AWS Solutions Architect - Associate Rapid Exam Prep

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Exam Preparation Kit 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.

There is one assessment set and two practice exams to test your knowledge.

Abilities Validated by the Preparation Kit

• 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

The Best Preparation for The Certification Exam

There is no better preparation than solving practice questions blended with hands-on experience. We highly recommend solving our preparation kit in order and then try answers out in your sandbox.

Exam Domains

There are 4 domains being covered in this preparation kit and in the certification exam.

Domain 1: Design Resilient Architectures

1.1 Design a multi-tier architecture solution

1.2 Design highly available and/or fault-tolerant architectures

1.3 Design decoupling mechanisms using AWS services

1.4 Choose appropriate resilient storage

Domain 2: Design High-Performing Architectures

2.1 Identify elastic and scalable compute solutions for a workload

2.2 Select high-performing and scalable storage solutions for a workload

2.3 Select high-performing networking solutions for a workload

2.4 Choose high-performing database solutions for a workload

Domain 3: Design Secure Applications and Architectures

3.1 Design secure access to AWS resources

3.2 Design secure application tiers

3.3 Select appropriate data security options

Domain 4: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures

4.1 Identify cost-effective storage solutions

4.2 Identify cost-effective compute and database services

4.3 Design cost-optimized network architectures