aws training at qa
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for the AWS Meetup, London, September 2014TRANSCRIPT
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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
