AWS Certified SysOps Administrator

Description

Focused on deploying, managing, and operating workloads on AWS, The AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate certification is intended for systems administrators and systems operations engineers who want to move their careers to the next level of cloud engineering and prove their Cloud knowledge.

Through this Code.Learn AWS Certified SysOps Administrator program, designed in exclusive collaboration with Athens Tech College, participants will have a unique hands-on experience by using cutting-edge AWS technologies and AWS platform features. They will deploy, manage, and operate scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems, implement and control the flow of data to and from AWS, select the appropriate AWS service based on compute, data, or security requirements, identify appropriate use of AWS operational best practices, estimate AWS usage costs and identify operational cost control mechanisms and migrate on-premises workloads to AWS.

Key Objectives

The key learning objectives of this program can be summarized as follows:

• Introduction to AWS cloud services
• AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• AWS EC2 & AMIs
• EC2 at Scale, High Availability & Scalability
• EC2 Storage (EBS, EFS)
• AWS System Manager
• AWS S3
• Advanced Storage topics
• Cloudfront
• RDS, Aurora & ElastiCache
• Monitoring & Auditing
• Security & Compliance
• AWS Account Management
• Networking – Route 53
• Networking – VPC
• Cloudformation

Target Audience

Higher education graduates in one of the following fields:

• Computer Science
• Ιnformatics
• Software Engineering
• Web and Mobile Development
• Computer Engineering
• or any other relevant area

Prerequisite Knowledge

Some familiarity with AWS will be beneficial but not required. However, it is recommended that the participant fulfills the following general IT expectations:

• 1-2 years’ experience as a systems administrator in a systems operations role
• Understanding of virtualization technology
• Monitoring and auditing systems experience
• Knowledge of networking concepts (e.g., DNS, TCP/IP, and Firewalls)
• Ability to translate architectural requirements

AWS-related knowledge will be useful but is not required:

• At least one-year hands-on experience with AWS
• Experience managing/operating systems on AWS
• Understanding of the AWS tenets – architecting for the cloud
• Hands-on experience with the AWS CLI and SDKs/API tools
• Understanding of network technologies as they relate to AWS
• Understanding of security concepts with hands-on experience in implementing security controls and compliance requirements

Classroom

Sessions can be carried out:

• Live in a physical classroom
• Live online through video conferencing environments
• Using a Hybrid combination of both live physical and online approaches

The teaching method will depend on the conditions at the time the training will run and on the participants’ preferences.