Introduction
- Course Introduction
- About the Training Architect
- SysOps Codex Interactive Diagram and Web Application
- AWS Free Tier: Usage Tracking and Billing Widget
Monitoring and Metrics
- CloudWatch Essentials
- CloudWatch Events
- CloudWatch Logs
- EC2 Status Checks
- EC2 Types and Performance
- EC2 Metrics and Custom Metrics
- EC2 Dedicating an Instance for Monitoring
- EBS Essentials
- EBS Performance
- EBS Metrics
- EFS Monitoring for Performance and Availability
- ELB Monitoring for Performance and Availability
- RDS Monitoring for Performance and Availability
- Elasticache: Monitoring for Performance and Availability
Ability to monitor and manage billing and cost optimization processes
- AWS Billing and Organizations
- AWS Cost Explorer
- Cost Optimization
- AWS Monitoring and Metrics Concepts for the SysOps Administrator
High Availablity
- Scalability and Elasticity Essentials
- EC2: Scale Out or Scale Up
- EC2 Reserve Instances
- ELB: High Availability
- SNS and SQS Availability
Ensure level of fault tolerance based on business needs
- EC2: NAT Gateway and Bastion Hosts
- RDS: Understanding Multi AZ
- Overview of Services that Allow Access to the Underlying Operating System
- AWS High Availability Concepts for the SysOps Administrator
Optimize the environment to ensure maximum performance
- EC2: Initializing Volumes
- RDS: Scaling for Performance
Identify performance bottlenecks and implement remedies
- EBS: Resizing or Changing Root Volumes
- ELB: SSL Offloading
- Network Bottlenecks
Identify potential issues on a given application deployment
- EC2: Troubleshoot Autoscaling Issues
- EBS: Ensuring Data Durability
- AWS Analysis Concepts for the SysOps Administrator
Deployment and Provisioning
- ELB: Deployment and Provisioning
- Lambda: Deployment and Provisioning
- ECS: Deployment and Provisioning
- LightSail and Batch Essentials
- RDS: Deployment and Provisioning
- DynamoDB: Deployment and Provisioning
- S3: Provisioning
- EFS: Deployment and Provisioning
The ability to provision cloud resources and manage implementation automation
- Elastic Beanstalk: Essentials
- CloudFormation Essentials
- OpsWorks Essentials
- AWS Deployment and Provisioning Concepts for the SysOps Administrator
Demonstrate ability to create backups for different services
- Overview of the Services that include Backups
- Automating Backups with Boto3 SDK
- S3: Cross-Region Replication
- Storage Gateway: Hybrid Environments
Demonstrate ability to enforce compliance requirements
- Compliance Overview
Manage backup and disaster recovery processes
- Cross-Region Read Replicas
- Storing Log Files and Backups
- Disaster Recovery Strategies
- AWS Data Management Concepts for the SysOps Administrator
Implement and manage security policies
- IAM Policies
- IAM User and Groups
- IAM Roles
- S3 Bucket Policies
- VPC: NACLs and Security Groups
Ensure data integrity and access controls when using the AWS platform
- Encryption Essentials
- IAM: Mutli-Factor Authentication
- STS: Federation
- S3: Data Integrity
Demonstrate understanding of the shared responsibility model
- Shared Responsibilty Overivew
Demonstrate ability to prepare for security assessment use of AWS
- AWS Config: Overview
- CloudTrail: Overview
- Inspector: Overview
- AWS Security Concepts for the SysOps Administrator
Demonstrate ability to implement networking features of AWS
- VPC: Essentials
- EC2: Elastic IP and Network Interfaces
- CloudFront: Essentials
- Route 53: Routing Policy
- AWS Networking Concepts for the SysOps Administrator
Demonstrate ability to implement connectivity features of AWS
- VPC Peering
- AWS VPN
