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Agenda for Today’s Session
Amazon Web Services
AWS Job Trends
AWS Certifications
AWS Exam
How to prepare?
AWS Learning Path

What is AWS?
Having said that, let’s take a look at the demand of AWS in the market.
AWS is a cloud computing platform, a platform on which Amazon offers its cloud services. These
services operate from 16 geographical regions across the world.

AWS Global Cloud Computing Market Share
AWS Other Cloud Providers
69%
31%
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x
6x
Server Capacity
AWS All Competitors Combined
Market Demand for AWS

Why AWS Certifications?

Why AWS Certifications?
▪ Helps in the screening process.
▪ It gives your knowledge in the subject recognition.
▪ Will be recognized by all APNs (AWS Partner Networks), your resume value will increase multifold.
▪ Acute shortage of AWS certified professionals in the cloud industry!

AWS Certifications

Types of AWS Certifications

AWS Developer - Associate AWS Sysops - AssociateAWS Solution Architect -
Associate
They have to design and deploy
highly available, cost efficient and
fault tolerant systems on AWS
An AWS Developer has to design
and maintain applications on the
AWS Infrastructure
Provisioning, operating and
maintaining highly available, fault
tolerant systems on the AWS
Infrastructure
AWS Certifications - Associate

AWS Devops Engineer -
Professional
AWS Solution Architect -
Professional
This certification is for a more
experienced Solution Architect who
is able to design and deploy more
complex architectures
The Devops professional certification focuses more on
Continuous Delivery(CD). Also designing and
maintaining tools to automate operational processes
AWS Certifications - Professional

Solution Architect
Sysops AdministratorDeveloper
AWS Associate Certifications

AWS Solution Architect - Associate
Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends
 Multiple choice and multiple answer questions
 80 minutes to complete the exam
 Available in English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese,
Traditional Chinese, Korean, German, Russian, Spanish,
and Brazilian Portuguese
 Practice Exam Registration fee is USD 20
 Exam Registration fee is USD 150

 Designing highly available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant,
scalable systems(60%)
 Implementation/Deployment(10%)
 Data Security(20%)
 Troubleshooting(10%)
Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends
Let’s discuss these in detail.

Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends
Designing highly available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, scalable systems (60%)
How to design cloud services
Planning and design
Monitoring and logging
Best practices for AWS architecture
Developing to client specifications, including
pricing/cost
Elasticity and scalability
Architectural trade-off decisions
Hybrid IT architectures (e.g., Direct
Connect, Storage Gateway, VPC)

Implementation/Deployment (10%)
Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends
Identify the
appropriate
techniques
and methods
using various
services Configure
services to
support
compliance
requirements
Launch
services in
the AWS
infrastructure
Operate and
extend
service
management
in Hybrid IT
architecture
Configure an
AMI
Configure
IAM and
best
practices
Various services include
Amazon EC2, Amazon S3,
AWS Elastic Beanstalk,
AWS CloudFormation,
AWS OpsWorks, Amazon
(VPC), and AWS (IAM)

Data Security (20%)
Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends
AWS shared responsibility model
AWS platform compliance
AWS (IAM)
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
AWS CloudTrail
DoS mitigation
Encryption solutions (e.g., key
services)
Trusted Advisor
CloudWatch Logs
Recognize and implement secure practices for optimum cloud deployment
and maintenance.

Recognize critical disaster recovery techniques and their implementation.
Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends
Disaster Recovery
Recovery Time Objective
Recovery Point Objective
Amazon Elastic Block Store
AWS Storage Gateway
AWS Import/Export
Amazon Route53
Validation of data recovery
method
Content may include the following:

Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends
General troubleshooting information and questions
Troubleshooting (10%)

Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends
 One or more years of hands-on experience designing available, cost
efficient, fault tolerant, and scalable distributed systems on AWS
 In-depth knowledge of at least one high-level programming language
 Ability to identify and define requirements for an AWS-based
application
 Experience with deploying hybrid systems with on-premises and AWS
components
 Capability to provide best practices for building secure and reliable
applications on the AWS platform

Source: Indeed.com
Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends

Sysops AdministratorSolution Architect
Developer

AWS Developer - Associate
 Available in English, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese
Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends

 AWS Fundamentals(10%)
 Designing and Developing(40%)
 Deployment and Security(30%)
 Debugging(20%)
Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends
Let’s discuss these in detail.

AWS Fundamentals (10%)
Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends
Identify and recognize cloud architecture considerations, such as fundamental components and
effective designs.
How to design cloud services Database concepts
Planning and design
Familiarity with architectural trade-off
decisions (Amazon RDS vs. installing
your own database on Amazon EC2)
Amazon S3, Amazon SWF, and Messaging
DynamoDB, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS
CloudFormation
Elasticity and scalability

Designing and Developing (40%)
Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends
Identify the appropriate techniques to code a cloud solution.
Configure an
AMI
Programming
with AWS APIs
Designing / Developing

Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends
Deployment and Security (30%)
Cloud Security Best Practices
Recognize and implement secure
procedures for optimum cloud
deployment and maintenance.

Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends
Demonstrate ability to implement the right architecture for development, testing, and staging
environments.
Shared Security Responsibility Model
AWS Platform Compliance
AWS Security Attributes
Security Services
AWS IAM
Amazon Virtual Private
Cloud (VPC)
CIA and AAA models, ingress
vs. egress filtering, and which
AWS services and features fit

Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends
Debugging (20%)
General
Troubleshooting
Programming
with AWS APIs
Debugging

 One or more years of hands-on experience designing and
maintaining an AWS-based application
 In-depth knowledge of at least one high-level programming language
 Understanding of core AWS services, uses, and basic architecture
best practices
 Proficiency in designing, developing, and deploying cloud-based
solutions using AWS
 Experience with developing and maintaining applications written for
Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS,
Amazon SWS, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and AWS CloudFormation.
Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends

Source: Indeed.com
Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends

DeveloperSolution Architect
Sysops Administrator

AWS Sysops Administrator - Associate
 Available in English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and
Brazilian Portuguese
Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends

 Monitoring and Metrics (15%)
 High Availability (15%)
 Analysis (15%)
 Deployment and Provisioning (15%)
 Data Management (12%)
 Security (13%)
 Networking (13%)
Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends

Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends
Demonstrate ability to monitor availability and performance
Monitoring and Metrics (15%)
Demonstrate ability to monitor and manage billing and cost
optimization processes

Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends
High Availability (15%)
Implement scalability and elasticity based on scenario
Ensure level of fault tolerance based on business needs

Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends
Analysis (15%)
Identify potential issues on a given application deployment
Optimize the environment to ensure maximum performance
Identify performance bottlenecks and implement remedies

Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends
Deployment and Provisioning (15%)
Demonstrate the ability to provision cloud resources and manage
implementation automation
Demonstrate the ability to build the environment to conform with
the architected design

Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends
Manage backup and disaster recovery processes
Data Management (12%)
Demonstrate ability to create backups for different services
Demonstrate ability to enforce compliance requirements

Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends
Security (13%)
Demonstrate understanding of the shared responsibility model
Implement and manage security policies
Ensure data integrity and access
controls when using the AWS platform
Demonstrate ability to prepare for
security assessment use of AWS

Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends
Demonstrate ability to implement connectivity features of
AWS
Networking (13%)
Demonstrate ability to implement networking features of AWS

 One or more years of hands-on experience operating AWS-based
applications
 Capabilities to provide AWS operations and deployment guidance
and best practices throughout the lifecycle of a project
 Experience provisioning, operating, and maintaining systems
running on AWS
 Ability to identify and gather requirements to define a solution to be
built and operated on AWS
Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends

Source: Indeed.com
Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends

AWS Professional Certifications
Devops Engineer
Solution Architect

AWS Solution Architect - Professional
 Exam available in English and Japanese
Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends

 High Availability and Business Continuity (15%)
 Costing(6%)
 Deployment Management (10%)
 Network Design(10%)
 Data Storage(15%)
 Security (19%)
 Scalability & Elasticity (15%)
 Cloud Migration & Hybrid Architecture (10%)
Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends

Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends
Demonstrate ability to implement self-healing capabilities
High Availability vs. Fault Tolerance
High Availability and Business Continuity (15%)
Demonstrate ability to architect the appropriate level of
availability based on stakeholder requirements
Demonstrate ability to implement DR for systems based on RPO
and RTO
Determine appropriate use of multi-Availability Zones vs. multi-
Region architectures

Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends
Ability to compare and contrast the cost implications of different
architectures
Costing (6%)
Demonstrate ability to make architectural decisions that minimize and
optimize infrastructure cost
Apply the appropriate AWS account and billing set-up options based
on scenario

Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends
Demonstrate ability to design and implement networking features of AWS
Network Design for a complex large scale deployment (10%)
Demonstrate ability to design and implement connectivity features of AWS

Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends
Data Storage for a complex large scale deployment (15%)
Demonstrate ability to make architectural trade off decisions involving
storage options
Determine use of synchronous versus asynchronous replication
Demonstrate ability to implement the most appropriate data storage
architecture
Demonstrate ability to make architectural trade off decisions involving
database options

Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends
Design protection of Data at Rest
controls
Security (19%)
Design information security management
systems and compliance controls
Design security controls with the AWS shared
responsibility model and global infrastructure
Design identity and access
management controls
Design protection of Data in Flight
and Network Perimeter controls

Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends
Demonstrate ability to implement the most appropriate middle-tier
scaling architecture
Scalability and Elasticity (15%)
Demonstrate the ability to design
a loosely coupled system
Demonstrate ability to implement the most
appropriate front-end scaling architectureDetermine trade-offs between
vertical and horizontal scaling
Demonstrate ability to implement the most appropriate data storage
scaling architecture

Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends
Demonstrate ability to design hybrid cloud architectures
Cloud Migration and Hybrid Architecture (10%)
Plan and execute for applications migrations

Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends
 Achieved AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
 Two or more years hands-on experience designing and deploying
cloud architecture on AWS.
 Abilities to evaluate cloud application requirements and make
architectural recommendations for implementation, deployment, and
provisioning applications on AWS.
 Capabilities to provide best practices guidance on the architectural
design across multiple applications, projects, or the enterprise.

Source: Indeed.com
Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends

AWS Professional Certifications
Solution Architect
Devops Engineer

AWS Devops - Professional
 Exam available in English
 Exam registration fee is USD 300
Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends

 Continuous Delivery and Process Automation (55%)
 Monitoring, Metrics, and Logging (20%)
 Security, Governance, and Validation (10%)
 High Availability and Elasticity (15%)
Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends

Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends
Application deployment management strategies such as rolling
deployments and A/B. Version control, testing, build tools and
bootstrapping.
Continuous Delivery and Process Automation (55%)
Demonstrate an understanding of application
lifecycle management.
Develop and manage scripts and
tools to automate operational
tasks using the AWS SDKs, CLI,
and APIs.
Implement and manage continuous
delivery processes using AWS services.
Demonstrate an understanding
of infrastructure configuration
and automation.

Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends
Monitoring, Metrics, and Logging (20%)
Use metrics to drive the scalability
and health of infrastructure and
applications.
Monitor availability and performance.Monitor and manage billing and cost
optimization processes.
Aggregate and analyze
infrastructure, OS and application
log files.
Manage the lifecycle of application
and infrastructure logs
Leverage the AWS SDKs, CLIs
and APIs for metrics and logging.
Analyze data collected from
monitoring systems to discern
utilization patterns.

Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends
Apply the appropriate AWS account
and billing set-up options based on
business requirements.
Security, Governance and Validation (10%)
Implement and manage Identity and
Access Management and security
controls.
Implement and manage protection for
data in-flight and at rest.
Implement, automate and validate
cost controls for AWS resources.
Implement and manage
automated network security
and auditing.
Use AWS services to
implement IT governance
policies.
Implement and manage AWS
resource auditing and
validation.

Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends
Implement the most appropriate
middle-tier scaling architecture.
High Availability and Elasticity (15%)
Determine appropriate use of multi- Availability Zone versus multi-
region architectures.
Implement self-healing
application architectures.
Implement the most appropriate
front-end scaling architecture.
Demonstrate an understanding of
when to appropriately apply vertical
and horizontal scaling concepts.
Implement the most
appropriate data storage
scaling architecture.

 Achieved AWS Certified Developer - Associate or AWS Certified
SysOps Administrator – Associate
 Two or more years’ experience provisioning, operating, and
managing AWS environments
 Experience developing code in at least one high-level
programming language
 Experience in automation and testing via scripting/programming
 Understanding of agile and other development processes and
methodologies
Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends

Source: Indeed.com
Required Skills
Exam Overview
Exam Blueprint
Job Trends

How do I register?

How do I Register?
https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-solutions-
architect-associate/
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How will you learn all of this?

Learning Path
You would need a structured training which shall cover exactly what is required in the exam.
Now there are many companies out there who shall provide you with AWS Training, and their curriculum will somewhat be
aligned like this:
AWS
Architect
1. Introduction and
Getting Started with
AWS
6. ELB and Auto
Scaling
10. Mock Test & Doubt
Clearing Session
9. OpsWorks, Security
& Identity Services
8. Application
Services, Lambda &
Beanstalk
7. Route 53 &
Management Tools
2. Amazon EC2
3. Storage Services &
AWS CLI
4. VPC & Direct
Connect
5. Database Services

Session in a Minute
What is AWS?
Learning Path
AWS Certifications
AWS Exam Registration
Why AWS Certifications? AWS Certifications

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