AWS Certified Developer Associate

Description

Course Content

1-AWS Overview
Cloud Computing Fundamentals

• History and Characteristics of AWS
  Overview of AWS Infrastructure (Regions, Availability Zones, CDNs)
• AWS Managed Services vs Unmanaged Services
• Developing using SDK, API, and CLI

2-IAM
Overview of Identity and Access Management

• Policies
• Groups
• Users (Root, Admin, Power, General)
• Roles
• Multi-Factor Authentication

3- EC2
Overview of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

• EC2 AMIs
  EC2 Instance Types
• EC2 User Data – Bootstrapping EC2 instances (Linux and Windows)
• EBS Volumes
• EBS Snapshots
• Security Groups
• Key Pairs
• Elastic Load Balancer
• Autoscaling with CloudWatch alarms setup

4- VPC
Overview of VPC and VPC Components ((Subnets, Route Tables, Network ACLs and Security Groups, Gateways) (Internet, Virtual Private Gateway, Customer Gateway, NAT))

5-S3, Glacier and Other Storage
Overview of S3

• S3 Buckets, Folders, Objects
• S3 Storage Classes
• Glacier Storage
• Bucket Policies, ACLs
• Properties (Static Website Hosting, Versioning, Lifecycle, CRR)
• CloudFront & CDNs
• Elastic File System (EFS)

6- Application Services

• Simple Notification Service (SNS)
  Simple Queue Service (SQS)
• Step Functions

7-Container Services

• Overview of Containers and Containerization
• Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
• Building and Deploying Containers using ECS
• Building and Deploying Containers using EKS

8-Databases
RDS – Licensing and Management (IaaS vs PaaS), Multi-AZ Deployment, Read Replicas, Automated Backups and Database Snapshots

• Aurora
• DynamoDB (No SQL Database)
• Elasticache
• MemoryDB for Redis

9-Developer Tools

• Amplify
• Cloud 9
• CloudShell
• CodeArtifact
• CodeCommit
• CodeBuild
• CodeDeploy
• CodePipeline
• CodeStar
• CodeGuru
• X-Ray

10-Route 53

• Overview of DNS
• Routing Policies (Simple, Weighted, Latency, Failover and Geo-location)

11- Management Tools and Server-less Computing

• Cloud Formation
• App Config
• Cloud Development Kit
• Lambda
• API Gateway

12-AWS-Automation with Python Boto3 module

• Basic Concepts of working with AWS SDK, CLI, API and Cloud 9 IDE
• Microservices Overview and Characteristics
• Understanding and Implementing AWS-Automation using Boto3 Module
• Development and Deployment using AWS SDK for Python (Boto 3), Cloud 9 and DynamoDB
• Deploy a monolith application using Node.js and Containers. Decouple the monolith to a microservices architecture using Serverless Containers and other AWS services such as EC2, ECS, ECR, VPC, CloudFormation, Load Balancing, Docker, and Github.

13-Monitoring and Auditing

• Cloud Watch (Events, Logs, Alarms, Notifications)
• Cloud Trail
• AWS Config
• Trusted Advisor

14- Security

• Security considerations and best practices
• AWS Shared Responsibility Model
• Key Management Service (KMS)
• Secret Manager
• Certificate Manager
• Cognito
• Web Application Firewall (WAF)

15- Trouble shooting and Best Practices