The AWS SysOps Associate certification training program is designed for systems administrators who have at least one year experience in managing or building applications in the cloud.

To apply for the AWS SysOps Administrator Associate certification, you must fulfill the following prerequisites:

• Complete AWS Technical Essentials course or significant hands-on professional experience in operating AWS-based applications

• Experience provisioning, operating and maintaining systems running on AWS

• Ability to define a solution to be built and operated on AWS

• Capabilities to provide AWS operations and deployment guidance and best practices throughout the lifecycle of a project

By the end of the course you’ll be able to:

• Deploy, manage and operate scalable, highly available and fault-tolerant systems on AWS

• Migrate an existing on-premises application to AWS

• Ensure data integrity and data security on AWS technology

• Select the appropriate AWS service based on compute, data or security requirements

• Identify appropriate use of AWS operational best practices

• Understand operational cost control mechanisms and estimate AWS usage costs

• Monitoring and Metrics

• Monitoring in the Cloud: Basic Concepts

• CloudWatch and CloudTrail Services

• Security and Troubleshooting and Costs associated with Monitoring

• Knowledge Check

• Demo Lab: Monitoring with CloudWatch (Linux)

• Practice Assignment: Auto-stop an EC2 Instance

• Quiz

• Key Takeaways

• Networking

• Cloud Networking Basic Concepts

• Knowledge Check

• Creating and Managing Network in AWS

• Knowledge Check

• Network Security in AWS

• Knowledge Check

• Troubleshooting Network in AWS

• Demo Lab Monitoring with CloudWatch (Linux)

• Practice Assignment Deploy an EC2 Instance

• Quiz

• Key Takeaways

• Analysis and Cost Effectiveness in AWS

• Cost Reduction Opportunities in the Cloud

• Knowledge check

• Tagging in the Cloud

• Knowledge check

• Using the Stopinator, Billing Alerts, Cost Explorer, and Trusted Advisor

• Demo Lab Managing Resources with Tagging

• Practice Assignment Use the Tag or Terminate Strategy

• Quiz

• Key Takeaways

• Security

• Identity and Access Management (IAM)

• Demo 1 Create an IAM Group with EC2 Full Access Permission

• Demo 2 Use IAM Roles and Policies to Access EC2 Instances

• Knowledge check

• Account and Instance Security

• Quiz

• Key Takeaways

• Data Management

• Key concepts of Storage in AWS

• Using Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS)

• Key Takeways

• Using Amazon S3

• Key Takeways

• Using Amazon Glacier

• Securing Troubleshooting and Pricing of the Storage in AWS

• Demo Lab Syncing files with S3

• Practice Assignment Synchronize Files with Amazon S3

• Quiz

• Key Takeaways

• High Availability

• Basic concepts of Scaling

• Overview of Elastic Load Balancing

• Overview of Auto Scaling

• Knowledge Check

• Overview of Amazon Route 53

• Troubleshooting common issues associated with scaling

• Demo Lab Configure an Auto Scaling Group

• Practice Assignment

• Quiz

• Key Takeaways

• Deployment and Provisioning

• Configuration Management

• Knowledge Check

• Deployment

• Knowledge Check

• CloudFormation Templates

• Demo Lab Debugging a Cloud Formation Template

• Practice Assignment Debugging a CloudFormation Template

• Quiz

• Key Takeaways