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Regional Championships 2024

Learn more about the regional championships 2024 in Cloud Computing. These are held at all participating vocational schools in Switzerland and provide young talents with a first opportunity to show off their skills and potentially qualify themselves for the upcoming national competitions in September 2025!
Are you competing in this championship? Click here to get specific information about how you can compete.

General Information #

Just like last year, the regional championships in skill 53 for Cloud Computing are once again held in a decentralized way in mid-March 2024. Various vocational schools all across Switzerland are running this three-hour competition and give their apprentices the chance of competing against each other. These competitions happen at various dates in March 2024 and young talents actively pursuing an apprenticeship may compete. Further information can be found on the ICT-Berufsbildung Schweiz website.

Scope #

The competition is focused on basic infrastructure-related services on the AWS Cloud. Specifically, the following list of services can be expected during this year’s regional championships:

  • Amazon CloudFront
  • Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
  • Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
  • Amazon ElastiCache
  • Amazon Relational Database Services (RDS)
  • Amazon Route 53
  • Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
  • Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
  • AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)
  • AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  • AWS Lambda – only properties and execution, no coding
  • AWS Systems Manager (SSM) – only session manager with EC2 Linux

Further information can be found in the Job Description linked at the very bottom of this page.

Training #

There are three different training methods available to you as a competitor, should you wish to prepare yourself for the regional championships. First of, there are two offerings provided via AWS Academy, which is a dedicated online platform for educating yourself about AWS. If you have registered yourself via Google Forms for training opportunities, you should have received emails for two different courses, which are further explained below:

  • AWS Academy Cloud Foundations [72453]: This official AWS Academy course provides you with a solid foundation regarding various important infrastructure services available on the AWS platform. You can work yourself through the various modules offered and most of them also feature a final lab exam, which you can attempt to check your gathered knowledge. Please note that this is a generic course and while many topics are covered, not all of them are relevant for the regional championships.
  • AWS Academy Learner Lab [72454]: This official AWS Academy course is a free sandbox environment where you can use up to 100$ worth of cloud resources for testing various scenarios. You do not have to provide any credit card information and can safely test your newly gathered knowledge or strengthen your knowledge by building own scenarios with AWS services.

Please note that each course invite must be accepted individually and you should end up with two courses if you signed yourself up properly. In addition to this, there is also a third training method available, which lets you complete some of last years tasks on the real competition platform:

  • Demo Competition: Click here for further information about the demo competition. This training method is especially useful for those who want to get a feeling for the competition platform and the tasks that are being asked during the regional championships.

Are you interested in joining the various training opportunities? Please fill out the Google Forms to receive the necessary information and links to the training platforms. Please note that you currently need to be an apprentice at a Swiss vocational school to be eligible for these training opportunities. In case there are any uncertainties, feel free to contact us at any time.

  • General Description: The general description contains the most important information about this competition and is provided several months in advance. Any information regarding the contents of the competition may still slightly change and it is meant to provide a rough overview about which skills are being tested and what training methods are available.
  • Job Description: The job description is based on the General Description and released several weeks before the actual competition. It specifically mentions the technologies and skills that competitors can expect and provides further useful information.
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