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References

1. http://blog.rowanudell.com/how-to-get-your-aws-sysops-associate-certification/

Detailed Syllabus

1. Monitoring and Metrics

(a) Monitoring and performance:

• Understanding AWS Instance Types, Utilization And Performance CMP402, PCF306
• Creating CloudWatch Alarms SDD418
• Installing And Configuring Monitoring Scripts for Amazon EC2 Instances Monitor memory and disk
• Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Instance and System Status Checks Ec2 status checks
• Monitoring EBS For Performance And Availability DVO315
• Monitoring RDS For Performance And Availability DAT304
• Monitoring ElastiCache For Performance And Availability DAT407
• Use CloudWatch To Monitor An Instance Dedicated To Monitoring dedicated instances
• Monitoring The Elastic Load Balancer For Performance And Availability CMP401, SDD403

#####(b) Monitor and manage billing:

• AWS Billing And Linking AWS Accounts DMG203, RMG205, Linking accounts
• AWS Billing Dimensions and Metrics For CloudWatch (covered above)
• Cost Optimizing ISM402

###2. HA #####(a) Implement scalability and elasticity:

• Scalability And Elasticity Essentials00:10:37
• Determining Reserved Instance Purchases Based On Business Needs ENT203 ISM208
• Upgrading Instances Vs. Auto Scaling CMP201
• Elastic Load Balancer Sticky Sessions

#####(b) Level of fault tolerance:

• High Availability With Single Instance Applications That Require Elastic IP Addresses BAC404
• Understanding RDS Multi-AZ Failover DAT303
• RDS and using read replicas
• Applying High Availability Bastion Host Instance
• Overview Of Services That Allow Access To The Underlying Operating System
• Elastic Load Balancer Configurations SDD423

###3. Analysis #####(a) Optimize the environment:

• Off-loading Database Workload BDT316
• Pre-warming EBS Volumes STG402 SDD416
• Pre-warming The Elastic Load Balancer

#####(b) Identify performance:

• Resizing Or Changing EBS Root Volume unofficial
• SSL On Elastic Load BalancerSEC316
• Network Bottlenecks

#####(c) Identify potential problems:

• EBS Root Devices On Terminated Instances - Ensuring Data Durability
• Troubleshooting Auto Scaling Issues

###4. Deployment and provisioning #####(a) Cloud resources

• OpsWorks: OverviewDVO301
• OpsWorks: Creating Our First Stack Getting started, OpsWorks and BeanStalk

###5. Data management #####(a) Creating Backups

• Overview Of Backing Up Services On AWS And Services That Include Backups Backup and disaster recovery
• Creating And Scripting Automation For EC2 Snapshots doc

#####(b) Managing backups and disaster recovery

• Quickly Recovering From Disasters
• Read Replicas With MySQL RDS Across Regions
• Storing Log Files And Backups

###6. Security #####(a) Implement security policies:

• S3 Bucket Policies
• Building IAM Policies
• Network Access Control Lists SEC303
• Using IAM Roles With EC2 SEC305, SEC305 new

#####(b) Data integrity:

• MFA On Amazon Web Services (Multifactor Authentication)
• Security Token Service

#####(c) Shared responsibility:

• Understanding The Shared Responsibility Model00:04:16

#####(d) Prepare for security assessments:

• AWS And IT Audits00:06:19

###7. Networking #####(a) Implement networking features:

• Route53 and DNS Failover00:13:48
• Weighted Routing Policies In Route5300:05:23
• Latency Based Routing 00:04:51
• VPC Essentials00:17:07
• Building A Non-Default VPC00:40:48
• VPC Networking00:07:29
• VPC Security00:18:03
• Configuring A NAT Instance 00:13:19
• DB Subnet Groups00:07:37
• Elastic IP Addresses And Elastic Network Interfaces00:06:33
• Configuring A Web Application In VPC00:40:27

#####(b) Lab

• Live! Lab: Creating a NAT Instance in a VPC
• Live! Lab: Building a Virtual Private Cloud from Scratch
• Live! Lab: Troubleshooting Connectivity Issues
• Live! Lab: Creating a Virtual Private Cloud with CloudFormation and Launching an EC2 Instance

#####(c) Implement connectivity features:

• AWS Direct Connect & On-premise To VPC Redundancy00:10:48