Quick guideline for AWS Solution Architect Associate Exam
I have completed my AWS Solution Architect Associate exam on 7th December, 2019. I wanted to share how I have prepared for this certification exam. Here are some quick links, which can help you for the exam.
- AWS free digital training, this is really helpful to get the complete idea about the exam question patterns and coverage of each section.
- Read some important whitepapers which will give you the depth of specific topics -
- AWS Cloud Best Practices.
- AWS Storage Services.
- AWS VPC Connectivity Option.
- AWS VPC Infrastructure.
- Route 53.
- AWS Security Best Practices.
3. It is important to give Practice test before the main exam. I have bought Whizlab Practise test which was really helpful to me. Initially, I failed almost all the practice tests and so I realized I really need to work hard a lot. Then, I studied each and every wrong answers of mine, read the explanations of each wrong answer and also the explanations of right answers and went through some deep dive of topics which was not clear to me. Finally, I passed all of them with more than 80%.
4. Topics which you should cover and this will help you to choose the right answer:
- EC2 Instance
- EC2 Instance Type (Reserved, Spot and On Demand)
- EBS Volume (General Purpose SSD, Provisioned IOPS SSD, Throughput Optimized HDD and Cold HDD)
- VPC (Security Groups, Network Access Control Lists, Private and Public Subnet)
- Bastion Hosts
- Route53 (Simple, Multivalue, Failover, Latency, Geolocation Routing Policies and Register Domain and add records eg. A, Alias, CNAME etc.)
- Amazon EFS (Storage system and attached with EC2)
- S3 (Storage system and available publicly, get Signed URL, transfer acceleration, versioning, encryption)
- Amazon ECS and ECR (ECS Farget and ECR Docker container)
- Caching (Choose caching for performance improvement)
- Encryption (Data at rest and Data in transit)
- IAM Role (Where should we choose IAM role)
- Dynamodb (Non-Relational), RDS(Relational- MySql, Aurora, PostgresSql, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, MariaDB), Redshift (Data Analytic)
- API Gateway, AWS Lambda (Serverless)
- Code Deployment Topics (CodeBuild, CodePipeline, CodeDeploy, CloudFormation) & Elastic Beanstalk
- Debugger (CloudWatch, CloudTrail& VPC Flow Log)
- On-premise to AWS Cloud (Storage Gateway, VPN, Direct Connect)
- AWS Config
- AWS Trusted Advisor
- AWS Inspector
- AWS Snowball
- AWS Import/Export
- AWS Opsworks
This is not as such difficult if you really understand concepts and design processes and try to answer scenario based questions. It’s very much important to do practice tests.
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