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AWS Solutions Architect – Professional Course Curriculum
Lesson 00 – Course Overview
An introduction to the course objectives, structure, and exam preparation strategies. Understand the value of AWS architecture and the skills you will gain.
📘 Sample Questions
- What are the main pillars of AWS architecture?
- How should you prepare for the AWS Solutions Architect – Professional exam?
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Lesson 01 – AWS Overview
Learn the basics of AWS cloud computing, global infrastructure, core services, and deployment models. Understand how AWS helps build scalable and secure applications.
📘 Sample Questions
- Explain the AWS global infrastructure.
- What are the differences between regions and availability zones?
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Lesson 02 – Designing Highly Available, Cost-efficient, Fault-tolerant, and Scalable Systems
Explore architectural best practices to ensure applications are resilient, meet demand fluctuations, and optimize costs while maintaining performance and reliability.
📘 Sample Questions
- What design patterns enhance fault tolerance?
- How can you reduce costs while ensuring scalability?
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Lesson 03 – Identity Access Management (IAM)
Dive deep into user authentication, role-based access, policies, permissions, and security mechanisms. Learn how to manage identities securely within AWS.
📘 Sample Questions
- What is the difference between IAM roles and policies?
- How do you implement least privilege access?
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Lesson 04 – Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Learn to create and configure private networks, subnets, route tables, gateways, and security groups for secure communication between resources.
📘 Sample Questions
- How would you secure traffic between EC2 instances?
- What are NAT gateways and why are they used?
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Lesson 05 – Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Understand how to launch, configure, and manage virtual servers in AWS. Learn about instance types, auto scaling, placement groups, and networking.
📘 Sample Questions
- What are EC2 instance types and how are they categorized?
- How do auto scaling groups work?
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Lesson 06 – Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
Explore object storage architecture, data lifecycle, versioning, encryption, and cross-region replication to build reliable and scalable storage solutions.
📘 Sample Questions
- How do you implement encryption at rest and in transit for S3?
- What is the purpose of lifecycle rules in S3?
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Lesson 07 – Amazon Route 53
Learn domain name system (DNS) management, routing policies, health checks, and high availability configurations for managing domain-based traffic.
📘 Sample Questions
- What are routing policies and when would you use each one?
- How does Route 53 support high availability?
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Lesson 08 – Databases
Understand managed database services like RDS, DynamoDB, and Aurora. Learn database migration, scaling, indexing, and caching strategies.
📘 Sample Questions
- What are the benefits of using Aurora over traditional RDS?
- How does DynamoDB handle scalability?
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Lesson 09 – Application Services
Get familiar with messaging, queuing, notification services such as SQS, SNS, and EventBridge. Explore how to build loosely coupled and event-driven architectures.
📘 Sample Questions
- When would you use SQS vs SNS?
- How can EventBridge integrate with microservices?
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Lesson 10 – Security Practices for Optimum Cloud Deployment
Learn about securing data, controlling access, implementing encryption, audit trails, and governance. Best practices for safeguarding cloud applications.
📘 Sample Questions
- How do you configure encryption in transit and at rest?
- What steps are necessary for ensuring compliance?
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Lesson 11 – Disaster Recovery
Understand backup strategies, replication across regions, failover planning, and recovery objectives to ensure business continuity during failures.
📘 Sample Questions
- What is the difference between RPO and RTO?
- How would you design a cross-region disaster recovery solution?
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Lesson 12 – Troubleshooting
Explore common operational issues, monitoring logs, diagnosing performance bottlenecks, and debugging resource configurations to maintain uptime.
📘 Sample Questions
- How do you troubleshoot instance startup failures?
- What monitoring tools can you use to diagnose problems?
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Lesson 13 – AWS Solutions Architect Exam
Prepare for the certification exam with practice questions, scenario-based problems, time management tips, and strategies for tackling complex architecture challenges.
📘 Sample Questions
- Explain a scenario-based question where you must choose between high availability and cost optimization.
- How do you prioritize security in an application design?
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