AWS fundamentals and core administration

Skills you'll practise

• Explain the AWS shared responsibility model and identify which tasks belong to the customer for a given service
• Explain Regions and Availability Zones and why resources don't appear in other Regions automatically
• Protect the root user and identify the tasks AWS documents as requiring root user credentials
• Choose between IAM users, groups, roles and IAM Identity Center for people and workloads
• Read an IAM policy's Version, Statement, Effect, Action, Resource and Condition elements and predict the decision using AWS's evaluation logic
• Explain how organizational units and service control policies set guardrails without granting permissions, and roll out an SCP safely
• Choose between CloudTrail, CloudWatch, AWS Config and IAM Access Analyzer for an operational question
• Use budgets, Cost Explorer and cost allocation tags to explain spend, and compare security groups with network ACLs

Course outline

1. 1.AWS fundamentals for administratorsVideo · 3 min
2. 2.Foundations: shared responsibility, Regions and the root userLesson · 17 min
3. 3.Identity and access: IAM, Identity Center, policies and OrganizationsLesson · 20 min
4. 4.Visibility, cost and network guardrailsLesson · 18 min
5. 5.AWS fundamentals and core administration: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 16 questions
6. 6.Final exam13 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out

Sources it draws on

The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.

• AWS docs: Shared Responsibility Model
• AWS docs: AWS Fault Isolation Boundaries: Regions
• AWS docs: Amazon EC2 User Guide: Regions and Zones
• AWS docs: AWS account root user
• AWS docs: Root user best practices for your AWS account
• AWS docs: IAM Identities
• AWS docs: IAM user groups
• AWS docs: IAM roles
• AWS docs: Security best practices in IAM
• AWS docs: What is IAM Identity Center?
• AWS docs: IAM JSON policy element reference
• AWS docs: IAM JSON policy elements: Version
• AWS docs: IAM JSON policy elements: Effect
• AWS docs: IAM JSON policy elements: Condition
• AWS docs: Grant read and write access to Amazon S3 bucket objects (policy example)

And 22 more.