Cloud: AWS & Azure

Cloud+, Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Solutions Architect – Associate & Professional, Azure Fundamentals, Azure Certified Administrator, Azure Security Engineer Associate

Jump to: CompTIA Cloud+ Certification / AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner / AWS Solutions Architect – Associate / AWS Solutions Architect – Professional / Azure Fundamentals / Azure Certified Administrator / Azure Security Engineer Associate

Cloud+ Certification Bootcamp
5 days with exam CV0-003

This hands-on certification course covers incorporating and managing cloud technologies as part of broader system operations to meet particular industry needs and work in various different capacities. New technologies that support changes in the cloud market as organizations become more dependent on cloud-based technologies to run critical systems, such as hybrid and multi-cloud. Prerequisites: Courses CompTIA Network+ and Server+ or related industry experience is recommended and 2-3 years of experience in systems administration or networking is helpful.

Course Objectives:

Cloud Architecture & Design – Analyze the different cloud models to design the best solution to support business requirements.

Cloud Security – Manage and maintain servers, including OS configurations, access control and virtualization.

Cloud Deployment – Analyze system requirements to successfully execute workload migrations to the cloud.

Operations & Support – Maintain and optimize cloud environments, including proper automation and orchestration procedures, backup and restore operations, and disaster recovery tasks.

Troubleshooting – Troubleshoot capacity, automation, connectivity and security issues related to cloud implementations.

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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 days with Exam CLF-C01

Preparing for and attaining this certification will give you basic understanding of IT services and their uses on AWS Cloud and knowledge of core AWS services and use cases, data management models, security concepts, and how cloud impacts your organization. No prerequisites required.

Domain 1: Cloud Concepts
Define the AWS Cloud and its value proposition

  • Define the benefits of the AWS cloud including:
  • Security
  • Reliability
  • High Availability
  • Elasticity
  • Agility
  • Pay-as-you go pricing
  • Scalability
  • Global Reach
  • Economy of scale
  • Explain how the AWS cloud allows users to focus on business value
  • Shifting technical resources to revenue-generating activities as opposed to managing
    infrastructure

1.2 Identify aspects of AWS Cloud economics

  • Define items that would be part of a Total Cost of Ownership proposal
    • Understand the role of operational expenses (OpEx)
    • Understand the role of capital expenses (CapEx)
    • Understand labor costs associated with on-premises operations
    • Understand the impact of software licensing costs when moving to the cloud
  • Identify which operations will reduce costs by moving to the cloud
    • Right-sized infrastructure
    • Benefits of automation
    • Reduce compliance scope (for example, reporting)
    • Managed services (for example, RDS, ECS, EKS, DynamoDB)

1.3 Explain the different cloud architecture design principles

  • Explain the design principles
  • Design for failure
  • Decouple components versus monolithic architecture
  • Implement elasticity in the cloud versus on-premises
  • Think parallel

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AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
5 days with Exam SAA-C03

Prerequisites: No required prerequisites, but Certified Cloud Practitioner, 2-day course or equivalent industry experience in AWS technology is useful, as well as strong on-premises IT experience and understanding of mapping on-premises to cloud, and experience working in other cloud services.

Domain 1: Design Resilient Architectures
1.1 Design a multi-tier architecture solution

  • Determine a solution design based on access patterns.
  • Determine a scaling strategy for components used in a design.
  • Select an appropriate database based on requirements.
  • Select an appropriate compute and storage service based on requirements.

1.2 Design highly available and/or fault-tolerant architectures

  • Determine the amount of resources needed to provide a fault-tolerant architecture across Availability Zones.
  • Select a highly available configuration to mitigate single points of failure.
  • Apply AWS services to improve the reliability of legacy applications when application changes are not possible.
  • Select an appropriate disaster recovery strategy to meet business requirements.
  • Identify key performance indicators to ensure the high availability of the solution.

1.3 Design decoupling mechanisms using AWS services

  • Determine which AWS services can be leveraged to achieve loose coupling of components.
  • Determine when to leverage serverless technologies to enable decoupling.

1.4 Choose appropriate resilient storage

  • Define a strategy to ensure the durability of data.
  • Identify how data service consistency will affect the operation of the application.
  • Select data services that will meet the access requirements of the application.
  • Identify storage services that can be used with hybrid or non-cloud-native applications.

Domain 2: Design High-Performing Architectures
2.1 Identify elastic and scalable compute solutions for a workload

  • Select the appropriate instance(s) based on compute, storage, and networking requirements.
  • Choose the appropriate architecture and services that scale to meet performance requirements.
  • Identify metrics to monitor the performance of the solution.

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AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
3 days with Exam SAP-C02

This credential helps certified individuals showcase advanced knowledge and skills in providing complex solutions to complex problems, optimizing security, cost, and performance, and automating manual processes. This certification is a means for organizations to identify and develop talent with these critical skills for implementing cloud initiatives. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate is a required prerequisite for the Professional level course and exam. To take the professional level exam SAP-C02 exam, you must first pass the Associate Level Exam CLF-C01.

Course Description:

Through a series of use case scenarios and practical learning, you'll explore AWS services that can be applied to solve architectural problems. You’ll find opportunities to combine your new knowledge with critical thinking and problem-solving skills. This course culminates in a final review project to reinforce what you’ve learned throughout the three days.

What You’ll Learn:

  • How to secure Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) virtual private cloud (VPC) endpoint connections in a lab environment
  • Best practices for what services to use and how to implement permissions management
  • AWS hybrid network designs to address traffic increases and streamline remote work while ensuring FIPS 140-2 Level 2 or Level 3 security compliance
  • Solutions and products available to design a hybrid infrastructure

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Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
2 days with exam AZ-900

No prerequisites required.

Module 1: Cloud Concepts
In this module, you'll take an entry level end-to-end look at Azure and its capabilities, which will provide you with a solid foundation for completing the available modules for Azure Fundamentals.

Lessons

  • Introduction to Azure fundamentals
  • Fundamental Azure concepts

Module 2: Core Azure Services
In this module, you learn about core Azure services like Azure database, Azure compute, Azure storage, and Azure Networking.

Lessons

  • Core Azure Architectural components
  • Core Azure workload products
  • Azure networking services
  • Azure storage services
  • Azure database services

Module 3: Core Solutions
In this module, you'll learn about AI machine learning, Azure DevOps, monitoring fundamentals, management fundamentals, serverless computing fundamentals. and IoT fundamentals.

Lessons

  • Choose the best Azure IoT service
  • Choose the best AI service
  • Choose the best Azure serverless technology
  • Choose the best tools with DevOps and GitHub
  • Choose the best management tools
  • Choose the best Azure monitoring service

Module 4: General security and networking features
In this module, you will learn how to protect yourself against security threats, and secure your networks with Azure.

Lessons

  • Security Tools and Features
  • Secure Network Connectivity

Module 5: Identity, Governance, Privacy, and Compliance
In this module, you will learn about Azure identity services, how to build a cloud governance strategy, and privacy, compliance, and data protection standards on Azure.

Lessons

  • Core Azure identity services
  • Azure Governance Methodologies
  • Privacy, Compliance, and Data Protection standards

Module 6: Azure Pricing and Lifecycle
In this module, you will learn how to plan and manage Azure costs, and how to choose the right Azure services though SLAs and service lifecycle.

Lessons

  • Planning and Cost Management
  • Azure Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

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Azure Certified Administrator
4 days with exam AZ-104

This course teaches IT Professionals how to manage their Azure subscriptions, secure identities, administer the infrastructure, configure virtual networking, connect Azure and on-premises sites, manage network traffic, implement storage solutions, create and scale virtual machines, implement web apps and containers, back up and share data, and monitor your solution. Prerequisites not required.

Module 1: Identity
In this module, you will learn how to secure identities with Azure Active Directory, and implement users and groups.

Lessons

  • Azure Active Directory
  • Users and Groups

Lab : Manage Azure Active Directory Identities

Module 2: Governance and Compliance
In this module, you will learn about managing your subscriptions and accounts, implementing Azure policies, and using Role-Based Access Control.

Lessons

  • Subscriptions and Accounts
  • Azure Policy
  • Role-based Access Control (RBAC)

Lab : Manage Subscriptions and RBAC
Lab : Manage Governance via Azure Policy

Module 3: Azure Administration
In this module, you will learn about the tools an Azure Administrator uses to manage their infrastructure. This includes the Azure Portal, Cloud Shell, Azure PowerShell, CLI, and Resource Manager Templates. This module includes:

Lessons

  • Azure Administrator Tools
  • ARM Templates

Lab : Manage Azure resources by Using ARM Templates
Lab : Manage Azure resources by Using Azure PowerShell (optional)
Lab : Manage Azure resources by Using Azure CLI (optional)
Lab : Manage Azure resources by Using the Azure Portal

Module 4: Virtual Networking
In this module, you will learn about basic virtual networking concepts like virtual networks and subnetting, IP addressing, network security groups, Azure Firewall, and Azure DNS.

Lessons

  • Virtual Networks
  • Network Security groups
  • Azure Firewall
  • Azure DNS

Lab : Implement Virtual Networking

Module 5: Intersite Connectivity
In this module, you will learn about intersite connectivity features including VNet Peering, Virtual Network Gateways, and Site-to-Site Connections.

Lessons

  • VNet Peering
  • VPN Gateway Connections
  • ExpressRoute and Virtual WAN

Lab : Implement Intersite Connectivity

Module 6: Network Traffic Management
In this module, you will learn about network traffic strategies including network routing and service endpoints, Azure Load Balancer, and Azure Application Gateway.

Lessons

  • Network Routing and Endpoints
  • Azure Load Balancer
  • Azure Application Gateway
  • Network Watcher

Lab : Implement Traffic Management

Module 7: Azure Storage
In this module, you will learn about basic storage features including storage accounts, blob storage, Azure files and File Sync, storage security, and storage tools.

Lessons

  • Storage Accounts
  • Blob Storage
  • Storage Security
  • Azure Files and File Sync
  • Managing Storage

 Lab : Manage Azure storage

Module 8 : Azure Virtual Machines
In this module, you will learn about Azure virtual machines including planning, creating, availability and extensions.

Lessons

  • Creating Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Availability
  • Virtual Machine Extensions

Lab : Manage virtual machines

Module 9: PaaS Compute Options
In this module, you will learn how to administer serverless computing features like Azure App Service, Azure Container Instances, and Kubernetes.

Lessons

  • Azure App Service Plans
  • Azure App Service
  • Container Services
  • Azure Kubernetes Service

Lab : Implement Web Apps
Lab : Implement Azure Kubernetes Service
Lab : Implement Azure Container Instances

Module 10: Data Protection
In this module, you will learn about backing up files and folders, and virtual machine backups.

Lessons

  • File and Folder Backups
  • Virtual Machine Backups

Lab : Implement Data Protection

Module 11: Monitoring
In this module, you will learn about monitoring your Azure infrastructure including Azure Monitor, alerting, and log analytics.

Lessons

  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Alerts
  • Log Analytics

 Lab : Implement Monitoring

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Azure Security Engineer Associate
4 days with exam AZ-500

Prerequisites: Azure Certified Administrator, 4-day course or equivalent knowledge. Students should have at least one year of hands-on experience securing Azure workloads and experience with security controls for workloads on Azure.

Module 1: Identity and Access

Lessons

  • Configure Azure Active Directory for Azure workloads and subscriptions
  • Configure Azure AD Privileged Identity Management
  • Configure security for an Azure subscription

Module 2: Platform Protection

Lessons

  • Understand cloud security
  • Build a network
  • Secure network
  • Implement host security
  • Implement platform security
  • Implement subscription security

Module 3: Security Operations

Lessons

  • Configure security services
  • Configure security policies by using Azure Security Center
  • Manage security alerts
  • Respond to and remediate security issues
  • Create security baselines

Module 4: Data and applications

Lessons

  • Configure security policies to manage data
  • Configure security for data infrastructure
  • Configure encryption for data at rest
  • Understand application security
  • Implement security for application lifecycle
  • Secure applications
  • Configure and manage Azure Key Vault

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