Amazon Web Services Solution Architect Associate

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate examination is intended for individuals who perform a solutions architect role and have one or more years of hands-on experience designing available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems on AWS.

Abilities Validated by the Certification

• Effectively demonstrate knowledge of how to architect and deploy secure and robust applications on AWS technologies
• Define a solution using architectural design principles based on customer requirements
• Provide implementation guidance based on best practices to the organization throughout the life cycle of the project

Recommended Knowledge and Experience

• Hands-on experience using compute, networking, storage, and database AWS services
• Hands-on experience with AWS deployment and management services
• Ability to identify and define technical requirements for an AWS-based application
• Ability to identify which AWS services meet a given technical requirement
• Knowledge of recommended best practices for building secure and reliable applications on the AWS platform
• An understanding of the basic architectural principles of building on the AWS Cloud
• An understanding of the AWS global infrastructure
• An understanding of network technologies as they relate to AWS
• An understanding of security features and tools that AWS provides and how they relate to traditional services

AWS Solutions Architect – Associate Learning Path

The Solutions Architect – Associate Learning Path focuses on 4 different domains, each carrying a percentage weighting in the exam:

• Design Resilient Architectures (30%)
• Design High-Performing Architectures (28%)
• Design Secure Applications and Architectures (24%)
• Design Cost-Optimized Architectures (18%)

AWS Solutions Architect – Associate Outline

Domain 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

Domain 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)

Domain 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)

Domain 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

Related Self-paced Courses

• Introduction to Linux OS
• Intro to Linux Bash Scripting
• Linux Management for System Admins
• Introduction to Python Programming
• Introduction to Cloud Technology

Related Live Courses

• Live training class for obtaining AWS Cloud Practitioner certification
• Live training class for obtaining AWS Developer Associate certification
• Live training class for obtaining AWS SysOps Administrator certification
• Live training class for obtaining AWS Security Specialist certification

Related Webinars

• Intro to Amazon Web Services certifications and AWS careers

What Is Next

After you submit your intake form and register the course, we will put you in an upcoming class based on your availability. Once we confirm your class schedule, we will email you your final class schedule.

IMPORTANT: To make the most of your training, it is highly recommended to add your class schedule to your personal calendar and attend all class sessions. We do NOT offer make-up sessions if you miss a session.