Welcome to
Becoming a Cloud Practitioner
At NC State University
Registration
This course is composed of 4 parts. Each part will be delivered in 2 2-hour sessions each week. Attendees are expected to sign up for each part. Registration with an NCSU.edu email address is not required. Course completion certificates, course materials, and lab access will only be distributed to those registered.
Attendance Policy
In order for attendees to receive certificates of completion for each of these sessions, attendees must attend both sessions that week.
Overview
Level: Fundamental
Type: In person classroom
Length: 8 2-hour sessions
Schedule
Mondays and Wednesdays
September 11 – October 6
6 PM to 8 PM
Location
Nelson Hall, Room 2402
2801 Founders Drive
Raleigh, NC 27607
Cost
There is no cost to attend these sessions.
Course overview
Course description
This course is for individuals who seek an overall understanding of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, independent of specific technical roles. You will learn about AWS Cloud concepts, AWS services, security, architecture, pricing, and support to build your AWS Cloud knowledge.
On the final week, you learn how to assess your preparedness for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) exam. The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) exam validates technical expertise to explain the value of AWS and understand the AWS shared responsibility model, security best practices, AWS costs, economics, and billing practices.
Learn how to prepare for the exam by exploring the exam’s topic areas and how they align to developing on AWS and to specific areas of study. Gauge your understanding of topics and concepts from each task statement grouped by domain. Reinforce your knowledge and identify learning gaps with explanations of exam-style questions. Explore learning strategies to identify incorrect responses by interpreting the concepts that are being tested in the exam using the question explanations.
Activities
This course includes presentations, class activities, knowledge checks, and self-paced hands-on labs.
Course objectives
In this course, you will learn to:
- Summarize the working definition of AWS.
- Differentiate between on-premises, hybrid-cloud, and all-in cloud.
- Describe the basic global infrastructure of the AWS Cloud.
- Explain the six benefits of the AWS Cloud.
- Describe and provide an example of the core AWS services, including compute, network, databases, and storage.
- Identify an appropriate solution using AWS Cloud services with various use cases.
- Describe the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
- Explain the shared responsibility model.
- Describe the core security services within the AWS Cloud.
- Describe the basics of AWS Cloud migration.
- Articulate the financial benefits of the AWS Cloud for an organization’s cost management.
- Define the core billing, account management, and pricing models.
- Explain how to use pricing tools to make cost-effective choices for AWS services.
- Understand the knowledge tested by the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam.
- Evaluate your gaps in knowledge of the exam topics.
- Validate your readiness to take the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam.
Intended audience
This course is intended for one or more of the following personas:
- Individuals who are curious about AWS Cloud technologies.
- Individuals in a technology related role looking reskill for the AWS Cloud.
- Students looking to start a career in the AWS Cloud.
Prerequisites
We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:
- Ability to use desktop and laptop computers.
- Understanding of the internet and how to navigate web pages.
- Understanding of physical networking, protocols, virtual desktops, and servers.
- Understanding of physical storage devices.
Course outline
Labs and hands-on exercises
AWS Labs
Get hands on experience with AWS with self-paced labs. Try out several objectives in a real AWS console and repeat any lab as many times as you’d like. When accessing these labs, sign in using the email address you used when you registered for these sessions. The lab environment closes on October 17th at 5 PM Eastern.
AWS Cloud Quest
AWS Cloud Quest is the only 3D role-playing game to help you build practical AWS Cloud skills. Choose your role then learn and apply cloud skills to help the citizens of your virtual city. Once you finish all the assignments in your role, showcase your achievement with a digital badge.
Pre-Class videos
Customer stories
Career stories
AWS services
Other
About the instructor
Chris Woodlief
Senior Technical Instructor
Amazon Web Services
woodliec@amazon.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cwoodlief/
Chris is a graduate of NC State’s Poole College of Management where he graduated with a degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Information Technology. After graduating in December 2018, he joined Amazon Web Services as part of a new college graduate program called AWS Tech U. From there, he chose to become a Technical Instructor and has trained customers both large and small from local businesses to large corporations to government institutions. He has helped customers learn AWS in many industries such as medical, media and entertainment, national defense, telecommunications, and banking.
In his down time, Chris enjoys riding his motorcycle and taking his dog, Kylo, to explore new places. He also enjoys cooking and traveling. Chris volunteers much of his time mentoring and teaching those who are looking to work in the technology industry. He was born and raised in Raleigh, NC and currently lives in Durham, NC.
