QA Training is the only authorized AWS Training Partner in the UK, offering over 1500 courses across 6 areas including AWS courses. The document describes QA Training's instructor-led AWS courses for solutions architects, systems operators, developers and big data, which cover major AWS services and provide labs. It also discusses AWS certification exams that are aligned with but independent of the courses.

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AWS Training and Certification
Matt Bishop
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QA Training
 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 AWS
Training Partner in the UK

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AWS Courses

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Basics
 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

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Introduction
 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

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AWS Role-based Learning Paths

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Solutions Architect
 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

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Solutions Architect: Courses
 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

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SysOps Administrator
 Understanding the AWS services
 More low-level than the architect courses
 Key concerns:
 Resource Management
 Security
 Backup
 Monitoring and logging
 Tagging and cost allocation

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SysOps Administrator: Courses
 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

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Developer
 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

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Developer: Courses
 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

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Speciality Course: Big Data
 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

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AWS Certification

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Certifications
 Aligned with the courses, but independent of them

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Certification Exams
 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

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