Stephane: Hello, and welcome
to the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Associate Course of version SOA-CO2.
My name is Stephane Maarek,
and I will be your instructor for this course.
So we're going to prepare for the SOA-CO2 exam,
which is a very challenging certification,
I think it's the most difficult of all associate exam.
But this course will be long and hopefully very interesting.
And so I would definitely recommend
that you do this certification after having done
at least the Solutions Architects Associate Certification,
or the Certified Developer Associate Certification.
Now this course is structured as an advanced course,
and so some base knowledge is going to be needed
for all the videos, and for all sections,
and so videos are going to be imported
from different courses of mine.
So there will be some videos
from my Certified Cloud Practitioner course,
which will be marked with the CCP tag.
There will be some with that are coming
from the Solutions Architect Associate course,
and it will be marked with the SAA tag.
And then some from the Certified Developer Associate course
marked with a DVA tag.
So the idea is that if you've done some
of my previous courses, you know which lectures to skip.
And I've included this base knowledge
because not everyone comes through the same path,
some people will have done some courses and others not.
So I've preferred to include
as much information as possible,
but if this is a video that you've already seen,
please feel free to skip it,
or just rewatch it again to get a little refresher.
It never helps.
And so for the videos that are specific to this course,
well they will not be tagged at all,
they will not be marked with brackets.
So this will be all the SysOp specific videos
in this course.
Now I want to draw your attention on something
for this exam.
So the SysOps exam SOA-CO2 has Exam Labs,
it will contain three labs,
and each lab will contain different tasks.
And so this is something new in the exams of AWS.
And so AWS recommends to allocate 20 minutes
for each Exam Lab.
So first in your exam,
you will have to answer the multiple-choice,
and multiple-response questions.
And then once you're done,
you will have to complete this section
and you cannot go back to it.
Then you can go to answer the exam labs.
And once you complete one lab, you go onto the next
and you can not go back to the previous one.
So it's very important for you to understand this.
So first the questions then one lab.
Then one lab.
Now the lab looks like this,
so that they go get access to the AWS Management Console.
If you would like to click, or even the CLI,
if you prefer to use the CLI to work against AWS.
And the instructions are going to be provided
on the right hand side of your screen.
And it is expected for you, at the end to provide,
for example, an ARN of the result of what you've made.
And this is how AWS will check your results.
Now you will not know if your exam lab will be correct
or not, okay, there is not immediate feedback.
Just know that once you enter the ARN,
you will do complete, and you will move on to the next lab.
So how do I prepare for the labs?
And we'll get this question all the time.
The only way to do it is to follow along with me
and practice in the course.
The labs are not too difficult,
they're actually very well guided
and the descriptions are clear.
So if you following along with me in this course,
and you know where the options are,
there is no reason for you to fail at these labs.
So a little bit about me.
My name is Stephane, and I'm super delighted
to be your instructor for this course.
And if you hear an accent,
it comes from the sweet country of France.
I am nine times AWS certified right now,
but maybe that will go up in the future.
I've worked with AWS for many years.
I've built websites, applications, streaming platforms,
and I've been teaching AWS for over four years now.
So Certifications, CloudFormation, Lambda, EC2, and so on.
You can connect with me on different platforms,
such as GitHub, LinkedIn, Medium, Twitter, and Instagram.
I thank you very much for choosing this course
and choosing to learn with me.
I hope you're as excited as I am,
and I wish you a very happy learning.