Associate Certification
- AWS landing page: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- 80 minutes multiple choice test
- Recommended trainings
- Sample questions
- AWS Practice Exam Questions (IaaS Academy)
Resource Collection
Topic | Resources | White Papers | Technical Terms | Qwiklabs |
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EC2
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Introduction to EC2 Spot Instances: 20 minutes |
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ELB | ELB: Documentation | sticky session, ELB, ALB, NLB, code 504, TCP/IP Level 7, TCP/IP level 4, intelligent routing, Cross Zone Load Balancing, Path Patterns | Working with Elastic Load Balancing: 20 minutes | |
Networking: VPC | End point, gateway, public subnet, subnet, peering, routing, AZ | |||
Networking: Direct Connect | FAQs |
VLAN, 1000BASE-LX, 10GBASE-LR, singlemode fiber, Bidirectional Forwarding Detection, IPsec VPN, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Autonomous System Number (ASN) |
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Storage: EBS | EC2 FAQs | |||
Storage: S3, CloudFront | Bucket, Origin Access Identity, trusted signer, Cloud Front signed URL | |||
Storage: Glacier | FAQs | vault lock policy | ||
Storage: Storage Gateway | FAQs | Youtube Introduction video | Gateway-VTL, Gateway-Cached Volumes, Gateway-Stored Volumes | |
SQS | FAQ (one question) | hidden (after having fetched it), standard queue, FIFO queue, batch, send receive, delete, DeadLetterSourceQueues, Lifecycle, long polls, retention | ||
Security |
Overview of Security Processes Introduction to AWS Security (High level introduction) |
IDS (Re-Invent pres.), DDos, WAF sandwich | Auditing Your Security with AWS Trusted Advisor: 35 minutes Auditing Changes to Amazon EC2 Security Groups: 37 minutes |
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Autoscaling |
Example setup (youtube 11min) |
Maintaining High Availability with Auto Scaling: 50 minutes Launching Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with Auto Scaling and Amazon CloudWatch: 45 minutes |
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Database: RDS | FAQs | know the DB specific replication technologies RDS is using | Administering Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server: 90 minutes | |
Database: DynamoDB | FAQs |
partition key, item, attribute, key-value, composite primary keys, Global Secondary Index, Local Secondary Index (LSI), Projection, Fine-Grained Access Control (FGAC), provisioneds through put, cross-region replication, streams |
Working with Amazon DynamoDB:: 25 minutes | |
Database: Redshift | Getting Started Guide (Video, hands on lab etc.) | Cluster, Node, Cluster Type, Cluster Parameter Group, WLM (Workload management Configuration) | Working with Redshift: 55 minutes | |
CloudWatch | FAQs | |||
CloudFormation | Overview of Deployment Options on AWS (Covers as well OpsWork and CodeDeploy | Stack, Template, create- cancel- delete- rollback-stack, UserData, AWS:CloudFormation:init, stack updates | Creating an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) with CloudFormation: 27 minutes Launching and Managing a Web Application with AWS CloudFormation: 27 minutes |
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Elastic Beanstalk | FAQs Documentation |
ebextensino, leader_only | ||
Architecure, Availability | RTO, RPO, AZ | |||
SNS | SNS Mobile Push | topic, subscribe, publish | ||
SWF: Simple Workflow Service | Developer Guide | asynchronous, distributed, workflow, activities, domain, activity workers, activity tasks, deciders | ||
Route 53 | DNS, A (address) record, CNAME (canonical name record), AAAA (IPv6 addres record), Alias record, hosted zone, TTL, WWR (Weighted Round Robin), LBR (Latency Based Routing), Geo DNS, private DNS, health check | Introduction to Amazon Route 53: 55 minutes |
Annoying Facts
S3 Path Styles
1. Virtual hosted-style
Format: https://bucket-name.s3.Region.amazonaws.com/key name (Reference)
2. Path-style
support ends September 30, 2020
Examples:
- https://s3.amazonaws.com/jsb-public/classic_amazon_door_desk.png
- https://s3-us-east-2.amazonaws.com/jsb-public/classic_amazon_door_desk…
- http://example-bucket.s3-website.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/photo.jpg
3. C-Name Method
Example: http://www.awsexamplebucket1.net/homepage.html
The C.Name is an alias for bucketname.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com (Reference)
4. s3-Region
Example: https://my-bucket.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com
some regions only
Professional Certification
AWS landing page: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
170 minutes: Multiple choice and multiple answer questions
Recommended trainings
- Advanced Architecting on AWS
- Exam Readiness Workshop
General advice
- How I Passed The AWS Solutions Architect Professional Exam (Hydras)
- Passing the AWS Professional Solutions Architect Exam (Identifies important domains)
- AWS Professional Solution Architect Certification Tips
Resource Collection (for specific Professional Certification Topics)
Topic | Resources | White Papers | Technical Terms | Qwiklabs |
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Architecture |
Well-Architected Framework (Great appendix) |
Security, Reliability, Performance, Cost optimization | ||
IAM |
Cognito, STS, Identity Federation, SSO | |||
Deployment: CodeDeploy |
FAQs | configuration, application, revision, group, Appspec file, lifecycle events, agent | Introduction to CodeDeploy: 40 minutes |
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Deployment: CodePipeline |
FAQs | pipeline, revision, stage, artifact, transition, action | ||
Architecture: CloudFront |
FAQs | Developer's Guide | edge location, CNAME alias, invalidation requests, price class, geo restriction, RTMP delivery, signed request | |
Data Pipeline |
FAQs | Documentation | activity, precondition, on-premises task runner | |
Kinesis |
FAQs | Documentation |
Introduction to Amazon Kinesis Firehose: 30 minutes
Building Real-Time Dashboards with Amazon Kinesis Dynamic Aggregators: 55 minutes |
Qwiklabs
- SA Pro Learning Quest: 295 minutes
- General topics which are useful:
- Introduction to AWS Device Farm: 30 minutes
- Introduction to ElasticCache: 25 minutes
- Introduction to Amazon Elasticsearch Service: 30 minutes
- Introduction to Key Management Service: 30 minutes
- Introduction to Lambda: 30 minutes
- Event-driven Programming with Amazon DynamoDB Streams and AWS Lambda: 35 minutes
- Introduction to EC2 Container Service: 30 minutes
- Introduction to Amazon API Gateway: 35 minutes
- Building Search Into Your Applications With CloudSearch: 32 minutes
- Working with AWS OpsWorks: 40 minutes
- Deploy a Java EE Application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk Using Docker Containers: 40 minutes
- Working with Amazon CloudFront for Dynamic Content Acceleration: 60 minutes
- Caching Static Files with Amazon CloudFront: 30 minutes
- Introduction to Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR): 30 minutes
- Building Scalable Web Applications with Elastic Beanstalk: 59 minutes
- Enhancing Your Android Application Using AWS Mobile Services: 35 minutes
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