Exam Concepts: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate

In this course you will learn concepts that are important for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate level exam.

The course is designed around 20 scenario based questions. The scenarios are problems or tasks that a SysOps admin may encounter in the real world. The actual exam too will test you using similar questions.

The course includes video lectures for each question, and in the lectures I discuss the scenario, the related AWS concepts and the solution to the problem or task in the scenario.

The idea of discussing scenario based questions is to bring you closer to exam readiness. By doing this course, you will know what to expect in the exam, how to prepare for the exam and also how to tackle the exam questions.

The course is designed around the official blueprint for this exam. The questions in the course have been carefully selected to be in line with exam objectives, the exam domains and the weightage given to each exam domain. The exam domains along with the number of questions under each domain are listed below:

+ Domain 1: Monitoring & reporting (4)

+ Domain 2: High availability (2)

+ Domain 3: Deployment and provisioning (3)

+ Domain 4: Storage and data management (3)

+ Domain 5: Security and compliance (3)

+ Domain 6: Networking (3)

+ Domain 7: Automation and optimization (2)

The following services are covered in some shape or form in the course:

+ Compute: EC2, Lambda

+ Storage: EBS, S3, Snowball

+ Networking: VPC, API Gateway, Direct Connect, Route 53

+ Databases: RDS, DynamoDB

+ Other: IAM, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, SNS

The EC2 service enjoys a lot more coverage than others, this is because a SysOps admin would spend most of her time working with EC2 instances.

You will start the course by taking the quiz with the 20 questions. And then you will go through the discussion around each question in the 20 video lectures that follow.