Cloud Architect Expert Combo Training Course

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Infosec Train

Become a Cloud Solutions Architect with Cloud Architect Expert – AWS (SAP – C01 & SAA-C02) & MS Azure (AZ-303 & AZ-304) course by Infosec Train.

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Online

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Medium of instructions English
Mode of learning Self study, Virtual Classroom
Mode of Delivery Video and Text Based

Course overview

Cloud Architect Expert – AWS (SAP – C01 & SAA-C02) & MS Azure (AZ-303 & AZ-304) by Infosec Train allows learners to learn from the best trainers in the industry. They will get a better understanding of AWS and Azure Cloud in interactive training sessions. This certification syllabus deals with real case discussions of cloud solutions architecture. Moreover, if you are keen to make a career as a Cloud solutions architect then this programme is ideally best suited for you. The programme imparts comprehensive training for Microsoft Azure Architect certification as well as AWS Solutions Architect certifications. Candidates willing to avail guidance and support for both Azure solutions architect certifications and AWS can rest assured as it is provided on one platform. 

The highlights

  • Triple learning mode
  • Free demo class
  • Experienced faculty
  • In-depth coverage of exam topics
  • Customised training schedule
  • Technical support
  • Post-training support

Program offerings

  • Chapters
  • Online training
  • Recordings
  • Case study

Course and certificate fees

certificate availability

Yes

certificate providing authority

Infosec Train

Who it is for

Cloud Architect Expert – AWS (SAP – C01 & SAA-C02) & MS Azure (AZ-303 & AZ-304) Programme targets the following audience-

  • Existing cloud solutions architects who want to seek information on cloud front and cloud formation concepts
  • Cloud developers working on cloud platforms are willing to become cloud architect expert
  • Cloud engineers looking for a comprehensive training programme in the domain
  • Azure administrators looking for a hands-on experience of Azure concepts and practices
  • System administrators seeking an understanding of the AWS platform and networking technologies therein
  • Solutions architects entrusted with building cost-efficient and fast systems on AWS
  • Candidates willing to qualify for Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification and AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification

Eligibility criteria

Storage, Networking, Compute, Management services, AWS deployment, Basic architectural principles, AWS global infrastructure, Network technologies

Work experience

To pursue Cloud Architect Expert – AWS (SAP – C01 & SAA-C02) & MS Azure (AZ-303 & AZ-304) Programme, learners must have experience in designing and deploying cloud architecture on AWS for two years or more. It also requires them to have one year of hands-on experience in designing AWS distributed systems that are fault-tolerant, scalable, and cost-effective. They should also be able to network, compute, store AWS services database and work with AWS management and deployment services. Work experience in DevOps processes and Azure development is also required for this course.

Education

Cloud Architect Expert – AWS (SAP – C01 & SAA-C02) & MS Azure (AZ-303 & AZ-304)) Online Course prescribes its learners to have a basic understanding of cloud architecture fundamentals and Azure Cloud Services. They must know the technical requirements for an AWS application and identify which AWS services meet a particular technical requirement. Candidates must be aware of basic architectural principles of building the AWS Cloud, best practices for creating secure and reliable applications on the AWS platform, AWS global infrastructure, network technologies for AWS, and AWS's security features and tools.

Certification qualifying details

To receive Cloud Architect Expert – AWS (SAP – C01 & SAA-C02) & MS Azure (AZ-303 & AZ-304)) Certification, candidates must complete the course and qualify for AZ-303 and AZ-304 examinations.

What you will learn

Knowledge of cloud computing

Cloud Architect Expert – AWS (SAP – C01 & SAA-C02) & MS Azure (AZ-303 & AZ-304) Training has been crafted for those seeking in-depth knowledge in the following areas-

  • Candidates pursuing this programme will gain insights on different areas, such as costing model, RDs security, Troubleshooting issues, etc.
  • The faculties will impart the learning via case studies. Candidates will gain exposure to real-life scenarios via these case studies 
  • They will be introduced to different concepts such as light sail, AWS command-line interface, elastic beanstalk, storage, AWS database services, etc.

The syllabus

Introduction to cloud computing

  • Legal and compliance
  • Types of cloud computing
  • Service models (IAAS, PAAS, SAAS)
  • Cloud computing issues
  • Horizontal vs. Vertical scaling
  • Why cloud computing?
  • Costing model
  • Service level agreement (SLA)
  • What to migrate
  • Benefits of cloud computing
  • Deployment models (public, private, hybrid, and community)
  • Security
  • Introduction to cloud computing

Virtualization

  • Virtualization and cloud computing
  • Creating virtual machines lab
  • Benefits
  • Hypervisor, types & features
  • Virtualization terminologies
  • Vendors
  • Types of virtualization

Amazon web services (mapped to AWS certified solutions architect associate & professional)

  • Signing up for AWS & AWS free usage tier
  • Global infrastructure, regions & availability zones
  • Introduction to the AWS products & comparison with other providers

EC2 instances

  • Snapshots & recovery, snapshot scheduling
  • EC2 volume types (instance store, EBS & EFS)
  • Elastic load balancing (ALB and NLB)
  • Elastic IP, BYOIP
  • Instance purchasing options & pricing models
  • Introduction to creating scalable instances using AWS EC2
  • Instances & types
  • Launching your first AWS windows server & Linux instances
  • Firewall & security groups
  • Troubleshooting issues
  • Key pairs, tags
  • Autoscaling
  • Usage reports & limits
  • Amazon machine images (AMI) & custom amis
  • Instance store & EBS volumes

AWS command line interface (CLI)

  • Introduction to AWS CLI
  • Other functionalities with CLI
  • Connecting to your AWS account via CLI

Light sail

  • Migrating lightsail to EC2
  • Troubleshooting
  • Difference between EC2 & lightsail
  • Elastic IP
  • DNS records
  • Advantages & functionalities
  • Available options on instances and AMIs

Elastic beanstalk

  • Comparison with EC2, lightsail & the elastic beanstalk
  • Hosting a sample application in EB
  • Common issues & troubleshooting
  • Versioning, rollback, and custom configurations

Overview of other compute services

  • ECS (Elastic Container Service)
  • Outpost
  • Lambda
  • Batch
  • EKS (Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes)

Storage

  • Introduction to storage
  • Use cases
  • AWS storage tiers

Simple storage service (AWS S3)

  • S3 glacier deep archive
  • Cross-region replication
  • Access control lists & bucket policies
  • Buckets & objects
  • S3 storage class analysis
  • S3 permissions
  • S3 object versioning & lifecycle policies
  • EC2-S3 Integration
  • Common issues and troubleshooting
  • Hosting a static website in AWS S3
  • S3 durability and redundancy
  • Encryption, logging

AWS FSx

  • Concepts
  • Introduction to FSx
  • Mapping storage
  • Troubleshooting
  • Creating a Windows-based file system

AWS storage gateway

AWS database services

Relational database service (RDS)

  • Connecting to the database
  • Selecting the database type
  • Configuring the maintenance windows
  • RDS security
  • Configuring & creating the database
  • Configuring backups
  • Recovering a DB instance from the snapshot
  • DB security groups
  • Snapshots

Dynamo DB

  • Configuring alarms
  • Connecting to dynamoDB
  • Advantages of using dynamoDB
  • Creating a Dynamo DB

Other database services

  • Elasticache
  • Redshift
  • Neptune

Migration & transfer

  • AWS database migration service
  • AWS server migration service
  • Snowball
  • Migration Hub

Identity access management (IAM)

  • Users, Groups & roles
  • STS and temporary credentials
  • AWS credentials
  • Custom roles and policies
  • IAM concepts, design principles
  • Cross account access
  • AWS resource access manager (RAM)
  • SSO, federation & Cognito

AWS secrets manager

AWS directory service

  • Concepts of AD
  • Introduction to AWS directory service
  • Configuring EC2 instances with directory services

AWS inspector

AWS guard duty

AWS certificate manager (ACM)

AWS Directory Service

  • Introduction to AWS Directory service
  • Concepts of AD
  • Configuring EC2 instances with Directory Services

AWS organizations

  • Importance of creating and managing multiple accounts in a corporate scenario
  • Billing & management
  • Creating an organization
  • Adding OUs

Web Application Firewall (WAF) & shield

Cloud formation

  • Updating & versioning
  • CF stacks & templates
  • Introduction to infrastructure as a code
  • Creating an S3 bucket etc.
  • Saving, managing & importing templates

Cloud watch

  • Configuring notifications
  • Monitoring other AWS services
  • Setting thresholds
  • Cloud watch dashboard
  • Configuring monitoring services
  • Configuring actions
  • Creating a cloud watch alarm
  • Getting statistics for ec2 instances
  • Integrating cloud watch with autoscaling

X-ray

Autoscaling & load balancing

  • Troubleshooting
  • Types & scenarios
  • Configuring auto-scaling with EC2
  • Rules & alarms
  • Launch configuration
  • Introduction to load balancing
  • Configuring a load-balanced web server
  • Introduction to autoscaling

Cloud trail

  • Creating a trail
  • Introduction to logging
  • Event history

AWS systems manager

  • Resource group manager
  • Introduction to AWS systems manager
  • Session manager
  • Remote execution
  • OS patch management

AWS trusted advisor

AWS KMS

  • Encryption and key management
  • Key rotation and security in KMS
  • CMK with custom key material
  • CloudHSM

AWS macie

AWS license manager

API gateway

AWS amplify

AWS personal health dashboard

Cloud front

  • Creating a cloud front distribution
  • CDN concepts
  • Configuring origins and behaviours
  • Hosting a website of cloud front distribution
  • Implementing restrictions

AWS elasticache

AWS route53

  • Troubleshooting
  • DNS concepts and working
  • Domain registration
  • Configuring DNS with web servers & CDN
  • Configuring recordset

AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

  • Best practices
  • VPC peering
  • Designing a VPC
  • Inbound and outbound ACL's
  • VPC configuration
  • Internet gateway & NAT gateway
  • VPC security
  • Routing tables
  • Public & private subnets
  • Gateways
  • What is VPC?
  • Elastic IP's

Simple Notification Service (SNS)

  • What is SNS
  • Create subscription
  • Creating a topic
  • Subscribed to the subscription

WorkSpaces

  • Creating & configuring a workspace
  • Introduction to desktop as a service
  • Integration
  • Connecting to a workspace

AWS kinesis

  • Kinesis data streams
  • Kinesis data analytics
  • Kinesis data firehose
  • Streaming architectures

Athena & quick sight

SWF

Service & support

Workdocs

Billing & cost management

SQS

Work email

App stream

Microsoft Azure architecting (mapped to Microsoft Azure solutions architect expert) manage

Azure AD objects

  • Manage user and group properties
  • Configure self-service password reset
  • Manage device settings
  • Perform bulk user updates
  • Create users and groups
  • Manage guest accounts
  • Configure Azure AD join

Manage role-based access control (RBAC)

  • Create a custom role
  • Interpret access assignments
  • Provide access to Azure resources by assigning roles
  • ▪Subscriptions
  • ▪Resources (VM, disk, etc.)
  • ▪Resource groups
  • Manage multiple directories

Design authentication

  • Recommend a solution for conditional access, including multi-factor authentication
  • Recommend a solution for single-sign-on
  • Recommend a solution for network access authentication
  • Recommend a solution for authentication
  • Recommend and implement a solution for B2B integration
  • Recommend a solution for a hybrid identity including Azure ad connect and Azure ad connect health
  • Recommend a solution for user self-service

Design authorization

  • Choose an authorization approach
  • Recommend a hierarchical structure that includes management groups, subscriptions and resource groups
  • Recommend an access management solution including RBAC policies, access reviews,
  • Role assignments, physical access, privileged identity management (PIM), Azure ad Identity protection, just in time (jit) access

Design governance

  • Recommend a strategy for tagging
  • Recommend a solution for using Azure blueprint
  • Recommend a solution for using Azure policy

Manage subscriptions and governance

  • Configure Azure policies
  • Apply tags
  • Configure resource locks
  • Create and manage resource groups
  • Manage subscriptions
  • More resources
  • Configure management groups
  • Configure cost management

Implement cloud infrastructure monitoring

  • Monitor performance
  • Create a performance baseline for resources
  • Monitor performance capacity
  • Configure diagnostic settings on resources
  • Monitor for unused resources
  • Visualize diagnostics data using Azure Monitor
  • Monitor security
  • Monitor health and availability
  • Monitor service health
  • Monitor networking
  • Configure advanced logging
  • Implement and configure Azure monitor insights, including app insights, networks, containers
  • Configure a log analytics workspace
  • Recommend & plan for integration with monitoring tools including Azure monitor and Azure sentinel
  • Monitor cost
  • Recommend a solution for cost management and cost reporting
  • Monitor & report spends
  • Recommend solutions to minimize cost
  • Configure and manage advanced alerts
  • View alerts in Azure monitor logs
  • Collect alerts and metrics across multiple subscriptions
  • Configure logging for workloads
  • Initiate automated responses by using action groups
  • View alerts in Azure monitor
  • Analyze metrics across subscriptions
  • Choose a mechanism for event routing and escalation
  • Configure and interpret metrics
  • Configure diagnostic settings
  • Create and test alerts
  • Create a query & save a query to the dashboard
  • Interpret graphs
  • Configure & implement log analytics
  • Configure application insights
  • Query and analyze logs
  • Create action groups
  • Analyze alerts across subscriptions
  • Set up alerts and actions

Implement & manage storage accounts

  • Configure Azure blob storage
  • Implement Azure storage account failover
  • Implement shared and access policies
  • Configure Azure files and blob storage
  • Manage access keys
  • Configure storage tiers for Azure blobs
  • Create an Azure file share
  • Select storage account options based on a use case
  • Configure network access to the storage account
  • Azure storage explorer and AZ copy
  • Implement Azure AD authentication for storage
  • Create and configure Azure file sync service
  • Implement Azure storage replication

Implement VMs for Windows and Linux

  • Deploy and configure scale sets
  • Recommend a solution for compute provisioning
  • Implement Azure dedicated hosts
  • Select virtual machine size
  • Configure high availability
  • Configure Azure disk encryption
  • Configure storage for vms

Design a compute solution

  • Determine appropriate compute technologies, including virtual machines, app services, service fabric, Azure functions, windows virtual desktop, and containers
  • Recommend a solution for compute provisioning
  • AKS versus ACI and the configuration of each one
  • Recommend a solution for containers
  • Recommend a solution for automating compute management

Automate deployment and configuration of resources

  • Deploy from a template
  • Save a deployment as an Azure resource manager template
  • Modify Azure resource manager template
  • Configure a virtual disk template
  • Create and execute an automation runbook
  • Evaluate the location of new resources
  • Manage a template library

Implement virtual networking

  • Monitor on-premises connectivity
  • Use network performance monitor
  • Setting up and configuring vnets
  • Use Network Watcher
  • Implement vnet peering
  • Configure private and public IP addresses, network routes, network interface, subnets, and virtual network
  • Troubleshoot external networking & virtual network connectivity
  • Implement vnet to vnet connections

Configure name resolution

  • Configure Azure DNS
  • Configure a private or public DNS zone
  • Configure custom DNS settings

Secure access to virtual networks

  • Evaluate effective security rules
  • Associate an NSG to a subnet or network interface
  • Create security rules
  • Deploy and configure Azure bastion service
  • Deploy and configure Azure firewall

Design a network solution

  • Recommend a solution for network addressing and name resolution
  • Recommend a solution for network security
  • Private endpoints
  • Gateways
  • Firewalls
  • Recommend a solution for network provisioning
  • Recommend a solution for automating network management
  • Recommend a solution for network connectivity to the Internet, on-premises networks, and other Azure virtual networks
  • Recommend a solution for load balancing and traffic routing

Implement Azure active directory

  • Configure bypass options
  • Configure user accounts for MFA
  • Implement and manage guest accounts
  • Configure fraud alerts
  • Add custom domains
  • Manage multiple directories
  • Implement conditional access including MFA
  • Configure verification methods
  • Configure trusted ips
  • Implement self-service password reset
  • Configure Azure AD identity protection

Implement and manage hybrid identities

  • Configure single sign-on
  • Configure and manage password sync and password writeback
  • Install and configure Azure AD Connect
  • Identity synchronization options
  • Use Azure AD Connect Health

Manage workloads in Azure

  • Migrate workloads using Azure Migrate
  • Recommend target infrastructure
  • Assess infrastructure
  • Prepare the on-premises for migration
  • Select a migration method
  • Implement disaster recovery
  • Solutions for migrating applications, VMs, and databases
  • Implement Azure backup for VMS
  • Implement Azure update management

Implement load balancing and network security

  • Implement the Azure front door service
  • Implement Azure load balancer
  • Implement a web application firewall
  • Implement an application gateway
  • Implement bastion
  • Implement Azure traffic manager
  • Implement Azure firewall
  • Implement network security groups and application security, groups

Implement and manage Azure governance solutions

  • Assign RBAC roles
  • Implement and configure an Azure blueprint
  • Implement and configure an Azure policy
  • Interpret effective permissions
  • Create a custom RBAC role
  • Create and manage hierarchical structure that contains management groups, subscriptions, and resource groups
  • Set up and perform an access review
  • Configure access to Azure resources by assigning roles
  • Configure management access to Azure

Manage security for applications

  • Implement and configure keyvault
  • Register and manage applications in Azure AD
  • Implement and configure Azure AD managed identities

Implement an application infrastructure

  • Create an app service web app for containers
  • Create and configure Azure app service
  • Configure networking for an app service
  • Implement solutions for API integration
  • Configure an app service
  • Implement logic apps
  • Create and configure an app service plan
  • Implement Azure functions
  • Create and manage deployment slots

Implement container-based applications

  • Publish and automate image deployment to the Azure container registry
  • publish a solution on an Azure container instance
  • configure Azure Kubernetes service
  • Create a container image
  • Create and configure web apps
  • Create and configure app service plans
  • Create and configure app service

Implement nosql databases

  • Configure storage account tables
  • Set up replicas in cosmos DB
  • Select appropriate cosmos DB APIs

Implement Azure SQL databases

  • Implement Azure SQL Database managed instances
  • Publish an Azure SQL database
  • Configure HA for an Azure SQL database
  • Configure Azure SQL database settings

Design a solution for databases

  • Recommend database service tier sizing
  • Select an appropriate data platform based on requirements
  • Recommend a solution for database scalability recommend a solution for encrypting data at rest, data in transmission, and data in use
  • Design a solution for backup and recovery
  • Recommend a recovery solution for Azure hybrid and on-premises workloads that meet recovery objectives (RTO, RLO, RPO)
  • Recommend a site recovery replication policy
  • Recommend a solution for site failover and failback (planned/unplanned)
  • Recommend a solution for site recovery capacity
  • Recommend a solution for the site recovery network
  • Design and Azure Site Recovery solution
  • Recommend a solution for Azure Backup management
  • Recommend a solution for recovery in different regions
  • Design a solution for data archiving and retention
  • Identify business compliance requirements for data archiving
  • Identify requirements for data archiving
  • Recommend a data retention policy
  • Identify SLA(s) for data archiving
  • Recommend storage types and methodology for data archiving

Design for high availability

  • Recommend a solution for autoscaling
  • Recommend a solution for geo-redundancy of workloads
  • Identify storage types for high availability
  • Identify resources that require high availability
  • Recommend a solution for application and workload redundancy, including compute, database, and storage

Admission details

Candidates need to submit an online enquiry form before enrolling for Cloud Architect Expert – AWS (SAP – C01 & SAA-C02) & MS Azure (AZ-303 & AZ-304) Training that can be submitted in the following steps- 

Step 1: Select the “Enroll Now” option on https://www.infosectrain.com/courses/cloud-architect-expert-combo-training/ after which you will be asked to fill in your details and the course desired.

Step 2: Once your request is submitted, you will receive a response within 24 hours.

Evaluation process

Candidates will have to sit for two certification exams in this combo training. Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies exam and Microsoft Azure Architect Design exam comprise 40-60 multiple choice questions that have to be attempted in 150 minutes. Candidates who score 700 out of 1000 or more will qualify for the exam and receive Cloud Architect Expert – AWS (SAP – C01 & SAA-C02) & MS Azure (AZ-303 & AZ-304) Certification.

How it helps

Cloud Architect Expert – AWS (SAP – C01 & SAA-C02) & MS Azure (AZ-303 & AZ-304) Certification benefits include crucial tools for learners to become certified cloud and MS Azure experts by qualifying cloud architects. Since this is a combo training programme, candidates will be prepared for the skills required in all certification exams with enhanced professional prospects and expertise.

In Cloud Architect Expert – AWS (SAP – C01 & SAA-C02) & MS Azure (AZ-303 & AZ-304) Certification Course, learners acquire the fluency to ace performance-based tasks and best practices for cloud solution architecture to take over other roles, such as system administrators, DevOps engineer and security administrators. With their business knowledge, they can solve issues in cloud solutions architecture.

Instructors

Mr Rishabh Kotiyal

Mr Rishabh Kotiyal
Trainer
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Mr Abhy
Head of Security Testing
Freelancer

Mr Abhy
Trainer
Freelancer

Mr Krish 1
Instructor
Freelancer

FAQs

Can candidates get immediate redressal of their doubts?

Cloud Architect Expert Combo Training Course enables learners to clarify their doubts immediately in one-on-one training.

Which is the preferred training option for flexible and time-convenient learning?

Candidates seeking a flexible and time-saving learning schedule can opt for the online training programme.

How can a candidate book a demo class in Cloud Architect Expert – AWS (SAP – C01 & SAA-C02) & MS Azure (AZ-303 & AZ-304) Certification Course?

Candidates need to check the request for a demo session on the course URL by entering their details in the concerned form.

What will be the mode of the exam?

The mode of examination will be in English.

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