AWS re/Start Agenda

WEEK 1 – INTRODUCTION, CLOUD FOUNDATIONS

DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 DAY 4 DAY 5

Opening 20 Recap 20 Recap 20 Recap 20 Recap 20

Welcome & Expectations 45 Activity: Think Big 120 Activity: Cloud Roles 90 Communication and STAR 135 AWS Services and Service Category 50
methodology Overview and Knowledge Check

Break 15 Break 15 Break 15 Break 15 AWS Shared Responsibility Model 35

and Knowledge Check

Program Overview and 60 Introduction to Computing and 50 Activity: Setting Goals 105 What is Amazon Web Services 55 Break 15
Introductions Knowledge Check (AWS) and Knowledge Check

Curriculum Overview 30 Lunch 45 Lunch 45 Lunch 45 Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) 20

Lunch 45 Basic Computing Concepts and 55 Activity: Career Goals 45 Introduction to AWS Training and 45 Amazon S3 Demo and Knowledge 40
Knowledge Check Certification Check

Vendor Introduction 45 Break 15 Break 15 Break 15 Lunch 45

Break 15 Development Team Roles and 40 Advantages of Cloud Computing and 95 Fundamentals of AWS Pricing and 45 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) 60
Knowledge Check Knowledge Check Knowledge Check and Demo

Self-Assessment: Who Am I? 45 What is Cloud Computing and 45 Exit Ticket 20 AWS Infrastructure Overview and 45 Lab: Introduction to Amazon EC2 60
Knowledge Check Knowledge Check and Knowledge Check

Activity: Introduction to Amazon 30 Exit Ticket 20 Exit Ticket 20 Break 15

Leadership Principles

Introduce Exit Ticket Activity 15 Flex Time 25 Flex Time 10 Recap and Quiz: Cloud Foundations 45

Exit Ticket 20 Review Cloud Foundations 25

Flex Time 65 Exit Ticket 20

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WEEK 2 - LINUX
DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 DAY 4 DAY 5

Recap 15 Recap 20 Recap 20 Recap 20 Recap 20

Introduction to Linux 50 Editing Files 65 Lab: Working with Files and 45 Managing Processes 65 Lab: Bash Shell and Knowledge 45
Knowledge Check Check
Lab: Introduction to Linux and 45 Break 15 Break 15 Break 15 Break 15
Knowledge Check
Break 15 Lab: Editing Files and Knowledge Check 75 Managing File Permissions 60 Lab: Managing Processes and 60 Bash Shell Scripting 110
Knowledge Check

Linux Command Line 75 Working with the File System 65 Lab: Managing File Permissions and 50 Managing Services 65 Lunch 45
Knowledge Check

Lunch 45 Lunch 45 Lunch 45 Lunch 45 Lab: Bash Shell Scripting and 40

Knowledge check
Lab: Linux Command Line and 45 Lab: Working with the File System and 45 Working with Commands 90 Lab: Managing Services and 45 Break 15
Knowledge Check Knowledge Check Knowledge Check

Users and Groups 65 Break 15 Break 15 Break 15 Activity: Customer Obsession 50

Break 15 Working with Files 65 Lab: Working with Commands and 45 The Bash Shell 75 Exit Ticket 20
Knowledge Check

Lab: Users and Groups and 60 Exit Ticket 20 Flex Time 45 Exit Ticket 20 Flex Time 90
Knowledge Check

Exit Ticket 20 Flex Time 20 Exit Ticket 20 Flex Time 25

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WEEK 3 – LINUX, NETWORKING
DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 DAY 4 DAY 5

Recap 20 Recap 20 Recap 20 Recap 20 Recap 20

Software Management 40 Professional Outlook 135 Lab: Public and Private IPs 60 Lab: Networking resources for a VPC 60 Activity: Learn and Be Curious 50

Break 15 Break 15 Break 15 Break 15 Break 15

Lab: Software Management and 40 Introduction to Networking and 50 Lab: Dynamic and Static IPs 60 Emotional Intelligence 90 Lab: Troubleshooting Commands 60
Knowledge Check Knowledge Check

Managing Log Files 70 Lunch 45 Networking in the AWS Cloud 55 Lunch 45 Lab: Troubleshooting Network Issue 60

Lunch 45 Networking Concepts and Knowledge 65 Lunch 45 IP Subnetting and Knowledge Check 85 Lunch 45
Check

Lab: Managing Log Files and 25 Break 15 AWS VPC Demonstration 45 Break 15 Additional Networking Protocols 75
Knowledge Check

Break 15 Internet Protocol 45 Amazon VPC Knowledge Check 15 Alumni presentation with Students 90 Break 15

Challenge Lab: Advanced Bash Shell 55 Internet Protocol (IP) Demo and 35 Break 15 Exit Ticket 20 Additional Networking Protocols 35
Scripting on EC2 Knowledge Check Activities and Knowledge Check

Review Linux 30 Exit Ticket 20 Lab: Create subnets in a VPC 60 Flex Time 10 Exit Ticket 20

Exit Ticket 20 Flex Time 5 Exit Ticket 20 Flex Time 55

Flex Time 75 Flex Time 40

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WEEK 4 – NETWORKING, SECURITY
DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 DAY 4 DAY 5

Recap 10 Recap 20 Recap 20 Recap 20 Recap 20

Lab: Build your VPC and launch a 60 Introduction to Security 65 Lab: Systems Hardening and 75 AWS Identity and Access 30 Response 45
web server Knowledge Check Management (IAM)

Break 15 Break 15 Break 15 Break 15 Break 15

Additional Networking Technologies 40 Introduction to Security Knowledge 15 Prevention: Data Security 35 Lab: Introduction to IAM and 60 Activity: Incident Response and 45
and Knowledge Check Check Knowledge Check Knowledge Check

Review Networking 20 Security Life Cycle: Prevention 65 Lab: Data Protection Using Encryption 60 Detection 40 Analysis 45
and Knowledge Check

Lunch 45 Security Life Cycle – Prevention 15 Lunch 45 Lunch 45 Lunch 45

Knowledge Check

Digital Presence 95 Lunch 45 Prevention: Public Key Infrastructure 35 Lab: Malware Protection and 60 Lab: Monitor an EC2 Instance and 75
and Demo Knowledge Check Knowledge Check

Interview settings (lecture) 35 Prevention: Network Hardening 75 Demo: Amazon Certificate Manager 25 AWS CloudTrail and Knowledge 35 Break 15
and Knowledge Check Check

Break 15 Break 15 Prevention: Identity Management 65 Break 15 Activity: Earn Trust 50

Interview process (lecture) 50 Lab: Networking Hardening and 60 Break 15 AWS Config and Knowledge Check 50 Presentation from future peers at 40
Knowledge Check company

Interview Practice 45 Prevention: System Hardening 40 Prevention: Identity Management 15 Exit Ticket 20 Exit Ticket 20
Knowledge Check

Exit Ticket 20 Exit Ticket 20 Exit Ticket 20 Flex Time 60 Flex Time 35

Flex Time 25

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WEEK 5 – SECURITY, PYTHON PROGRAMMING
DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 DAY 4 DAY 5

Recap 20 Recap 20 Recap 20 Recap 20 Recap 20

AWS Trusted Advisor and Knowledge 80 Introduction to Programming - What is 25 Lab: Categorize values 60 Introduction to Programming - 30 Meet future peers at company 45
Check Programming? Version Control

Break 15 AWS Cloud 9 Instructor Demonstration 30 Introduction to Programming - 15 Break 15 Break 15

Combine Values into Composite Data
Types

Security Best Practices and 35 Break 15 Lab: Composite data types 60 Lab: Create a git repository and 75 Lab: Working with the string 60
Knowledge Check Knowledge Check sequence and numeric weight of
insulin in python and Knowledge
Check

AWS Compliance Program and 50 Lab: Hello World 60 Break 15 Introduction to Python 30 Interview Practice 30
Knowledge Check

Lunch 45 Introduction to Programming - 20 Introduction to Programming - 25 Lunch 45 Lunch 45

Categorize a Value as a Data Type Functions

AWS Security Resources and 35 Lunch 45 Introduction to Programming - Follow 15 Lab: Preparing to analyze insulin 45 Flow Control 145
Knowledge Check the Execution Path of a Program with Python and Knowledge Check

Review Security 30 Lab: Numeric data types 80 Lunch 45 Break 15 Break 15

Break 15 Lab: String data type 60 Lab: Conditionals 60 Python Basics 145 Lab: Calculating the net charge of 55
Lab: Loops 60 insulin using python lists and loops
and Knowledge Check

Interview Practice 45 Break 15 Break 15 Exit Ticket 20 Exit Ticket 20

Hiring Process 60 Lab: List, tuple, dictionary 60 Activity: Have a Backbone 40 Flex Time 10

Exit Ticket 20 Exit Ticket 20 Exit Ticket 20

WEEK 6 – PYTHON PROGRAMMING, DATABASES

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DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 DAY 4 DAY 5

Recap 20 Recap 20 Recap 20 Recap 20 Recap 20

Functions 80 Python for System Administration 80 Knowledge Check (Debugging) 15 Challenge lab: Python 60 Data Interaction and Database 65
Transaction and Knowledge Check

Break 15 Break 15 DevOps and Continuous Integration 40 Break 15 Creating Tables and Learning 90
Different Data Types

Lab: Use functions to implement a 105 Lab: System Administration with 65 Break 15 Review Python 30 Break 15
Caesar Cipher and Knowledge Check Python and Knowledge Check

Lunch 45 Lunch 45 Lab: Evaluate a DevOps tool 45 Exploring Cloud Job Postings 90 Activity: Creating tables and data 30
types

Mods and Libraries 80 Debugging and Testing 70 Lunch 45 Lunch 45 Lunch 45

Break 15 Lab: Using the Debugger 40 Lab: Explore the value of automation 45 Explore Cloud Job Postings 45 Lab: Database table operations and 45
discussion Knowledge Check

Lab: File handlers and modules for 55 Break 15 Break 15 Introduction to Databases 40 Break 15
retrieving information about insulin
and Knowledge Check

Exit Ticket 20 Lab: Debugging Hello World and Caesar 80 Lab: Compare and contrast 60 Break 15 Interview Practice 45
Cipher automation and orchestration and
Knowledge Check

Flex Time 15 Exit Ticket 20 Configuration Management and 60 Activity: Introduction to Databases 55 Inserting Data into a Database 55
Knowledge Check and Knowledge Check

Fact finding exercise: Python 70 Exit Ticket 20 Exit Ticket 20

Exit Ticket 20 Flex Time 15 Flex Time 5

WEEK 7 – DATABASES
DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 DAY 4 DAY 5

Recap 20 Recap 20 Recap 20 Recap 20 Recap 20

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Lab: Inserting Data and Knowledge 40 Activities and Lab: Performing a 100 Retrieving Data 45 Fact finding exercise: Databases 60 Networking (soft skills) Continued 100
Check Conditional Search and Knowledge and Review
Check

Selecting Data 55 Break 15 Lab: Build your DB server and 60 Challenge lab: Build and Access an 45 Break 15
Knowledge Check RDS Server

Break 15 Working with Functions 55 Break 15 Break 15 Interview Practice 45

Lab: Selecting data from a database 60 Lunch 45 Amazon RDS and Demonstration 60 Review Databases 30 Lunch 45
and Knowledge Check

Resume Creation (Lecture) 35 Lab: Working with functions and 60 Lunch 45 Lunch 45 Networking Event 180
Knowledge Check

Lunch 45 Organizing Data 55 Lab: Introduction to Amazon Aurora 55 Work on Resume 45 Exit Ticket 20
and Knowledge Check

Work on Resume 45 Break 15 Amazon DynamoDB and 60 Break 15 Flex Time 25

Demonstration

Break 15 Lab: Organizing Data and Knowledge 60 Break 15 Networking (soft skills) 95
Check

Performing a Conditional Search 90 Exit Ticket 20 Lab: Introduction to Amazon 50 Exit Ticket 20
DynamoDB and Knowledge Check

Exit Ticket 20 Flex Time 5 Exit Ticket 20 Flex Time 60

Flex Time 10 Flex Time 5

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WEEK 8 – JUMPSTART ON AWS (JAWS)
AWS Architecture, Systems Operations Overview, Tooling and Automation, Compute (Servers)

DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 DAY 4 DAY 5

Recap 20 Recap 20 Recap 20 Recap 20 Recap 20

Technical thought process 185 Fact Finding exercise: Well-Architected 60 Teamwork and Collaboration 90 Café Activity: Install and use the 90 Work on Resume 45
Framework (Continued) AWS CLI and Knowledge Check

Break 15 Break 15 Break 15 Break 15 Break 15

AWS Cloud Adoption Framework 25 Knowledge Check (Well-Architected) 15 Introduce Systems Operations 15 Review Systems Operations 15 Interview Practice 45

Lunch 45 Review Well Architected 15 Activity: Troubleshooting Knowledge 15 Introduce Tooling and Automation 10 Lunch 45
Base Introduction

AWS Well-Architected Framework 30 Work on Resume 45 Lunch 45 AWS Systems Manager 30 Introduce Compute (Servers) 10
(WAF)

Deep Dive WAF Principles 20 Lunch 45 Understanding Systems Operations 60 Lunch 45 Computing on AWS and 90
Demonstration

Break 15 Teamwork and Collaboration 45 Break 15 Lab: Using AWS Systems Manager 30 Break 15

Understanding Reliability and High 20 Break 15 AWS Identity and Access 80 Administration and Development 25 Managing Your AWS Instances 75
Availability Management (IAM) Review and Tools
Demonstration

Example of Transitioning a Data 30 Teamwork and Collaboration 110 AWS Command Line Interface (AWS 75 Hosting a Static Website on Amazon 15 Lab: Creating Amazon EC2 Instances 50
Center to the Cloud (Continued) CLI) S3

Exit Ticket 20 Exit Ticket 20 Exit Ticket 20 Break 15 Exit Ticket 20

Flex Time 25 Flex Time 45 Café Activity: Create a website on 90 Flex Time 20
Amazon S3 and Knowledge Check

Review Tooling and Automation 15

Exit Ticket 35

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WEEK 9 – JUMPSTART ON AWS (JAWS)
Compute (Servers), Compute (Scaling and Name Resolution), Compute (Containers and Serverless), Compute (Databases)

DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 DAY 4 DAY 5

Recap 20 Recap 20 Recap 20 Recap 20 Recap 20

Challenge lab: Linux EC2 Instance 75 Introduce Computing (Scaling and 15 Leading the Automatic Scaling 85 Fact Finding Exercise: Cloud 90 Containers on AWS 45
Name Resolution) Prediction Challenge Foundations 1

Break 15 Break 15 Break 15 Break 15 Break 15

AWS Elastic Beanstalk 35 Elastic Load Balancing 65 Amazon Route 53 and Demonstration 95 Introduce Compute (Containers 10 AWS Step Functions 65
and Serverless)

Lunch 45 Lunch 45 Lunch 45 AWS Lambda 30 Café Activity: Working with AWS 90
Lambda

Café Activity: Troubleshoot create 60 ELB Load Balancers and Listeners 80 CloudFront 15 Lunch 45 Lunch 45
instance

Knowledge Check (Compute 15 Break 15 Break 15 Challenge Lab: AWS Lambda 105 Knowledge Check (Compute 15
[Servers]) [Containers and Serverless])

Review Compute (Servers) 15 Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling 80 Café Activity: Amazon Route 53 90 Break 15 Review Compute (Containers and 15
Failover Serverless)

Break 15 Lab: Scale and Load Balance Your 45 Knowledge Check (Scaling and Name 15 APIs and REST 30 Break 15
Architecture Resolution)

Networking Event 90 Lab: Using Auto Scaling 45 Review Compute (Scaling and Name 15 Amazon API Gateway 30 Introduce Compute (Databases) 30
Resolution)

Exit Ticket 20 Exit Ticket 20 Exit Ticket 20 Exit Ticket 20 Amazon Redshift 60

Flex Time 45 Flex Time 5 Flex Time 20 Flex Time 40 Exit Ticket 20

Flex Time 15

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WEEK 10 – JUMPSTART ON AWS (JAWS)
Compute (Databases), Networking, Storage and Archiving

DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 DAY 4 DAY 5

Recap 20 Recap 20 Recap 20 Recap 20 Recap 20

Amazon Aurora 60 Amazon VPC connectivity 90 Work on Resume 45 Lab: Working with EBS 50 Lab: Managing Storage 50

Break 15 Break 15 Break 15 Break 15 Break 15

AWS Database Migration Service 55 Securing and Troubleshooting Your 75 Elevator Pitch 65 Instance Store 60 AWS Storage Gateway 40
Network

Café Activity: Migrate to Amazon 80 Lunch 45 AWS re/Start Interview Preparation 45 Elastic File System 45 AWS Data Transfer and Migration 45
RDS Services

Lunch 45 Lab: Configuring a VPC 50 Lunch 45 Elastic File System Demonstration 15 Lunch 45

Knowledge Check (Compute 15 Break 15 Introduce Storage and Archiving 10 Lunch 45 Challenge Lab: Amazon S3 75
[Databases])

Review Compute (Database 15 Café Activity: Troubleshoot an Amazon 90 Cloud Storage Overview 40 Amazon Simple Storage Glacier 60 Break 15
Services) VPC

Break 15 Knowledge Check (Networking) 15 Break 15 Break 15 Café Activity: Working with Amazon 90
S3

Introduce Networking 10 Review Networking 15 Amazon Elastic Block Store 105 Amazon S3 Glacier Demonstration 10 Knowledge Check (Storage and 15
Archiving)

Cloud Networking-Amazon VPC 75 Exit Ticket 20 Amazon EBS Demonstration 20 Deep Dive: Amazon S3 and the AWS 60 Review Storage and Archiving 15
CLI

Exit Ticket 20 Exit Ticket 20 Exit Ticket 20 Exit Ticket 20

Flex Time 25 Flex Time 5 Flex Time 35 Flex Time 5

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WEEK 11 - JUMPSTART ON AWS (JAWS)
Monitoring and Security, Managing Resource Consumption, Creating Automated and Repeatable Deployments

DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 DAY 4 DAY 5

Recap 20 Recap 20 Recap 20 Recap 20 Recap 20

Introduce Monitoring and Security 10 Café Activity: Working with AWS 90 Café Activity: Optimize Utilization and 60 Amazon EC2 Launch Templates 75 Troubleshoot with AWS 60
CloudTrail and Knowledge Check Knowledge Check CloudFormation

Amazon CloudWatch 75 Break 15 Break 15 Amazon EC2 Launch Templates 15 Break 15

Demonstration

Break 15 Review Monitoring and Security 15 Review Managing Resource 15 Break 15 Café Activity: Troubleshoot AWS 45
Consumption CloudFormation Deployments

Deep Dive: Amazon CloudWatch - 60 Introduce Managing Resource 10 Fact Finding exercise: Cloud 75 Infrastructure as Code 30 Lunch 45
Logs and Events Consumption Foundations 2

Lunch 45 Introduction to AWS Organizations 25 Lunch 45 Introduction to JSON and YAML 60 Fact Finding Exercise: 60
CloudFormation

Lab: Monitoring your applications 65 Lunch 45 Networking Event 65 Lunch 45 Break 15

and infrastructure

Break 15 Tagging 35 Introduce Creating Automated and 10 AWS CloudFormation 95 Challenge Lab: CloudFormation 90
Repeatable Deployments

AWS CloudTrail 75 Lab: Managing Resources with Tagging 30 Break 15 Break 15 Knowledge Check (Creating 15
Automated and Repeatable
Deployments)

AWS Service Integration with 30 Cost Management and Best Practices 65 Creating Automated and Repeatable 45 Lab: Automate Deployments with 45 Review Automated and Repeatable 15
Amazon Athena and Billing Demonstration Deployments AWS CloudFormation Deployments

Exit Ticket 20 Break 15 AMI Building Strategy 60 Exit Ticket 20 Exit Ticket 20

Flex Time 20 AWS Support Services 40 Exit Ticket 20 Flex Time 15 Flex Time 50

Exit Ticket 20 Flex Time 5

Flex Time 25

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WEEK 12 – CERTIFICATION PREPARATION
Course wrap-up, Certification preparation, Cloud Practitioner exam

DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 DAY 4 DAY 5

Recap 20 Recap 20 Recap 20 Recap 20 Recap 20

Review AWS re/Start Post-Graduate 45 Cloud Practitioner Essentials 75 Review product FAQ, review AWS, 80 Review product FAQ, review AWS, 80 Exam Day 335
Resources Knowledge Checks AWS whitepapers, exam blueprint AWS whitepapers, exam blueprint

Break 15 Break 15 Break 15 Break 15

Interview practice 80 Cloud Practitioner Essentials 80 Review product FAQ, review AWS, 85 Review product FAQ, review AWS, 85
Knowledge Checks AWS whitepapers, exam blueprint AWS whitepapers, exam blueprint

Lunch 45 Lunch 45 Lunch 45 Lunch 45

Company Visit 90 Networking Event 90 Mock exam and review 80 Mock exam and review 80

Break 15 Break 15 Break 15 Break 15

Company Visit 120 Networking Event 90 Mock exam and review 90 Mock exam and review 85

Exit Ticket 20 Exit Ticket 20 Exit Ticket 20 Exit Ticket 20

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