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AWS Training and Certification

Matt Bishop

matt.bishop@qa.com

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Over 1500 courses across 6 main areas Also apprenticeships, higher education

and executive masters degrees

24 centres across the UK Over 6000 customers

including over 80 of FTSE100 In 2013:

28800 training events 283800 delegates

The only authorised AWSTraining Partner in the UK

QA Training

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AWS Courses

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Instructor-led training with QA Roughly 50% presentation, 50% labs Max 12 delegates, very interactive Easy setup, can be delivered at customer site

Electronic courseware via browser or desktop/mobile app Online lab environment provided by us (via qwiklab.com)

AWS also offer short introductory videos and online PAYG labs http://aws.amazon.com/training

Basics

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AMWSE: AWS Essentials (1-day) Basic introduction to AWS Key services: S3, EC2, RDS Prerequisite for all the other courses

Full details at: http://qa.com/AMWSE

Introduction

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AWS Role-based Learning Paths

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Understanding the AWS services Implementing architectural patterns

e.g. web apps, batch processing Key concerns:

Elasticity, scalability, bootstrapping and autoscaling Security, configurability, cost Data storage, migration, DR and HA

Solutions Architect

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AMWSA: Architecting on AWS (3 days) Major services: VPC, IAM, ELB, EBS, Route 53, etc. Architectural patterns, design, cost, migration, DR/HA etc.

AMWSAC: Architecting Advanced Concepts (3 days) More services: Redshift, EMR, CloudFront, CloudSearch, etc. Deeper dive into some services introduced on AMWSA

e.g. Implementing a HA NAT, or VPN connections across VPCs

Full details at: http://qa.com/AMWSA http://qa.com/AMWSAC

Solutions Architect: Courses

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Understanding the AWS services More low-level than the architect courses Key concerns:

Resource Management Security Backup Monitoring and logging Tagging and cost allocation

SysOps Administrator

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AMWSSO: System Operations on AWS (3 days) Major services: VPC, IAM, EC2, EBS, etc. Provisioning and backup, monitoring and logging, tagging

AMWSAO: Advanced Operations on AWS (3 days) Continuous integration/deployment: AMIs, CloudFormation, SWF, etc. Deeper dive: more about logging, metrics, autoscaling

Full details at: http://qa.com/AMWSSO http://qa.com/AMWSAO

SysOps Administrator: Courses

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Understanding the AWS services Using AWS services programmatically Key concerns:

SDKs and development tools Invoking AWS services from application code Security Deployment Coding best practices

Developer

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AMWSD: Developing on AWS (3 days) Using the Java/.NET SDK with S3, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS. IAM, Elastic Beanstalk, exception handling and logging, async...

AMWSAO: Advanced Operations on AWS (3 days) Continuous integration/deployment: AMIs, CloudFormation, SWF, etc. Deeper dive: more about logging, metrics, autoscaling

Full details at: http://qa.com/AMWSD http://qa.com/AMWSAO

Developer: Courses

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AMWSBD: Big Data on AWS (3 days) Elastic MapReduce overview and deep-dive:

Hadoop and its ecosystem: Hive, Pig, Impala, Spark, Shark,... Costs and security Ingestion and compression: S3DistCP, Sqoop, Flume

Kinesis Redshift Visualisation: Tableau and Jaspersoft

Full details at: http://qa.com/AMWSBD

Speciality Course: Big Data

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AWS Certification

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Aligned with the courses, but independent of them

Certifications

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Administered by Kryterion at their testing centres

Multiple-choice computer-based exams 80 minutes for Associate, 170 minutes for Professional

Online practice exams are available

Exam outlines, sample questions, more details: http://aws.amazon.com/certification

Certification Exams

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Any questions?matt.bishop@qa.com

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