Hello and welcome to this learning path
that has been designed to help you prepare for and pass
the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Certification.
My name is Stuart Scott.
I'm one of the trainers here at Cloud Academy specializing
in AWS, Amazon Web Services.
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The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification
has been designed for those who are not necessarily
within a technical role but do have some exposure
and experience with AWS and the services that it provides.
Perhaps, being involved from a sales, financial
or managerial perspective.
The subject caught here of the exam can be broken down
into four distinct domains, these being cloud concepts,
security, technology and billing and pricing.
And each of these domains
carry a specific percentage weighting within the exam.
These are shown on the screen.
To allow you to understand and define these domains,
they can each be broken down further.
So, let's take a look.
Domain one, cloud concepts.
This domain focuses on three key areas.
Define the AWS cloud and its value proposition,
identify aspects of AWS cloud economics
and list the different cloud architecture design principles.
This will test your knowledge of general cloud concepts
and principals.
Looking at the benefits of the cloud and what it can bring
to your business
from both a financial and operational perspective.
Domain two, security.
This domain looks at four components of cloud security.
Define the AWS shared responsibility model,
define AWS cloud security and compliance concepts,
identify AWS access management capabilities
and identify resources for security support.
This security domain will test your understanding
of cloud security ensuring you understand the boundaries
of where specific responsibilities lay between you and AWS.
It will also access your knowledge of access control
to your AWS resources and how you can maintain compliance
within your environment and how to request
additional support if required.
Domain three, technology.
Much like the previous domain, this also has four key areas
of interest.
Define methods of deploying and operating in the AWS cloud,
define the AWS global infrastructure,
identify the core AWS services and identify resources
for technology support.
This domain will test your knowledge of the core components
of AWS, its global infrastructure and its key services
across a spectrum of categories such as compute, storage,
databases and networking.
You must know the differences between specific services
and what those services are used for.
Domain four, billing and pricing.
This domain assesses you in three areas.
Compare and contrast the various pricing models for AWS,
recognize the various account structures in relation
to AWS billing and pricing and identify resources available
for billing support.
This domain is all about your understanding and awareness
of how to track and trace your cloud spend when using AWS
using a variety of tool sets that are available.
Knowing the differences between these tools is essential.
This learning path is comprised of a number of courses
and hands-on labs that cover all elements
within these domains to ensure you have
the required knowledge and sufficient understanding
to enable you to pass this certification.
There are nine courses and four labs in total.
Starting with the course, what is cloud computing?
This will provide an introduction to cloud computing itself
before we focus on components of AWS.
Then we have the AWS compute fundamentals, which we'll look
at some of the core compute services offered by AWS
at a foundational level.
Then this leads you on to your first hands-on lab
allowing you to create an ET2 instance by following
step by step instructions within a live AWS environment,
all of which is provided by our platform.
Next will be another course, this time focusing on the key
storage services and again once you have understood
the theory behind this lecture, you will have
the opportunity to create your first S3 bucket, again,
using one of our hands-on labs.
Database fundamentals will then follow this lab
which will introduce you to services
such as RDS and DynamoDB.
And you can then create
a relational database service instance
by following the step by step lab.
Networking fundamentals is next which introduces you
to essential networking elements of AWS
including virtual private clouds which then leads nicely
onto the final lab of this learning path
which provides an introduction to what a VPC is
and how they are created.
Security fundamentals introduces you to some of the key
security services that are used to control access
and secure your environment.
The management fundamentals course focuses on the services
and features that are available to help you manage
and operate your cloud resources and infrastructure.
AWS architecture fundamentals provides an understanding
of the global AWS infrastructure and how to deploy services
and solutions upon this infrastructure using best practices
with the help of the well-architected framework.
The AWS cost management and customer support cost
looks at the different pricing and support plans
that are available and the tool sets that are available
to help you manage and monitor your cloud spend.
And finally, there will be a summary of all the content
that this learning path provided.
These lectures and courses within this learning path
have been created and recorded by myself,
Andrew Larkin, the AWS content lead
and John Chell, our Content Product Specialist.
Feedback on our learning paths here at Cloud Academy
are valuable to both us as trainers and any students
that are looking to take the same learning path
in the future.
If you have any feedback positive or negative, it would
be greatly appreciated if you can contact us
at support@cloudacademy.com. That brings me to the end
of this lecture. Coming up next, let me begin
by introducing you to what is cloud computing.