You are here for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02). Four weekends of class, then you sit the exam. The decks and practice questions live in this portal. Labs are in the IP Lab Portal. Homework goes to Intellectual Point Learn, not here.
You are here for AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03). Cloud Practitioner is done. This month is design: secure, resilient, high-performing, and cheap enough to keep. Labs are in the IP Lab Portal. Homework still goes to Intellectual Point Learn.What you’ll walk away with
How AWS is put togetherAccounts, Regions, IAM, and who is responsible for what. You need this before any service name will stick.
The Cloud Practitioner examWe teach it in the same order as the modules: compute, networking, storage, security, pricing, then the exam itself.
Labs you click throughEvery student has an IP Lab Portal account. Launch the lab, do the steps, tear it down. Reading it is not the same thing.
Practice examsUse them to find the holes. Do not treat a passing mock as a reason to skip a module.
Homework in IP LearnCompliance assignments are submitted in Intellectual Point Learn. This portal does not take that homework.
Month 2, laterSolutions Architect stays locked until Cloud Practitioner is done. Finish this exam first.
Secure architecturesIAM, encryption, and network boundaries. The controls the exam asks about, and the ones that show up in a real account.
Resilient architecturesMulti-AZ, backups, failover. What you do when one piece dies and the workload has to stay up.
High-performing architecturesThe right compute, storage, and database for the traffic you have, not the traffic you wish you had.
Cost-optimized architecturesRight-size, pick a pricing model, cut waste. Do not cut the requirement to make the bill look pretty.
Labs you click throughBuild the design in the IP Lab Portal, prove it, tear it down. Same account as month 1.
Practice examsSAA questions are scenarios. A mock tells you whether you can pick a design, not whether you memorized a definition.
Who is it for?
Engineers
Builders
Cloud architects
DevOps
Cloud engineers
Software engineers
Developers80% of who it’s for
20% of who it’s for
Most of the room works on cloud systems already. If you write application code and need the cert, you will keep up.
Same room as month 1. The work is different. You already have the map. Now you have to choose.
Your instructor
Amazon Web Services
Principal Solutions Architect, April 2026 to present
Manager, Solutions Architecture, June 2020 to April 2026
Senior Solutions Architect, January 2016 to June 2020
Developer Support Engineer, December 2013 to December 2015
AARP
Senior Systems Engineer, 2006 to 2013
MGM MIRAGE
Systems Engineer, 2005 to 2006
Marriott International
Active Directory consultant, 2004 to 2005
Alliance Consulting
Network Administrator, Hyderabad, 2002 to 2004
Education
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, Acharya Nagarjuna University
Postgraduate diploma, Management Information Systems, Osmania University
Ground rules
No question is too dumbIf you are wondering it, three other people in the room are too. Ask.
Interrupt me wheneverThis is a workshop, not a webinar. Stop me the moment something does not click.
Do the labsReading is not the same as clicking. Use the IP Lab Portal. Submit homework in IP Learn.
How to move through the material
01Class on the weekendsWe walk the modules in order. Chandra sets the pace. You take notes and hit the practice sets after class.
02Labs in the IP Lab PortalWhen we hit a lab, the talking stops. Open the IP Lab Portal, launch it, do the work.
03Mocks, then the examWeekend 4 is revision and two full mocks. Sit Cloud Practitioner before month 2 unlocks.
01One domain at a timeSecure, resilient, high-performing, cost-optimized. Chandra sets the pace. You take notes.
02Labs in the IP Lab PortalWhen we hit a lab, the talking stops. Open the IP Lab Portal, launch it, do the work.
03Mocks, then the examThe mocks are scenario questions. If you cannot explain the design, you are not ready.