An overview of more in-depth AWS Certification and Training available to help you further your career, with expert Q&A.

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Preparing for AWS Certification
JIM FARRELL
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MGR.
AWS TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION
jimfarr@amazon.com

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Agenda
Why Training? The Value of Training
AWS Customer Training & Certification
Training Tracks
Certification prep
AWS Security Training
Next Steps

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AWS Pace of Innovation
New features
and/or
services
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AWS Training and Certification helps build cloud skills to make your
transition to the AWS Cloud easier so you can get the most out of your
investment, faster.
Production
applications
Time
1st Training Delivered
1400 students trained
11 months
Jan 2015 Sept 2016
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WHY TRAINING?

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Impact of Training on Security
• “Training Helps Overcome Adoption Concerns. Some organizations have concerns
that could impact broad organizational adoption of cloud. The most significant
concern cited by organizations across the cloud journey is related to security. About
60% of organizations include security among the top three concerns their
organization has regarding adopting cloud...”
• “comprehensively trained organizations are better able to realistically assess security
concerns, to implement security safeguards, and to build improved or additional
security processes or procedures”
• 3.7x more likely to overcome IT governance concerns
• 1.8x more likely to resolve security concerns upfront
• *IDC “
* “Train to Accelerate your Cloud Strategy” OCT 17

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Training as a journey
Cloud adoption: Foundation Migration Optimization
Phase 1:
Cloud
awareness and
essentials
training for a
very broad
range of
employees
Phase 2:
Role-based
foundational
training for
technical
employees and
key lines of
business
Phase 3:
Associate
certification for
select technical
staff with
relevant
experience
Phase 4:
Advanced and
specialty
training for
technical staff
as required
Phase 5:
Professional
certification for
select technical
staff with
relevant
experience
~Months 1-3 ~Months 3-6 ~Months 6-9 ~Months 9-12 ~Months 12+

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Who we design training for
Architects
• Create a cloud
business case
• Determine migration
strategy
• Determine
integration strategies
• Design highly
available, elastic,
and secure
applications
Operators
• Provision cloud
environments and
automate
implementations
• Manage backup and
DR
• Monitor availability
and performance
• Manage
troubleshooting
Developers
• Develop applications
using scripts, SDKs,
and/or compiled code
• Program against APIs
• Perform application
and solution testing
• Implement automation
services to optimize
performance,
availability, scale, and
maintenance

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What does AWS offer?
Instructor-led Training
to build technical skills and
learn best practices from
an accredited instructor
Self-paced online labs
to learn AWS services and
practice skills at low cost
AWS Certification
to validate knowledge
with an industry-
recognized credential

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AWS role-based learning paths

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AWS Training Courses
Building
Serverless Data
Lake 1 day
Container-Enabled
Microservices

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Certifications to validate knowledge
**AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner now in Beta

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Preparing for AWS Certification
Practice Exams + Workshops
Exam Guides &
Sample Questions
AWS Whitepapers &
FAQs
AWS Documentation &
Reference Architectures
Visit aws.amazon.com/certification for exam prep resources
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Official
Study Guide: Associate Exam 1st Edition

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Architecting Learning Path
Learn to design applications and systems.
Phase 1: Cloud Awareness & Essentials Training (month 1-3) Introduction to AWS
Video: What is Cloud Computing? (3 minutes) A short introduction to Cloud Computing.
• Whitepaper: Overview of Amazon Web Services An overview of the advantages
and benefits of cloud computing
• Video: AWS Chicago Summit 2016 Keynote An overview of the AWS ecosystem
with customer case studies.

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“Introduction to…” Videos
These videos provide a brief overview of popular services. Watch them to
identify which services you’d like to explore further:
• Compute: Introduction to Amazon EC2 (4 minutes)
• Storage: Introduction to Amazon S3 (3 minutes)
• Data Archiving: Introduction to Amazon Glacier (3 minutes)
• Development: Introduction to AWS Elastic Beanstalk (3 minutes)
• Deployment: Introduction to AWS CloudFormation (3 minutes)
• Serverless Computing: Introduction to AWS Lambda (3 minutes)
• Database: Introduction to Amazon RDS (3 minutes)
• Data Warehouse: Introduction to Amazon Redshift (3 minutes)
• Big Data: Introduction to Amazon Elastic MapReduce (3 minutes)
• Streaming Data Capture: Introduction to Amazon Kinesis (2 minutes)
• Identity and Access Management: Introduction to AWS IAM (2 minutes)

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Introductory Self-Paced Labs
These self-paced labs are short introductions to popular AWS services. The labs
provide access to the live AWS service, plus step-by-step instructions. They are an
excellent way to gain initial hands-on experience with AWS services.
• Introduction to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
This lab walks you through the steps to launch and configure a virtual machine
in the Amazon cloud. You will practice using Amazon Machine Images to
launch Amazon EC2 Instances and use key pairs for SSH authentication to
log into to your instance.
• Introduction to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
This lab demonstrates how to use an Amazon S3 bucket and manage files, or
object, that are stored in the bucket.
• Introduction to Elastic Load Balancing
This lab takes you through how to automatically distribute incoming web traffic
across multiple Amazon EC2 instances by using Elastic Load Balancing.
• Introduction to AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
This lab takes you through how to manage users and user permissions with
IAM..

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Free, Online Training
• Job Roles in the Cloud (30 minutes)
This self-paced course presents presumed job roles applicable to an enterprise-level
AWS Cloud environment. It starts by presenting on-premises roles to be used as a
comparison. It also covers what infrastructure as code is and how job roles can evolve
depending upon adherence to a DevOps model using infrastructure as code.
• AWS Security Fundamentals (3 hours)
This self-paced course is designed to introduce you to fundamental cloud computing and
AWS security concepts including AWS access control and management, governance,
logging, and encryption methods. It also covers security-related compliance protocols
and risk management strategies, as well as procedures related to auditing your AWS
security infrastructure.
• Big Data Technology Fundamentals (90 minutes)
This self-paced course provides baseline general knowledge of the technologies used in
big data solutions. It covers the development of big data solutions using the Hadoop
ecosystem, including MapReduce, HDFS, and the Pig and Hive programming
frameworks. This web-based course helps you build a foundation for working with AWS
services for big data solutions. This course is offered at no charge, and can be used on
its own or to help you prepare for the Big Data on AWS instructor-led course.

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• AWS Technical Essentials (1 day) Instructor-Led
Learn the foundations of cloud computing, storage, and networking on
AWS in this one-day course for anyone who wants to get started using
AWS.
Phase 2: Architecting Training Self-Explore Resources
• Whitepaper: Operational Checklists for AWS
This paper is targeted at developers and architects who are looking for
operational and architectural guidance from AWS to help assess their
application's operational readiness.
• Whitepaper: Architecting for the AWS Cloud: Best Practices
This whitepaper paper provides prescriptive guidance to cloud architects
so that they can build highly scalable and elastic applications optimized to
run in AWS cloud.
• Whitepaper: AWS Well-Architected Framework
The Well-Architected Framework enables you to assess and improve your
cloud-based architectures to better understand the business impact of
your design decisions.

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Intermediate Instructor-Led Training
• Architecting on AWS (3 days)
This course covers the fundamentals of building IT infrastructure on AWS.
The course is designed to teach solutions architects how to optimize the
use of the AWS Cloud by understanding AWS services and how these
services fit into cloud-based solutions
• Migrating to AWS (2 days)
Migrating to AWS focuses on planning and migrating existing workloads to
the AWS Cloud. The course covers various cloud migration strategies with
a detailed discussion on each phase of the migration process, including
portfolio discovery, application migration planning and design, migration
execution, and post-migration validation and application optimization.

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Phase 3: Solutions Architect – Associate Exam Preparation and Completion
Self-Paced Preparation Resources
• Exam Guide
See the concepts covered on the exam to get a blueprint of what you need to
study.
• Sample Questions
Check your knowledge and pinpoint concepts and areas requiring more study.
• Study Guide
The AWS Certified Solutions Architect Official Study Guide for the Associate
exam will get you fully prepared through expert content, and real-world
knowledge, key exam essentials, chapter review questions, access to
interactive online learning environment, and much more. This official study
guide, written by AWS experts, covers exam concepts, and provides key
review on exam topics.

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 Whitepapers: Broaden your technical understanding with whitepapers written by the
AWS team, independent analysts, and AWS partners.
• Architecting for the Cloud: AWS Best Practices
• AWS Security Best Practices
• Amazon Web Services: Overview of Security Processes
• AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Development and Test on AWS
• Backup, Archive, and Restore Approaches Using AWS
• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Connectivity Options
• How AWS Pricing Works
 Practice Exam
Test your knowledge online in a timed environment. Click here to register.
Exam Prep Training AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Exam
 Exam Prep Quest We’ve packaged a Self-Paced Labs Quest specifically for the
Solutions Architect – Associate exam.
 Exam Prep Workshop
Learn exam strategies from a certified technical instructor. Enroll in AWS Certification
Exam Readiness Workshop: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate.

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Course Objectives
• This course is designed to teach you how to:
• Identify the security and compliance benefits of using the AWS Cloud.
• Discuss the AWS Shared Responsibility Model.
• Describe the access control and access management features of AWS.
• Use services for security logging and monitoring.
• Describe data encryption methods to secure sensitive data.
• Describe AWS services used to protect network security.
• Describe the basic steps to ensure strong governance of your AWS resources.
• Identify services used to maintain governance of control environments.
• Use the AWS audit features.
• Explain how to audit an AWS environment.
• Explain the AWS compliance and assurance programs.
• Describe how AWS audits and attestations validate that security controls are implemented
and operating effectively.
AWS Security Fundamentals Online

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Security Operations on AWS 3 DAY Course Objectives
• Assimilate and leverage the AWS shared security responsibility model.
• Mange user identity and access management in the AWS cloud.
• Use AWS security services such as AWS Identity and Access Management,
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, AWS Config, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Key
Management Service, AWS CloudHSM, and AWS Trusted Advisor.
• Implement better security controls for your resources in the AWS cloud.
• Manage and audit your AWS resources from a security perspective.
• Monitor and log access and usage of AWS compute, storage, networking, and
database services.
• Assimilate and leverage the AWS shared compliance responsibility model.
• Identify AWS services and tools to help automate, monitor, and manage security
operations on AWS.
• Perform security incident management in the AWS cloud.

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Next Steps
 Identify an internal business and technical leader, or team, to coordinate
your training efforts and timeline – a member of the core “Cloud Team”, with
an executive sponsor
 Review the “Job Roles in the Cloud” on line training. Take existing team
members, analyze current skills, known and future gaps, and decide who
on your team should receive what training and in what phases. Cross train?
 Work with AWS on an initial training plan and delivery schedule, Including
Skills Assesments ( Acct Mgr’s., SA’s, Pro Serve, Tech. Delivery Mgr’s)
 Talk with and to your team about this effort and path, so you can begin to
build awareness and buy-in for self development and change

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THANK YOU !
Jim Farrell
jimfarr@amazon.com