AWS

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator

Validate your ability to deploy, manage and operate workloads on AWS in 3 instructor-led days – preparing you for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate credential.

Why choose this course?

Aligned to AWS’s official domains. Every lab maps to the six domains in the SOA-C02 exam guide, so your study time is laser-focused.
Real-world operations scenarios. Hands-on exercises cover monitoring, HA/DR, automation, networking, security and cost optimization across AWS services.
Immediate skill application. Deploy CloudWatch alarms, configure Auto Scaling, run CloudFormation stacks, secure S3 buckets and tune cost controls – all in class.
Hybrid delivery – attend on-campus or virtually from anywhere in South Africa.

This course is ideal for:

System administrators and cloud operators with 1+ year of AWS deployment, management, networking and security experience.
DevOps and SRE engineers responsible for live AWS environments.
Anyone preparing for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate exam.

Prerequisites

AWS Cloud Practitioner
Minimum of one year experience provisioning, operating and maintaining AWS environments.
Proficiency with Linux or Windows system administration tasks.
Working knowledge of networking, storage, security and scripting.

Course Content

Monitoring, Logging & Remediation – configure Amazon CloudWatch metrics, alarms, dashboards and EventBridge; centralise logs with CloudWatch Logs and S3; automate remediation with Lambda and Systems Manager.
Reliability & Business Continuity – design high-availability architectures (Auto Scaling, ELB, multi-AZ RDS); implement backup/restore strategies; use Amazon Route 53 health checks and Route 53 failover routing.
Deployment, Provisioning & Automation – automate infrastructure with AWS CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk and AWS CLI; manage configuration with Systems Manager; deploy applications using CodeDeploy and OpsWorks.
Security & Compliance – implement IAM policies, roles and MFA; configure security group and NACL rules; encrypt data at rest and in transit using KMS, S3 encryption and EBS encryption; audit with AWS Config and CloudTrail.
Networking & Content Delivery – design VPCs with subnets, NAT, Internet Gateways and VGWs; configure AWS PrivateLink, VPC peering and Transit Gateway; optimise content delivery with Amazon CloudFront.
Cost & Performance Optimization – monitor cost and usage with AWS Cost Explorer and Budgets; right-size instances with Compute Optimizer; choose appropriate storage classes (S3 Intelligent-Tiering, EFS Infrequent Access); implement caching strategies.

Hardware Requirements

Interested?

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