Amazon Web Services (AWS)

The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam is designed for early stage IT professionals interested in building a career in cloud administration. The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam is a multiple choice, multiple answer exam that validates your skills and experience configuring, managing, and supporting the Amazon cloud platform across multiple business environments.

If you have a minimum of 6 months of hands-on industry experience in an IT administration role with a concentration in cloud management and exposure to working on the Amazon AWS platform, you’re ready to start preparing for your AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification exam.

After you successfully earn your AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification, and gain more IT field experience, you will have options to further specialize in Amazon cloud administration with further certifications. You’ll have options to accelerate your career potential by earning: AWS Solution Architect Associate, AWS Solutions Architect Professional, AWS SysOps Administrator, and more. Register for our AWS certification training course!

Before taking the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification exam, you should feel confident in demonstrating your knowledge to a potential employer across these 4 core areas:

• Cloud Concepts

  Understand the basic global infrastructure of Amazon AWS and how to describe the basic cloud architectural design principles. Define the AWS Cloud, its value proposition, and identify aspects of AWS Cloud economics.

• Security and Compliance

  Understand security and compliance aspects of the AWS platform and the shared security model. Identify AWS access management capabilities and resources for security support.

• Platform Configuration

  Define methods of deploying AWS Cloud. Understand key services on the AWS platform and their common use cases including compute, network, databases, and storage. Understand the process of troubleshooting problems associated with AWS configuration and identify sources of documentation or technical assistance.

• Business Proposition

  Install and configure identity and access services, as well as management controls.

The technical skills validated through the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification exam will help prepare you for IT career opportunities such as:

• AWS Networking Specialist
• IT Systems Administrator
• Cloud Engineer

If you have no prior IT experience, and you’re planning out your IT career path, having a well-rounded skill set on servers running both Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS cloud platforms provide the maximum career potential. Getting your foot in the door in IT HelpDesk or IT Support is a great way to get started, giving you access to supporting users running a variety of hardware and software technologies. As you start to build your training and exposure in server management and cloud administration, you’ll increase your problem-solving and troubleshooting skills and will be ready to start studying for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification exam.

CIAT’s Career Services team provides personalized career transition support to ensure you translate your technical training and industry certifications into viable career opportunities. Our full suite of career services support includes resume building, LinkedIn profile optimization, mock interview support, career coaching, and job placement support, and specialty workshops, to help ensure you’re positioned for success.

Typically, students enrolled in our Certificate In Cloud Administration program feel confident taking the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam after 5 weeks of technical training and exam preparation.

After you successfully earn your AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification, and gain more IT field experience, you will have options to further specialize in Amazon cloud administration with further certifications. You’ll have options to accelerate your career potential by earning: AWS Solution Architect Associate, AWS Solutions Architect Professional, AWS SysOps Administrator, and more. Register for our AWS certification training course!

Here are four recommended IT certification pathways that kickoff with the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification:

• Cloud Administration Certificate
• Computer Information Systems Certificate
• Associate of Applied Science Degree in Computer Information Systems
• Applied Bachelor's Degree in Computer Information Systems — Cloud Concentration

Your AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam voucher, retake costs, and exam prep software, are included in the cost of your tuition for any CIAT Certificate or Degree programs. CIAT provides unlimited attempts at passing the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam to ensure you start your exam calm and confident, without worrying about what will happen if you don’t pass. Prepare for the exam by taking our AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner training course.

You save hundreds of dollars in out-of-pocket expenses over a DIY studying approach.

CIAT’s National City campus includes secure and authorized testing center facilities, available to local San Diego students and alumni. For our online students, we work closely with you to help locate and facilitate an authorized testing center near you.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, CIAT has enabled students to take the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam remotely from the comfort of their own home through Amazon’s new “Test Anywhere” process. Don’t put your goals on hold or push off until normalcy returns.

Studying for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification on your own is doable, but often leaves you without the required technical skills in your background, or the necessary resources to translate your exam score into an IT career.

Join over 2,000 students who have enrolled in CIAT accredited Certificate and Degree programs and are on their path to launching or advancing their IT careers. Our extensive, custom designed IT curriculum provides training for up to 14 industry certifications, including AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.

• No exam fees
• Unlimited exam attempts*
• Hands-on training through on-campus and virtual online classes
• Online test preparation workshops
• Test preparation software
• One-on-one support from certified instructors
• Accredited Certificate and Degree programs to beef up your resume
• Personalized career services support including resume building and job placement support

* Students are encouraged to take certification exams while actively enrolled in the degree program. Unlimited certification exam attempts expire 90 days after graduation. The following are single attempt exams and are not eligible for a retake voucher: CEH, CASP, CISSP, DevNet & CCNP. See certification exam policy for more details.

The exam code for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner is CLF-C01.

The minimum passing score required for the CLF-C01 exam is 700.

The AWS Solutions Architect exam is designed for IT professionals interested in building a career in solutions architect. The AWS exam is a multiple choice, multiple answer exam that validates your skills and experience configuring, managing, and supporting the Amazon Solutions Architect platform across multiple business environments.

The AWS Solutions Architect certification is intended for those who have one or more years of hands-on industry experience designing available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems on AWS. In an IT administration role with a concentration in cloud management and exposure to working on the Amazon AWS platform, you’re ready to start preparing for your AWS Solutions Architect certification exam.

After you successfully earn your AWS Solutions Architect certification, and gain more IT field experience, you will have options to further specialize in Amazon cloud administration with further certifications. You’ll have options to accelerate your career potential by earning: AWS Solutions Architect Professional, AWS SysOps Administrator, and more. Register for our AWS Solutions Architect Certification training course.

Before taking the AWS Solutions Architect certification exam, you should feel confident in demonstrating your knowledge to a potential employer across these 4 core areas:

• Design Resilient Architectures

  Understand the design in multi-tier architecture solutions, learn to design highly available and/or fault-tolerant architectures, design decoupling mechanisms using AWS services, and choose appropriate resilient storage.

• Design High-Performing Architectures

  Select and identify high-performing, elastic, and scalable storage solutions for a workload, select high-performing networking solutions, and choose high-performing database solutions.

• Design Secure Applications and Architectures

  Design secure access to AWS resources, select appropriate data security options, and design secure application tiers.

• Design Cost-Optimized Architectures

  Identify cost-effective storage solutions, compute and base services, and design cost-optimized network architectures.

The technical skills validated through the AWS Solutions Architect certification exam will help prepare you for IT career opportunities. Amazon Solutions Architects spend their time architecting, building, and maintaining highly available, cost-efficient, and scalable AWS cloud environments. They also make recommendations regarding AWS toolsets and keep up with the latest in cloud computing.

If you have no prior IT experience, and you’re planning out your IT career path, having a well-rounded skill set on servers running both Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS cloud platforms provide the maximum career potential. Getting your foot in the door in IT HelpDesk or IT Support is a great way to get started, giving you access to supporting users running a variety of hardware and software technologies.

CIAT's Career Services team provides personalized career transition support to ensure you translate your technical training and industry certifications into viable career opportunities. Our full suite of career services support includes resume building, LinkedIn profile optimization, mock interview support, career coaching, and job placement support, and specialty workshops, to help ensure you’re positioned for success.

Typically, students enrolled in our Applied Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Information Systems program feel confident taking the AWS Solutions Architect exam after 1 year of hands-on experience designing available, cost-effective, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems on AWS.

The AWS Solutions Architect certification will give you the experience needed in solving problems and implementing solutions using the AWS cloud. Prepare for the exam with our Applied Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Information Systems program.

Here are three recommended IT certification pathways that kickoff with the AWS certification:

• Associates of Applied Science in Computer Information Systems
• Applied Bachelor's Degree in Computer Information Systems — Cybersecurity Concentration
• Applied Bachelor's Degree in Computer Information Systems — Cloud Concentration

Your AWS Solutions Architect exam voucher, retake costs, and exam prep software, are included in the cost of your tuition for any CIAT Certificate or Degree programs. CIAT provides unlimited attempts at passing the AWS Solutions Architect to ensure you start your exam calm and confident, without worrying about what will happen if you don’t pass.

You save hundreds of dollars in out-of-pocket expenses over a DIY studying approach.

CIAT’s National City campus includes secure and authorized testing center facilities, available to local San Diego students and alumni. For our online students, we work closely with you to help locate and facilitate an authorized testing center near you.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, CIAT has enabled students to take the AWS Solutions Architect certification exam remotely from the comfort of their own home through Amazon’s new “Test Anywhere” process. Don’t put your goals on hold or push off until normalcy returns.

Studying for the AWS Solutions Architect certification on your own is doable, but often leaves you without the required technical skills in your background, or the necessary resources to translate your exam score into an IT career.

Join over 2,000 students who have enrolled in CIAT accredited Certificate and Degree programs and are on their path to launching or advancing their IT careers. Our extensive, custom designed IT curriculum provides training for up to 14 industry certifications, including AWS Solutions Architect.

• No exam fees
• Unlimited exam attempts*
• Hands-on training through on-campus and virtual online classes
• Online test preparation workshops
• Test preparation software
• One-on-one support from certified instructors
• Accredited Certificate and Degree programs to beef up your resume
• Personalized career services support including resume building and job placement support

* Students are encouraged to take certification exams while actively enrolled in the degree program. Unlimited certification exam attempts expire 90 days after graduation. The following are single attempt exams and are not eligible for a retake voucher: CEH, CASP, CISSP, DevNet & CCNP. See certification exam policy for more details.

The exam code for AWS Solutions Architect is SAA-C03.

The minimum passing score required for the SAA-C03 exam is 720.

The AWS Security Specialty exam is designed for IT professionals interested in building a career in a security role. The AWS Security Specialty exam is a multiple choice, multiple answer exam that validates your skills and experience designing and implementing security solutions to secure the AWS platform.

The AWS Security Specialty certification is intended for those who have at least two years of hands-on experience in securing AWS workloads. With an exposure to working on the Amazon AWS platform, you’re ready to start preparing for your AWS Security Specialty certification exam.

After you successfully earn your AWS Security Specialty certification, and gain more IT field experience, you will have options to further specialize in Amazon. You’ll have options to accelerate your career potential by earning: AWS Solution Architect, AWS SysOps Associate, and more.

Prepare for the exam with our AWS Security Specialty training.

Before taking the AWS Security Specialty certification exam, you should feel confident in demonstrating your knowledge to a potential employer across these 5 core areas:

• Incident Response

  Given an AWS abuse notice, evaluate the suspected compromised instance or exposed access keys. Verify that the Incident Response plan includes relevant AWS services. Evaluate the configuration of automated alerting, and execute possible remediation of security-related incidents and emerging issues.

• Logging and Monitoring

  Implement, design, and troubleshoot security monitoring and logging solutions.

• Infrastructure Security

  Design, Implement and troubleshoot edge security, network infrastructure, and host-based security on AWS.

• Identity and Access Management

  Design, implement, and troubleshoot a scalable authorization and authentication system to access AWS resources.

• Data Protection

  Design, implement, and troubleshoot key management, and a data encryption for data at rest and data in transit.

The technical skills validated through the AWS Security Specialty certification exam will help prepare you for IT career opportunities. AWS Security Specialty validates your skills in designing and implementing solutions for security and will give you the understanding of security controls for AWS workloads.

CIAT's Career Services team provides personalized career transition support to ensure you translate your technical training and industry certifications into viable career opportunities. Our full suite of career services support includes resume building, LinkedIn profile optimization, mock interview support, career coaching, and job placement support, and specialty workshops, to help ensure you’re positioned for success.

Typically, students enrolled in our Applied Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Information Systems program feel confident taking the AWS Security Specialty exam after 2 years of hands-on experience in securing AWS workload.

The AWS Security Specialty certification will validate your experience in demonstrating security skills to perform various tasks on the AWS platform. Prepare for the exam with our Applied Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Information Systems program.

Here are two recommended IT certification pathways that kickoff with the AWS Security Specialty certification:

• Applied Bachelor's Degree in Computer Information Systems — Cybersecurity Concentration
• Applied Bachelor's Degree in Computer Information Systems — Cloud Concentration

Your AWS Security Specialty exam voucher, retake costs, and exam prep software, are included in the cost of your tuition for any CIAT Certificate or Degree programs. CIAT provides unlimited attempts at passing the AWS Security Specialty exam to ensure you start your exam calm and confident, without worrying about what will happen if you don’t pass.

You save hundreds of dollars in out-of-pocket expenses over a DIY studying approach.

CIAT’s National City campus includes secure and authorized testing center facilities, available to local San Diego students and alumni. For our online students, we work closely with you to help locate and facilitate an authorized testing center near you.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, CIAT has enabled students to take the AWS Security Specialty certification exam remotely from the comfort of their own home through Amazon’s new “Test Anywhere” process. Don’t put your goals on hold or push off until normalcy returns.

Studying for the AWS Security Specialty certification on your own is doable, but often leaves you without the required technical skills in your background, or the necessary resources to translate your exam score into an IT career.

Join over 2,000 students who have enrolled in CIAT accredited Certificate and Degree programs and are on their path to launching or advancing their IT careers. Our extensive, custom designed IT curriculum provides training for up to 14 industry certifications, including AWS Security Specialty.

• No exam fees
• Unlimited exam attempts*
• Hands-on training through on-campus and virtual online classes
• Online test preparation workshops
• Test preparation software
• One-on-one support from certified instructors
• Accredited Certificate and Degree programs to beef up your resume
• Personalized career services support including resume building and job placement support

* Students are encouraged to take certification exams while actively enrolled in the degree program. Unlimited certification exam attempts expire 90 days after graduation. The following are single attempt exams and are not eligible for a retake voucher: CEH, CASP, CISSP, DevNet & CCNP. See certification exam policy for more details.

The exam code for AWS Security Specialty is SCS-C01.

The minimum passing score required for the SCS-C01 exam is 750.

The AWS Developer Associate exam validates the skills for IT professionals interested in building a career in AWS. This certification will test your proficiency in developing, deploying, and debugging cloud-based applications using AWS and basic AWS architecture best practices.

The AWS Developer Associate certification is intended for those who have at least one year of hands-on experience in developing and maintaining AWS-based applications. With an exposure to working on the AWS platform, you’re ready to start preparing for your AWS Developer Associate certification exam.

After you successfully earn your AWS Developer Associate certification, and gain more IT field experience, you will have options to accelerate your career potential and further specialize in Amazon. Register for our AWS Developer Associate certification training course online today.

Before taking the AWS Developer Associate certification exam, you should feel confident in demonstrating your knowledge to a potential employer across these 5 core areas:

• Deployment

  Deploy written code in AWS using existing CI/CD pipelines, processes, and patterns, deploy applications using Elastic Beanstalk, deploy serverless applications. Prepare the application deployment package to be deployed to AWS.

• Security

  Make authenticated calls to AWS services. Implement encryption, application authentication and authorization using AWS services.

• Deployment with AWS Services

  Write code for serverless applications, and code that interacts with AWS services by using APIs, SDKs, and AWS CLI. Translate functional requirements into application design and implement design into application code.

• Monitoring and Troubleshooting

  Write code that can be monitored and perform root cause analysis on faults found in testing or production.

• Refactoring

  Optimize application to best use AWS services and features. Migrate existing application code to run on AWS.

The technical skills validated through the AWS Developer Associate certification exam will help prepare you for IT career opportunities, such as an AWS Developer. This AWS certificate will give you the proficiency experience in using AWS services such as APIs, SDKs, AWS CLI, and the knowledge to identify each feature.

CIAT's Career Services team provides personalized career transition support to ensure you translate your technical training and industry certifications into viable career opportunities. Our full suite of career services support includes resume building, LinkedIn profile optimization, mock interview support, career coaching, and job placement support, and specialty workshops, to help ensure you’re positioned for success.

Typically, students enrolled in our Applied Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Information Systems – Cloud Concentration program feel confident taking the AWS Developer Associate exam after 1 year of hands-on experience in developing and maintaining an AWS-based application.

The AWS Developer Associate certification will validate your experience in using AWS security best practices to write code for serverless applications and much more! Prepare for the exam with our Applied Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Information Systems – Cloud Concentration program.

Here’s one recommended IT certification pathway for the AWS Developer Associate certification:

• Applied Bachelor's Degree in Computer Information Systems — Cloud Concentation

Your AWS Developer Associate exam voucher, retake costs, and exam prep software, are included in the cost of your tuition for any CIAT Certificate or Degree programs. CIAT provides unlimited attempts at passing the AWS Developer Associate exam to ensure you start your exam calm and confident, without worrying about what will happen if you don’t pass.

You save hundreds of dollars in out-of-pocket expenses over a DIY studying approach.

CIAT’s National City campus includes secure and authorized testing center facilities, available to local San Diego students and alumni. For our online students, we work closely with you to help locate and facilitate an authorized testing center near you.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, CIAT has enabled students to take the AWS Developer Associate certification exam remotely from the comfort of their own home through Amazon’s new “Test Anywhere” process. Don’t put your goals on hold or push off until normalcy returns.

Studying for the AWS Developer Associate certification on your own is doable, but often leaves you without the required technical skills in your background, or the necessary resources to translate your exam score into an IT career.

Join over 2,000 students who have enrolled in CIAT accredited Certificate and Degree programs and are on their path to launching or advancing their IT careers. Our extensive, custom designed IT curriculum provides training for up to 14 industry certifications, including AWS Developer Associate.

• No exam fees
• Unlimited exam attempts*
• Hands-on training through on-campus and virtual online classes
• Online test preparation workshops
• Test preparation software
• One-on-one support from certified instructors
• Accredited Certificate and Degree programs to beef up your resume
• Personalized career services support including resume building and job placement support

* Students are encouraged to take certification exams while actively enrolled in the degree program. Unlimited certification exam attempts expire 90 days after graduation. The following are single attempt exams and are not eligible for a retake voucher: CEH, CASP, CISSP, DevNet & CCNP. See certification exam policy for more details.

The AWS Developer Associate Exam code is DVA-C01.

The minimum passing score required for the DVA-C01 exam is 720.

The AWS SysOps Administrator Associate exam is designed for IT professionals interested in building a career in system operation. The AWS SysOps Administrator Associate exam is a multiple choice, multiple answer exam that validates your skills and experience configuring, managing, and supporting the Amazon SysOps platform across multiple environments.

The AWS SysOps Administrator Associate is intended for those who have one or more years of experience in deployment, management, and operations on AWS. In a systems administration role with a concentration in system operations and exposure to working on the Amazon AWS platform, you’re ready to start preparing for your AWS SysOps Associate Certification exam.

After you successfully earn your AWS SysOps Administrator Associate certification, and gain more IT field experience, you will have options to further specialize in Amazon. You’ll have options to accelerate your career potentials by earning: AWS Solution Architect Associate, AWS Solutions Architect Professional, and more.

Before taking the Amazon AWS certification exam, you should feel confident in demonstrating your knowledge to a potential employer across these 7 core areas:

• Monitoring and Reporting

  Create and maintain metrics and alarms utilizing AWS monitoring services, recognize performance and availability metrics, perform the steps necessary to remediate based on availability metrics.

• High Availability

  Implement scalability and elasticity, and differentiate highly available and resilient environments on AWS.

• Deployment and Provisioning

  Identify and execute steps required to provision cloud resources, and remediate deployment issues.

• Storage and Data Management

  Create data retention, and implement data protection, encryption, and capacity planning needs.

• Security and Compliance

  Manage security policies on AWS, implement access controls when using AWS, and differentiate between the roles within the shared responsibility model.

• Networking

  Apply AWS networking features, implement connectivity services of AWS, and interpret relevant information for network troubleshooting.

• Automation and Optimization

  Use AWS services to manage resource utilization. Learn to employ cost-optimization strategies for efficiency. Automate manual or repeatable process to minimize management overhead.

The technical skills validated through the AWS SysOps Administrator Associate certification exam will help prepare you for IT career opportunities such as:

• Operational Support Engineer
• Cloud Software Engineer
• AWS SysOps Administrator

AWS SysOps Administrator Associate teaches you to install, configure, operate, and maintain virtual systems, software, and related infrastructures. This certification gives you the hands-on experience to maintain analytics software and reports.

CIAT's Career Services team provides personalized career transition support to ensure you translate your technical training and industry certifications into viable career opportunities. Our full suite of career services support includes resume building, LinkedIn profile optimization, mock interview support, career coaching, and job placement support, and specialty workshops, to help ensure you’re positioned for success.

Typically, students enrolled in our Applied Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Information Systems — Cloud Concentration program feel confident taking the AWS SysOps Administrator Associate exam after 1-2 years of hands-on experience in operating, managing, and deploying AWS – based systems.

The AWS SysOps Administrator Associate certification will validate your experience in demonstrating administration skills to perform various tasks on the AWS platform. Register for our Applied Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Information Systems – Cloud Concentration.

Here’s one recommended IT certification pathways that kickoff with the AWS SysOps Administrator Associate certification:

• Applied Bachelor's Degree in Computer Information Systems — Cloud Concentration

Your AWS SysOps Administrator Associate exam voucher, retake costs, and exam prep software, are included in the cost of your tuition for any CIAT Certificate or Degree programs. CIAT provides unlimited attempts at passing the AWS SysOps Administrator Associate certification to ensure you start your exam calm and confident, without worrying about what will happen if you don’t pass.

You save hundreds of dollars in out-of-pocket expenses over a DIY studying approach.

CIAT’s National City campus includes secure and authorized testing center facilities, available to local San Diego students and alumni. For our online students, we work closely with you to help locate and facilitate an authorized testing center near you.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, CIAT has enabled students to take the AWS SysOps Administrator Associate certification exam remotely from the comfort of their own home through Amazon’s new “Test Anywhere” process. Don’t put your goals on hold or push off until normalcy returns.

Studying for the AWS SysOps Administrator Associate certification on your own is doable, but often leaves you without the required technical skills in your background, or the necessary resources to translate your exam score into an IT career.

Join over 2,000 students who have enrolled in CIAT accredited Certificate and Degree programs and are on their path to launching or advancing their IT careers. Our extensive, custom designed IT curriculum provides training for up to 14 industry certifications, including AWS SysOps Administrator Associate.

• No exam fees
• Unlimited exam attempts*
• Hands-on training through on-campus and virtual online classes
• Online test preparation workshops
• Test preparation software
• One-on-one support from certified instructors
• Accredited Certificate and Degree programs to beef up your resume
• Personalized career services support including resume building and job placement support

* Students are encouraged to take certification exams while actively enrolled in the degree program. Unlimited certification exam attempts expire 90 days after graduation. The following are single attempt exams and are not eligible for a retake voucher: CEH, CASP, CISSP, DevNet & CCNP. See certification exam policy for more details.

The exam code for AWS SysOps Administrator Associate is SOA-C02.

The minimum passing score required for the SOA-C02 exam is 720.

The AWS Database Specialty exam is designed for IT professionals interested in building a career in AWS database services and database technology. The AWS Database Specialty exam is a multiple choice, multiple answer exam that validates your skills and experience in AWS database platform.

The AWS Database Specialty certification is intended for those who have at least two years of hands-on experience working on AWS. With an exposure to working on the AWS platform, you’re ready to start preparing for your AWS Database Specialty certification exam.

After you successfully earn your AWS Database Specialty certification, and gain more IT field experience, you will have options to further specialize in Amazon. You’ll have options to accelerate your career potential. Register for our AWS Database Specialty certification training course online today.

Before taking the Amazon AWS certification exam, you should feel confident in demonstrating your knowledge to a potential employer across these 5 core areas:

• Incident Response

  Select appropriate database services for specific types of data and workloads. Determine strategies for disaster recovery and high availability. Design database solutions for performance, compliance, and scalability. Compare the costs of database solutions.

• Deployment and Migration

  Automate database solutions deployments. Determine data preparation and migration strategies. Execute and validate data migration.

• Management Operations

  Determine maintenance tasks, processes, backup, and restore strategies. Manage the operational environment of a database solution.

• Monitoring and Troubleshooting

  Determine monitoring and alert strategies. Troubleshoot and resolve common database issues. Optimize database performance.

• Database Security

  Encrypt data at rest and in transit. Evaluate auditing solutions. Determine access control and authentication mechanisms. Recognize potential security vulnerabilities within database solutions.

The technical skills validated through the AWS Database Specialty certification exam will help prepare you for IT career opportunities, such as a AWS Database Administrator. AWS Database Specialty will give you the experience you need with common database technologies.

CIAT's Career Services team provides personalized career transition support to ensure you translate your technical training and industry certifications into viable career opportunities. Our full suite of career services support includes resume building, LinkedIn profile optimization, mock interview support, career coaching, and job placement support, and specialty workshops, to help ensure you’re positioned for success.

Typically, students enrolled in our Applied Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Information Systems – Cloud Concentration program feel confident taking the AWS Database Specialty exam after 2 years of hands-on experience working on AWS.

The AWS Database Specialty certification will validate your experience in demonstrating database technology skills to perform various tasks on the AWS platform. Prepare for the exam with our Applied Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Information Systems – Cloud Concentration program.

Here is one recommended IT certification pathway for the AWS Database Specialty certification:

• Applied Bachelor's Degree in Computer Information Systems - Cloud Concentration

Your AWS Database Specialty exam voucher, retake costs, and exam prep software, are included in the cost of your tuition for any CIAT Certificate or Degree programs. CIAT provides unlimited attempts at passing the AWS Database Specialty exam to ensure you start your exam calm and confident, without worrying about what will happen if you don’t pass.

You save hundreds of dollars in out-of-pocket expenses over a DIY studying approach.

CIAT’s National City campus includes secure and authorized testing center facilities, available to local San Diego students and alumni. For our online students, we work closely with you to help locate and facilitate an authorized testing center near you.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, CIAT has enabled students to take the AWS Database Specialty certification exam remotely from the comfort of their own home through Amazon’s new “Test Anywhere” process. Don’t put your goals on hold or push off until normalcy returns.

Studying for the AWS Database Specialty certification on your own is doable, but often leaves you without the required technical skills in your background, or the necessary resources to translate your exam score into an IT career.

Join over 2,000 students who have enrolled in CIAT accredited Certificate and Degree programs and are on their path to launching or advancing their IT careers. Our extensive, custom designed IT curriculum provides training for up to 14 industry certifications, including AWS Database Specialty.

• No exam fees
• Unlimited exam attempts*
• Hands-on training through on-campus and virtual online classes
• Online test preparation workshops
• Test preparation software
• One-on-one support from certified instructors
• Accredited Certificate and Degree programs to beef up your resume
• Personalized career services support including resume building and job placement support

* Students are encouraged to take certification exams while actively enrolled in the degree program. Unlimited certification exam attempts expire 90 days after graduation. The following are single attempt exams and are not eligible for a retake voucher: CEH, CASP, CISSP, DevNet & CCNP. See certification exam policy for more details.

The AWS Database Specialty Exam Code is DBS-C01.

The minimum passing score required for the DBS-C01 exam is 750.

This certification is ideal if you:

• Want to work with AI/ML in the cloud
• Are interested in implementing AI solutions using AWS services
• Need to understand AI fundamentals for business or technical roles
• Work in a role that interfaces with AI technologies
• Are starting your journey in AI/ML

Key topics include:

• AI/ML Fundamentals
• AWS AI Services (SageMaker, Rekognition, Comprehend, etc.)
• Data Engineering for AI/ML
• Responsible AI practices
• AI Solution Architecture
• Implementation and Deployment
• Cost Optimization and Security

You should have:

• Basic understanding of cloud computing concepts
• Familiarity with AWS core services
• Understanding of basic programming concepts
• Knowledge of data concepts and analytics
• 6+ months of general AWS experience recommended

This certification can help with roles such as:

• AI Solutions Architect
• ML Operations Engineer
• Cloud AI Developer
• Technical Product Manager
• AI Project Manager
• Digital Transformation Consultant

Typical study times:

• With AI/ML background:

  2-3 months

• Without AI/ML background:

  4-6 months

• Recommended study hours:

  120-150

Your AWS Certified AI Practitioner exam voucher, retake costs, and exam prep software, are included in the cost of your tuition. CIAT provides unlimited attempts at passing the AWS Certified AI Practitioner certification to ensure you start your exam calm and confident, without worrying about what will happen if you don’t pass.

You save hundreds of dollars in out-of-pocket expenses over a DIY studying approach.