AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification Challenge: Department of Defense

Propel your career with validated cloud skills

Sponsored by AWS Skills Center, this Challenge offers a recommended preparation path to earn AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner by July 29, 2022. All suggested training is free, including our AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials Day webinar. The best part? You can complete the preparation path with your peers from the Department of Defense. The Challenge begins June 6, 2022.

Why should you get AWS Certified?

Embrace new skills, show your potential, and plan a career trajectory. With an industry-recognized credential from AWS, you can showcase your cloud fluency. Earning the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification validates you understand how cloud impacts your mission, core AWS services, billing and pricing models, and security concepts. You’ll get a digital badge for your resume and social profiles to help you showcase your achievement.

Where can you take the Challenge?

You can participate virtually or in-person at AWS Skills Center in Seattle, a free training center for anyone who is curious about cloud computing and future job possibilities in the cloud.

Prepare for your AWS Certification Exam

LIVE, INSTRUCTOR-LEDTRAINING EVENTS

June 6: Cloud Practitioner Essentials Day for Government (8-hours)

This introductory webinar will provide an introduction to AWS Cloud concepts, and AWS core services for compute, storage, database, AWS GovCloud, and networking. If you can't make this session, try June 13 below.

June 13: Cloud Essentials Day for DoD (8-hours)

This fundamental-level full day course is intended for individuals who seek an overall understanding of the AWS Cloud, independent of specific technical roles. It provides a detailed overview of cloud concepts, AWS services, security, architecture, pricing, and support. Similar content to June 6 training but referencing the DoD.

June 17: Exam Readiness: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (2.5-hours)

In this complimentary exam readiness webinar, we walk you through how the exam is structured, including question formats, content domains, and the breakdown of questions across those domains.

June 20: Live Q&A Session with AWS Expert (1-hour)

Join us in this live session with AWS subject matter experts to answer any remaining questions you may have about the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner course and certification.

OPTIONAL TRAINING FOR DOD

June 14-16: Architecting in AWS for DoD * (3 days)

Architecting in AWS is for solutions architects, solution-design engineers, and developers seeking an understanding of AWS architecting. In this course, you will learn to identify services and features to build resilient, secure and highly available IT solutions on the AWS Cloud. *Not officially part of the Certification Challenge, but a great class for technical roles in the DoD. This is a paid class.