AWS Combo Course (ARCHITECT ASSOCIATE + SECURITY-SPECIALITY) by Infosec Train: Fee, Duration, How to Apply

Quick Facts

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

Course overview

The AWS Combo Course (ARCHITECT ASSOCIATE + SECURITY-SPECIALITY) by InfosecTrain will impart all the necessary details and skills to students required to become an AWS Cloud developer. The principles and core techniques involved in AWS cloud computing will be covered in the course module. The programme is an instructor-led curriculum. To make the course more comprehensive, students will be provided with a demo class and a certified trainer.

Course and certificate fees

No details regarding the AWS Combo Course (ARCHITECT ASSOCIATE + SECURITY-SPECIALITY) fee have been provided.
In the course, the students will be provided with a discount of up to 50%.

certificate availability

Yes

certificate providing authority

Infosec Train

Who it is for

The AWS Combo Course (ARCHITECT ASSOCIATE + SECURITY-SPECIALITY) is recommended to the following candidates-

Programmers who wish to learn to deploy Applications on AWS
Anyone interested in gaining the AWS Security Specialty Certification
Anyone interested in hosting highly scaleable, fault-tolerant applications (such as WordPress and Joomla) on the AWS cloud
Anyone wishing to enhance deep security knowledge related to AWS

Eligibility criteria

Work Experience

Candidates willing to apply to this programme must have at least 6 months of working experience with AWS Cloud. It includes financial, purchasing, sales, managerial and technical roles. Candidates with 2 years of experience in AWS Cloud Platform will be preferred.

Education

Students who want to apply for the AWS Combo Course (ARCHITECT ASSOCIATE + SECURITY-SPECIALITY) certification course need to have an understanding of the following-

Basic IT technical knowledge and understanding of the IT services
Applicants need to have an understanding of basic concepts in practices and security concepts, and the security controls for workloads on AWS
Students can have an AWS Associate level Certificate, but this is not necessary

Certification Qualification Details

To qualify for the AWS Combo Course (ARCHITECT ASSOCIATE + SECURITY-SPECIALITY) certification, students need to appear in two different examinations, each following the pattern of MCQ and score passing marks in them. The AWS Certified Solutions Architect- Associate exam duration is 130 minutes, and it will have 65 questions. While in the AWS Certified Security – Specialty, test there will be 65 questions, and 170 minutes will be allotted to the students.

What you will learn

Knowledge of aws technology

After completing the AWS Combo Course (ARCHITECT ASSOCIATE + SECURITY-SPECIALITY) certification syllabus, the students will learn the following concepts-

Applicants will study design and also implement security monitoring and alerting
They will study virtualization concepts
Candidates will be introduced to the cloud computing concept
The concepts of AWS database migration service will be covered in the course

The syllabus

AWS certified solutions architect – Associate

Cloud Computing Fundamentals

Cloud Computing Concepts
Service and Deployment models
Shared Responsibility Model
Virtualization Concepts
Architecture and Security Concepts

Compute

AWS EC2
Amazon Lightsail
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS App

Serverless

AWS Lambda

Storage

AWS Backup
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
Amazon FSx
Amazon S3
Amazon S3 Glacier

Database

Amazon RDS
Amazon Elasticache
AWS DynamoDB

Container Services

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)

Networking and Content Delivery

Amazon CloudFront
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
AWS Global Accelerator
Amazon Route 53
Amazon VPC
Other Networking and Content Delivery Overview

AWS VPN
AWS Transit Gateway
AWS Private Link
AWS Direct Connect

Security, Identity, and Compliance

AWS Artifact
AWS Audit Manager
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)
AWS CloudHSM
Amazon Cognito
Amazon Detective
AWS Directory Service
AWS Firewall Manager
Amazon GuardDuty
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Amazon Inspector
AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)
Amazon Macie
AWS Network Firewall
AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM)
AWS Secrets Manager
AWS Security Hub
AWS Shield
AWS WAF

IAM Identity Center

AWS Cost Management

AWS Budgets
AWS Cost and Usage Report
AWS Cost Explorer
Savings Plans

Analytics

Amazon Athena
Amazon Kinesis

Application Integration

Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events)
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

Management and Governance

AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudTrail
Amazon CloudWatch
AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)
AWS Config
AWS Management Console
AWS Organizations
AWS Systems Manager
AWS Trusted Advisor
Other Management and Governance Services for review
AWS Control Tower
AWS License Manager

AWS Certified Security – Specialty Domain 1: Threat Detection and Incident Response

Design and implement an incident response plan

Incident Response Strategy
Roles and responsibilities in IR plan specific to cloud incidents.
Use case 1: Credentials compromise.
Use case 2: Compromised EC2 Instances
Playbooks and Runbooks for IR
AWS Specific services helpful in Incident Response
Third-party integration concepts
Centralize security finding with security hub

Detect security threats and anomalies by using AWS services

Threat detection services specific to AWS
Visualizing and Detecting anomalies and correlation techniques
Evaluate finding from security services
Performing queries for validating security events
Create metrics filters and dashboards to detect Anomalous activity

Respond to compromised resources and workloads

AWS Security IR Guide
Automating remediation by using AWS services
Compromised resource management.
Investigating and analyzing to conduct Root cause and log analysis.
Capturing relevant forensics data from a compromised resource
Protecting and preserving forensic artifacts
Post-incident recovery

AWS Certified Security – Specialty

Domain 2: Security Logging and Monitoring

Design and Implement monitoring and alerting to address security events
Key AWS services for monitoring and alerting
Monitoring metrics and baselines
Analyzing environments and workloads to determine monitoring requirements according to business and security requirements
Setting up tools and scripts to perform regular audits

Troubleshoot security monitoring and alerting

Configuring monitoring services and collecting event data
Application monitoring, alerting, and visibility challenges

Design and implement a logging solution

Key logging services and attributes
Log destinations, Ingestion points, and lifecycle management
Logging specific to services and applications

Troubleshoot logging solutions

AWS services that provide data sources and logging capabilities
Access permissions that are necessary for logging
Identifying misconfigurations and remediations specific to logging
Reasons for missing logs and performing remediation steps

Design a log analysis solution

Services and tools to analyze captured logs
Identifying patterns in logs to indicate anomalies and known threats
Log analysis features for AWS services
Log format and components
Normalizing, parsing, and correlating logs

AWS certified security –Domain 3: Infrastructure Security

Design and implement security controls for edge services

Define edge security strategies and security features
Select proper edge services based on anticipated threats and attacks and define proper protection mechanisms based on that
Define layered Defense (Defense in Depth) mechanisms
Applying restrictions based on different criteria
Enable logging and monitoring across edge services to indicate attacks

Design and implement network security controls

VPC security mechanisms, including Security Groups, NACLs, and Network firewall
Traffic Mirroring and VPC Flow Logs
VPC Security mechanisms and implement network segmentation based on security requirements
Network traffic management and segmentation
Inter-VPC connectivity, Traffic isolation, and VPN concepts and; deployment
Peering and Transit Gateway
AWS Point to Site and Site to Site VPN, Direct Connect
Continuous optimization by identifying and removing unnecessary network access

Design and implement security controls for compute workloads

Provisioning and maintenance of EC2 instances
Create hardened images and backups
Applying instance and service roles for defining permissions
Host-based security mechanisms
Vulnerability assessment using AWS Inspector
Passing secrets and credentials security to computing workloads

AWS certified security –Domain 4: Identity and Access Management

Design, implement, and troubleshoot authentication for AWS resources

Identity and Access Management
Establish identity through an authentication system based on requirements.
Managed Identities, Identity federation
AWS Identity center, IAM, and Cognito
MFA, Conditional access, STS
Troubleshoot authentication issues

Design, implement, and troubleshoot authorization for AWS resources

IAM policies and types
Policy structure and troubleshooting
Troubleshoot authorization issues
ABAC and RBAC strategies
Principle of least privilege and Separation of duties
Investigate unintended permissions, authorization, or privileges

AWS certified security –Domain 5: Data Protection

Design and implement controls that provide confidentiality and integrity for data in transit

Design secure connectivity between AWS and on-premises networks
Design mechanisms to require encryption when connecting to resources.
Requiring DIT encryption for AWS API calls.
Design mechanisms to forward traffic over secure connections.
Designing cross-region networking

Design and implement controls that provide confidentiality and integrity for data at rest

Encryption and integrity concepts
Resource policies
Configure services to activate encryption for data at rest and to protect data integrity by preventing modifications.
Cloud HSM and KMS

Design and implement controls to manage the data lifecycle at rest

Lifecycle policies and configurations
Automated life cycle management
Establishing schedules and retention for AWS backup across AWS services.

Design and implement controls to protect credentials, secrets, and cryptographic key materials

Designing management and rotation of secrets for workloads using a secret manager
Designing KMS key policies to limit key usage to authorized users.
Establishing mechanisms to import and remove customer-provider key material.

AWS certified security –Domain 6: Management and Security Governance

Design a strategy to centrally deploy and manage AWS accounts

Multi-account strategies using AWS organization and Control tower
SCPs and Policy multi-account policy enforcement
Centralized management of security services and aggregation of findings
Securing root account access

Implement a secure and consistent deployment strategy for cloud resources

Deployment best practices with Infrastructure as a code
Tagging and metadata
Configure and deploy portfolios of approved AWS services.
Securely sharing resources across AWS accounts
Visibility and control over AWS infrastructure

Evaluate compliance of AWS resources

Data classification by using AWS services
Define config rules for detection of non-compliant AWS resources.
Collecting and organizing evidence by using Security Hub and AWS audit manager

Identify security gaps through architectural reviews and cost analysis

AWS cost and usage anomaly identification
Strategies to reduce attack surfaces
AWS well-architected framework to identify security gaps

Admission details

Filling the form

To apply for the AWS Combo Course (ARCHITECT ASSOCIATE + SECURITY-SPECIALITY) certification programme, students need to follow the listed steps-

Applicants have to visit the official webpage to generate the application form.
Students must click on the “Enroll now” button to start with the application process.
They need to provide all the details and credentials required before submitting the form.

Instructors

Mr Krish
Trainer
Freelancer

Other Bachelors, Other Masters

Mr Abhy
Trainer
Freelancer

FAQs

When will be the classes conducted for the course?

Classes for the AWS Combo Course (ARCHITECT ASSOCIATE + SECURITY-SPECIALITY) training will be held both on weekends and weekdays. Students can choose at their convenience.

Can the students avail any discount?

Yes, while paying the AWS Combo Course (ARCHITECT ASSOCIATE + SECURITY-SPECIALITY) fee, students can avail of a discount of up to 50%.

Is there placement assistance provided in the course?

No, there is no provision of placement assistance for the AWS Combo Course (ARCHITECT ASSOCIATE + SECURITY-SPECIALITY).

How to get access to the certificate?

The students will get the AWS Combo Course (ARCHITECT ASSOCIATE + SECURITY-SPECIALITY) programme certificate after securing passing marks in two exams.

How many certificates will the students receive?

Since it is a combined course; therefore, students will be awarded two certificates - one in AWS Certified Solutions Architect- Associate and the other one in AWS Certified Security.

Can the students access a demo class?

Yes, all the interested candidates can book the demo class for the AWS Combo Course (ARCHITECT ASSOCIATE + SECURITY-SPECIALITY).

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