Hi everyone, and welcome to the Certified Solutions Architect Professional Video Course Emcee And I'm
going to be instructor throughout this course.
Now, as the name suggests, this is going to be a certification specific course and we are going to
cover all the topics that are part of the exam blueprint practically that will allow you to get certified.
Now, since this is a professional level certifications, there are certain prerequisites and requirements.
Now, one of the important requirements from a site is that they recommend that individuals who are
planning for the professional certification have two or more years of hands on experience into a WS.
And this is quite important because when you sit for the exams, most of the questions would be scenario
oriented.
So they will give you a practical scenario and you'll have to choose one of the options that fits the
best as part of the overall solution.
And during that time, your hands on practical experience into a WS really helps.
Now, before we proceed further, let's quickly look into the official exam blueprint.
So within the official certification page, let's go a bit down and let's explore the exam guide.
Now within the official you blueprint.
The first part that I wanted to show you was the target candidate description.
So your devastated target candidate has two or more years of experience.
This is one part, the most important part that I wanted to show you here.
Let's go a bit down.
We'll explore the in scope services here.
So if you look into the scope services and features the list that you see over here, let's scroll down.
The list is pretty lengthy, as you can see.
All right.
So there are more than 150 service and features that they have listed over here.
And along with that, for example, let's say that they have listed just Amazon SE three.
Now, from the exam perspective, just learning about Amazon SE three is not enough.
There are various importance of features, for example, cross region replication, versioning, the
transfer acceleration, the requester piece, the three bucket policies, encryption, etc. all of those
will also be tested.
So from here we can identify that the overall course will be pretty lengthy, primarily because the
amount of topics in the exam blueprint is quite high.
Apart from that, there is one important benefit as well, since they are covering a lot of services.
Once you sit for a professional exam, it will be easier for you to sit for other exams.
For example, if you look into the security, identity and compliance, these are the most important
topics for the security specialty certification.
So if you complete professional, the security specialty will also be a little easy because all of these
topics you have already covered from a practical point of view.
Now again, there will be little amount of difference because security specialty, the amount of depth
is much more higher when compared to the professional.
But practically things will be much more simpler and quicker.
Now when you have an exam blueprint with so many topics in scope, there are two choices for instructors.
First one is that instructor can cover the theory and basic demos associated with all of the services,
and that's about it.
This might be enough to pass the exams.
The benefit here is that the course length would be maintained.
Second choice is that the instructor can cover everything practically.
However, one of the caveat here is that the course length will be longer.
If you have to cover everything, practically look into how the services fit as part of the real world
scenarios.
Then the course length will be longer.
So these are the two choices that are instructor would make.
Now, as part of this course, the choice is a practical based approach.
So we will be covering everything.
Practically the course length will be lengthy, but let me assure you, it would be worth it.
You will learn a lot of things.
In fact, we have received so many feedbacks from students apart from just clearing the certification,
they were able to implement new things within their organization.
They were able to clear the job interviews and so on.
So certification is just a byproduct.
Apart from that, there are a lot of advantages on a practical course based approach.
Along with this, one of the most requested resource from students as part of the course is the piece.
We have all the pieces that we have used in the course available in the first section, so you can download
it and this will help you tremendously as part of your overall revision.
Along with this, we also have a discord community which allows the students who are going through the
same certification to interact with each other.
Along with that, we have a technical support.
So any queries that you have during the course, you can raise it and we'll be more than happy to help
you.
So here the community is optional.
I'll be adding the link to the community in the Section one of the course so that you can reference
to it if required.
Now before we conclude a few things about me, I primarily work as a devsecops engineer into the area
of defensive security.
Teaching has been one of my passions since a long time.
In fact, even before I started into the video courses journey online, I used to take multiple workshops,
seminars across organizations, colleges related to the area of cloud security and others.
Now, as far as the online presence is concerned, I have a total of 16 courses with more than two 80,000
students as of now.
Apart from that, the most important part here is that I'm a certified against the Solutions Architect,
Professional Advanced networking speciality security speciality, DevOps engineer, professional, and
many others.
I am also a Red Hat certified architect and I hold more than 13 other certifications into the area of
automation, security and others.
And apart from that, I also work as a part time security consultant.
So that's the very high level overview on what this course is going to be all about.
I'm pretty excited for this course and I hope you are too.