Resources for preparing for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Exam.
Looking for a concise list of AWS Certification related information for the Associate Cloud architect exam. This list should help you on your journey.
If your considering obtaining an AWS Certification and you have a year of experience then taking the AWS Associate Cloud Architect exam may be a great move. This exam is a step above the Cloud Foundations exam and would be the exam to take if your looking to prove your knowledge. There is also a Professional exam and I would recommend you have at least two years of hands work.
https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-solutions-architect-associate/
Here is the AWS Learning Path and Certification paths to give you the direct insight.
Learning Path
https://aws.amazon.com/training/path-architecting/
Certification Path
https://aws.amazon.com/certification/
Resources for preparing for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Exam.
Get started by referencing the AWS Exam guide to review exam objectives.
Free AWS Practice Exams
Free AWS Sponsored Video training
https://www.aws.training/LearningLibrary?&search=&tab=digital_courses
Cloud Guru Video Review
Sam the CloudGuy Playlist
Linux Academy Blog
Cantrill’s Blog
https://cantrill.io/2018/06/18/Passing-the-new-aws-certified-solutions-architect-associate-exam.html
Best Practices Papers Must Review
AWS Well Architected Framework
https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/well-architected/
AWS Architecting for the Cloud Best Practices
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-whitepaper-architecting-for-the-cloud-best-practices/
Getting Practice -Qwiklabs
Resilience
SLAs for common services
https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/architecture/AWS-Reliability-Pillar.pdf
SLAs for each AWS service
https://aws.amazon.com/answers/networking/aws-single-vpc-design/
Serverless multi-tier architectures
https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/AWS_Serverless_Multi-Tier_Architectures.pdf
Route 53 health checks and DNS failover
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/dns-failover.html
AWS Global Infrastructure- Regions/Zones
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/
Migrating resources from one region to another
https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-migrate-resources-to-new-region.pdf
Performance
Know your EBS volume types with performance limits
https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/features/
Understand EFS performance
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/efs/latest/ug/performance.html
Optimizing S3 performance
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/optimizing-performance.html
RDS performance
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/CHAP_BestPractices.html
Performance best practices for DynamoDB
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/best-practices.html
Overview of caching services
Example of scaling an infrastructure
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/scale-your-web-application-one-step-at-a-time/
Catalog of launchable solutions in AWS:
https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/
Security
AWS Security Blog Post
AWS Organizations FAQ
https://aws.amazon.com/organizations/faqs/
Creating WAF Web ACLs
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/waf/latest/developerguide/web-acl.html
Using Secrets Manager for RDS credentials
AWS Transit Gateway for connecting networks
https://aws.amazon.com/transit-gateway/
VPC security
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_Security.html
Cost Optimization
Service pricing can be found as follows
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/
Operational Excellence
OE whitepaper
https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/architecture/AWS-Operational-Excellence-Pillar.pdf
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