Amazon Web Services
AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
About the Course: AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
This fundamental-level, one-day, instructor-led course is intended for individuals who seek an overall understanding of the AWS Cloud, independent of specific technical roles. It provides a detailed overview of cloud concepts, AWS services, security, architecture, pricing, and support to enable you to build your cloud skills and grow your professional credibility. It includes hands-on lab exercises reinforcing some of the core concepts of the course’s lecture. This course also helps you prepare you for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam.
Audience Profile
This course is intended primarily for:
- Individuals Sales
- Legal
- Marketing
- Business analysts
- Project managers
- AWS Academy Students
- IT-related professionals
Course Objectives
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Define what the cloud is and how it works
- Differentiate between cloud computing and deployment models
- Describe the AWS Cloud value proposition
- Describe the basic global infrastructure of the cloud
- Compare the different methods of interacting with AWS
- Describe and differentiate between AWS service domains
- Given a scenario, identify an appropriate solution using AWS Cloud services
- Describe the Well-Architected Framework
- Describe basic AWS Cloud architectural principles
- Explain the Shared Responsibility model
- Describe security services with the AWS cloud
- Define the billing, account management, and pricing models for the AWS platform
- Identify future services and developments built on the cloud

Requirements
None
Duration & Method
1 Days
Online/Instructor Led
Course Code
AW-CPE
Modules
- Summarise the benefits of AWS
- Describe differences between on-demand delivery and cloud deployments
- Summarise the pay-as-you-go pricing model
- Describe the benefits of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) at a basic level
- Identify the different Amazon EC2 instance types
- Differentiate between the various billing options for Amazon EC2
- Describe the benefits of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
- Summarise the benefits of Elastic Load Balancing
- Give an example of the uses for Elastic Load Balancing
- Summarise the differences between Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) and Amazon Simple Queue Services (Amazon SQS)
- Summarise additional AWS compute options
- Summarise the benefits of the AWS Global Infrastructure
- Describe the basic concept of Availability Zones
- Describe the benefits of Amazon CloudFront and Edge locations
- Compare different methods for provisioning AWS services
- Explain the benefits of the shared responsibility model
- Describe multi-factor authentication (MFA)
- Differentiate between the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) security levels
- Describe security policies at a basic level
- Explain the benefits of AWS Organisations
- Summarise the benefits of compliance with AWS
- Explain primary AWS security services at a basic level
- Understand AWS pricing and support models
- Describe the AWS Free Tier
- Describe key benefits of AWS Organisations and consolidated billing
- Explain the benefits of AWS Budgets
- Explain the benefits of AWS Cost Explorer
- Explain the primary benefits of the AWS Pricing Calculator
- Distinguish between the various AWS Support Plans
- Describe the benefits of AWS Marketplace
- Determine resources for preparing for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner examination
- Describe benefits of becoming AWS Certified