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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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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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