AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Exam | How To Pass 2021 | Resources
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Exam - How To Pass?
It’s a test with a 720 score and 65 questions. You will have 130 minutes to answer all these questions. There are 5 unscored questions too. These questions won’t affect the marks. So, you can keep it at last and don’t worry about it much.
You can give 2 minutes per question and then move forward. In the end, you will have a few minutes left where you can check the questions again.
It’s important to know the course content as well. You should know what will be asked in the exam and how you can get the best out of it. For that, you need to know about the content.
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
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)
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)
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
no experience is mandatory. However, it’s recommended that you should have at least 1 year of experience in knowing and running things in AWS.
AWS has various services. You should know about all the services that are available on the AWS which are directly related to the architecture.
Luckily, there is a free tier available for 1 year. Where certain amounts and types of resources will be free. You can surely get the trial version and learn about the things in the trial version.
AWS Solutions Architect - Associate Courses
You can always take a course. You don’t necessarily need to go with a paid one.
Paid courses are available on websites like Udemy and Linda. You can browse and find the best suitable course for you. Most of them have one free video available. You can see the free video and then decide whether you want to go with that particular course or you want to go with other courses. You also might want to look at the reviews and comments before making a purchase
Courses:
Ultimate AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate 2021 by Stephane Maarek
https://www.udemy.com/course/aws-cert...
A Cloud Guru https://acloudguru.com/course/aws-cer...
FreeCourseCamp • Video
Mock Tests & Practice Exams
If you go with the paid course on Udemy, you will likely have practice tests that you can take. However you may want to search for more
AWS Solutions Architect Associate Practice Tests and Exams:
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Practice Exams by Jon Bonso https://www.udemy.com/course/aws-cert...
KnowledgeHut (Free) https://www.knowledgehut.com/practice...
Simplilearn (Free) https://www.simplilearn.com/aws-solut...
AWS Solutions Architect - Associate Exam Tips
Review the questions carefully
Don't spend too much time on each question
Use all the test features such as “Mark for review”. This will mark the question and you can review it at the end.
Most of the questions will be based on practical knowledge rather than theoretical. So you should open AWS and actually use it
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