Curriculum
for
AWS Solution Architect
This Curriculum has been designed for the reskill and upskill training targeted to
students and working professionals in the computing field.
Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Aim 3
Learning Outcomes 3
Course description 3
Course structure 4
Duration 9
Target group 9
Group size 10
Medium of instruction 10
Focus of curriculum 10
Entry criteria 10
Follow up suggestions 10
Certification 10
Grading 11
Students evaluation 11
Trainers qualification 11
Trainer-trainee’s ratio 11
Introduction
This course is designed to upskill the beginner level work force in cloud computing to the
associate level in the field of solution architect. This curriculum for AWS Solution
Architect is designed to produce an associate level technical workforce equipped with
knowledge and skills related to solution architecture of cloud computing. It makes the
trainees able to get opportunities for wage and self-employment in the related occupational
field.
Aim
To produce associate level cloud computing practitioners who perform a solutions architect
role and are able to design, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems on
AWS. being an entrepreneur/employee/self-employed.
Learning Outcomes
After the completion of this course, the participants will be able:
● Make architectural decisions based on AWS architectural principles and best practices
● Leverage AWS services to make your infrastructure scalable, reliable, and highly available
● Leverage AWS Managed Services to enable greater flexibility and resiliency in an
infrastructure
● Make an AWS-based infrastructure more efficient to increase performance and reduce costs
● Use the Well-Architected Framework to improve architectures with AWS solutions
Course description
This curriculum provides skills & knowledge necessary for AWS Solution Architect. There
will be both demonstration by instructors/trainers and opportunity by trainees to perform
skills/tasks specified in this curriculum. Trainees will practice & learn skills using typical
tools, materials, equipment & machines necessary for the program. After successful
completion of this program the trainees will be equipped with the knowledge and skills
related to solution architecture.
Course structure
AWS Solution Architecture
Module 1: Why Cloud 2 Hours
● Why Cloud and what is Cloud Computing?
● Identify the features and benefits of cloud computing
● Different types of Cloud Computing deployment model
● Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud
● Virtualization – An essential in cloud
● Virtualization in Cloud model
● Different types of virtualization
● Different types of services and their difference in Cloud
computing
● IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
● Importance of scaling in cloud computing
● Different types of scaling and its applications
● Cost model that we use in cloud computing
Module 2: AWS - An Overview 1 Hours
● Describe the features of AWS
● Global Infrastructure – Regions and Availability Zones
● The features of the AWS marketplace
● Describe various services in AWS
● Describe the features of Amazon Compute Services
● Describe the features of Amazon Storage Services
● Describe the features of Amazon Network Services
● Describe the features of Amazon Database services
● Create a free tier account in AWS and onboarding
● Introduction AWS management console
● AWS Resource pricing
Module 3: Understand Identity Access Management of 2 Hours
AWS
● Introduction AWS IAM
● User & group creations
● Password policies set for users
● AWS User Account and Groups in detail
● Creating custom policies in AWS
● Introduction about Roles and their use
● Creating Roles and associating policies
● Creating programmatic access and
management console access for users
● Associating policies to the user and groups
Module 4: EC2 Instance 4 Hours
● Introduction of EC2.
● Describe AMI and AWS Marketplace templates
● Launch a basic EC2 instance
● Security groups and tags for EC2 instance
● Different types of Instances Reserved, On-
demand, Spot, Dedicated
● Public key – Private key introduction and
protecting EC2 with keys
Module 5: Understand EBS, Snapshots & AMI 2 Hours
● Attaching and detaching EBS volumes
● Launch an ec2 instance from an AMI
● Create custom AMI and working with a different region
● Make use of Amazon EBS volume and create snapshots
● Manage the configuration of your application
● Deploying a new instance from the created AMI
Module 6: Auto-scaling 2 Hour
● Get Started with Auto Scaling Using the Console
● Creating Launch configurations and make use of it for
auto scaling groups
● Maintain a Fixed Number of Running EC2 Instances
● Dynamic Scaling
● The lifecycle of auto scaling
● Policies of auto scaling
Module 7: Load Balancing 1 Hour
● Introduction to Load balancer (ELB)
● Different types of Load balancer in AWS
● Application Load balancers
● Network Load balancer
● Classic Load balancer
● Migrating classic load balancer to new load balancer
● Components and types of load balancing
Module 8: Object Storage in Cloud 4 Hours
● Understanding S3 durability and redundancy
● Introduction about S3 Buckets
● How S3 Uploading works and how to Download
● How to S3 Permissions
● How to implement S3 Object Versioning S3 Lifecycle
Policies
● Storage Gateway
● Import Export
● S3 Transfer Acceleration
● Glacier storage
Module 9: Cloud Front 1 Hour
● Describing cloud front
● Creating a cloud front distribution
● Hosting a website of cloud front distribution
● Implementing global restrictions
● Configuring origins and behaviors
Module 10: Route 53 1 Hour
● Describe Hosted zones and Domain name
understanding
● How to create hosted zones
● Hosting a website with a custom domain name
● Understanding routing policies
Module 11: AWS Security Management 2 Hours
● Describing Security Practices for Cloud Deployment
● AWS Shared Responsibilities and Securities
● Importance of Cloud Trail
● Describing Trust advisor
Module 12: Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 4 Hours
● Introduction to Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
● VPC Advantages and understanding IP addressing
CIDR
● Default and Non-default VPC
● Different Components in VPC
● Describe, create, and manage Amazon Virtual Private
Cloud
● Amazon VPC, Private Subnet, and Public Subnet
● AWS Networking, Security Groups, and Network
ACLs
● Configuration and management of VPN connectivity
● Subnet and Subnet Mask
● VPC peering
● NAT
Module 13: Relational Database Service (RDS) 4 Hours
● Introduction to RDS
● Different database services of AWS: Amazon RDS,
Dynamo DB, Redshift, etc.
● Create MYSQL RDS Instance, Oracle RDS Instance,
MS SQL RDS Instance
● Configuring the database
● Configuring backups
● Configuring the maintenance windows
● Connecting to the database
Module 14: Dynamo DB 2 Hour
● Creating a dynamo dB
● Adding data manually
● Learn about strong and eventual consistency
● Calculating Read-write consistency
● Configuring alarms
Module 15: Monitoring Services 2 Hours
● Knowledge on Cloud watch – A monitoring service
● Create and Configuring Monitoring services
● How to perform Setting thresholds and Configuring
actions
● Creating a cloud watch alarm
● Getting statistics for ec2 instances
● Monitoring other AWS services
● Configuring Notifications
● Integrating cloud watch with Auto scaling
Module 16: Application Services – An Overview 2 Hours
● What is SNS
● Creating a topic
● Create subscription
● Subscribed to the subscription
● SQS & SES
● Lambda and Elastic Beanstalk
Module 17: AWS Troubleshooting 2 Hours
● Troubleshooting EC2 instance
● Troubleshooting using Cloud watch`
● Troubleshooting using ELB
●Troubleshooting by using Cloud front
Module 18: AWS Architecture and Design 2 Hours
● Backup and Disaster Recovery
● How to manage Disaster Recovery and Backups
● Best Practice for DR and Backups
● AWS High Availability Design
Module 19: AWS Solutions Architecture Exam Guide 2 Hours
Duration
The total duration of the course will be 40 hours (seven weeks).
Target group
This course is for any IT-related students and professionals who have knowledge of how
web applications work and who want to get started with building applications on the Cloud.
We recommend candidates have at least six months of experience with the AWS Cloud in
any role, including technical, managerial, sales, purchasing, or financial. Candidates should
have a basic understanding of IT services and their uses in the AWS Cloud platform. This
course is intended for working professional in the field of
● Sales
● Legal
● Marketing
● Business analysts
● Project managers
● AWS Academy students
● Other IT-related professionals
Group size
Maximum of thirty
Medium of instruction
Nepali or English or both
Focus of curriculum
This curriculum emphasizes competency/performance. The focus will be on performance of
the specified competencies in the curriculum
● Chance to learn from experts of AWS
● Totally practical-oriented classes
● can be conducted in face to face setup as well as in virtual(online) setup with each and every
required material present
● Friendly environment to teach as well as learn
Entry criteria
It is recommended that the learners of this course have the basic knowledge in the technical and/or
business sides of IT.
Follow up suggestions
In order to assess the success of this program and collect feedbacks/ inputs for the revision
of the curriculum schedule of follow up is suggested as follows:
● First follow up: - Six months after the completion of the program
● Second follow up: - Six months after the completion of the first follow up
● Follow up cycle: - In a cycle of one year after the completion of the second follow
up for five years
Certification
Trainees will be provided certification of completion from Genese Cloud Academy signed
by its CEO upon successful completion. The participants of this course will be capable to
attend The AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certification exam. This
certification is intended for individuals who perform a solutions architect role and have one
or more years of hands-on experience designing available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and
scalable distributed systems on AWS.
This Certification validates following abilities:
● Effectively demonstrate knowledge of how to architect and deploy secure and robust
applications on AWS technologies
● Define a solution using architectural design principles based on customer requirements
● Provide implementation guidance based on best practices to the organization
throughout the life cycle of the project
Grading
The training performance of the participants shall be graded as follows:
● Distinction: passed with 80% or above
● First division: passed with 75% or above
● Second division: passed with 65% or above
● Third division: passed with 60% or above
Students evaluation
● Continuous evaluation of the trainees' performance is to be done by the related
instructor/ trainer to ensure proficiency over each competency under each of the sub-
modules.
● Related technical knowledge learned by trainees will be evaluated through written or
oral tests.
● There will be three internal evaluations and one final evaluation in each module.
Trainers qualification
● Must Be AWS Solution Architecture Professional Certified
● Good communicative and instructional skills
● Most be 5 years Experience in a related field
Trainer-trainee’s ratio
● 2:30 for lab classes
● 1:30 for theory classes
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