This course is your complete guide to preparing for and passing the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) exam. Updated to the newest exam objectives, it covers everything from AWS fundamentals to advanced architectural design.
Through hands-on labs, detailed explanations, and exam-focused practice questions, you’ll gain both the theoretical knowledge and practical skills needed to design secure, scalable, and cost-optimized cloud solutions on AWS.
Whether you’re aiming to earn the certification, advance your career, or deepen your AWS expertise, this course will give you the confidence to succeed.
Duration: 12 Weeks (3 Months)
What You’ll Learn
- AWS core services: IAM, EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, Route 53, CloudFront
- High-availability, fault-tolerant, and cost-effective architecture design
- Storage solutions: EBS, EFS, S3 classes, Glacier, and lifecycle policies
- Databases: RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, Neptune, Redshift
- Serverless design: Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB Streams, Step Functions
- Containers on AWS: ECS, EKS, App Runner, and ECR
- Security best practices: IAM policies, KMS, WAF, GuardDuty, Inspector, Cognito
- Networking in depth: VPCs, subnets, NAT, VPN, Direct Connect, peering
- Monitoring and auditing: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config, Trusted Advisor
- Migration strategies and disaster recovery solutions
- Exam strategies, practice quizzes, and a full practice exam
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Design resilient and scalable architectures on AWS.
- Select appropriate AWS services for compute, storage, networking, and security use cases.
- Implement best practices for cost optimization, security, and compliance.
- Prepare for and pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) exam.
- Apply real-world architectural patterns for business, enterprise, and cloud-native solutions.
Who Is This Course For?
- IT professionals looking to get AWS certified.
- Solutions architects wanting to improve cloud architecture skills.
- Developers and sysadmins transitioning into cloud roles.
- Beginners with basic IT knowledge who want to break into cloud computing.
- Anyone seeking to pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam.
Module Breakdown
Month 1 – AWS Foundations & Core Services
Week 1: Introduction to Cloud & AWS
- Cloud computing basics, AWS global infrastructure
- Shared Responsibility Model
- Setting up AWS Free Tier account
Week 2: Identity & Security
- IAM users, groups, roles, and policies
- Security best practices, MFA, AWS Organizations
- KMS, Secrets Manager, and encryption basics
Week 3: Compute Services
- EC2 deep dive: instances, AMIs, EBS volumes
- Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing
- Lab: launch and secure your first EC2 instance
Week 4: Storage Services
- S3 buckets, storage classes, versioning, lifecycle policies
- EFS vs EBS vs S3
- Lab: static website hosting with S3
Month 2 – Databases, Networking & Integration
Week 5: Databases on AWS
- RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache
- Database selection best practices
- Lab: deploy a relational and NoSQL database
Week 6: Networking & VPC
- VPC basics: subnets, routing, Internet/NAT gateways
- Security groups, NACLs, and peering
- Lab: build a custom VPC
Week 7: Application Integration
- SQS, SNS, Amazon MQ
- Event-driven design with EventBridge
- Lab: build a serverless event-driven app
Week 8: Serverless & Containers
- Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions
- ECS, EKS, App Runner basics
- Lab: deploy a serverless function with API Gateway
Month 3 – Advanced Services, Optimization & Exam Prep
Week 9: Monitoring & Management
- CloudWatch metrics, logs, alarms
- CloudTrail & auditing
- Trusted Advisor & AWS Config
- Lab: set up monitoring dashboards
Week 10: Migration & Disaster Recovery
- Backup & restore, pilot light, warm standby, multi-site
- DMS, Application Migration Service, Snowball
- Lab: simulate a DR strategy
Week 11: Advanced Services & Analytics
- Analytics: Athena, Redshift, QuickSight, Glue
- AI/ML: Rekognition, Polly, SageMaker overview
- Lab: analyze S3 data with Athena
Week 12: Exam Preparation & Final Project
- Review all AWS domains with sample questions
- Practice exam & exam strategies
- Final Project: Design and present an AWS architecture (e.g., scalable web app, secure eCommerce platform, or data analytics pipeline)
By the End of This Course…
- You’ll have in-depth knowledge of AWS services and how to architect solutions.
- You’ll be able to design secure, scalable, and cost-optimized AWS architectures.
- You’ll have practiced with real-world scenarios and mock exams.
- You’ll be fully prepared to pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) exam with confidence.