting on AWS

System Operations on AWS

Developing on AWS