AWS Certified SysOps Admin - Associate (SOA-C02)
This course is designed to prepare students for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate exam (SOA-C02).
What you'll learn
Hello, Cloud Gurus!
We designed this cloud certification training for anyone interested in learning to deploy, manage, and operate scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on Amazon Web Services. By the end of the course, you'll be prepared to pass the newly-released, associate-level AWS Certified SysOps Administrator exam (SOA-C02).
The course begins with an overview of deployment and provisioning and moves on to monitoring and logging in AWS. Afterward, we cover storage and data management, reliability and business continuity, security and compliance, and networking. Then, we'll finish the course with a look at cost and performance optimization on AWS. The main technologies covered in this course include: CloudWatch, Elastic Load Balancer, EC2, RDS, VPC, Network ACLs, Security Groups, DDOS, S3, KMS, IAM, Systems Manager, Route 53, Direct Connect, and CloudFormation.
This is not an introductory course: We recommend taking this course only after clearing the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam or having worked as an AWS SysOps Administrator for at least one year. We know that you’re busy, so our training course is made up of 5-15 minute videos that can be viewed at your convenience. Our video lessons keep it simple and explain things clearly and succinctly. Together, we walk you through each of the major operational areas of Amazon Web Services, step-by-step. Using real-life examples, we will practice how to operate and maintain systems running on AWS. At the end of each section, we’ll test your knowledge with short quizzes to ensure you are ready for the exam.
The ideal student for this course is ready to quickly break into cloud computing. You don’t want hours to spend on training and we will get you up to speed quickly and efficiently. This course prepares you for a position as a qualified AWS SysOps Administrator. Our course includes a brand new exam simulator and practical exam labs to help you prepare with hands-on experience.
At the end of this course, you will confidently take the associate-level AWS SysOps Administrator exam, and earn one of the highest paying certifications in the industry.
The average salary for AWS-certified IT staff is 27.5 percent higher than the norm.
The average salary for those holding the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate certification is $111,966.
Table of contents
- Section Introduction 1m
- Demo: Deploying an Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Instance 9m
- Understanding EBS Volumes 18m
- What Is a Bastion Host? 3m
- Exploring Elastic Load Balancer 10m
- Understanding Elastic Load Balancer Error Messages 7m
- Demo: Deploying an Elastic Load Balancer 12m
- Demo: Understanding Elastic Load Balancer CloudWatch Metrics 5m
- Demo: Working with Elastic Load Balancer Access Logs 8m
- Understanding Sticky Sessions 4m
- Load Balancing Based On An IP Address 11m
- Discovering EC2 Image Builder 5m
- Demo: Creating an AMI Using EC2 Image Builder 15m
- Introducing CloudFormation 10m
- Demo: Provisioning AWS Resources Using CloudFormation 15m
- Troubleshooting CloudFormation 6m
- Demo: CloudFormation Errors 7m
- Introducing CloudFormation StackSets 6m
- CloudFormation Best Practices 6m
- Exploring Blue/Green Deployments 3m
- Understanding Rolling Deployments 5m
- When to Use Canary Deployments 4m
- Automating Tasks Using AWS Systems Manager 4m
- Demo: Implementing Automated Patching Using AWS Systems Manager 9m
- Demo: Using AWS Systems Manager EC2 Run Command 9m
- Understanding OpsWorks 5m
- Section Review: Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation Summary - Part 1 9m
- Section Review: Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation Summary - Part 2 8m
- Section Introduction 1m
- Introduction to CloudWatch 5m
- Demo: Creating CloudWatch Dashboards 9m
- Exploring CloudWatch Logs 5m
- Demo: Collecting Metrics and Logs Using the CloudWatch Agent 15m
- Demo: Creating CloudWatch Metric Filters 10m
- Demo: Exploring CloudWatch Logs Insights 7m
- Receiving Notifications with CloudWatch 7m
- Demo: Creating CloudWatch Alarms 7m
- Introduction to CloudTrail 7m
- Demo: Working with CloudTrail 7m
- AWS Config 101 7m
- Demo: Using AWS Config 6m
- Remediation Using AWS Systems Manager and AWS Config 6m
- Demo: Configuring Automatic Remediation Using AWS Systems Manager and AWS Config 12m
- What Is EventBridge? 5m
- Demo: Using Amazon EventBridge 9m
- Demo: Scheduling Automated Tasks Using EventBridge and AWS Config 11m
- Demo: Exploring Health Dashboards 5m
- Section Review: Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation Summary - Part 1 7m
- Section Review: Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation Summary - Part 2 6m
- Section Introduction 1m
- S3 101 10m
- Reviewing S3 Storage Classes 8m
- Demo: Creating an S3 Bucket 13m
- Working with S3 Lifecycle Policies 4m
- Protecting Data from Accidental Deletion Using S3 Versioning 3m
- Protecting Data from Accidental Deletion with MFA Delete 2m
- S3 Encryption 4m
- Demo: Configuring Static Website Hosting Using S3 7m
- Demo: Configuring Encryption on an S3 Bucket 9m
- Introduction to Elastic File System (EFS) 7m
- Demo: Working with EFS 12m
- Advanced EFS 7m
- EFS and Multi-AZ Applications 3m
- Introducing Athena 3m
- Demo: Working with Athena 9m
- Introducing Amazon OpenSearch Service (Formerly Amazon Elasticsearch Service) 6m
- OpenSearch Deployment Best Practices 4m
- Demo: Creating an Amazon OpenSearch Service Domain 10m
- Demo: Leveraging Presigned URLs with S3 4m
- Restricting S3 Accessibility with IP Addresses 3m
- Introducing S3 Inventory 4m
- Demo: Using S3 Inventory 6m
- Demo: Using AWS Config with S3 4m
- Overview of Storage Gateway 8m
- Introducing AWS Backup 5m
- Demo: Using AWS Backup 9m
- Section Review: Storage and Data Management Summary - Part 1 8m
- Section Review: Storage and Data Management Summary - Part 2 7m
- Section Introduction 1m
- Elasticity and Scalability 101 6m
- Introducing AWS Auto Scaling 5m
- Demo: Creating Auto Scaling Plans 10m
- Troubleshooting Auto Scaling Issues 2m
- Vertical Scaling vs. Horizontal Scaling 4m
- Using AWS ElastiCache 7m
- Aurora 101 6m
- Understanding Aurora Auto Scaling Options 5m
- RDS and Multi-AZ Failover 5m
- RDS and Read Replicas 6m
- Demo: Creating and Encrypting RDS Snapshots 9m
- Differentiating Single Availability Zones vs. Multi-AZ Deployments 4m
- Implementing Fault Tolerant Workloads Using Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) 7m
- Building Fault Tolerance Using Elastic IPs 4m
- Readying for Disaster Recovery 7m
- AWS Service Maintenance Windows 2m
- Configuring S3 Cross-Region Replication 3m
- Implementing Loosely Coupled Architectures with SQS 6m
- Demo: Automating EBS Snapshots Using Data Lifecycle Manager 10m
- Using DynamoDB Streams for Backing Up Your Table to Another Region 8m
- Section Review: Reliability and Business Continuity Summary - Part 1 14m
- Section Review: Reliability and Business Continuity Summary - Part 2 8m
- Section Introduction 2m
- Compliance on AWS 10m
- Understanding Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) 7m
- AWS Marketplace Security Products 6m
- IAM Refresh 4m
- Demo: Creating Custom IAM Policies and Roles 9m
- Demo: Enabling MFA and Reporting with IAM 7m
- Introducing AWS Identity Center 7m
- Auditing and Troubleshooting Access Issues 13m
- AWS Inspector vs. Trusted Advisor 8m
- Introducing AWS Organizations 8m
- Service Control Policies 7m
- Securing Multiple Accounts with AWS Control Tower and Organizations 10m
- Security Token Service (STS) 7m
- AWS Key Management Service (KMS) 7m
- AWS Certificate Manager 5m
- AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) 4m
- Demo: Configuring AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) 7m
- Differentiating Dedicated Instances vs. Dedicated Hosts 4m
- Using AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store 4m
- Understanding AWS Service Quotas 6m
- Reviewing the AWS Shared Responsibility Model 8m
- Protecting Logs within CloudTrail 6m
- Demo: Introducing AWS Security Hub 11m
- Exploring Amazon GuardDuty 5m
- Demo: Working with Amazon GuardDuty 7m
- Securely Storing Secrets Using AWS Secrets Manager 12m
- Section Review: Security and Compliance Summary - Part 1 8m
- Section Review: Security and Compliance Summary - Part 2 9m
- Section Introduction 1m
- Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Overview 10m
- Demo: Building Your Own Custom VPC - Part 1 9m
- Demo: Building Your Own Custom VPC - Part 2 9m
- Demo: Building Your Own Custom VPC - Part 3 12m
- Demo: Configuring Network ACLs - Part 1 7m
- Demo: Configuring Network ACLs - Part 2 10m
- Demo: Connecting to an EC2 Instance Using Systems Manager Session Manager 12m
- Demo: Introducing VPC Endpoints 11m
- Understanding VPC Peering 5m
- Securely Connecting to a VPC Using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) 4m
- What Is Direct Connect? 6m
- Understanding VPC Flow Logs 6m
- Demo: Using VPC Flow Logs 8m
- Introducing Domain Name System (DNS) 7m
- Introducing Route 53 13m
- Exploring Route 53 Resolver 4m
- Understanding Route 53 Routing Policies 8m
- Demo: Route 53 Simple Routing Policy 8m
- Demo: Route 53 and Weighted Routing Policy 9m
- Demo: Route 53 Failover Routing Policy 14m
- Demo: Route 53 Geolocation Routing Policy 10m
- Demo: Configuring Route 53 Alias 11m
- Understanding Route 53 Failover Alias Records 3m
- Demo: Configuring Route 53 Failover Alias Records 13m
- Overview of CloudFront 9m
- Demo: Configuring Amazon CloudFront 16m
- Demo: Configuring Amazon CloudFront with Origin Access Control 11m
- Demo: Interpreting CloudFront Logs 7m
- Identifying CloudFront Caching Errors 11m
- CloudFront Cache Hit Ratio 5m
- Advanced CloudFront 4m
- Improving CloudFront Cache Hit Ratio When Forwarding Request Headers and Cookies 5m
- Section Review: Networking and Content Delivery Summary - Part 1 9m
- Section Review: Networking and Content Delivery Summary - Part 2 11m
- Section Introduction 1m
- AWS Cost Explorer and Cost Allocation Tags 10m
- Improving Costs with AWS Budgets 8m
- Demo: Creating an AWS Budget and Billing Alarm 8m
- Reducing Cost through Managed Services 7m
- AWS Compute Optimizer 5m
- Using Metrics to Improve Performance and Costs 6m
- Increasing S3 Transfer Speeds with Transfer Acceleration 3m
- Enhancing S3 Performance with Multipart Upload 3m
- Using Placement Groups to Increase TCP/IP Traffic Flow 6m
- Identifying Underutilized Resources Using Trusted Advisor 2m
- Demo: Performance Analysis Using RDS Performance Insights 12m
- Increasing Scalability with RDS Proxy 5m
- Enhancing EC2 Performance Using Instance Store 6m
- Section Review: Cost and Performance Optimization Summary 11m
About the author
Faye Ellis is Principal Training Architect, specialising in AWS, responsible for the AWSCertified Developer Associate, SysOps Administrator Associate and Security Specialty courses. Her other courses include Hands-On Troubleshooting With AWS, Hands-On Chaos Engineering, and EKS Basics. She also researches, writes and presents AWS This Week, a YouTube show designed to summarise the latest AWS updates. Faye has worked in the IT industry for around 20 years, working in SysOps, DevOps and Archit... more