‫Hello and welcome
‫to the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner course.
‫My name is Stephane Maarek and I will be your instructor.
‫So, we are starting in five minutes
‫but please, try to pay attention to this lecture.
‫So we are going to prepare for the Cloud Practitioner exam.
‫The code is CLF-C01.
‫It is a challenging certification so,
‫this course is going to be long and interesting
‫and it is good if you have some basic IT knowledge
‫but don't worry if you don't come from an IT background,
‫I will explain everything for you as well.
‫In this course, we're going to learn a lot.
‫We will cover over 40 AWS services,
‫out of the 200 plus that exist in AWS.
‫If you are a beginner in IT and AWS,
‫do not worry, you are welcome to this course
‫and you will learn a lot
‫but take your time, it's not a race.
‫You will learn a lot everyday by doing little by little.
‫Then, this course is a bit special
‫because I want you to learn also by doing.
‫It's a key learning technique in this course.
‫So, this course will mix both theory lectures
‫and where necessary, hands on
‫where you can follow along
‫with me in the course by creating your own AWS account
‫and reproducing what I do on screen.
‫So now, we're preparing for a certification.
‫I want to show you the type
‫of questions you're going to get.
‫So this is sample question from the exam
‫which says, "Which AWS "service would simplify
‫"the migration of a database to AWS?"
‫And we'll have four answers,
‫Storage Gateway, Database Migration Service,
‫EC2 and Amazon AppStream 2.0.
‫Now, this course is going to cover most of the services.
‫For example, the first service we will learn in this course.
‫The second service, the name is obvious,
‫it is the answer to the question,
‫that is the correct answer
‫and we will cover this service as well.
‫For EC2, we will learn as well
‫and it is possible in the course
‫to have services that will be called distractors.
‫So, they will not be covered in the course
‫because there are over 200 services in AWS
‫but they will appear at the exam as a wrong answer.
‫So in this course,
‫I wanna focus on the service that I know are core to AWS
‫and they will come up at the exam
‫but I will not focus on explaining to you
‫the distractors because that would make
‫too much information into your head.
‫If you're interested into checking out
‫the sample questions for the exam,
‫you can use this link.
‫So now that we know a little bit more about the exam,
‫I want to introduce myself.
‫My name is Stephane Maarek
‫and I will be your instructor.
‫I am nine times certified on AWS out
‫of 12 certification and that's so far.
‫I'll be going for the 12 certifications
‫hopefully before the end of the year 2020.
‫I've worked with AWS for many years.
‫I've built websites, application and streaming platforms
‫and I've been teaching about AWS for a long time.
‫I teach about many AWS certifications,
‫CloudFormation, Lambda, EC2 and other courses.
‫As you can see, over 300,000 students
‫have learned alongside with me
‫and I have received over 100,000 reviews.
‫I think you are in good hands.
‫So, if you want to connect with me,
‫you can follow me on LinkedIn,
‫you can follow me on Medium,
‫Twitter as well as GitHub.
‫So welcome to AWS.
‫You are going to get certified
‫and you are going to get the first certification in AWS,
‫called the Foundational Certification
‫for AWS Cloud Practitioner.
‫This is a great first choice
‫but this is pretty high level.
‫If you want to deepen your knowledge
‫and get more technical about AWS then after this course,
‫I would recommend you tackle the Associate Certifications.
‫Then if you're really an aficionado of AWS
‫and want to learn more and more and more,
‫the Specialty exam
‫and the Professional exams are really difficult
‫and will test your in depth knowledge.
‫In this course,
‫we're just going
‫to prepare for the foundational knowledge necessary
‫to pass with flying colors,
‫the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner examination.
‫Finally, I said we're going to practice in this course.
‫So you may have a question
‫which is how much will this course cost me?
‫So this is how much it cost me at the end of this course,
‫$12 and 70 cents but I wanna tell you right away
‫that most of the services we'll use in this course,
‫will be within the AWS Free Tier.
‫So there is a chance for you to have a cost of zero.
‫Now, if I use a service in this course
‫that will cost you money,
‫I will mention it and I will leave you the option
‫to not do the hands on with me and just watch me do.
‫For example, the most expensive item
‫in here is the registrar
‫because I've purchased a domain name.
‫So, new URL, for example stephaneccp.com.
‫You can read more about the Free Tier at this URL.
‫If you're unsure about,
‫if something is going to cost you money
‫or not or you can just come back
‫to this slide and then see,
‫based on the service we're watching
‫if it's going to cost you anything or not.
‫As I mentioned,
‫most of the services we'll be using
‫will be within the Free Tier.
‫So don't worry there,
‫I'll be guiding you along the way.
‫I am super happy that you're here
‫with me in this course
‫and I wish you a happy learning.