Exam Readiness: AWS Certified Security - Specialty
Offered By: Amazon Web Services via AWS Skill Builder
Course Description
Overview
The AWS Certified Security Specialty exam validates technical skills and experience in securing and hardening workloads and architectures on the AWS platform. Attendees with two or more years of hands-on experience designing and deploying cloud architecture on AWS should join this course to learn how to prepare and succeed in the exam. We will help you prepare for the exam by exploring the exam’s topic areas and mapping them to specific areas to study. We will review sample exam questions in each topic area, teaching you how to interpret the concepts being tested so that you can better eliminate incorrect responses.
- Course level: Advanced
- Duration: 2 hours
Course objectives
In this course, you will learn to:
- Navigate the logistics of the examination process
- Understand the exam structure and question types
- Identify how questions relate to AWS security best practices
- Interpret the concepts being tested by an exam question
- Allocate your time spent studying for the AWS Certified Security Specialty exam
Intended audience
This course is intended for:
- Individuals who perform a security role
Prerequisites
We recommend that attendees of this course have:
- Minimum of five years of IT security experience, designing and implementing security solutions
- At least two years of hands-on experience securing AWS workloads, and security controls for workloads on AWS
Course outline
Module 1: Course Introduction
- Exam logistics
- Exam mechanics
Module 2: Exam Domains
- Incident response
- Logging and monitoring
- Infrastructure security
- Identity and access management
- Data protection
Module 3: Wrap Up
- Course summary
- Course assessment
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