STEP in DevOps Foundation Certification Training

1. Introduction to Cloud & AWS
    ● Define cloud computing.
    ● Cloud computing Infrastructure.
    ● Cloud service and deployment models.
    ● Common misconceptions about cloud computing.
    ● Common cloud Implementations.
    ● Architecture discussion
    ● Lab preparation
    ● AWS account creation
    ● Overview of major AWS services
    ● Benefits of studying AWS
2. Identity And Access Management Techniques (IAM)
    ● Understand Users, Groups and Roles
    ● Policies and Policy documents
    ● Lab creating roles, user and groups
    ● Access control
    ● Policy management
    ● Lab policy creation
    ● Restricting different services for users.
3. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    ● Defining EC2 Instances
    ● Different type of Images (AMI)
    ● Lab creation Linux/Windows EC2 instances
    ● Lab connecting to EC2 instances
    ● Lab AMI creation
    ● Volumes (EBS)
    ● Lab volume creation
    ● Lab setting up a volume once attached to Ec2
    ● Lab snapshot creation
    ● Lab security Groups
    ● Key Pairs
    ● Auto-scaling concept
    ● Lab autoscaling
    ● Lab creation of billing alerts
    ● Lab Cloud Watch
4. S3
    ● S3 buckets and its usage
    ● Lab creating a S3 Bucket
    ● Lab upload and retrieve data from S3 bucket.
    ● Lab giving privileges on to S3 bucket.
    ● Lab on S3 policies and ACLs
    ● Lab Life Cycle Management
    ● Lab object expiration in S3
    ● Lab S3 Versioning
    ● S3-RRS, S3-IA and Glacier
    ● CORS, Lab S3 Policy
    ● Lab hosting a website on S3
5. SNS, SWF, and SQS
    ● Working with a simple notification system.
    ● Understanding queuing service.
    ● SNS and SQS real-time use case
    ● Introduction to SWF and use case
    ● Lab on SNS
6. Networking: Setting up VPC and NAT
    ● Lab creation of custom VPC
    ● Default VPC concepts
    ● Lab CIDR notation
    ● Subnets and routing concepts
    ● Different methods to connect to custom VPC
    ● Lab to create Subnets
    ● Lab ACLs
    ● Lab Routing rules.
    ● Lab to create security groups at instance.
    ● Lab setting up public and private subnets
    ● Lab setting up Internet/Nat gateway
    ● Lab Securing your network.
    ● Lab Network ACLs
7. AWS Databases RDS and Dynamodb
    ● AWS Database services overview – RDS, DynamoDB, Elasticache, Redshift
    ● Lab creating RDS instances
    ● Read Replicas
    ● RDS scaling concepts, postgres sql server
    ● RDS Oracle Server
    ● Database migration Service
    ● Lab configuring Multi-AZ failover
    ● Lab accessing a database hosted on RDS
    ● DynamoDb Core knowledge
    ● Scaling with Dynamodb
    ● DynamoDb write and read unit calculation, Elasticache concepts
    ● Elasticache Concepts
8. Application Services
    ● R53 and DNS
    ● Domain registration
    ● R53 routing policies
    ● Lab on routing policy setup
    ● Routing policies in detail
    ● AWS CloudFront
    ● AWS Cloud Formation
    ● Deployment Using Cloud Formation Direct Connect
9. HA Architecture
    ● Elastic Load Balancing
    ● Advanced Load Balancer
    ● Lab Elastic load balancing
    ● Launch configuration
    ● Auto scaling concepts
    ● Lab Auto scaling
    ● Backup and Disaster Recovery
    ● Deployment on AWS
    ● Cost Optimization in AWS
    ● KMS
10. Serverless
    ● Lambda Basics
    ● Lab on serverless Webpage

Project Work and Case Studies
    • Deploy a Python/Java application
    • To access/create/upload files on S3 through EC2/Lambda
    • To create tables, insert values in Dynamo-Db through EC2/Lambda
    • Lab on Kinesis, through cloud formation
    • Designing Fault tolerant and Highly Available architecture (ELB)
    • Host Static Website on S3
    • Build a Serverless Web Application
    • Build an Alexa Skill

    • 500+ Practice Questions, in-line with certification.
    • Doubts Clarification Session
    • Resume Preparation Guidance by Expert
    • Interview Preparation by Certified AWS Trainer

1. DevOps Introduction
    • What is DevOps?
    • Why DevOps is needed?
    • DevOps Transition ?
    • Technical Challenges
    • DevOps Market Trends
    • Various DevOps Tools
    • DevOps pipelines
2. Basic Linux and Networking Concepts
    • Architecture and Filesystem of Linux
    • Linux Bash Commands
    • Managing Services on Linux
    • User and Group management
    • Filesystem usage.
    • IP assignment and Service Ports
    • Installing and Configuring Apache
3. Cloud Computing with AWS
    • Fundamentals of Cloud Computing
    • Hypervisors, Bare Metals, KVM/XEN
    • Introduction to AWS
    • IAAS PAAS SAAS
    • EC2, AMI ,Security Groups, Keypair , S3, Public,Elastic IP
    • IAM, Roles, Cloudwatch
    • VPC : Segreatting public,private
    • infrastructure
    • Introduction to ASG, ELB
4. Source Code Management and Version Control
    • Source Code Management using GitHub
    • History of version control systems
    • Centralized vs Distributed version control system
    • Github CommandLine
    • Cloning, Commit, Forking, Merge,
    • ReBase, PullRequest,GitDiff, Logs
    • Exposure to CherryPick

5. Continuous integration with Jenkins
    • Jenkins – Installation
    • Jenkins – Configuration
    • Jenkins – Management
    • Jenkins – Setup Build Jobs
    • Integration of JENKINS with GIT
    • Integration of Maven with Jenkins
    • Jenkins Dashboard
    • Remote Builds and user management in Jenkins
    • Exposure to backup & Jenkins
    • Security
    • Build Tools – Maven & exposure to
    • Gradle Pipelines
6. Monitoring
    • Virtualized infrastructure
    • monitoring using Nagios
    • Installation & maintenance
    • Exposure to Prometheus or Grafana

7. Ansible
    • Understanding Configuration Management
    • Understanding Configuration Automation
    • Understanding Desired State Configuration Management
    • Understanding Continuous Configuration Automation
    • Understanding Server Client based Configuration Automation
    • Understanding Remote Configuration Automation
    • Introduction of Ansible tool
    • Ad Hoc commands and Modules
    • Yaml templates
    • Playbooks

8. Terraform
    • Understanding Infrastructure As A Code
    • What is Terraform
    • JSon templates
    • Managing infrastructure using Terraform
    • Multiple modules
    • Integrating Terraform with AWS
    • Update existing templates
9. Docker Containers
    • Understanding MicroServices
    • Introduction to Docker & Containers
    • Working with containers
    • Docker CLI
    • Dockerfile templates
    • Docker Hub – Repo,Push, Pull

10. Kubernetes
    • What is Kubernetes and Need
    • Technical overview of Control Plane & Data Plane
    • Kubernetes cluster provisioning Using Kubeadm
    • POD, Deployment, ReplicaSet, Nodes, DaemonSets, InitContainers
    • Command & Args
    • Command & Args
    • Multi Master architecture and exposure
    • ScaleIn/ScaleOut Ad Hoc on Demand of Microservices
    • Services, Secret, ConfigMap, Volumes, PVC, PV,StorageClass

    • Web based application using Tomcat, Apache , EC2, MAVEN, JENKINS , GIT for CI-CD flow.
    • CI-CD flow using EC2 with Git,Jenkins, Ansible.
    • CI-CD flow using EC2 with Git,Jenkins, Docker/Containers and Ansible.
    • Multiple examples of JenkinsFile for Jenkins Pipeline – production grade
    • Integrating DockerFile with Jenkinsfile
    • Inducing Shell scripts with DockerFile and jenkinsfile
    • Push existing code of Container ImageBuild to DockerHUb
    • Induce Continuous Deployment using Shell script via EC2 instance
    • Exposure to GitOps model
    • Induce Githook to automate the CD part

1. Quantitative Aptitude
    ● Number Systems
    ● LCM and HCF
    ● Percentages
    ● Profit, Loss and Discount
    ● Interest (Simple and Compound)
    ● Speed, Time and Distance
    ● Ratio and Proportion
    ● Probability
    ● Permutation & Combination
    ● Time and Work
2. Logical Reasoning
    ● Number and Letter Series
    ● Calendars
    ● Clocks
    ● Logical Sequence
    ● Blood Relations
3. Logical Reasoning
    ● Ages
    ● Speed math
    ● Mixture & Allegations
    ● Coding & Decoding
    ● Simplification
    ● Seating arrangements
    ● Puzzles
    ● Sequence

1. Self-Analysis
    ● Know yourself
    ● Personality types
    ● Areas of interest
2. Self-Discovery
    ● SWOT Analysis – strength, weakness, opportunities, threats
3. Goal Setting
    ● Short-term plan
    ● Long-term plan
    ● Effective Time Management
4. Effective Self Presentation
    ● Personal grooming
    ● Dressing,
    ● Hygiene
5. Effective Communication
    ● Verbal – Language
    ● Voice modulation – Tone, Pitch
    ● Clarity of Speech
    ● Listening skills
    ● Written communication – general business correspondence
6. Email Etiquette
7. Body Language
    ● Understanding non-verbal communication
    ● Postures, Gestures, Eye contact
8. Resume Writing
9. Tips for Group Discussion
10. Handling Telephonic interview
11. Mock – Technical interview
12. Mock – Personal interview (PI)
13. Office Etiquettes and Mannerisms