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Foundational

Learning Path
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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Beginner
  • Explain the value of the AWS Cloud
  • Understand and explain the AWS shared responsibility model
  • Understand security best practices
  • Understand AWS Cloud costs, economics, and billing practices
  • Describe and position the core AWS services, including compute, network, database, and storage services
  • Identify AWS services for common use cases

Associate

Learning Path
AWS Certified Solutions Architect (SAA-C03)
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Intermediate
  • Effectively demonstrate knowledge of how to architect and deploy secure and robust applications on AWS technologies
  • Define a solution using architectural design principles based on customer requirements
  • Provide implementation guidance based on best practices to the organization throughout the life cycle of the project
Learning Path
AWS Certified Developer
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Intermediate
  • Designed to prepare you for the AWS certification exam
  • Based on the four major areas outlined in AWS’ exam guide
  • Certification validates your expertise in designing, developing and deploying cloud-based solutions using Amazon Web Services
Learning Path
AWS Certified Data Engineer
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Intermediate
  • Understand the AWS services for encryption, governance, protection, and logging of all data that is part of data pipelines
  • Compare AWS services to understand the cost, performance, and functional differences between services
  • Structure SQL queries and run SQL queries on AWS services
  • Understand how to analyze data, verify data quality, and ensure data consistency by using AWS services
Learning Path
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
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Intermediate
  • Designed to help you prepare for the AWS SysOps Administrator – Associate certification
  • Based on the seven major areas outlined in the AWS exam guide
  • Certification validates your expertise in deploying and managing full production operations on Amazon Web Services

Professional

Learning Path
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
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Advanced
  • Design and deploy dynamically scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant, and reliable applications on AWS
  • Select appropriate AWS services to design and deploy an application based on given requirements
  • Migrate complex, multi-tier applications on AWS
  • Design and deploy enterprise-wide scalable operations on AWS
  • Implement cost-control strategies
Learning Path
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
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Advanced
  • Designed to help you prepare for the AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional certification
  • Based on the six domains outlined in the AWS exam guide
  • Validates your expertise in provisioning, operating, and managing distributed application systems on Amazon Web Services

Specialty

Learning Path
AWS Certified Machine Learning
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Advanced
  • Suitable for those wanting to pass the AWS Machine Learning – Specialty Certification Exam
  • Built to help you select and justify the appropriate ML approach for a given business problem
  • Learn to identify appropriate AWS services, then design and implement scalable, cost-optimized, reliable, and secure ML solutions
  • Based on the four major domains outlined in the AWS exam guide
Learning Path
AWS Certified Advanced Networking
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Advanced
  • Design and develop hybrid and cloud-based networking solutions by using AWS
  • Implement core AWS networking services according to AWS best practices
  • Operate and maintain hybrid and cloud-based network architecture for all AWS services
  • Use tools to deploy and automate hybrid and cloud-based AWS networking tasks
  • Implement secure AWS networks using AWS native networking constructs and services
Learning Path
AWS Certified Data Analytics
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Advanced
  • Designed to help you prepare for the AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty certification
  • Defines AWS data analytics services and understand how they integrate with each other.
  • Explains how AWS data analytics services fit in the data lifecycle of collection, storage, processing, and visualization.
Learning Path
AWS Certified Security Specialty
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Advanced
  • Designed to help you prepare for the AWS Certified Security Specialty certification
  • Based on the five major areas outlined in the AWS exam guide
  • Certification validates your ability to demonstrate an understanding of key topics necessary for securing the AWS platform
Learning Path
AWS Certified Database
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Advanced
  • Designed to help you prepare for the AWS Certified Databases Specialty exam
  • Based on the five major areas outlined in the AWS exam guide
  • Certification validates your ability to demonstrate an understanding of key features of AWS database systems for design and consultation purposes
Learning Path
Certified SAP on AWS - Specialty
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Intermediate
  • Design an SAP solution that runs in the AWS Cloud in adherence with the AWS Well-Architected Framework
  • Design an SAP solution that runs in the AWS Cloud in adherence with SAP certification and support requirements
  • Implement new SAP workloads on AWS
  • Migrate existing SAP workloads to AWS
  • Operate SAP workloads on AWS

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Aaron Newman, Founder - CEO at CloudCheckr

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Take the guesswork out of the preparation process

Our learning paths—with video courses, hands-on labs, and quizzes—will guide you from ‘just getting started’ to ‘exam ready’.

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Hands-on Labs

With Cloud Academy hands-on labs, you get the chance to learn and build directly in the AWS console using a live, working environment. Start with the basics or tackle complex scenarios following step-by-step labs. You don’t need an Amazon account, and you can complete an unlimited number of labs with your Cloud Academy account.

Quizzes

More than a practice exam, our quizzes adapt to your performance—the more you get right, the harder the questions become. Use them to assess your knowledge and understanding of the AWS topics required for certification. Explanations and links to documentation are included for every question.

Get your team AWS certified

From beginner to expert, Cloud Academy for Enterprise will prepare your team for AWS certification. Our approach allows you to bridge your cloud skills gap from within. We’ll help your teams acquire the skills necessary to pass the exam, and the know-how required for addressing your real-world infrastructure needs. Our management dashboard makes it easy to monitor team performance and track progress for all users.