Exam Prep: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

This new intermediate-level course from Amazon Web Services (AWS) is designed to help you to assess your preparedness for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam. You will learn how to prepare for the exam by exploring the exam’s topic areas and how they map to architecting on AWS. You will review sample certification questions in each domain, practice skills with hands-on exercises, test your knowledge with practice question sets, and learn strategies for identifying incorrect responses by interpreting the concepts that are being tested in the exam. At the end of this course you will have all the knowledge and tools to help you identity your strengths and weaknesses in each certification domain areas that are being tested on the certification exam.

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam is intended for individuals who perform in a solutions architect role. The exam validates a candidate’s ability to design secure and robust solutions by using AWS technologies. The exam also validates a candidate’s ability to complete the following tasks: Design a solution by using appropriate AWS services and by following architectural principles based on requirements. Provide implementation guidance based on best practices to the organization throughout the workload lifecycle.
This course covers material specific to the SAA-C03 version of the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam.
In the new version of the exam, many of the domains and task statements were reordered or renumbered; however, most of the content is the same.
Only one task statement for the new version of the exam is NOT included in this course:
Domain 3: Design High-Performing Architectures, Task Statement 5: Determine high-performing data ingestion and transformation solutions.
At the end of the course materials, you will find a new section (“SAA-C03 Updates”) that contains additional information about differences between the exam versions:
SAA-C02 versus SAA-C03
SAA-C03 New Material

What you will learn

Welcome to the Course

Welcome to Exam Prep: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate! In this course, we present content on all four knowledge domains that are covered in the exam. It’s important to understand that on the exam, questions from all domains are presented in random order.

Domain 1

This week, you will get an overview of relevant concepts and services for Designing Resilient Architectures (Domain 1). For this domain, question walkthroughs cover designing a multi-tier architecture solution, designing highly available or fault-tolerant architectures, and decoupling mechanisms by using AWS services.

Domain 2

Welcome to Week 2! This week, you will review relevant concepts and services for Designing High-performing Architectures (Domain 2) so you can get a benchmark of your knowledge in this area. Question walkthroughs for this domain address the topics of identifying and selecting storage, network, and database solutions that are elastic, scalable, and high performing.

Domain 3

Welcome to Week 3! This week, you will get an overview of relevant concepts and services for Designing Secure Applications and Architectures (Domain 3) so you can get a benchmark of your knowledge in this area. For this domain, the question walkthroughs focus on designing secure access to AWS resources, designing secure application tiers, and selecting the appropriate data security options.