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Amazon Web Services Certifications

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Foundational

 AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner enables individuals with an overall understanding of the AWS Cloud to validate their knowledge with an industry-recognized credential.

!Prerequisites
 
  • None

Step 1

Take This Course

AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials

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Concepts you should understand for this exam include:

  • Define what the AWS Cloud is and the basic global infrastructure
  • Describe basic AWS Cloud architectural principles
  • Describe the AWS Cloud value proposition
  • Describe key services on the AWS platform and their common use cases (for example, compute and analytics)
  • Describe basic security and compliance aspects of the AWS platform and the shared security model
  • Define the billing, account management, and pricing models Identify sources of documentation or technical assistance (for example, whitepapers or support tickets) Describe basic/core characteristics of deploying and operating in the AWS Cloud

Step 3

Earn This Certification

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Associate

 AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam is intended for individuals with experience designing distributed applications and systems on the AWS platform.

!Prerequisites
 
  • None

Step 1

Take One of These Courses

Architecting on AWS

Architecting on AWS - Accelerator

AWS Technical Essential

Step 2

Concepts you should understand for this exam include:

  • Designing and deploying scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS
  • Lift and shift of an existing on-premises application to AWS
  • Ingress and egress of data to and from AWS
  • Selecting the appropriate AWS service based on data, compute, database, or security requirements
  • Identifying appropriate use of AWS Architectural best practices
  • Lift and shift of an existing on-premises application to AWS

Step 3

Earn This Certification

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

 AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate

The AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate validates technical expertise in deployment, management, and operations on the AWS platform.

!Prerequisites
 
  • None

Step 1

Take This Course

Systems Operations on AWS

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Concepts you should understand for this exam include:

  • Designing and deploying dynamically scalable, highly available, fault tolerant, and reliable applications on AWS
  • Selecting appropriate AWS services to design and deploy an application based on given requirements
  • Migrating complex, multi-tier applications on AWS
  • Designing and deploying enterprise-wide scalable operations on AWS
  • Implementing cost control strategies

Step 3

Earn This Certification

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate

 AWS Certified Developer – Associate

AWS Certified Developer – Associate

The AWS Certified Developer – Associate exam validates advanced expertise in developing and maintaining applications on the AWS platform.

!Prerequisites
 
  • None

Step 1

Take This Course

Developing on AWS

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Concepts you should understand for this exam include:

  • Picking the right AWS services for the application
  • Leveraging AWS SDKs to interact with AWS services from your application
  • Writing code that optimizes performance of AWS services used by your application
  • Code-level application security (IAM roles, credentials, encryption, etc.)

Step 3

Earn This Certification

AWS Certified Developer – Associate

Professional

 AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional exam validates advanced technical skills and experience in designing distributed applications and systems on the AWS platform.

!Prerequisites
 
  • None

Step 1

Take This Course

Advanced Architecting on AWS

Step 2

Concepts you should understand for this exam include:

  • Designing and deploying dynamically scalable, highly available, fault tolerant, and reliable applications on AWS
  • Selecting appropriate AWS services to design and deploy an application based on given requirements
  • Migrating complex, multi-tier applications on AWS
  • Designing and deploying enterprise-wide scalable operations on AWS
  • Implementing cost control strategies

Step 3

Earn This Certification

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

 AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

The AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional validates technical expertise in provisioning, operating, and managing distributed application systems on the AWS platform.

!Prerequisites
 
  • None

Step 1

Take One of These Courses

DevOps Engineering on AWS

Advanced Developing on AWS

Step 2

Concepts you should understand for this exam include:

  • Implement and manage continuous delivery systems and methodologies on AWS
  • Understand, implement, and automate security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation
  • Define and deploy monitoring, metrics, and logging systems on AWS
  • Implement systems that are highly available, scalable, and self-healing on the AWS platform
  • Design, manage, and maintain tools to automate operational processes

Step 3

Earn This Certification

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

Specialties

 AWS Certified Security – Specialty

AWS Certified Security – Specialty

The AWS Certified Security Specialty allows experienced cloud security professionals to demonstrate and validate their knowledge of how to secure the AWS platform.

!Prerequisites
 
  • None

Step 1

Take This Course

Advanced Architecting on AWS

Security Engineering on AWS

Step 2

Candidates for this exam should be able to demonstrate:

  • An understanding of specialized data classifications and AWS data protection mechanisms.
  • An understanding of data encryption methods and AWS mechanisms to implement them.
  • An understanding of secure Internet protocols and AWS mechanisms to implement them.
  • A working knowledge of AWS security services and features of services to provide a secure production environment.
  • An understanding of security operations and risk.

Step 3

Earn This Certification

AWS Certified Security – Specialty

 AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty

AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty

The AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate validates technical skills and experience in designing and implementing AWS services to derive value from data.

!Prerequisites
 
  • None

Step 1

Take This Course

Big Data on AWS

Step 2

Concepts you should understand for this exam include:

  • Implementing core AWS Big Data services according to basic architecture best practices
  • Designing and maintaining Big Data
  • Leveraging tools to automate data analysis

Step 3

Earn This Certification

AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty

AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty

AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty

The AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate validates technical skills and experience in designing and implementing AWS services to derive value from data.

!Prerequisites
 
  • None

Step 1

Take These Courses

The Machine Learning Pipeline on AWS

Practical Data Science with Amazon SageMaker

Deep Learning on AWS

Step 2

Concepts you should understand for this exam include:

  • Implementing core AWS Big Data services according to basic architecture best practices
  • Designing and maintaining Big Data
  • Leveraging tools to automate data analysis

Step 3

Earn This Certification

AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty

AWS Certified Database Specialty

AWS Certified Database Specialty

The AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate validates technical skills and experience in designing and implementing AWS services to derive value from data.

!Prerequisites
 
  • None

Step 1

Take This Course

Planning and Designing Databases on AWS

Step 2

Concepts you should understand for this exam include:

  • Implementing core AWS Big Data services according to basic architecture best practices
  • Designing and maintaining Big Data
  • Leveraging tools to automate data analysis

Step 3

Earn This Certification

AWS Certified Database Specialty

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