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  2. You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer The Learning Machine has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
  3. The centre assesses, and The Learning Machine awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from The Learning Machine.

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01What it is

The Level 3 Certificate in AWS Cloud Systems and Services is designed for people requiring skills and competence in cloud systems, specifically using AWS technologies. It consists of optional units where learners can focus on areas of interest or complement other academic subjects relevant to cloud computing.

These are the units The Learning Machine registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.

Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with The Learning Machine. It does the teaching and the mapping. The Learning Machine sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.

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02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

AWS Cloud Concepts Real unit · The Learning Machine
Understand the fundamentals of AWS cloud systems, economic aspects, and design principles.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the AWS Cloud systems, benefits such as scalability and agility.
  • Understand AWS Cloud Economics.
  • Assess and Understand Cloud Design Principles.
AWS Cloud Concepts Real unit · The Learning Machine
This unit provides learners with an understanding of AWS Cloud systems, including service models, architectural principles, and global infrastructure. You'll also explore AWS Cloud economics and key design principles for developing scalable and resilient cloud applications.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the fundamental concepts of AWS Cloud systems and their architecture.
  • Understand the economic principles of AWS Cloud services and cost optimisation strategies.
  • Assess and understand key cloud design principles for building scalable and resilient applications on AWS.
AWS Cloud Security and Compliance Real unit · The Learning Machine
Learn about shared responsibility models, compliance, access management, and security practices with AWS.

What you'll be able to do

  • Define a shared responsibility model in AWS.
  • Understand AWS Cloud compliance requirements.
  • Describe and implement access management.
AWS Cloud Security and Compliance Real unit · The Learning Machine
This unit covers AWS Cloud security and compliance, focusing on the shared responsibility model, key compliance standards, and access management. You'll understand security responsibilities within AWS environments and apply appropriate security measures and controls.

What you'll be able to do

  • Define the shared responsibility model in the context of AWS Cloud security.
  • Understand AWS Cloud compliance standards and certifications.
  • Understand how to work with Access Management tools and techniques in AWS.
  • Understand key AWS Cloud Security concepts and best practices.
AWS Cloud Systems Real unit · The Learning Machine
Explore AWS cloud technologies and infrastructure, and investigate various cloud services.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand AWS Cloud Technologies and how they provision and operate AWS cloud systems.
  • Understand AWS infrastructure and regional relationships.
  • Investigate AWS Cloud Services.
AWS Cloud Systems Real unit · The Learning Machine
You'll explore core AWS Cloud technologies, infrastructure, and services. The unit covers their benefits, applications, and problem-solving capabilities, enabling learners to understand and apply AWS Cloud components effectively in various scenarios.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the core concepts of AWS Cloud Technologies
  • Understand the application of AWS Cloud Technologies in different scenarios
  • Understand the components of AWS infrastructure
  • Investigate the different types of AWS infrastructure available
  • Understand the purpose of different AWS Cloud Services
  • Investigate the features and benefits of AWS Cloud Services
AWS Real World Projects Real unit · The Learning Machine
Research and apply theoretical knowledge of AWS systems through a real-world project.

What you'll be able to do

  • Research and plan a real-world project based on AWS systems.
  • Describe application and data requirements based on client expectations.
AWS Real World Projects Real unit · The Learning Machine
You'll research, plan, and analyse real-world AWS projects, applying theoretical knowledge in practical contexts. The unit covers service and security requirements, application and data needs, and project justification aligned with client expectations and scalability.

What you'll be able to do

  • Research and plan a real-world project to apply theoretical knowledge of AWS systems in a practical way.
  • Analyse the service and security requirements for an AWS solution based on project needs.
  • Describe the application and data requirements needed in line with client needs and expectations, considering scaling and flexibility.
  • Produce an AWS solution project based on research and understanding to meet the client’s needs.
03The standards

The national standards these units are built against

What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.

  • Design cloud services for business

    Standard

  • Lead Cloud Architecture Governance

    Standard
04Where it leads

The jobs these credits are mapped to

A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.

Showing 6 roles, drawn from 159 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.

Where this can lead

Associate Cloud Security Analyst

This work can lead to a senior cloud security analyst role, handling more complex incidents, or on to lead cloud security engineer, designing new security controls.

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05The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by The Learning Machine rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.

What you would be collecting

AWS Cloud ConceptsAWS Cloud ConceptsAWS Cloud Security and ComplianceAWS Cloud Security and ComplianceAWS Cloud SystemsAWS Cloud SystemsAWS Real World ProjectsAWS Real World Projects

Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.

How you’d practise it

You don’t watch this. You do it.

You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.

The Navigator The Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration
The Navigator Your plan for “AWS Real World Projects” assumes the same two people are free in March. What have you seen that makes you slightly uneasy about that?
You One of them has been pulled onto the migration twice already. Probably fine.
The Navigator That is the thread worth pulling. Let us build the version where it happens a third time and find the move that works either way.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
  • Bring your own plan Create

    For “AWS Real World Projects” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.

  • Map a live decision Analyse

    “AWS Cloud Systems” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.

How you would learn this

One to one, on the work you already do

A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.

A lesson from AWS Cloud Concepts, one of this qualification's own units.

AWS Cloud Concepts Level 3

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

Which job do you mean?
Associate Cloud Security AnalystAssociate Cloud Solutions ArchitectAssociate Cloud Governance AnalystAssociate Multi-Cloud SpecialistCloud Security ManagerCloud Engineer

Understand the fundamentals of AWS cloud systems, economic aspects, and design principles.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
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Your Plan Illustration

Built for TLM Level 3 Certificate in AWS Cloud Systems and Services

4 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by The Learning Machine.

  1. AWS Cloud Concepts
  2. AWS Cloud Security and Compliance
  3. AWS Cloud Systems
  4. AWS Real World Projects
These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

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