Exam Objectives
The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam validates your technical expertise in two key areas:
- Taking customer requirements and defining an appropriate solution at the architecture level using AWS design principles
- Providing guidance on implementation based on best practices that go beyond initial design and cover troubleshooting, optimization, and cost considerations
While the exam guide suggests a year of AWS experience, you’ll most benefit from working extensively with the AWS console and setting up new infrastructure, especially related to compute (EC2), storage (RDS, DynamoDB, and S3), and networking (VPCs).
The actual exam is organized into five different domains, each focusing on a specific objective, with each domain broken up further into subobjectives:
Chapter 1, Design Resilient Architectures (Domain 1) Choose reliable and resilient storage; determine how to design decoupling mechanisms using AWS services; determine how to design...