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AWS Cloud Fundamentals
Understand and use the core of Amazon Web Services the way cloud and DevOps teams do: IAM, EC2, S3, VPC networking, databases, serverless, monitoring and keeping the bill under control.
About 1 h of reading, plus practice5 modules · 25 quiz questions · final exam
Skills you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Explain cloud models, regions, availability zones and the shared responsibility model
- Secure an AWS account with IAM users, roles, policies and MFA
- Launch and connect to EC2 servers and store files safely in S3
- Design a basic VPC with public and private subnets and security groups
- Choose between EC2, containers, Lambda and RDS, and monitor cost and health with CloudWatch and Budgets
Syllabus
- 1
Cloud basics and how AWS is organised
3 min5-question quiz- What "the cloud" means
- Service models
- Regions and availability zones
- The shared responsibility model
- How you use AWS
- 2
IAM and account security
2 min5-question quiz- Protect the root user first
- IAM building blocks
- Reading a policy
- Least privilege
- Roles instead of keys
- Audit and guardrails
- 3
Compute and storage: EC2 and S3
3 min5-question quiz- EC2: virtual servers
- S3: object storage
- Other storage
- 4
Networking, databases and serverless
3 min5-question quiz- VPC: your private network
- DNS and content delivery
- Managed databases
- Serverless
- Containers on AWS
- Choosing compute
- 5
Monitoring, cost and well-architected habits
3 min5-question quiz- Monitoring with CloudWatch
- Controlling cost
- Backups and disaster recovery
- The Well-Architected Framework
- Your learning path
- ★Final exam & certificate15 questions · 30 minutes · 70% to pass · 3 tries
Your certificate
HireSol certified in AWS Cloud Fundamentals
Signed by HireSol and verifiable online with its own ID. Download it as a PDF, add it to LinkedIn in one click, and it shows on your HireSol profile to companies.
Questions
- Who is this course for?
- College students, freshers and anyone switching careers who wants a job-ready grounding in AWS Cloud Fundamentals. It's a beginner course; every module explains the ideas with worked examples from real jobs.
- Is the course online and self-paced?
- Yes. It's fully online: about 1 hours of reading across 5 modules, on your phone or laptop, whenever it suits you.
- How do I get the certificate?
- Pass the quiz at the end of each module (70% or more), then the final exam: 15 questions drawn from a larger pool, 30 minutes, 70% to pass, 3 tries. Your certificate is issued the moment you pass.
- Can recruiters check that my certificate is real?
- Yes. Every certificate has its own page on hiresol.cloud with an ID and a digital signature from HireSol, so anyone can verify your name, the course, your score and the date.
- What happens if I fail the final exam?
- You have 3 tries, with new questions each time. If all 3 miss the mark, the course locks and you can unlock it again to start over.