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AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional Boot Camp – Singapore

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Our intensive AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional Boot Camp in Singapore is tailored to provide hands-on training, helping you master advanced AWS skills and confidently prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional certification.

AWS Certification Course Overview

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional certification is recognized as one of the most prestigious cloud computing credentials globally. This certification demonstrates your ability to:

• Design and implement advanced AWS solutions
• Optimize system performance
• Select the best AWS services for specific use cases

The certification exam includes challenging, scenario-based questions to test your expertise in real-world applications. This Singapore-based course equips you with the practical skills and knowledge needed to excel in the exam and succeed as a senior AWS solutions architect.

Syllabus 

Domain 1: Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity

Task Statement 1.1: Architect network connectivity strategies.

• Global Infrastructure on AWS
• Concepts related to AWS networking, such as transitive routing, AWS container services, Amazon VPC, AWS Direct Connect, and AWS VPN
• Concepts related to hybrid DNS (such as on-premises DNS integration and Amazon Route 53 Resolver).
• Network segmentation (IP addressing, subnetting, and communication between VPCs, for instance)
• Traffic monitoring on networks 

Task Statement 1.2: Prescribe security controls.

• AWS IAM Identity Centre (AWS Single Sign-On) and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Network ACLs, security groups, and route tables
• Key management and encryption (such as AWS Key Management Service [AWS KMS] and AWS Certificate Manager [ACM]).
• AWS identity, security, and compliance tools (such as Amazon Inspector, AWS Security Hub, AWS CloudTrail, and AWS Identity and Access Management Access Analyser) 

Task Statement 1.3: Design reliable and resilient architectures.

• RTOs and RPOs, or recovery time and recovery point objectives
• Disaster recovery techniques (such as pilot light, warm standby, multi-site, and AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery)
• Data recovery and backup 

Task Statement 1.4: Design a multi-account AWS environment.

• Notifications of events for many accounts
• Sharing of Amazon resources throughout environments
• AWS Organisations and AWS Control Tower 

Task Statement 1.5: Determine cost optimization and visibility strategies.

• Tools for tracking AWS consumption and costs, such as AWS Budgets, AWS Pricing Calculator, AWS Trusted Advisor, and AWS Cost Explorer
• Purchasing alternatives for AWS (such as Spot Instances, Savings Plans, and Reserved Instances)
• Tools for AWS rightsizing visibility (like Amazon S3 Storage Lens and AWS Compute Optimiser) 

Domain 2: Design for New Solutions

Task Statement 2.1: Design a deployment strategy to meet business requirements.

• Infrastructure as code, or IaC (AWS CloudFormation, for instance)
• Continuous Delivery and Integration (CI/CD)
• Procedures for change management
• Tools for configuration management (like AWS Systems Manager) 

Task Statement 2.2: Design a solution to ensure business continuity

• Concepts related to AWS networking (such as Route 53 and routing techniques)
• RTOs and RPOs; • Disaster recovery plans (such as multi-site, pilot light, backup and restore, and warm standby).
• AWS disaster recovery options 

Task Statement 2.3: Determine security controls based on requirements.

• AWS service endpoints
• IAM
• route tables, 
• security groups, and network ACLs
• encryption choices for data in transit and at rest
• Credential management services
• Managed security services offered by AWS (such as Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Security Hub, AWS Shield, and AWS WAF). 

Task Statement 2.4: Design a strategy to meet reliability requirements.

• Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon ElastiCache, and other AWS storage services and replication schemes; 
• multi-AZ and multi-region designs; auto scaling policies and events
• • Application integration, such as AWS Step Functions, Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), and Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS).
• Service caps and quotas

Task Statement 2.5: Design a solution to meet performance objectives.

• Technologies for performance monitoring; 
• AWS storage choices; 
• instance families and use cases; 
• purpose-built databases 

Task Statement 2.6: Determine a cost optimization strategy to meet solution goals and objectives

• Pricing models (like Reserved Instances, Savings Plans)
• AWS cost and use monitoring tools (like Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor, AWS Pricing Calculator)
• AWS managed service solutions
• Data transfer expenses
• Storage tiering 

Domain 3: Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions

Task Statement 3.1: Determine a strategy to improve overall operational excellence.

• Disaster recovery planning; alerting and automated repair techniques
• Monitoring and recording systems (e.g., Amazon CloudWatch)
• CI/CD pipelines and deployment techniques (such rolling, all-at-once, and blue/green)
• Tools for configuration management (like Systems Manager)

Task Statement 3.2: Determine a strategy to improve security.

• Requirements for data retention, sensitivity, and regulation
• Strategies for automated monitoring and remediation (like AWS Configuration rules)
• Secrets management (using AWS Secrets Manager, for instance, or Systems Manager)
• Least privilege access principle
• AWS security-specific solutions 
• Patching procedures;
• Backup procedures and techniques 

Task Statement 3.3: Determine a strategy to improve performance.

• High-performing system architectures, including as placement groups, instance fleets, and auto scaling
• Worldwide service options (such as edge computing services, Amazon CloudFront, and AWS Global Accelerator).
• Toolkits and services for monitoring (like CloudWatch)
• Key performance indicators (KPIs) and service level agreements (SLAs) 

Task Statement 3.4: Determine a strategy to improve reliability.

• High availability and resilience 
• AWS Global Infrastructure
• Data replication techniques 
• Scaling approaches (e.g., load balancing, auto scaling) 
• Disaster recovery techniques and resources
• Service caps and quotas 

Task Statement 3.5: Identify opportunities for cost optimizations.

• Adoption of price models (such as Reserved Instances, Savings Plans) 
• Cost-conscious architectural decisions (such as employing Spot Instances, scaling rules, and rightsizing resources)
• The price of networking and data transfer
• Reporting, alerting, and cost management 

Domain 4: Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization

Task Statement 4.1: Select existing workloads and processes for potential migration.

• Tools for tracking and evaluating migrations (like AWS Migration Hub)
• Portfolio evaluation; Asset planning; Workload migration and prioritisation (e.g., wave planning) 

Task Statement 4.2: Determine the optimal migration approach for existing workloads.

• Tools and alternatives for data migration (such as S3 Transfer Acceleration, AWS DataSync, AWS Transfer Family, and AWS Snow Family)
• Applications that migrate (such as AWS Application Migration Service and Application Discovery Service).
• AWS DNS and networking services (Direct Connect, AWS Site-to-Site VPN, Route 53, etc.)
• Identity services (such as AWS Directory Service and IAM Identity Centre).
• Database conversion tools (such as AWS Schema Conversion Tool [AWS SCT] and AWS Database conversion Service [AWS DMS])
• Tools for governance (like AWS Control Tower and Organisations) 

Task Statement 4.3: Determine a new architecture for existing workloads.

• Compute services (like Elastic Beanstalk and Amazon EC2)
• Containers (e.g., AWS Fargate, Amazon Elastic Container Registry [Amazon ECR], Amazon Elastic Container Service [Amazon ECS], and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service [Amazon EKS]).
• AWS storage services, such as Volume Gateway, Amazon FSx, Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic File System, and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS).
• Databases (such as self-managed databases on Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon OpenSearch Service)

Task Statement 4.4: Determine opportunities for modernization and enhancements.

• Offerings for serverless computing (like AWS Lambda)
• Containers (e.g., Fargate, Amazon EKS, and Amazon ECS)
• Storage services provided by AWS (such as Amazon S3, Amazon EFS)
• Databases created specifically for a given purpose (such as DynamoDB, Amazon Aurora Serverless, ElastiCache) 
• Integration services (for example, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, Amazon EventBridge, Step Functions)