AWS-01 Cloud Sandbox Environment Initialization Cloud Essentials AWS IAM CloudShell VPC
Baseline environment configuration and root security verification. CODE AWS-02 Amazon EC2 Web Server Lifecycle Management Compute & OS Amazon EC2 Security Groups User Data
Bootstrap Apache HTTP web server deployment via shell automation scripts. CODE AWS-03 IP Networking & Troubleshooting Commands VPC & Networking Linux CLI TCP/IP DNS
Diagnostics of network latency and routing via ping, traceroute, and dig. CODE AWS-04 Public & Private IP Address Diagnostics VPC & Networking Amazon VPC CIDR Subnets
Network addressing verification and private subnet segmentation. CODE AWS-05 Static and Dynamic Elastic IP Architecture VPC & Networking Amazon EC2 Elastic IP DNS
Configuring static public IPv4 persistence across instance lifecycle restarts. CODE AWS-06 L3/L4 Network Issue Troubleshooting VPC & Networking Route Tables Security Groups NACL
Root cause analysis of dropped packets across route tables and security filters. CODE AWS-07 Subnet Architecture in Amazon VPC VPC & Networking Amazon VPC Subnets Availability Zones
Designing dual-AZ isolated public and private subnet topologies. CODE AWS-08 VPC Gateway & Routing Infrastructure VPC & Networking Internet Gateway Route Tables VPC
Orchestrating internet breakout for compute instances in public subnets. CODE AWS-09 End-to-End VPC Build & Production Web Server VPC & Networking Amazon VPC Amazon EC2 Security Groups
End-to-end custom VPC construction hosting a live production web service. CODE AWS-10 Database Schema & Table Operations Database & Data Relational DB SQL DDL
Structured relational schema definitions and table partitioning. CODE AWS-11 Transactional DML Database Operations Database & Data SQL DML ACID Compliance
Optimized INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE operations under transactional integrity. CODE AWS-12 Complex Query Formulation & Optimization Database & Data SQL DQL Query Optimization
Performance-tuned JOIN operations and high-volume data selection. CODE AWS-13 Conditional Data Filtering & Indexing Database & Data SQL Filtering Data Indexing
High-efficiency WHERE predicate filtering and compound index usage. CODE AWS-14 Aggregate Functions & Analytics Processing Database & Data SQL Analytics Aggregations
Statistical transformation and window functions for analytical reporting. CODE AWS-15 Data Organization & Grouping Strategies Database & Data SQL Grouping HAVING Filters
Multi-dimensional categorical groupings and summarized dataset generation. CODE AWS-16 Database Server Build & Application Integration Database & Data Amazon RDS PHP Application EC2
Decoupling application tier compute from managed relational database tier. CODE AWS-17 Amazon Aurora Distributed Database Cluster Database & Data Amazon Aurora Storage Engine Read Replicas
Deploying high-performance fault-tolerant Aurora storage clusters. CODE AWS-18 Amazon DynamoDB NoSQL Low-Latency Storage Database & Data Amazon DynamoDB NoSQL Partition Keys
Single-digit millisecond query performance with global partition key schema. CODE AWS-19 Challenge: Autonomous Database Tier Deployment Database & Data Amazon RDS CLI Automation Security Groups
Zero-guidance challenge provisioning relational backend tied to dynamic frontend. CODE AWS-20 Systems Hardening via AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager Security & Governance AWS Systems Manager Patch Baselines Linux
Automated fleet OS patching and vulnerability remediation without SSH. CODE AWS-21 Data-at-Rest & In-Transit Encryption via AWS KMS Security & Governance AWS KMS Customer Managed Keys EBS Encryption
Envelope encryption implementation and cryptographic key rotation policies. CODE AWS-22 Enterprise Identity & Access Management (IAM) Security & Governance AWS IAM RBAC Least Privilege
Fine-grained least-privilege policy authoring and role delegation. CODE AWS-23 Malware Protection via AWS Network Firewall Security & Governance AWS Network Firewall Suricata Rules VPC
Stateful packet inspection and domain filtering to prevent outbound exfiltration. CODE AWS-24 Compute Health Monitoring & CloudWatch Alarms Observability & Monitoring Amazon CloudWatch Amazon SNS Amazon EC2
Automated alarm triggers and email notification dispatches on CPU threshold breach. CODE AWS-25 AWS CLI Tooling Automation & Credential Security IaC & Automation AWS CLI IAM Credentials Bash
Programmatic cloud infrastructure management with secured credential profiles. CODE AWS-26 Fleet Management via SSM Run Command & Session Manager Compute & OS AWS Systems Manager Session Manager IAM
Secure bastionless shell access and bulk script execution across instances. CODE AWS-27 Amazon S3 Static Website & CLI Sync Pipelines Storage & DR Amazon S3 AWS CLI Bucket Policies
Static content delivery with granular public read bucket policies. CODE AWS-28 Automated EC2 Provisioning via AWS CLI Automation Compute & OS Amazon EC2 AWS CLI Shell Scripting
Scripted deployment of customized compute instances with automated tags. CODE AWS-29 Challenge: Autonomous EC2 Instance Exercise Compute & OS Amazon EC2 Security Groups Linux CLI
Autonomous specification matching and isolated compute node provisioning. CODE AWS-30 Instance Creation Troubleshooting & RCA Compute & OS Amazon EC2 AMI Instance Types
Diagnosing failure modes across AMI architectural mismatches and quotas. CODE AWS-31 Scale & Load Balance Multi-Tier Architecture Compute & High Availability Application Load Balancer Target Groups EC2
Traffic distribution across dual Availability Zones via Application Load Balancer. CODE AWS-32 Dynamic EC2 Auto Scaling Under Workload Spikes Compute & High Availability Auto Scaling Groups CloudWatch Launch Templates
Automated horizontal scaling elasticity based on real-time metric thresholds. CODE AWS-33 Amazon Route 53 Health Checks & Failover Routing VPC & Networking Amazon Route 53 DNS Failover Health Checks
Automated DNS failover routing directing traffic away from impaired origins. CODE AWS-34 Event-Driven Serverless Compute via AWS Lambda Serverless & Compute AWS Lambda Python CloudWatch Logs
Stateless serverless function execution triggered by Amazon S3 object events. CODE AWS-35 Challenge: Autonomous Serverless Lambda Orchestration Serverless & Compute AWS Lambda IAM Roles Python
Autonomous build of event-driven image processing functions without servers. CODE AWS-36 Live Database Migration to Amazon RDS for MariaDB Database & Data Amazon RDS MariaDB mysqldump
Zero-data-loss relational database export/import migration to managed RDS. CODE AWS-37 Complex Multi-Tier Amazon VPC Configuration VPC & Networking Amazon VPC NAT Gateway Route Tables
Enterprise network topology with isolated private database subnets and NAT. CODE AWS-38 Storage Lifecycle Automation & S3 Versioning DR Storage & DR Amazon S3 Amazon EBS Python Boto3
Cron-scheduled automated EBS snapshot lifecycle pruning and S3 object recovery. CODE AWS-39 VPC Flow Logs Forensic Analysis & L3/L4 Network Triage VPC & Networking VPC Flow Logs Amazon Athena Security Groups
Forensic log analysis resolving L3 default route outages and L4 NACL blocks. CODE AWS-40 Amazon EBS Block Storage & Disaster Recovery Storage & DR Amazon EBS EBS Snapshots Linux fstab
Volume formatting, fstab persistence, snapshotting, and point-in-time DR restoration. CODE AWS-41 Amazon S3 Event Notifications & IAM Prefix Delegation Storage & DR Amazon S3 Amazon SNS IAM Policies
Event notifications wired to SNS with prefix-level IAM access segregation. CODE AWS-42 Challenge: Granular Object ACL Security & Public Hosting Storage & DR Amazon S3 S3 Block Public Access AWS CLI
Decoupling bucket-level BPA to enforce object-level ACL public reads. CODE AWS-43 Enterprise Observability with CloudWatch Agent & AWS Config Observability & Monitoring CloudWatch Agent EventBridge AWS Config
SSM-deployed CloudWatch agents, log filter alarms, and AWS Config compliance rules. CODE AWS-44 CloudTrail Multi-Region Audit & Athena Security Forensics Security & Governance AWS CloudTrail Amazon Athena AWS KMS
Forensic triage identifying rogue IAM threat actors and remediating attack vectors. CODE AWS-45 FinOps Resource Governance with Tagging & The Stopinator IaC & Automation AWS CLI JMESPath Boto3/PHP SDK FinOps
Dynamic compute discovery, automated off-hours shutdown, and tag enforcement. CODE AWS-46 Rightsizing Compute Optimization & TCO Modeling IaC & Automation AWS CLI Amazon RDS AWS Pricing Calculator
Monolith database decoupling and vertical compute rightsizing cutting costs by 50%. CODE AWS-47 Declarative Infrastructure as Code with AWS CloudFormation IaC & Automation AWS CloudFormation SSM Parameter Store S3
Automated multi-tier stack deployment using YAML templates and dynamic parameters. CODE AWS-48 CloudFormation Deployment Troubleshooting & Drift Detection IaC & Automation AWS CloudFormation Drift Detection cloud-init
Root cause analysis on cloud-init failure logs, stack drift audit, and retain teardown. CODE AWS-49 Challenge: Autonomous CloudFormation Isolated VPC & Compute IaC & Automation AWS CloudFormation Amazon VPC EC2
Autonomous authoring of production YAML stacks with private subnet compute nodes. CODE AWS-50 Amazon SageMaker Machine Learning Container Pipeline Machine Learning & AI Amazon SageMaker XGBoost Amazon S3
Data partitioning, containerized model training, and artifact storage on S3. CODE