AWS Certified Solutions Architect: Professional

This immersive AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional certification will help you develop the knowledge and skills you need to design dynamically scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant, and reliable applications on AWS.

You will learn to migrate complex, multi-tier applications on AWS, as well as how to:

• select the best AWS services to design and deploy an application
• design and deploy enterprise-wide scalable operations on AWS
• implement cost-control strategies
• migrate complex, multi-tier applications on AWS

At the end of this course, you can sit the official AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional SAP-C03 exam and become certified.

How can you take this course?

Firebrand offers both a classroom-based and online AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional certification course, including everything you need to get certified:

• Official courseware, labs, and practice exams
• The official AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional certification exam
• For residential courses, accommodations, meals, and snacks

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional (SAP-C03) course is intended for individuals who perform a Solutions Architect role. This exam validates advanced technical skills and experience designing optimised AWS solutions that are based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

The ideal candidate should have 2 or more years of experience using AWS services to design and implement cloud solutions. This candidate should have the ability to evaluate cloud application requirements and make architectural recommendations for deploying applications on AWS. This candidate should also be able to provide expert guidance about architectural design that extends across multiple applications and projects within a complex organisation. These architectural designs include architectures built for the cloud, serverless architectures, and AI-integrated architectures in multi-account environments.

This course helps you develop hands-on, professional-level experience designing and deploying AWS cloud solutions.

You'll become an expert across every domain of the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, including:

Domain 1: Architecture Design and Implementation Built for the Cloud

Task 1.1: Design architectures built for the cloud
Task 1.2: Integrate AI and ML services into architectures
Task 1.3: Design hybrid cloud integration patterns
Task 1.4: Design network architectures
Task 1.5: Design data, storage, and database architectures

Domain 2: Security, Compliance, and Governance

Task 2.1: Design identity security architectures
Task 2.2: Design solutions to implement encryption and key management strategies
Task 2.3: Design multi-account governance and compliance solutions
Task 2.4: Design architectures to meet compliance requirements
Task 2.5: Design security and responsible AI controls

Domain 3: Cost-Optimized Architecture Design

Task 3.1: Design architectures based on AWS pricing models
Task 3.2: Optimize data transfer and network costs
Task 3.3: Design cost allocation and visibility solutions
Task 3.4: Optimize storage and database costs

Domain 4: Resilience, Migration, and Business Continuity

Task 4.1: Design migration strategies by using AWS frameworks
Task 4.2: Design disaster recovery architectures
Task 4.3: Design solutions to meet business continuity and resiliency requirements

Domain 5: Operational Excellence and Automation

Task 5.1: Design infrastructure as code
Task 5.2: Design CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines
Task 5.3: Design observability and monitoring solutions
Task 5.4: Design operational automation and resilient systems

As part of this course, you'll sit the official AWS Certified Solutions Expert Professional Exam at the Firebrand Training Centre, covered by our Certification Guarantee:

• Exam number: SAP-C03
• Format: Multiple-choice and multiple-response
• Number of questions: 65 scored + 10 that do not affect your score
• Passing score: 720 on a scale of 100–1,000
• Duration: 170 minutes
• Languages: English, Japanese, Korean and simplified Chinese
• Domains:
• Domain 1: Architecture Design and Implementation Built for the Cloud (25%)
• Domain 2: Security, Compliance, and Governance (25%)
• Domain 3: Cost-Optimized Architecture Design (15%)
• Domain 4: Resilience, Migration, and Business Continuity (15%)
• Domain 5: Operational Excellence and Automation (20%)

Upon passing this exam, you'll receive the Amazon AWS Solutions Expert Professional certification.

To take this course, it is recommended you have:

• 2 or more years of practical experience designing and implementing cloud solutions using AWS services
• The ability to evaluate complex application requirements, make architecture recommendations, and design multi-tier, hybrid, serverless, and AI-integrated architectures across multi-account environments
• Deep familiarity with the AWS Well-Architected Framework and its pillars (operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability)
• Working knowledge of networking, IAM (Identity and Access Management), storage, compute, databases, containers, infrastructure as code (IaC), migration strategies, and financial/cost governance

While not strictly required by AWS, holding the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) is strongly recommended to build foundational knowledge before tackling the Professional-level depth of this course.

• Firebrand courseware

Your course includes:

• Accommodation *
• Meals, unlimited snacks, beverages, tea and coffee *
• On-site exams **
• Exam vouchers **
• Practice tests **
• Certification Guarantee ***
• Courseware
• Up to 12 hours of instructor-led training each day
• 24-hour lab access
• Digital courseware **

* For residential training only. Accommodation is included from the night before the course starts. This doesn't apply to online courses.
** Some exceptions apply. Please refer to the Exam Track or speak with our experts.
*** Pass the first time or train again for free as many times as it takes, unlimited for 1 year. Just pay for accommodation, exams, and incidental costs.

Six reasons to sit your course with Firebrand Training

• Three training options. Choose between residential classroom-based, live online, or city-centre courses
• All-inclusive course. A one-off fee covers all course materials, exams**, accommodation* and meals*. No hidden extras.
• Pass the first time or train again for free. This is our guarantee. We’re confident you’ll pass your course the first time. But if not, come back within a year and only pay for accommodation, exams and incidental costs
• You’ll learn more. Our expert instructors cover exclusive additional materials not taught through the official curriculum
• You’ll learn faster. Chances are, you’ll have a different learning style compared to those around you. We combine visual, auditory and tactile styles to deliver the material in a way that ensures you will learn faster and more easily
• You’ll be studying with the best. We’ve been named in the Training Industry’s “Top 20 IT Training Companies of the Year” every year since 2010. As well as winning many more awards, we’ve trained and certified over 145,000 professionals

*For residential training only. Doesn't apply to online courses
**Some exceptions apply. Please refer to the Exam Track or speak with our experts

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