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AWS Professional Solutions Architect 2020: Account & Centralized Management
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2 hour 40 minutes
In this course, discover how to centrally manage and inventory Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources and how to manage multiple AWS accounts. This course can be used in preparation for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Professional SAP-C01 certification exam. To begin, learn how AWS Organizations provide central AWS account management, and view AWS accounts added to an AWS Organization. Use the graphical user interface (GUI) to manage AWS Organizations. Then take a look at service control policies (SCPs), configure AWS Organization SCPs and recognize how they differ from Integrated Access Management (IAM) policies. Next, explore Visual Studio AWS Explorer and Multiple Accounts, and learn how to add multiple AWS Accounts and switch between them in Visual Studio. Once added, see how to configure AWS consolidated billing between accounts. Then learn how to centrally manage patches, images, and software inventory in the cloud via the AWS Systems Manager. Learners discover how to perform inventory and track AWS resource configurations through AWS Config, present AWS resource offerings through a customized portal, and configure AWS EC2 batch workloads.
Perks of Course
Certificate: Yes
CPD Points: 49
Compliance Standards: AICC
AWS Professional Solutions Architect 2020: AWS & Data Protection
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2 hour
This course explores how AWS (Amazon Web Services) provides data protection, including data discovery and classification, firewall solutions, and security hub services that meet industry security standards and regulations for data privacy. You will learn about and the importance of regulatory compliance for your company's IT security program and the importance of data classification for data privacy. Examine PII (personally identifiable information) and PHI (protected health information). You will learn the data security requirements related to the PCI (payment card industry) standard, HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), and the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). You learn how to deploy a WAF (web application firewall), and how to enable the AWS Security Hub Service. Then explore how to use Amazon Macie, Amazon's fully managed data security service, and discover AWS data and enable classification. Finally, this course covers how to use Amazon inspector, analyze EC2 (Elastic Cloud) instance types, and application configuration. This course can be used in preparation for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Professional SAP-C01 certification exam.
Perks of Course
Certificate: Yes
CPD Points: 38
Compliance Standards: AICC
AWS Professional Solutions Architect 2020: AWS Management
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1 hour 20 minutes
This course examines GUI (graphical user interface) and command-line tools to manage Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources. You will explore resource tagging, resource deployments using templates, and CLI (command-line interface) and PowerShell to manage resources. This course demonstrates how to install the CLI on Windows and Linux platforms. You will learn to use AWS management tools and management console. Learners will review third-party management tools that work with AWS, such as Cloudaware, a cost measurement and cost-saving mechanism. You will learn to launch an Amazon Linux EC2 instance and then verify the availability of the CLI in that instance. The course covers how to use AWS PowerShell tools and perform installation of the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition. Learners see demonstrations of using CloudFormation Designer to create a template, how to upload a template file, and how to deploy resources using a CloudFormation sample template. Finally, you will learn how to tag AWS resources by using the GUI, CLI and PowerShell.
Perks of Course
Certificate: Yes
CPD Points: 63
Compliance Standards: AICC
AWS Professional Solutions Architect 2020: Cryptography & PKI
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1 hour 15 minutes
This course will examine how cryptography and PKI (public key infrastructure) provide data confidentiality and security in the cloud to ensure that only authorized parties can view sensitive information and be confident of its source. PKI is a hierarchy of digital security certificates that are issued and managed by CAs (certificate authorities). You will learn how to use both PKIs and private CAs and how Amazon's KMS (Key Management Service) facilitates the use of keys. You will learn how to create a KMS key and how to enable EBS (Elastic Block Store) volume encryption. This course examines how KMS supports FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) 140-2, and is compliant with HSMs (hardware security modules). Finally, you will learn how to deploy a private CA to issue PKI certificates, request a public certificate and use a DNS (data name source) validation, and use a certificate to enable an application load balancer HTTPS (hypertext transfer protocol service) listener. This course can be used in preparation for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Professional SAP-C01 certification exam.
Perks of Course
Certificate: Yes
CPD Points: 45
Compliance Standards: AICC
AWS Professional Solutions Architect 2020: Data Processing & Analysis
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40 minutes
This course explores numerous AWS (Amazon Web Services) data processing analysis solutions and the tools available for ingesting and analyzing large data sets. You will learn to use AWS services to design and deploy applications to meet your customer's requirements, to migrate complex applications, to design and deploy enterprise-wide scalable operations, and to implement cost control strategies. This course covers Elastic Transcoder and how to create an elastic transcoder job pipeline. Learners examine how Amazon Kinesis ingests and analyzes streaming data, and how to configure a Kinesis stream. In this course, you will explore Amazon Elastic MapReduce, learn how to deploy a MapReduce cluster, and how to configure an Amazon Elasticsearch domain. This course also explores Amazon's Rekognition software. Learners explore Amazon Athena's fast querying service and how to connect to CloudWatch for querying through Athena. Finally, you will learn how to enable QuickSight and create a QuickSight analysis. This course can be used in preparation for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Professional SAP-C01 certification exam.
Perks of Course
Certificate: Yes
CPD Points: 38
Compliance Standards: AICC
AWS Professional Solutions Architect 2020: Database Solutions
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55 minutes
This course explores AWS (Amazon Web Services) database solutions and configurations, including whether to use SQL (Structured Query Language) or NoSQL (not only Structured Query Language) databases. You will learn to configure and deploy Amazon Aurora, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and Oracle in AWS. This course examines the difference between SQL and NoSQL databases and explains which Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) engine is most applicable for a client's needs. Learners explore Amazon's Redshift Database, a cloud-based, big-data warehouse solution that lets companies store petabytes of data in easy-to-access "clusters" that can be queried in parallel. You will learn how to deploy and configure a RedShift cluster. You will examine when to use the DocumentDB, Amazon's non-relational, scalable, and fully managed document database, DynamoDB, and NoSQL databases and you will learn how to deploy each. Finally, you will learn how to increase RDS availability with a multi-availability zone deployment. This course can be used in preparation for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Professional SAP-C01 certification exam.
Perks of Course
Certificate: Yes
CPD Points: 78
Compliance Standards: AICC
AWS Professional Solutions Architect 2020: Desktop & Cost Management
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1 hour 5 minutes
In this course, explore cost management tools such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) Budgets and cost explorer, as well as reserved and spot instances. Discover how to centrally manage desktops and apps using WorkSpaces and AppStream. This course can be used in preparation for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Professional SAP-C01 certification exam. Firstly, explore AWS charges using the cost explorer tool, then use the AWS command-line interface (CLI) and Microsoft Powershell to retrieve AWS charges. Learn to create AWS cost and usage cloud budgets. Discover how to enable the S3 bucket requester pays option for S3 requests and transfers to be paid by the data requester. Then you will configure spot instances and reserved instances to reduce EC2 instance costs. Learn about Amazon WorkSpaces, and how any type of device can access a cloud-based desktop. Learners will create an Amazon WorkSpace, connect to it, modify settings, and create a custom image. Discover AppStream and the benefits of streaming apps to users. Configure an AppStream image, an AppStream fleet and stack, and then connect to AppStream apps.
Perks of Course
Certificate: Yes
CPD Points: 55
Compliance Standards: AICC
AWS Professional Solutions Architect 2020: Developer Managed Services
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1 hour
In this course, you will learn how Amazon Web Services (AWS) managed services such as Elastic Beanstalk, OpsWorks, Elastic Container Service, Application Programming Interface (API) Gateway, and Lambda functions allow developers to quickly create customized software solutions. This course can be used in preparation for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Professional SAP-C01 certification exam. The course begins by exploring the design requirements for cloud applications. You will then look at deploying an Elastic Beanstalk application stack using a sample template. Examine how the API Gateway allows for cloud-hosted solutions and how Lambda provides serverless code solutions, including maximum run times. Then create a Lambda function through AWS and recognize the benefits of using the AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS). This leads on to deploying a sample Docker container using AWS ECS and an Amazon Elastic Container Registry where you can organize your container images. Learners will discover how OpsWorks can manage dynamic applications, and then deploy a sample app stack by using OpsWorks.
Perks of Course
Certificate: Yes
CPD Points: 43
Compliance Standards: AICC
AWS Professional Solutions Architect 2020: Development Strategies
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55 minutes
In this course you will explore software development strategies such as continuous integration and delivery, app decoupling, and the use of microservices in teh cloud. Examine the benefits derived from using Simple Notification Service (SNS) topics and Simple Queue Service (SQS) queues. This course can be used in preparation for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Solutions Architect-Professional SAP-CO1 certification exam. Begin by looking at the five pillars of a well-architected framework and consider the benefits of using a multi-tiered application architecture. Learn the advantages of continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD). Then examine AWS CI/CD solutions and when to use CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline. Learn how to recogize common AWS Application Programming Interfaces and how developers can hook into them. Investigate microservices and decoupling and how they can result in modular, efficient applications. Recalling the purpose of the SNS, discover how to create a SNS topic. Then learn about the SQS and how it relates to decoupling. Finally, explore how to use the AWS Management Console to deploy a message queue.
Perks of Course
Certificate: Yes
CPD Points: 37
Compliance Standards: AICC
AWS Professional Solutions Architect 2020: EC2 Instance Deployment
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1 hour 30 minutes
This course explores how to migrate complex applications on AWS (Amazon Web Services). You will learn to design and deploy enterprise-wide scalable cloud operations on AWS, and to implement cost control strategies. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) provides a wide selection of instance types optimized to fit different use cases. You will discover how to deploy EC2 instances using GUI (graphical user interface) and command-line tools. You will examine instance types that meet workload requirements and how to launch instance scripts. This course demonstrates how to deploy Windows EC2 instance using the GUI, the CLI (command-line interface), and PowerShell. You will also learn to manage existing EC2 Windows instances, how to manage existing EC2 Linux instances, and how to use the GUI to change the instance sizing to accommodate a workload. Finally, this course teaches learners how to purchase EC2 instance capacity on a weekly recurring schedule. This course can be used in preparation for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Professional SAP-C01 certification exam.
Perks of Course
Certificate: Yes
CPD Points: 47
Compliance Standards: AICC
AWS Professional Solutions Architect 2020: High Availability
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50 minutes
This course explores the easy availability of AWS (Amazon Web Services) and what services are designed and provided for system and data resiliency. This course demonstrates how to configure Amazon S3 Glacier for cloud storage classes, data archiving, and long-term backup. You will learn the differences between application, network, and classic load balancers. You will learn to deploy a target group and a network load balancer, demonstrate how to configure an EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) Instance placement group, modify the placement of an existing EC2 Instance, and enable S3 cross region replication. Next, examine when to use Storage Gateway; how to create MySQL database replicas; how to configure MySQL snapshots and restore data from a MySQL snapshot; and how to create an EBS (Elastic Block Store) volume snapshot. Learners will be shown how to use AWS backups, how to configure a backup plan, how to execute an on-demand backup, and how to restore from an AWS backup. This course can be used in preparation for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Professional SAP-C01 certification exam.
Perks of Course
Certificate: Yes
CPD Points: 51
Compliance Standards: AICC
AWS Professional Solutions Architect 2020: IAM Configurations
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1 hour 10 minutes
This course explores AWS (Amazon Web Services) IAM (Identity and Access Management) configurations by examining how to control access to AWS cloud resources using IAM roles and policies. You will learn how to use MFA (multifactor authentication), the Directory Services tool, and Amazon Cognito to control user authentication. Learners see how IAM policies differ from service control policies, and learn how to configure IAM policies and IAM roles. You will learn how to use the IAM policy simulator to test resource access, how MFA enhances user sign-in security, and how to enable MFA for an IAM user account. Next, learners examine options related to working with a Directory Service in AWS and how to join an EC2 instance (virtual server) to an AWS Directory Service. Finally, you will learn how to add users and groups to AWS Managed AD (Active Directory), and how to control user access with Amazon Cognito. This course can be used in preparation for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Professional SAP-C01 certification exam.
Perks of Course
Certificate: Yes
CPD Points: 39
Compliance Standards: AICC
AWS Professional Solutions Architect 2020: IAM Users & Groups
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40 minutes
This course explores the creation and management of AWS (Amazon Web Services) IAM (Identity and Access Management) users and groups. You will learn how to migrate complex cloud applications, design and deploy enterprise-wide scalable operations, and implement cost strategies by using AWS. The course explores enterprise-specific security requirements for user sign-ins, passwords, and how passwords are created and managed. You will learn how to configure the IAM to a specific company policy. You will explore how to organize groups of users and to use AWS to assign the same resource access permission without having to repeat it for each individual user. Learners will create IAM users to allow programmatic and/or AWS management console access to AWS resources. This course demonstrates how to use GUI (graphical user interface), CLI (command-line interface), and Microsoft's PowerShell for task automation and configuration for both users and groups. This course can be used in preparation for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Professional SAP-C01 certification exam.
Perks of Course
Certificate: Yes
CPD Points: 32
Compliance Standards: AICC
AWS Professional Solutions Architect 2020: Migration Strategies
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20 minutes
In this course, learners discover Amazon Web Services (AWS) migration tools such as CloudEndure, AWS Migration Hub, and the Cloud Adoption Readiness Tool. Explore how to install the CloudEndure agent and when to use storage migration services such as Snowball and Snowmobile for large amounts of data. This course can be used in preparation for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Professional SAP-CO1 certification exam. First, after examining AWS migration tools, you will learn various strategies for migrating applications and data to the AWS cloud, including AWS Migration Hub and heterogeneous migrations. You will then see a demonstration of the AWS Cloud Adoption Readiness Tool for assessing cloud migrations and the AWS Migration Hub for monitoring migration progress. You will discuss the steps for using CloudEndure to migrate servers from on-premises into the AWS cloud, and learn how to use the command-line interface (CLI) to import a virtual machine (VM) image. Examine the role of AWS Snowball and Snowmobile during cloud migrations, and learn how to create an AWS Snowball job.
Perks of Course
Certificate: Yes
CPD Points: 32
Compliance Standards: AICC
AWS Professional Solutions Architect 2020: Name Resolution Solutions
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15 minutes
This course examines all the services offered by Route 53, Amazon's scalable cloud DNS (Domain Name System) web service. The overall purpose of this service is to reduce the amount of time it takes for a client to connect to a resource. You learn will how to create a hosted zone and record set with simple routing policies, and then learn which specific Route 53 policy is best for your application. This course covers the use of AWS services to design and deploy applications to meet given requirements; migrate complex applications on AWS; design and deploy enterprise-wide scalable operations on AWS; and implement cost control strategies. You will see how Route 53 Multivalue Answer policies are similar to a round-robin DNS and learn to use the AWS Management Console to configure it. Finally, you will learn how weighted policies distribute traffic through DNS name resolution based on relative weight value. This course can be used in preparation for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Professional SAP-C01 certification exam.
Perks of Course
Certificate: Yes
CPD Points: 22
Compliance Standards: AICC
AWS Professional Solutions Architect 2020: Network Security & Disaster Recovery
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55 minutes
This course explores how to protect AWS (Amazon Web Services) resources by using the AWS network security features such as network ACLs (access control lists), an optional layer of security for your VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) that acts as a firewall for controlling traffic in and out. You will learn about using security groups and various types of disaster recovery planning. This course demonstrates how to plan a network ACL, and you will learn a security group strategy. Learners will be shown how to configure a network ACL and how to configure a security group. You will also examine disaster recovery strategies, and how to create, re-create, and copy an EBS (Elastic Block Store) volume snapshot. This course covers how to deploy protective measures for AWS networks and web apps with AWS, WAFs (web application firewalls), and shield. This course can be used in preparation for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Professional SAP-C01 certification exam.
Perks of Course
Certificate: Yes
CPD Points: 37
Compliance Standards: AICC
AWS Professional Solutions Architect 2020: Resource Monitoring & Performance
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50 minutes
In this course, you will discover how to monitor your Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources through virtual private cloud (VPC) flow logs, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail, and examine how to improve app performance. This course can be used in preparation for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Professional SAPC01 certification exam. Begin by learning how to enable CloudWatch alarms, monitor EC2 instance activity, and retrieve an EC2 instance system log. Then view S3 bucket metrics, configure inventory for S3, enable S3 bucket access, logging, and configure S3 bucket event monitoring. Next, learners use VPC flow logs for analyzing network traffic, undertake an examination of CloudTrail auditing services, and become familiar with using the graphical user interface (GUI) to view CloudTrail events. Explore how auto scaling increases application availability and performance and how to create an EC2 launch configuration auto scaling group. Examine the benefits of database caching with the Elasticache, specifically, how to deploy a Memcached and a Redis ElastiCache cluster, and finally, the use of a CloudFront content delivery network and how to deploy a CloudFront configuration.
Perks of Course
Certificate: Yes
CPD Points: 68
Compliance Standards: AICC
AWS Professional Solutions Architect 2020: Review Course 1
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35 minutes
In this course, learners can refresh their knowledge of core Amazon Web Service (AWS) concepts in preparation for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Professional SAP-C01 certification exam. Topics include app decoupling, AWS organizations, Lambda functions, cost management, virtual private clouds (VPC), CloudFormation, and integrated access management (IAM). Begin by examining how to configure an auto scaling group, followed by enabling import of an existing virtual hard disk (VHD) file. In one scenario, explore how to manage multiple AWS accounts using AWS organizations. In another, a custom cloud-hosted function is needed that will modify HTTP response headers in a CloudFront content delivery network, so a Lambda function will be created. You will look at ways to reduce unnecessary AWS costs, how to centralize network connectivity using VPC transit gateways, and how to create a custom IAM role. Explore how to enable Glacier archiving for infrequently accessed data by using S3 lifecycle management. Then enable EC2 instance auto recovery. Finally, deploy a cloud-based network directory service and an Amazon workspace.
Perks of Course
Certificate: Yes
CPD Points: 43
Compliance Standards: AICC
AWS Professional Solutions Architect 2020: Review Course 2
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50 minutes
In this course you will have the opportunity to refresh your knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) core cloud concepts, including database replicas, Amazon Workspaces, OpsWorks stacks, Route 53, EBS volumes, and EC2 instance management. This course can be used in preparation for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Professional SAP-C01 certification exam. You begin by reviewing how RDS (Remote Desktop Services) resilient database deployments are possible by deploying MySQL and creating a replica. Learners then move on to examining how to configure an OpsWorks Stack, how to create and attach a high-performance encrypted EBS (Elastic Block Store) Volume, and then how to create and deploy a custom AMI or Amazon Machine Image. You will go over the creation of a private certificate authority or CA, after which PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) certificates can be issued for servers and clients. Finally, learners discuss how to deploy a pilot light disaster recovery strategy using multiple launch configurations for auto scaling.
Perks of Course
Certificate: Yes
CPD Points: 24
Compliance Standards: AICC
AWS Professional Solutions Architect 2020: S3 Management
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35 minutes
This course explores the public cloud storage provided by AWS (Amazon Web Services), called S3 buckets, to store data and its descriptive metadata. Begin by learning how to use S3 buckets, an access control list (ACL), to determine which entities have access to contents within the S3 bucket. Learners can then explore S3 security options, including bucket encryption, access policies, and object locking and how to enable versioning static website hosting. This course also covers the benefits of both Microsoft's EFS (Encrypting File System) and MS BizTalk ESB toolkit. You will explore the S3 CORS (cross-origin resource sharing) support, storage class analysis, and object locking. You will create an S3 bucket encryption by using the GUI (graphical user interface). Next, you will learn how to use CLI (command-line interface) and PowerShell for bucket encryption. This course can be used in preparation for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Professional SAP-C01 certification exam.
Perks of Course
Certificate: Yes
CPD Points: 57
Compliance Standards: AICC
AWS Professional Solutions Architect 2020: S3 Security
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1 hour 5 minutes
This course covers AWS (Amazon Web Services) S3 object cloud storage service. It is important to know how to block objects from being deleted or modified, and this course teaches learners how to use the security options available. The course demonstrates bucket encryption, access policies, and locking. You will learn how to create a permissions policy to allow resources to access an S3 bucket, how to modify bucket permissions using the bucket ACL (access control list), and how to block public access to an S3 bucket. You will explore how to determine when to use CORS (cross-origin resource sharing) to gain access to sources from a different origin. You will learn the difference between governance or compliance mode, which is dependent on your legal or regulatory requirements, and how to enable these modes. Finally, the course covers S3 storage class analysis, S3 object locking, and how to enable S3 encryption by using the GUI, CLI, and PowerShell. This course can be used in preparation for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Professional SAP-C01 certification exam.
Perks of Course
Certificate: Yes
CPD Points: 34
Compliance Standards: AICC
AWS Professional Solutions Architect 2020: VPC Connectivity
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1 hour 5 minutes
This course explores VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) connectivity, including how to enable connectivity to AWS (Amazon Web Services) through VPNs (virtual private networks), Direct Connect, and VPC transit in NAT (network address translation) gateways. You will examine VPN solutions for connecting to AWS. You will explore the use of egress-only Internet gateways. You will create a customer gateway as an on-site VPN termination point and a virtual private gateway to the Amazon VPN termination point. You will learn to link them together by making a site-to-site VPN connection, and how use route table propagation to ensure routing is working properly. Learners examine how to use Direct Connect to create a private circuit that does not traverse the internet. This course also covers the AWS egress-only Internet gateway and a NAT for outbound Internet communications. Finally, you will learn how to create VPC gateways to make a direct connection to AWS cloud. This course can be used in preparation for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Professional SAP-C01 certification exam.
Perks of Course
Certificate: Yes
CPD Points: 54
Compliance Standards: AICC
AWS Professional Solutions Architect 2020: VPC Management & Peering
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30 minutes
This course explores VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) Management and Peering, one of the most important services available in AWS (Amazon Web Services). You will learn how to create and configure VPCs and to align them with business needs. First, you will cover how VPCs address cloud networking needs for your clients. You will then examine VPCs' address cloud networking needs and how to use AWS tools GUI, CLI, and PowerShell to create a VPC. Next, learn how to configure a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) and DNS (Domain Name System) options for the VPC. This course covers use of an elastic IP address, how to configure it, and how to disable a public IP address. Finally, you will explore the use of VPC peering to connect multiple VPCs, and you will learn how to enable VPC peering. This course can be used in preparation for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Professional SAP-C01 certification exam.
Perks of Course
Certificate: Yes
CPD Points: 39
Compliance Standards: AICC