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AWS Cloud Training

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Getting Started with AWS

This really depends on your background and career goals. The following articles will help you to decide:

Getting started with AWS

Which AWS Certification should I get?

We also recommend downloading our free Guide to AWS Certifications.

With our beginner friendly courses, there is NO need for previous AWS cloud experience as we’ll teach you the foundations of cloud computing. For those with limited IT background, we recommend getting started with the AWS Cloud Practitioner certification exam. All of our entry-level courses are designed with non-techies and newcomers to the cloud in mind.

AWS Training Courses [Pre-Purchase]

Our courses are suitable for

  • Students preparing for the AWS certification exams who want to pass with confidence on their first attempt
  • Anyone who is keen to take their AWS cloud career and salary to the next level with an AWS certification
  • Professionals who want to learn how to leverage the benefits of the AWS Cloud to demonstrate strong capability with AWS to (future) employers

We regularly update the content of our training courses, practice exams and training notes to reflect the latest changes.

With an active subscription, you get free access to all course updates.

You can check out via Stripe using your credit card / debit card (Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, JCB). 

Yes, we have compiled a range of free AWS Training Resources – including free video tutorials, practice questions and cheat sheets. These free AWS training materials are a great way to familiarise yourself with our training style and format.

If you purchase directly from the digital cloud training platform, you get access to additional features such as extra learning modes (knowledge reviews and training mode) for practice questions.

While we don’t control Udemy’s pricing strategy (which varies from country to country), you may find that our plans are more affordable than purchasing individual courses on Udemy

If you prefer buying our courses from Udemy, you can use our Udemy coupon codes.

Digital Cloud Training is very active on social media. We are always delighted to see our students share their exam success with the community on Facebook or LinkedIn. Feel free to join these groups and follow us on LinkedInTwitter or Instagram.  

AWS Training Courses [Post-Purchase]

Simply log-in and navigate to “My Courses” in the upper left corner. That’s where you’ll find all of your training courses. 

You’ll find the link for the course downloads in the last lecture of section 1 titled “Course Download”.

Practice questions are presented in four modes to assist with learning (described below). Upon finishing an exam, you will receive a pass/fail notification along with your total score and the count of correct responses.

Exam Mode: In exam simulation mode, you complete one full-length practice exam and answer all questions within the allotted time. The practice exam has the same format, style, time limit and passing score as the real AWS exam. Each exam contains unique questions.

Training Mode: When taking the practice exam in training mode, you will be shown the answers and explanations for every question after clicking “submit”. These practice exams contain the same unique questions as the corresponding exam in exam mode.

Knowledge Reviews: Having identified your strengths and weaknesses, you get to dive deep into specific areas with our knowledge reviews. You are presented with a series of questions focussed on a specific knowledge area. There is no time limit and you can view the answer to each question as you go through them.

Final Exam Simulator: The exam simulator randomly selects questions from our pool of unique practice questions for each AWS exam – mimicking the real AWS exam environment. These practice exams have the same format, style, time limit and passing score as the real AWS exam.

Yes, you can. When taking the practice exam in training mode, you will be shown the answers and explanations for every question after clicking “check”. The same applies to the knowledge reviews where you are presented with a series of questions on a specific topic.

To review questions at the end of a practice exam, choose “Review questions”.

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If you wish to get direct access to experienced instructors to ask technical questions, we highly recommend enrolling in our cloud mastery bootcamp

For course-related questions, please check the FAQ on this page to find immediate answers to your questions.

For those enrolled in our on-demand training courses, we host a slack workspace. This is a community space where students help each other answer questions about AWS related topics.

You can also join our private group on LinkedIn and/or Facebook to ask AWS related questions and share your exam experience with the community of AWS students. 

Please note that messages on social media aren’t monitored.

All of our practice tests use randomized questions and answers so please copy the text of the question (not the number) and submit your feedback here: https://digitalcloud.training/student-feedback

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Technical Questions

AWS are making constant, usually minor, changes to the UI. We do our best to keep our videos up to date but sometimes there will be some differences in what you see due to the pace of change. Most of the time the changes are minor and you can work around them. If there are major changes please let us know and we’ll update the video.

Please use either an SSH tool or the Putty tool. For connecting. Please use this AWS article for instructions.

Please follow the instructions in this AWS article for your operating system.

Please make sure you’re using the latest code from the course download. Make sure you’re copying the code exactly including all formatting and line breaks.

Also, check the following (where applicable):

  • Ensure you have a role that provides S3 read access
  • Check the S3 path/file specified exists and is accessible
  • The EC2 instance has a security group assigned that allows HTTP inbound on port 80 or 443 from any source (0.0.0.0/0)
  • The EC2 instance has a public IP or has access to a NAT Gateway (if in a private subnet)

Check the following:

–  The user data (if applicable) has run correctly – login to EC2 and check that Apache is running and the /var/www/html directory has an index.html file

– The security group for EC2 and ELB is setup correctly to allow the relevant ports and protocols (HTTP/HTTPS)

– The health check configuration is configured correctly with port / protocol / path – try removing the path so it’s just a slash, e.g. /

AWS Course-Specific Questions

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Absolutely! We have many students coming from diverse backgrounds including non-technical roles. The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner is definitely achievable even if you’re new to IT and cloud computing.

Our AWS Cloud Practitioner training is suitable for:

  • Students preparing for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam who want to pass with confidence at the first attempt
  • IT Professionals who want to become qualified AWS Cloud Practitioners and enter any AWS technical Job interview with confidence
  • Anyone who is keen to take their AWS Cloud career and salary to the next level with an AWS certification
  • Professionals who want to learn how to leverage the benefits of the AWS Cloud to demonstrate strong capability with AWS to (future) employers

No need for previous AWS cloud experience as we’ll teach you the foundations of cloud computing. Beginners are very welcome! Our AWS Cloud Practitioner training was designed with non-techies and newcomers to the cloud in mind.

Yes, these AWS training courses reflect the latest exam pattern CLF-C02.

We regularly update the content of our training courses to reflect the latest AWS changes. 

Yes, when taking the practice exams in “training mode” you can check every answer and explanation as you go through the questions.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Exam

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

Yes, you can. Though it may be advisable to start with the AWS Cloud Practitioner certification, many students start their certification journey with the AWS Solutions Architect Associate. We’ve had many students pass who don’t have any real-world AWS experience.

There are no prerequisites for the AWS Solutions Architect Associate training. However, to make the most from these courses, basic knowledge of cloud computing / networking concepts and experience with AWS is recommended. We also advise our students to create an AWS free-tier account to follow along with the practical exercises. We will show you how to set it up in the beginning of the course.

We regularly update the content of these training courses to reflect the latest AWS changes. 

All questions are scenario-based and conform to the official AWS format (1 answer from 4 options, or 2 answers from 5 options)

When taking the practice exams in “training mode” you can check every answer and explanation as you go through the questions.

AWS Certified Developer Associate Exam

AWS Certified Developer Associate

You do not need to have a development or programming background to do this course or pass the exam. Everything you need to know is within the course. For the AWS Developer Associate exam you need to be able to read some simple code snippets but don’t need to be able to write code.

There are no prerequisites for taking the AWS Developer Associate exam. You can sign-up for this certification straight away if you like. No need to take any of the other AWS certification exams first.

All code is supplied in the course download that can be accessed using the link in the last lecture of section 1 titled “Course Download”.

The Developer Associate training is suitable for

  • Students preparing for the AWS Certified Developer exam who want to pass with confidence at the first attempt
  • IT Professionals who want to become qualified AWS Developers and enter any AWS technical job interview with confidence
  • Anyone who is keen to take their cloud career and salary to the next level with an AWS certification
  • Professionals who want to learn how to leverage the benefits of the AWS Cloud to demonstrate strong capability with AWS to (future) employers

This AWS Developer training is highly suitable for intermediate to advanced students. While AWS or programming experience may be useful, it is NOT a prerequisite to enroll in this training as you’ll have access to everything you need to succeed. 

This course covers all of the topics that are included in the AWS Certified Developer Associate exam guide and are featuring on the exam today, such as:

  • AWS Serverless including AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Cognito and the AWS serverless application model (SAM)

  • Docker containers on AWS with Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and AWS Fargate

  • AWS Developer Tools including AWS CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline and CodeStar

  • Amazon EC2 including Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)

  • Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) including Security Groups, Network ACLs and Flow Logs

  • Amazon Route 53 and Amazon CloudFront

  • AWS Storage including Amazon S3 and Amazon EBS

  • The AWS CLI, SDK and APIs

  • AWS CloudFormation and Elastic Beanstalk

  • Amazon RDS, ElastiCache, and DynamoDB DAX

  • AWS Application integration services including Amazon SQS, SNS, AWS Step Functions and Amazon Kinesis

  • Monitoring, logging and tracing with Amazon CloudWatch, CloudTrail and AWS X-Ray

  • Security and access management with AWS IAM, Cognito, KMS, ACM, Systems Manager, and Secrets Manager

The AWS Certified Developer Associate certification is one of the most sought-after certifications in the cloud computing industry. AWS Cloud Developers are in huge demand and salaries can be above $150,000 USD per annum. The AWS Certified Developer exam aims to test knowledge of the key services and tools used by developers creating applications on AWS.

We regularly update the content of our AWS training course to reflect the latest AWS changes.

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate Exam

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate
The AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate certification is considered to be the hardest of the Associate level AWS certifications to attain. This certification shows a solid understanding of how to deploy, manage and operate systems running on AWS.
 
Through this training, you’ll gain valuable skills to showcase to potential employers and will be able to easily pass your exam on your first attempt.

There are no prerequisites for taking the AWS SysOps Administrator exam. So you can sign-up for this certification straight away if you like. However, it is highly recommended to take the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam first – and then build upon that knowledge. 

All code is supplied in the course download that can be accessed using the link in the last lecture of section 1 titled “Course Download”.

It is recommended to have completed the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or the AWS Certified Developer Associate training course or have equivalent experience with AWS.

With our mixture of in-depth theory, logical diagrams and hands-on training, you’ll learn how to deploy, manage, and operate scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS – fully preparing you for the AWS SysOps certification exam. 

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional Exam

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
We recommend that you have passed the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam or have similar experience. Even better if you  have earned all Associate level certifications before attempting the Professional level as it will give you a broader foundation of knowledge.

There are no prerequisites for taking the AWS Solutions Architect Professional exam. You can sign-up for this certification straight away if you like.

We include guided hands-on exercises that you can complete in your own AWS free tier account. A multi-account structure is used to simulate real-world scenarios that come up in the exam.
 

Assuming you have recently completed the Associate certifications you should be able to study for and complete your CSA Pro exam within 4-8 weeks of additional study time.

We also recommend taking our practice tests to become competent with answering exam-style questions.

The SAP-C02 exam consists of multiple choice questions. You are presented with 75 questions which you must complete within 180 minutes. The pass mark is 75%.

The questions can be long and complex and often include solutions with multiple services and also multiple account structures. This is a difficult exam that requires candidates to have a strong working knowledge of a broad set of AWS services.

For more information, check out this article: 
My AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional Exam Experience