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Course Details
Course Details
What You'll Learn
This course prepares you for the SOA-C02 certification exam, covering all official exam domains and their approximate weightings:
Domain 1 Domain 1: Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation (20%)
- Implement metrics, alarms, and filters using AWS monitoring/logging services (CloudWatch Logs, CloudWatch Logs Insights, AWS CloudTrail)
- Collect metrics and logs using the CloudWatch agent
- Create CloudWatch alarms, metric filters, and dashboards
- Configure notifications via Amazon SNS, Service Quotas, CloudWatch alarms, AWS Health events
- Remediate issues based on monitoring/availability metrics using EventBridge rules and Systems Manager Automation documents triggered by AWS Config rules
Domain 2 Domain 2: Reliability and Business Continuity (16%)
- Implement scalability and elasticity (Auto Scaling plans, caching, RDS replicas/Aurora Replicas, loosely coupled architectures, horizontal vs vertical scaling)
- Implement high availability and resilient environments (ELB/Route 53 health checks, single-AZ vs Multi-AZ, fault-tolerant workloads, Route 53 routing policies)
- Implement backup and restore strategies (automated snapshots/backups, RTO/RPO, AWS Backup, Data Lifecycle Manager)
- Restore databases (point-in-time restore, promote read replica)
- Implement S3 versioning, lifecycle rules, and Cross-Region Replication
- Execute disaster recovery procedures
Domain 3 Domain 3: Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation (18%)
- Provision and maintain cloud resources (create/manage AMIs via EC2 Image Builder, CloudFormation, cross-Region/cross-account provisioning via RAM/StackSets/IAM cross-account roles)
- Select deployment scenarios (blue/green, rolling, canary) and identify/remediate deployment issues (service quotas, subnet sizing, CloudFormation/OpsWorks errors, permissions)
- Automate manual or repeatable processes using OpsWorks, Systems Manager, CloudFormation
- Implement automated patch management
- Schedule automated tasks using EventBridge and AWS Config
Domain 4 Domain 4: Security and Compliance (16%)
- Implement and manage security/compliance policies (IAM features: password policies, MFA, roles, SAML, federated identity, resource policies, policy conditions)
- Troubleshoot and audit access issues using CloudTrail, IAM Access Analyzer, IAM policy simulator
- Validate service control policies, permission boundaries, and secure multi-account strategies (Control Tower, Organizations)
- Review AWS Trusted Advisor security checks and validate Region/service selection for compliance
- Implement data and infrastructure protection: data classification, encryption keys, encryption at rest (KMS) and in transit (ACM, VPN), secrets storage (Secrets Manager, Parameter Store)
- Review reports/findings from Security Hub, GuardDuty, AWS Config, Amazon Inspector
Domain 5 Domain 5: Networking and Content Delivery (18%)
- Implement networking features and connectivity (VPC subnets, route tables, network ACLs, security groups, NAT/internet gateway)
- Configure private connectivity (Session Manager, VPC endpoints, VPC peering, VPN) and network protection (AWS WAF, AWS Shield)
- Configure domains, DNS services, and content delivery (Route 53 hosted zones/records, routing policies, Route 53 Resolver, CloudFront + S3 OAI, S3 static website hosting)
- Troubleshoot network connectivity issues by interpreting VPC configurations
- Collect and interpret logs (VPC Flow Logs, ELB access logs, AWS WAF web ACL logs, CloudFront logs)
- Identify/remediate CloudFront caching issues and troubleshoot hybrid/private connectivity issues
Domain 6 Domain 6: Cost and Performance Optimization (12%)
- Implement cost optimization strategies (cost allocation tags, identify/remediate underutilized resources via Trusted Advisor/Compute Optimizer/Cost Explorer)
- Configure AWS Budgets and billing alarms; assess usage patterns to qualify workloads for EC2 Spot Instances
- Identify opportunities to use managed services (RDS, Fargate, EFS)
- Implement performance optimization: recommend compute resources based on performance metrics, monitor/modify EBS and RDS configuration (Performance Insights, RDS Proxy)
- Implement S3 performance features (Transfer Acceleration, multipart uploads) and enhanced EC2 capabilities (enhanced network adapter, instance store, placement groups)
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Minimum Entry Requirement
Knowledge and Skills
- Able to operate using computer functions
- Minimum 3 GCE ‘O’ Levels Passes including English or WPL Level 5 (Average of Reading, Listening, Speaking & Writing Scores)
Attitude
- Positive Learning Attitude
- Enthusiastic Learner
Experience
- Minimum of 1 year of working experience.
Target Age Group: 18-65 years old
Minimum Software/Hardware Requirement
Software:
TBD
Hardware: Window or Mac Laptops
Job Roles
Job Roles
- Systems Administrator
- Cloud Engineer
- DevOps Engineer
- IT Manager
- Network Administrator
- Solutions Architect
- Technical Support Engineer
- Infrastructure Engineer
- Security Analyst
- Database Administrator
- Software Developer
- IT Consultant
- Cloud Solutions Architect
- Operations Manager
- IT Project Manager
Trainers
Trainers
CY Quah is an ACLP-certified trainer and data science professional with extensive experience in Python, NLP, and machine learning. He has led AI training programs for SAP, Temasek Polytechnic, and IMDA under the SGUnited Mid-Career Pathways initiative, and has delivered corporate workshops on text analytics, recommender systems, and chatbot development. His expertise includes applying NLP tools such as NLTK, spaCy, and Gensim for sentiment analysis, topic modeling, and text classification.
Agus Salim is an experienced IT solutions and cybersecurity professional with a strong foundation in cloud infrastructure and project management. With over a decade of experience in systems integration, software development, and IT security across both enterprise and consulting environments, he brings a practical understanding of secure system design and deployment. His credentials include PMP, CompTIA Security+, CEH, and AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, reflecting his balanced expertise in governance, risk management, and cloud operations. Agus has worked with leading organizations such as Citi and Check Point Software Technologies, providing hands-on technical and security support across multi-cloud platforms.
Anil is a ACLP certified trainer. He is an Enterprise Cloud and DevOps Consultant , responsible for helping clients to move Virtual data centre to Private Cloud based on OpenStack and Public Cloud ( AWS, Azure and Google cloud) . Consulting and training experience on Devops tool chain like github , Jenkins, Sonarqube, Docker & kubernetes, Cloud foundry, Openshift, Ansible and SaltStack. Lot of my Role is involved design and implementation of a solution and training
Peter Cheong is an IT and knowledge management professional with strong expertise in networking, cybersecurity, and information systems. He has completed the Cisco Networking Academy Introduction to Packet Tracer course
and has participated in international ICT and knowledge management conferences such as the IFLA Knowledge Management Satellite Meeting. With professional experience in IT systems and infrastructure, Peter brings both technical knowledge and global exposure to his training.
As an adult educator, Peter focuses on building learners’ foundational skills in cybersecurity, network defense, and risk management aligned to CompTIA Security+ objectives. His sessions emphasize real-world security scenarios, equipping participants to recognize vulnerabilities, manage threats, and implement effective security controls. His combination of practical training and industry exposure ensures learners are well-prepared for both the certification exam and workplace application.
Ben is an experienced IT Infrastructure professional with more than 20 years of working experience in IT sector. Due to Corporate Digital Transformation and COVID-19 during early 2020 he shifted his focus to Cloud Computing specialized in Cloud Infrastructure Solutioning. He is an AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate, Google Certified Cloud Engineer, Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals and Alibaba Cloud Associate.
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