AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate
Design resilient, cost-aware architectures and build them yourself in a sandbox AWS account we provision for you.
- 40 contact hours
- 6 weeks
- 4 modules
- 25 seats maximum
About this programme
The Solutions Architect Associate exam asks you to choose between architectures, which means cost and resilience trade-offs matter as much as knowing what each service does. We provision a sandbox AWS account for every participant, with a spending cap, so every design decision in the course gets built and tested rather than discussed. The four exam domains — secure architectures, resilient architectures, high-performing architectures and cost-optimised architectures — each close with a build exercise reviewed in class.
Who should attend
- Cloud engineers, backend developers, DevOps engineers and infrastructure architects.
Prerequisites
- No formal prerequisite. One year of hands-on AWS exposure makes the pace comfortable.
Curriculum
4 modules, 40 hours of live instruction.
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Module 1 Secure architectures 10 hrs
Identity, boundaries and data protection, built in your sandbox account.
- IAM users, roles and policies
- VPC design, subnets and security groups
- KMS, encryption at rest and in transit
- Secrets management
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Module 2 Resilient architectures 10 hrs
Designing for the failure modes the exam keeps asking about.
- Multi-AZ and multi-region patterns
- Decoupling with SQS, SNS and EventBridge
- RDS, Aurora and DynamoDB trade-offs
- Backup, RTO and RPO
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Module 3 High-performing architectures 10 hrs
Choosing the right compute and storage for the workload described.
- EC2, Lambda, ECS and Fargate selection
- S3 storage classes and EBS volume types
- Caching with CloudFront and ElastiCache
- Auto scaling and load balancing
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Module 4 Cost-optimised architectures 10 hrs
Taught from real post-mortems on estates that got expensive.
- Pricing models and Savings Plans
- Right-sizing and lifecycle policies
- Cost allocation tags and budgets
- Full mock exam and debrief
The exam
65 questions, 130 minutes, multiple choice and multiple response, Pearson VUE or online proctored.
Your trainers
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Rhea Kapoor
AWS SA Professional, AWS DevOps Engineer, CKA
Principal Cloud Architect
11 years in the field
Ask about AWS Certified Solutions Architect
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