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The AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate examination is intended for individuals who perform a solutions architect role and have one or more years of hands-on experience designing available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems on AWS.
Abilities Validated by the Certification
- Effectively demonstrate knowledge of how to architect and deploy secure and robust applications on AWS technologies
- Define a solution using architectural design principles based on customer requirements
- Provide implementation guidance based on best practices to the organization throughout the life cycle of the project
Recommended Knowledge and Experience
- Hands-on experience using compute, networking, storage, and database AWS services
- Hands-on experience with AWS deployment and management services
- Ability to identify and define technical requirements for an AWS-based application
- Ability to identify which AWS services meet a given technical requirement
- Knowledge of recommended best practices for building secure and reliable applications on the AWS platform
- An understanding of the basic architectural principles of building on the AWS Cloud
- An understanding of the AWS global infrastructure
- An understanding of network technologies as they relate to AWS
- An understanding of security features and tools that AWS provides and how they relate to traditional services
AWS Solutions Architect – Associate Learning Path
The Solutions Architect – Associate Learning Path focuses on 4 different domains, each carrying a percentage weighting in the exam:
- Design Resilient Architectures (30%)
- Design High-Performing Architectures (28%)
- Design Secure Applications and Architectures (24%)
- Design Cost-Optimized Architectures (18%)
AWS Solutions Architect – Associate Outline
Domain 1: Design Resilient Architectures – 30%
- AWS Global Infrastructure (Regions, Availability Zones, Edge Locations, Regions Edge Caches)
- Multi-tiered architectures within a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
- Amazon Route 53
- Amazon CloudFront
- Disaster recovery and business continuity strategies
- Decoupled and event-driven architectures
- AWS storage services
Domain 2: Design High-Performing Architectures – 28%
- Auto-scaling and application and network elastic load balancers
- Amazon EC2, ECS, and Elastic Beanstalk
- Storage performance with the Elastic File System and Amazon S3 features
- VPC Networking components: Subnets/ENIs/ENA’s/NACLs/Security Groups/NAT Gateways/ Bastion hosts/VPC Endpoints/VPN/Direct Connect/Transit Gateway/AWS Global Accelerator
- AWS Databases
- High availability across Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Aurora
- Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)
Domain 3: Design Secure Applications and Architectures – 24%
- Deep dive on AWS Identity & Access Management
- Amazon Cognito for web & mobile security
- AWS Organizations – Service Control Policies (SCPs)
- Protecting application with AWS WAF, Firewall Manager, and Shield
- Understand AWS logging mechanisms
- Audit, monitor and evaluate with AWS Config and AWS CloudTrail
- Data encryption using the AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
Domain 4: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures – 18%
- AWS storage costs across Amazon S3, Glacier, EFS, Storage Gateway, AWS Backup
- Savings plans and reserved instances for compute instances
- Cost optimization across the network infrastructure
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