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19 hours 19 minutes
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Intermediate
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20
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>> Hey, everybody and welcome to this course on Cybrary on
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the AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate.
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Let's go ahead and dive into this lesson,
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this introduction that we're doing here.
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We're going to be getting started in a few minutes.
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We'll be kicking off the course officially,
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but before we do,
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I wanted to go through some learning objectives
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on the overall course.
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That's what really this video is going to be about.
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We're going to be summarizing the course syllabus,
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the goals, identifying prerequisites for the course.
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Then we'll do a little get to know me as the instructor.
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Then talk about what you need to
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do and know about to prepare.
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Let's start off by talking
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about why you want to take this course.
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AWS is the fastest-growing public Cloud provider
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out there when
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we're comparing to Microsoft Azure and to Google Cloud.
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Few others out there but AWS is the largest,
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fastest-growing, and a lot of companies use them so
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they are a great Cloud provider
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to begin your career with.
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This course is going to prepare you
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for everything you need to know in order to
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pass the Solution Architect Associate certification exam.
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This certification is going to help pave
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a way for your career in AWS,
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but also other certifications
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that you might want to obtain in the future.
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Let me go ahead and introduce myself.
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My name is Nicholas Moy, you can call me Nick.
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My specialty is in Cloud security
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and application security.
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I've worked as an advisor in some DevSecOps environments.
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I'm a senior instructor here at Cybrary,
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where it's each Cloud security.
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You can find me online or at YouTube,
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or on Twitter, or on LinkedIn.
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The prerequisites for this course are
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to have some knowledge on IT concepts,
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some general stuff like how does an IT system work?
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How does networking work?
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Things like that. Then it
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would be helpful for you to have
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some knowledge and familiarity with Cloud concepts.
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If you don't have that,
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a great course that you could start with is
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the AWS Certified Cloud practitioner course
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that we offer here on Cybrary as well.
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If you feel like you want that intro,
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be sure to check that course out before diving
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into this one because that's
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actually the natural progression.
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You start off with the club practitioner and then
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typically go into the Solution Architect Associate.
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The syllabus for this course,
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they're going to be as follows,
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we are going to be starting off with
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getting started module.
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Then we're going to be talking about
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the intro to AWS landscape,
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which is a lot larger than Module 1.
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There we'll be talking about
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some fundamental Cloud concepts,
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the well-architected framework,
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the AWS architecture,
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how the Cloud even is able to be what it is.
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Then we're going to dive into Module 3,
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which is identity and access management.
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We'll be talking about EC2 and Module 4.
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Then there's a good portion on EC2 storage where
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we're talking about how to utilize that or protect it.
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Very important concepts there.
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In Module 7, we'll be talking about Amazon S3.
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Then we'll be diving into Amazon VPCs,
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which is Virtual Private Cloud.
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Then we're going to be talking about Route 53, DNS,
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and then we'll talk on a myriad
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of AWS services for development purposes.
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Just all lots of good stuff, securities,
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lot of random things in there
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that you'll see on the exam,
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but maybe not see a lot of.
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We dropped it all into one module.
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Then in the last module,
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we'll be talking about securing
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Cloud architectures in AWS.
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For the certification, this is actually the badge
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that you're going to receive when you pass the exam,
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you get to put this on your LinkedIn profile,
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your resume. Pretty cool stuff.
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The average salary for somebody that has this here in
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the United States is $130,000 a year.
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This is a little bit
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depending on what experience you have.
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If you've never done IT before,
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you're not likely to get that salary,
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but you're going to get a pretty good salary.
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I've seen people start off
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with like 70 or $80,000 a year,
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which is pretty good compared to a lot of
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other industries and with starting pays.
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But if you do have IT experience,
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you are likely to see a promotion.
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I did see after getting
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my class certification within a few months,
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I was able to break six figures.
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It is definitely possible for anybody to do that,
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especially if you're based here in United States.
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There are endless job opportunities as
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well for people that work in the Cloud.
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Last I looked, there was 42 or
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48,000 job openings or
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something like that across the United States for jobs.
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Lots of varying positions from Cloud security to Cloud
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solutioning to QA jobs
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in the Cloud and the Cloud Developer jobs.
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There's just all kinds of stuff,
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so check it out.
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Go on Indeed or any of those job boards that you like,
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go to your favorite job board and
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take a look and see what's out there,
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see what you might be interested in,
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learn what they're looking for.
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The Solution Architect Associate Certification is
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a good general certification to start with.
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It's like one of those that it's not really foundational,
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but it'll help you look attractive to employers.
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You could tag on whatever specialty certifications
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you want to afterwards.
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It looks really good on your resume.
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Be sure to take a look around,
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start planning your career,
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start planning your future.
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Be sure to complete this course and get the certification
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because it's definitely going to be well worth it.
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There's just so much job opportunities,
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so much potential in getting AWS certified. Good stuff.
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This exam is taken online or in a testing center.
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I know for a lot of you out there who
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are living in restricted COVID areas,
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do what's safe for you.
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If you need to take it online, you can do that.
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That's the beauty of it.
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You have that option, but if you prefer to
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take it in the testing center if you're like one of
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those people that helps you get in the mode and
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the mental state that
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you need to be in to take your exam,
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you have that option as well.
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Just make sure you're staying safe,
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check the precautions and stuff on the testing center.
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Make sure you follow those so that you're all good to
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go before jumping into your exam.
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Here are the domain breakdowns for this exam,
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24 percent is going to make up designing
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secure applications and architectures,
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18 percent for application data and host security,
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30 percent for designing resilient architectures,
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and 28 percent for
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designing high performing architectures.
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Lots of architecture stuff here,
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which sounds complicated, but it's really not.
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Once you get through it,
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you're going to really appreciate it.
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What we're learning here is how to mesh
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these core AWS services together to
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do really cool things and how to do it securely,
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how to do it with resilience so it doesn't fall,
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so that your data doesn't become unavailable.
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Just good stuff like that.
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We're going to learn a lot more about
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this as we go along throughout
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this course. I'm excited.
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In this course, there
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are several materials you get to leverage,
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so you're going have the syllabus.
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It's like your overarching guide.
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Then you're going to have the official exam guide,
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which is offered by AWS.
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We're going to offer several labs that
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you can use to practice.
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We're going to have assessments to quiz you.
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Then we'll have whitepaper references which
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I refer to even today when I'm not preparing for an exam.
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Professionally, as an architect,
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you're going to want to leverage the white papers to
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always bring yourself back to the principles,
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the things that we need
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to leverage as professionals that work in the Cloud.
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This is the nature of the Cloud.
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The more you do this,
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the easier it gets.
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You start to remember these principles,
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but it's always good to go back to.
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Sometimes the principles change as the Cloud changes,
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which is all the time.
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It's always good to refer to them.
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We're going to have several here
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that we're going to introduce to you.
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I highly recommend that you review them, read through it.
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You don't have to memorize it,
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but you do need to be familiar
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with it because you're going to see
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some questions on the exam that are going to
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bring you back to those white papers
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and it's good to know what you're looking at.
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To summarize here, we did a course intro.
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We talked about the exam domains,
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review the breakdown of the various domains,
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we talked about the exam structure,
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we did a review on the syllabus,
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introduced myself as the instructor,
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then we also talked about the benefits of
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this course and getting the certification.
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I hope you're excited,
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we're right about out of time for this lesson.
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Let's go ahead and dive into the next one.
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We're going to talk about preparing for
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success and then we're going to dive
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into the course itself. I'll see you there.
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