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COURSE CURRICULUM

AWS Certification Tracks

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (DOP-C02)
- SPEC Curriculum Specs, Tool Matrix & Architecture Guides
  - GUIDE 25 Practical Labs Master Guide
  - DOC Recommended Learning Path & Sequence
  - DOC Must-Learn DevOps Tools Matrix
  - DOC Lab IAM Policy Specifications
  - DOC Lab IAM Security & Least-Privilege Matrix
- Domain 1 (22%) SDLC Automation
  - MOD 1 Module 1: DevOps Fundamentals & Continuous SDLC Flow
    - Lesson Lesson 1.1: What Is DevOps?
    - Lesson Lesson 1.2: Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
  - MOD 2 Module 2: Git Distributed Version Control & Enterprise Branching
    - Lesson Lesson 2.1: Git Fundamentals
    - Lesson Lesson 2.2: Git Branching Strategies
  - MOD 3 Module 3: AWS Native CI/CD Cloud Architecture & Topology
    - Lesson Lesson 3.1: AWS CI/CD Services
    - Lesson Lesson 3.2: End-to-End Enterprise Architecture
    - Lesson Lesson 3.3: Standard Pipeline Stages
  - MOD 4 Module 4: AWS CodeBuild & Ephemeral Container Execution Engine
    - Lesson Lesson 4.1: What Is CodeBuild?
    - Lesson Lesson 4.2: The buildspec.yml Specification
  - MOD 5 Module 5: AWS CodePipeline
    - Lesson Lesson 5.1: Pipeline Orchestration
    - Lesson Lesson 5.2: Pipeline Artifacts and Encryption
  - MOD 6 Module 6: AWS CodeDeploy & Fleet Lifecycle Automation
    - Lesson Lesson 6.1: What Is CodeDeploy?
    - Lesson Lesson 6.2: The appspec.yml Specification (EC2 Target)
    - Lesson Lesson 6.3: CodeDeploy Lifecycle Event Order (EC2/On-Premises)
  - MOD 7 Module 7: Advanced Traffic Shifting (Blue/Green, Canary & Rolling)
    - Lesson Lesson 7.1: In-Place Deployment
    - Lesson Lesson 7.2: Blue/Green Deployment
    - Lesson Lesson 7.3: Canary Deployment
    - Lesson Lesson 7.4: Rolling Deployment
  - MOD 8 Module 8: AWS CodeArtifact & Immutable Binary Management
    - Lesson Lesson 8.1: Enterprise Artifact Management
    - Lesson Lesson 8.2: AWS CodeArtifact Capabilities
  - MOD 9 Module 9: Release Governance, SNS Signals & Approval Gates
    - Lesson Lesson 9.1: Manual Approval Gates
    - Lesson Lesson 9.2: Approval Gate Engineering
  - MOD 10 Module 10: Hybrid Automation (GitHub Actions OIDC & Jenkins)
    - Lesson Lesson 10.1: GitHub Actions with AWS OIDC
    - Lesson Lesson 10.2: Production GitHub Actions Workflow (.github/workflows/deploy.yml)
    - Lesson Lesson 10.3: Jenkins vs. AWS CodePipeline
  - MOD 11 Module 11: Enterprise Multi-Account Architecture & KMS Topology
    - Lesson Lesson 11.1: Multi-Account AWS Topology
    - Lesson Lesson 11.2: Cross-Account IAM & Encryption Flow
  - MOD 12 Module 12: Operational Excellence, Failure Triage & Self-Healing
    - Lesson Lesson 12.1: Systematic Pipeline Troubleshooting Methodology
    - Lesson Lesson 12.2: 15 Enterprise Troubleshooting Scenarios
  - Domain 1 Hands-On Live Labs (76m TTL)
    - Lab 04 GitHub + CodeBuild CI Pipeline
    - Lab 05 Automated CodeDeploy AppSpec Deployment
    - Lab 06 End-to-End AWS CodePipeline Mesh
    - Lab 16 Serverless API Gateway & Lambda Microservice
    - Lab 19 Blue/Green & Canary Traffic Shifting
    - Quiz Domain 1 Knowledge Assessment (30 Questions)
    - QA Domain 1 Incident Triage: Pipeline Failure & Webhook Desync
- Domain 2 (19%) Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
  - MOD 1 Module 1: Infrastructure as Code Fundamentals
    - Lesson Lesson 1.1: What Is Infrastructure as Code?
    - Lesson Lesson 1.2: Core Benefits of IaC
    - Lesson Lesson 1.3: Declarative vs. Imperative IaC
  - MOD 2 Module 2: AWS CloudFormation
    - Lesson Lesson 2.1: CloudFormation Core Engine
    - Lesson Lesson 2.2: CloudFormation Core Components
    - Lesson Lesson 2.3: CloudFormation Template Structure
  - MOD 3 Module 3: YAML and JSON & Intrinsic Functions
    - Lesson Lesson 3.1: & 3.2 Syntax Representations
    - Lesson Lesson 3.3: Intrinsic Functions Reference
  - MOD 4 Module 4: Stacks, Nested Stacks, and StackSets
    - Lesson Lesson 4.1: CloudFormation Stacks Lifecycle
    - Lesson Lesson 4.2: Nested Stacks Architecture
    - Lesson Lesson 4.3: CloudFormation StackSets (Multi-Account Orchestration)
  - MOD 5 Module 5: Change Sets, Drift Detection, and Rollback
    - Lesson Lesson 5.1: CloudFormation Change Sets
    - Lesson Lesson 5.2: Drift Detection
    - Lesson Lesson 5.3: Rollback Mechanics
  - MOD 6 Module 6: AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)
    - Lesson Lesson 6.1: What Is AWS CDK?
    - Lesson Lesson 6.2: CDK Core Concepts
    - Lesson Lesson 6.3: Python CDK Example Implementation
  - MOD 7 Module 7: AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM)
    - Lesson Lesson 7.1: Serverless Infrastructure Modeling
    - Lesson Lesson 7.2: Production SAM Manifest (template.yaml)
  - MOD 8 Module 8: Terraform Fundamentals
    - Lesson Lesson 8.1: HashiCorp Terraform Architecture
    - Lesson Lesson 8.2: Core Terraform CLI Workflow
    - Lesson Lesson 8.3: Production AWS Configuration (main.tf)
  - MOD 9 Module 9: Terraform Providers and State Management
    - Lesson Lesson 9.1: Providers
    - Lesson Lesson 9.2: Terraform State Mechanics
    - Lesson Lesson 9.3: State Inspection Commands
  - MOD 10 Module 10: Terraform Modules and Remote State
    - Lesson Lesson 10.1: Module Architecture
    - Lesson Lesson 10.2: Remote State on Amazon S3 with Native Locking
  - MOD 11 Module 11: Configuration Management and Ansible
    - Lesson Lesson 11.1: Provisioning vs. Configuration Management
    - Lesson Lesson 11.2: Ansible Idempotency & Architecture
  - MOD 12 Module 12: AWS Systems Manager Automation, Run Command, and State Manager
    - Lesson Lesson 12.1: AWS Systems Manager Operations Engine
    - Lesson Lesson 12.2: Systems Manager Automation vs. Run Command
    - Lesson Lesson 12.3: & 12.4 Run Command vs. State Manager
  - MOD 13 Module 13: Parameter Store and Secrets Manager
    - Lesson Lesson 13.1: Parameter Store
    - Lesson Lesson 13.2: Parameter Store vs. AWS Secrets Manager
  - MOD 14 Module 14: Automated Resource Provisioning Across Environments
    - Lesson Lesson 14.1: Multi-Environment Promotion Pipeline
    - Lesson Lesson 14.2: Directory Isolation Architecture
  - MOD 15 Module 15: Infrastructure Testing, Static Analysis, and Policy as Code
    - Lesson Lesson 15.1: Multi-Tier IaC Testing Pyramid
    - Lesson Lesson 15.2: IaC Testing Methodologies
  - Domain 2 Hands-On Live Labs (76m TTL)
    - Lab 07 Declarative CloudFormation Multi-Tier Stacks
    - Lab 08 Multi-Tier IaC Provisioning via HashiCorp Terraform
    - Lab 22 Infrastructure Drift Detection & State Reconciliation
    - Quiz Domain 2 Knowledge Assessment (30 Questions)
    - QA Domain 2 Incident Triage: StackSet Rollback & CFN Drift
- Domain 3 (15%) Resilient Cloud Solutions & High Availability
  - MOD 1 Module 1: High Availability and Fault Tolerance
    - Lesson Lesson 1.1: High Availability (HA) Architecture
    - Lesson Lesson 1.2: Fault Tolerance vs. High Availability
    - Lesson Lesson 1.3: Multi-AZ Deployments
    - Lesson Lesson 1.4: Multi-Region Architectures
  - MOD 2 Module 2: Scaling and Load Balancing
    - Lesson Lesson 2.1: Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs)
    - Lesson Lesson 2.2: Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) Architecture
  - MOD 3 Module 3: DNS and Content Delivery
    - Lesson Lesson 3.1: Amazon Route 53 Routing Policies
    - Lesson Lesson 3.2: Amazon CloudFront & Origin Shielding
  - MOD 4 Module 4: Resilient Storage Services
    - Lesson Lesson 4.1: Amazon S3 Resilience & Protection
    - Lesson Lesson 4.2: Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
    - Lesson Lesson 4.3: Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
  - MOD 5 Module 5: Resilient Databases
    - Lesson Lesson 5.1: Amazon RDS Resilience Architectures
    - Lesson Lesson 5.2: Amazon Aurora Enterprise Resilience
    - Lesson Lesson 5.3: Amazon DynamoDB Resilience & Global Tables
  - MOD 6 Module 6: Event-Driven Resilience
    - Lesson Lesson 6.1: Amazon SQS (Queues & Dead-Letter Queues)
    - Lesson Lesson 6.2: Amazon SNS & Fan-Out Architecture
    - Lesson Lesson 6.3: Amazon EventBridge & AWS Lambda Resilience
  - MOD 7 Module 7: Container Resilience
    - Lesson Lesson 7.1: Amazon ECS Workload Availability
    - Lesson Lesson 7.2: Amazon EKS Kubernetes Resilience
  - MOD 8 Module 8: Disaster Recovery, Health Checks, and Chaos Engineering
    - Lesson Lesson 8.1: Disaster Recovery (DR) Strategies
    - Lesson Lesson 8.2: Calculating RTO and RPO
    - Lesson Lesson 8.3: Health Checks & Automated Failover
    - Lesson Lesson 8.4: Chaos Engineering & AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS)
  - Domain 3 Hands-On Live Labs (76m TTL)
    - Lab 01 Amazon EC2 Instance with CloudWatch Agent
    - Lab 02 Multi-AZ VPC Architecture with Public/Private Subnets
    - Lab 09 Elastic Auto Scaling Fleet with ALB Target Groups
    - Lab 14 Containerized Microservice on Amazon ECS Fargate
    - Lab 15 Kubernetes Deployment on Amazon EKS with IRSA
    - Lab 21 Cross-Region Automated Backup & Disaster Recovery
    - Quiz Domain 3 Knowledge Assessment (30 Questions)
    - QA Domain 3 Incident Triage: Multi-AZ Partition & Failover
- Domain 4 (15%) Monitoring and Logging
  - MOD 1 Module 1: Amazon CloudWatch Fundamentals
    - Lesson Lesson 1.1: The CloudWatch Observability Engine
  - MOD 2 Module 2: Metrics, Logs, Dashboards, and Alarms
    - Lesson Lesson 2.1: CloudWatch Metrics Deep Dive
    - Lesson Lesson 2.2: CloudWatch Logs Architecture
    - Lesson Lesson 2.3: CloudWatch Dashboards
    - Lesson Lesson 2.4: CloudWatch Alarms & Evaluation Mechanics
    - Lesson Lesson 2.5: CloudWatch Logs Insights (High-Speed Analytics)
  - MOD 3 Module 3: Event Detection, Auditing, and Configuration Monitoring
    - Lesson Lesson 3.1: Amazon EventBridge Routing
    - Lesson Lesson 3.2: AWS CloudTrail (API Auditing)
    - Lesson Lesson 3.3: AWS Config (Resource State & Compliance)
    - Lesson Lesson 3.4: AWS X-Ray (Distributed Tracing)
  - MOD 4 Module 4: Systems Management and Network Monitoring
    - Lesson Lesson 4.1: AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Operational Monitoring
    - Lesson Lesson 4.2: AWS Health Dashboard
    - Lesson Lesson 4.3: VPC Flow Logs (Network Telemetry)
  - MOD 5 Module 5: Centralized Logging and Log Retention
    - Lesson Lesson 5.1: Multi-Account Centralized Logging Architecture
  - MOD 6 Module 6: Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Distributed Tracing
    - Lesson Lesson 6.1: The Four Golden Signals
  - MOD 7 Module 7: Alerting, Incident Detection, and Automated Remediation
    - Lesson Lesson 7.1: Enterprise Severity Tiers & Notification Flow
    - Lesson Lesson 7.2: Closed-Loop Automated Remediation
  - MOD 8 Module 8: Monitoring Scaling, Containers, and Serverless
    - Lesson Lesson 8.1: Auto Scaling Monitoring
    - Lesson Lesson 8.2: Serverless & Container Metrics (Lambda, ECS, EKS)
  - Domain 4 Hands-On Live Labs (76m TTL)
    - Lab 10 High-Resolution CloudWatch Metrics & Composite Alarms
    - Lab 11 Centralized Logging with CloudWatch Logs Insights
    - Lab 12 Multi-Region CloudTrail Auditing with Log Integrity
    - Quiz Domain 4 Knowledge Assessment (30 Questions)
    - QA Domain 4 Incident Triage: Silent Degradation & Alarm Storms
- Domain 5 (14%) Incident and Event Response
  - MOD 1 Module 1: Incident Management Fundamentals
    - Lesson Lesson 1.1: The Incident Lifecycle
    - Lesson Lesson 1.2: Incident Detection and Severity Classification
  - MOD 2 Module 2: Root Cause Analysis and Failure Investigation
    - Lesson Lesson 2.1: Root Cause Analysis (RCA) Framework
    - Lesson Lesson 2.2: Troubleshooting Failed Deployments
  - MOD 3 Module 3: Automated Incident Response
    - Lesson Lesson 3.1: Automated Self-Healing Architecture
    - Lesson Lesson 3.2: EventBridge Rules for Compute State Transitions
    - Lesson Lesson 3.3: Lambda-Based Remediation with Strict Safety Controls
    - Lesson Lesson 3.4: SSM Incident Manager End-of-Support & Modern Alternatives
  - MOD 4 Module 4: Configuration, Audit, and Recovery
    - Lesson Lesson 4.1: AWS Config Automated Remediation
    - Lesson Lesson 4.2: Forensic Investigation with AWS CloudTrail
    - Lesson Lesson 4.3: Database Backup Restoration & Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR)
  - MOD 5 Module 5: Runbooks, Playbooks, and Operational Documentation
    - Lesson Lesson 5.1: Operational Runbooks vs. Playbooks
  - MOD 6 Module 6: Post-Incident Analysis and Advanced Troubleshooting
    - Lesson Lesson 6.1: Blameless Post-Incident Reviews (PIR)
    - Lesson Lesson 6.2: Zero-Downtime Deployment Rollback & Database Backward Compatibility
    - Lesson Lesson 6.3: Resource Exhaustion Triage Matrix
  - MOD 7 Module 7: Automated Recovery Workflows
    - Overview Overview & Best Practices: Module 7: Automated Recovery Workflows
  - Domain 5 Hands-On Live Labs (76m TTL)
    - Lab 13 Event-Driven Self-Healing Lambda Remediation
    - Lab 20 Disaster Deployment Rollback & Database PITR Recovery
    - Quiz Domain 5 Knowledge Assessment (30 Questions)
    - QA Domain 5 Incident Triage: Outage War-Room RCA & Postmortem
- Domain 6 (15%) Security and Compliance
  - MOD 1 Module 1: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
    - Lesson Lesson 1.1: What is AWS IAM?
    - Lesson Lesson 1.2: Users, Groups, Roles, and Policy Hierarchy
    - Lesson Lesson 1.3: Least-Privilege Policy Engineering
    - Lesson Lesson 1.4: IAM Policy Evaluation Logic
    - Lesson Lesson 1.5: IAM Access Analyzer
  - MOD 2 Module 2: AWS Organizations and Multi-Account Security
    - Lesson Lesson 2.1: Multi-Account Architecture
    - Lesson Lesson 2.2: Service Control Policies (SCPs)
    - Lesson Lesson 2.3: AWS IAM Identity Center
  - MOD 3 Module 3: Encryption, Keys, and Secrets
    - Lesson Lesson 3.1: AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
    - Lesson Lesson 3.2: AWS Secrets Manager
    - Lesson Lesson 3.3: AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store
    - Lesson Lesson 3.4: AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)
  - MOD 4 Module 4: AWS Edge and Threat Protection
    - Lesson Lesson 4.1: AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    - Lesson Lesson 4.2: AWS Shield
  - MOD 5 Module 5: Threat Detection and Security Findings
    - Lesson Lesson 5.1: Amazon GuardDuty
    - Lesson Lesson 5.2: Amazon Inspector
    - Lesson Lesson 5.3: AWS Security Hub
    - Lesson Lesson 5.4: Amazon Macie
  - MOD 6 Module 6: Compliance Monitoring
    - Lesson Lesson 6.1: AWS Config Compliance & Automated Remediation
    - Lesson Lesson 6.2: AWS CloudTrail Audit Integrity
  - MOD 7 Module 7: Encryption at Rest and in Transit
    - Lesson Lesson 7.1: Encryption at Rest
    - Lesson Lesson 7.2: Encryption in Transit
    - Lesson Lesson 7.3: Secret Rotation Best Practices
  - MOD 8 Module 8: Secure CI/CD Pipelines
    - Lesson Lesson 8.1: CI/CD Threat Vectors
    - Lesson Lesson 8.2: Secure Pipeline Architecture
    - Lesson Lesson 8.3: Cross-Account IAM Role Assumption
  - MOD 9 Module 9: Supply-Chain and Container Security
    - Lesson Lesson 9.1: Supply-Chain Security & Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
    - Lesson Lesson 9.2: Container Image Scanning & Release Gates
  - MOD 10 Module 10: Event-Driven Security Automation
    - Lesson Lesson 10.1: Closed-Loop Security Automation Mesh
    - Lesson Lesson 10.2: EventBridge Rule for GuardDuty Findings
    - Lesson Lesson 10.3: Safe Lambda Remediation Implementation
  - MOD 11 Module 11: Production-Grade Hands-on Labs
    - Overview Overview & Best Practices: Module 11: Production-Grade Hands-on Labs
  - MOD 12 Module 12: 15 Enterprise Troubleshooting Scenarios
    - Overview Overview & Best Practices: Module 12: 15 Enterprise Troubleshooting Scenarios
  - MOD 13 Module 13: Practice Certification Assessment 15 Questions
    - Overview Overview & Best Practices: Module 13: Practice Certification Assessment 15 Questions
  - MOD 14 Module 14: Final AmbaAWS Security Capstone: Multi-Account DevSecOps Security Platform
    - Overview Overview & Best Practices: Module 14: Final AmbaAWS Security Capstone: Multi-Account DevSecOps Security Platform
  - MOD 15 Module 15: Recommended 10-Day Learning Sequence
    - Overview Overview & Best Practices: Module 15: Recommended 10-Day Learning Sequence
  - Domain 6 Hands-On Live Labs (76m TTL)
    - Lab 03 Secure Amazon S3 Build Artifact Store with WORM Lock
    - Lab 17 Secrets Manager Dynamic Secret Rotation with RDS
    - Lab 18 Cross-Account CI/CD Pipeline Role Assumption
    - Lab 23 DevSecOps Security Quality Gates (SAST & ECR Scanning)
    - Quiz Domain 6 Knowledge Assessment (30 Questions)
    - QA Domain 6 Incident Triage: Compromised IAM Key & Exfiltration
- Domain 7 (15%) Governance, Risk, and Compliance
  - MOD 1 Module 1: AWS Organizations
    - Lesson Lesson 1.1: What is AWS Organizations?
    - Lesson Lesson 1.2: Single-Account vs. Multi-Account Isolation
  - MOD 2 Module 2: Multi-Account Architecture
    - Lesson Lesson 2.1: Account Taxonomy & Responsibilities
    - Lesson Lesson 2.2: Centralized vs. Decentralized Governance
  - MOD 3 Module 3: AWS Control Tower
    - Lesson Lesson 3.1: Automated Landing Zone Deployment
    - Lesson Lesson 3.2: Control Tower Guardrail Categories
  - MOD 4 Module 4: Service Control Policies (SCPs)
    - Lesson Lesson 4.1: SCP Mechanics & Evaluation
    - Lesson Lesson 4.2: Production Region-Restriction SCP
  - MOD 5 Module 5: AWS Config
    - Lesson Lesson 5.1: Continuous Configuration Evaluation
    - Lesson Lesson 5.2: Closed-Loop Config Remediation
  - MOD 6 Module 6: AWS CloudTrail
    - Lesson Lesson 6.1: Organization-Wide Multi-Region Trails
    - Lesson Lesson 6.2: CloudTrail vs. AWS Config
  - MOD 7 Module 7: AWS Audit Manager
    - Lesson Lesson 7.1: Automated Compliance Evidence Collection
  - MOD 8 Module 8: AWS Artifact
    - Lesson Lesson 8.1: Accessing AWS Compliance Reports & Agreements
  - MOD 9 Module 9: & 10: Resource Tagging & Resource Groups
    - Lesson Lesson 9.1: Enterprise Tagging Standard
    - Lesson Lesson 9.2: Organizations Tag Policies
    - Lesson Lesson 10.1: AWS Resource Groups
    - Lesson Lesson 11.1: AWS Cost Explorer
    - Lesson Lesson 12.1: AWS Budgets
    - Lesson Lesson 13.1: Cost Allocation Tags
  - MOD 14 Module 14: & 15: Resource Lifecycle & Automated Governance
    - Lesson Lesson 14.1: Resource Lifecycle Pipeline
    - Lesson Lesson 15.1: Preventive, Detective, and Corrective Controls
  - MOD 16 Module 16: 21: Enterprise Operations, Provisioning & Change Management
    - Lesson Lesson 17.1: Account Provisioning Baseline Checklist
    - Lesson Lesson 20.1: Unified Resource Inventory
    - Lesson Lesson 21.1: Controlled Change Management
  - MOD 22 Module 22: & 23: Infrastructure Drift Detection & Cost Optimization
    - Lesson Lesson 22.1: CloudFormation Drift Detection
    - Lesson Lesson 23.1: Automated Cost Optimization Workflows
  - MOD 24 Module 24: Production-Grade Hands-on Labs
    - Overview Overview & Best Practices: Module 24: Production-Grade Hands-on Labs
  - MOD 25 Module 25: 15 Enterprise Troubleshooting Scenarios
    - Overview Overview & Best Practices: Module 25: 15 Enterprise Troubleshooting Scenarios
  - MOD 26 Module 26: Practice Certification Assessment 15 Questions
    - Overview Overview & Best Practices: Module 26: Practice Certification Assessment 15 Questions
  - MOD 27 Module 27: AmbaAWS Governance Capstone: Multi-Account Governance and Cost Management Platform
    - Overview Overview & Best Practices: Module 27: AmbaAWS Governance Capstone: Multi-Account Governance and Cost Management Platform
  - MOD 28 Module 28: Ten-Day Structured Study Plan
    - Overview Overview & Best Practices: Module 28: Ten-Day Structured Study Plan
  - Domain 7 Hands-On Live Labs (76m TTL)
    - Lab 24 FinOps Cloud Cost Governance with AWS Budgets & Alerts
    - Lab 25 Enterprise Capstone: Production GitOps CI/CD Platform
    - Quiz Domain 7 Knowledge Assessment (30 Questions)
    - QA Domain 7 Incident Triage: Non-Compliant S3 & SCP Override
AWS Certified WorkSpaces & Virtual Desktop Specialist (20 Labs)
- Module 1: Foundations & VPC Network Architecture
  - LABS (4) Hands-On Guided Labs (76m TTL)
    - LAB 01 Introduction to Amazon WorkSpaces 76m
    - LAB 02 Explore AWS WorkSpaces Console & Directory Controls 76m
    - LAB 03 Create an AWS VPC for WorkSpaces (10.0.0.0/16) 76m
    - LAB 04 Configure Public and Private Subnets across Multi-AZ 76m
  - QUIZ Module 1 Architecture & Network Topology Quiz
  - Q&A Incident Q&A: Subnet IP Exhaustion & Streaming Failure
- Module 2: Directory Services & Active Directory Federation
  - LABS (2) Hands-On Guided Labs (76m TTL)
    - LAB 05 Configure AWS Directory Service (Simple AD) 76m
    - LAB 06 Integrate Microsoft Active Directory with AD Connector 76m
  - QUIZ Module 2 Directory Federation & Kerberos Quiz
  - Q&A Incident Q&A: On-Prem AD Connector Trust Breakdown
- Module 3: Fleet Provisioning & Desktop Streaming Protocols
  - LABS (4) Hands-On Guided Labs (76m TTL)
    - LAB 07 Create an Amazon WorkSpaces Personal Desktop (Win/Linux) 76m
    - LAB 08 Select WorkSpaces Bundles and Compute Options 76m
    - LAB 09 Assign WorkSpaces to Directory Users & Registration Code 76m
    - LAB 10 Connect to a Virtual Desktop via DCV & Web Client 76m
  - QUIZ Module 3 Streaming Protocol Optimization Quiz
  - Q&A Incident Q&A: Amazon DCV Port 4195 UDP Block by Corporate Firewall
- Module 4: Security, Network Egress & Persistent Storage
  - LABS (4) Hands-On Guided Labs (76m TTL)
    - LAB 11 Configure Security Groups and Network Access Isolation 76m
    - LAB 12 Configure Secure Internet Access for WorkSpaces via NAT Gateway 76m
    - LAB 13 Manage WorkSpaces Users, Local Admin & Self-Service Policies 76m
    - LAB 14 Configure Persistent Storage & FSx for Windows File Server 76m
  - QUIZ Module 4 Storage Encryption & Network Firewall Quiz
  - Q&A Incident Q&A: User Profile Data Loss Prevention during Desktop Rebuild
- Module 5: Operations, Reliability, DR & Scale
  - LABS (6) Hands-On Guided Labs (76m TTL)
    - LAB 15 Troubleshoot WorkSpaces Connectivity & Diagnostics Tool 76m
    - LAB 16 Monitor WorkSpaces Using Amazon CloudWatch & Metrics Alarms 76m
    - LAB 17 Manage WorkSpaces Billing & AutoStop vs AlwaysOn Optimization 76m
    - LAB 18 Configure WorkSpaces Rebuild and Snapshot Restore (12h RPO) 76m
    - LAB 19 Automate WorkSpaces Administration with AWS CLI & Boto3 76m
    - LAB 20 Deploy an Enterprise Multi-Region Standby WorkSpaces Fleet 76m
  - QUIZ Module 5 Enterprise DR & Cost Optimization Quiz
  - Q&A Incident Q&A: CloudWatch Latency Alert & AutoStop Billing Runaway

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