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Exam Prep: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate Specialization

Become AWS SysOps Administrator Certified. Master the basics of SysOps Administrator in AWS

Instructor: Whizlabs Instructor

Included with Coursera Plus

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5 course series

Get in-depth knowledge of a subject

4.0

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Intermediate level

Recommended experience

1 month at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Earn a career credential

Share your expertise with employers

5 course series

Get in-depth knowledge of a subject

4.0

(15 reviews)

Intermediate level

Recommended experience

1 month at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Earn a career credential

Share your expertise with employers

What you'll learn

Gain networking and security skills based on AWS Well-Architected Framework.
Learn to Deploy and Manage workloads on the AWS Management Console.

Overview

Exam Prep: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate Specialization is intended for candidates performing an administrator role. This specialization will prepare learners to use AWS services for monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting solutions to provide highly available infrastructure. This Specialization is designed to teach learners the technical skills related to System or Server administrator-focused job roles. If you're seeking a job in an AWS cloud admin role, this focused specialization will provide you with enough skills and knowledge to earn a job.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

- Understand business continuity and disaster recovery procedures. - Implement operations using the AWS Management Console and the AWS CLI. - Analyze networking concepts like DNS, TCP/IP, and firewalls.

The target audience for the Whizlabs Exam Prep: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate Specialization course includes System Administrators, Server Administrators, and AWS Architects.

All these courses are further divided into Modules, Lessons, and Video Items. All the courses have a set of Practice Quiz and Graded Quiz available that test the candidate's ability to understand the concept and grasp the topics discussed in the courses.

What’s included

Shareable certificate

Add to your LinkedIn profile

Taught in English

26 practice exercises

Advance your subject-matter expertise

Learn in-demand skills from university and industry experts
Master a subject or tool with hands-on projects
Develop a deep understanding of key concepts
Earn a career certificate from Whizlabs

Specialization - 5 course series

AWS: Monitoring and Logging

Course 14 hoursView course

What you'll learn

AWS: Monitoring and Logging Course is the first course of the Exam Prep: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate Specialization. This course is designed to describe monitoring and logging implementation with multiple AWS services.

By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Understand to analyze monitoring and logging tools in AWS. - Implement monitoring and logging tools with different AWS services. This is an intermediate course, intended for learners performing an administrator role in AWS. To succeed in this course, you should have at least 1 year of basic experience with monitoring tools on AWS and working experience in a systems administrator role. This course is basically divided into three modules and each module is further segmented by Lessons and Video Lectures. This course facilitates learners with approximately 3:00-3:30 Hours of Video lectures that provide both Theory and Hands-On knowledge. Also, Graded and Ungraded Quizzes are provided with every module in order to test the ability of learners.

Skills you'll gain

System Monitoring, Amazon CloudWatch, Load Balancing, Cloud Computing, Amazon Web Services, Event Monitoring, Application Performance Management, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Continuous Monitoring, Network Monitoring, and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

AWS: Networking

Course 25 hoursView course

What you'll learn

AWS: Networking Course is the second course of Exam Prep: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate Specialization. This course assists learners with the knowledge of Amazon VPC and its components. The course focuses on the subnet and CIDR configurations and security concepts using Gateways. Learners will also be able to configure and connect multiple VPCs using VPC peering.

By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Understand the components of Amazon VPC. - Evaluate Subnet Sizing, Non-default Subnet Sizing, and CIDR blocks. - Create VPCs using Gateways, VPC Peering and Bastion Hosts. This is an intermediate course, intended for learners performing an administrator role in AWS. To succeed in this course, you should have at least 1 year of basic knowledge of CIDR blocks and subnets and hands-on experience with the VPC components in AWS. This course is basically divided into two modules and each module is further segmented by Lessons and Video Lectures. This course facilitates learners with approximately 3:00-3:30 Hours of Video lectures that provide both Theory and Hands-On knowledge. Also, Graded and Ungraded Quizzes are provided with every module in order to test the ability of learners.

Skills you'll gain

Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Amazon Web Services, Network Architecture, Network Security, Network Monitoring, Network Routing, and General Networking

AWS: Security and Cost Optimization strategies

Course 34 hoursView course

What you'll learn

AWS: Security and Cost Optimization Strategies Course is the third course of Exam Prep: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate Specialization. This course focuses on cost optimization and the efficient use of various AWS services.

By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Understand pay-as-you-go model. - Identify cost optimization strategies in AWS. - Identify AWS and customer responsibilities respectively. To succeed in this course, you should have basic knowledge of AWS Budgets and Billing Dashboard. One should have knowledge of Security & Compliance concepts in AWS. The course is divided into two modules and each module is further segmented by Lessons and Video Lectures. This course facilitates learners with approximately 2:30-3:00 Hours of Video lectures that provide both Theory and Hands-On knowledge. Also, Graded and Ungraded Quizzes are provided with every module in order to test the ability of learners.

Skills you'll gain

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Disaster Recovery, Cloud Security, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon Web Services, Infrastructure Security, Public Cloud, Data Security, Cloud Management, and Identity and Access Management

AWS: Data Management and Backups

Course 44 hoursView course

What you'll learn

AWS: Data Management and Backups Course is the fourth course of Exam Prep: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate Specialization. This course teaches Data Storage and management concepts by exploring AWS Services such as Amazon S3, and AWS Storage Gateway. This course also assists learners with knowledge of data backups and data recovery concepts using different strategies available in AWS.

By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Understand S3 Storage Classes and S3 lifecycle policies. - Implement data management using AWS Storage Gateway. - Analyze backups and troubleshooting techniques. This is an intermediate course, intended for learners identifying storage and backup techniques based on different requirements in AWS. To succeed in this course, you should have basic knowledge of Amazon S3 and hands-on experience with troubleshooting and resolving basic issues in AWS. The course is divided into two modules and each module is further segmented by Lessons and Video Lectures. This course facilitates learners with approximately 3:00 Hours of Video lectures that provide both Theory and Hands-On knowledge. Also, Graded and Ungraded Quizzes are provided with every module in order to test the ability of learners.

Skills you'll gain

Amazon S3, Data Management, Data Storage, Network Troubleshooting, Data Architecture, Data Storage Technologies, Cloud Storage, and Disaster Recovery

AWS: Scalability, Deployment, and Provisioning

Course 56 hoursView course

What you'll learn

AWS: Scalability, Deployment, and Provisioning Course is the fifth course of Exam Prep: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate Specialization. This course teaches the concepts of high availability and scalability by exploring Amazon RDS in AWS.

By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Understand Scalability, Elasticity, and Availability in AWS. - Create, deploy, and provision various configurations using automation best practices. - Apply deployment and provisioning concepts using AWS CloudFormation. To succeed in this course, you should have basic knowledge of scaling AWS resources ensuring high availability. One should have basic knowledge of Domain Name System (DNS), and domain name registration. The course is divided into two modules and each module is further segmented by Lessons and Video Lectures. This course facilitates learners with approximately 2:30-3:00 Hours of Video lectures that provide both Theory and Hands-On knowledge. Also, Graded and Ungraded Quizzes are provided with every module in order to test the ability of learners.

Skills you'll gain

Scalability, AWS CloudFormation, Load Balancing, Application Deployment, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Serverless Computing, Amazon S3, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Continuous Deployment, and Cloud Infrastructure