The Exam Prep: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate course is available from March 1 to May 31, 2022, as part of the Get AWS Certified: Associate Challenge.

In this intermediate-level course from Amazon Web Services (AWS), you will learn how to assess your preparedness for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam. The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam validates technical expertise in designing and deploying scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS.

Learn how to prepare for the exam by exploring the exam’s topic areas and how they map to architecting on AWS and to specific areas to study. Throughout this course, you will explore the exam’s various topic domains, and learn how they map to both AWS solutions architect roles and to specific areas of study. You will also review sample certification questions in each domain, practice skills with hands-on exercises, test your knowledge with practice question sets, learn strategies for identifying incorrect responses by interpreting the concepts that are being tested in the exam, and take a full-length official practice test that will help identity your strengths and weaknesses in each domain area.

• Course level: Intermediate
• Duration: 6 hours

Activities

This course includes the following:

• Videos by expert instructors, who deliver presentations and review sample questions
• Hands-on exercises that help validate skills readiness
• Practice question sets written by the same AWS experts who write certification assessment items.
• Official AWS Solutions Architect - Associate sample test with certification-scoring logic and detailed score report

Course objectives

After completing this course, you should be able to complete the following tasks:

• Explain the value of the AWS Cloud
• Understand and explain the AWS shared responsibility model
• Understand security best practices
• Understand AWS Cloud costs, economics, and billing practices
• Describe and position the core AWS services, including compute, network, databases, and storage.
• Identify AWS services for common use cases

Intended audience

This course is intended for solutions architects who are preparing to take the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam.

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following knowledge and experience:

• At least 1 year of hands-on experience designing and deploying scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS
• In-depth knowledge of at least one high-level programming language
• Completed the Architecting on AWS course (or have equivalent knowledge)

Course outline

Course Introduction

Module 1: Resilient Architectures

• Design a multi-tier architecture solution
• Design highly available and/or fault-tolerant architectures
• Design decoupling mechanisms using AWS services
• Choose appropriate resilient storage
• Questions walkthrough

Reading: Resilient Architectures

Hands-on Exercise: Testing Permissions

Resilient Architectures Close

Module 2: High-performing Architectures

• Identify elastic and scalable compute solutions for a workload
• Select high-performing and scalable storage solutions for a workload
• Select high-performing networking solutions for a workload
• Choose high-performing database solutions for a workload
• Questions walkthrough

Reading: High-performing Architectures

Hands-on Exercise: Creating a Network

High-performing Architectures Close

Module 3: Secure Applications

• Design secure access to AWS resources
• Design secure application tiers
• Select appropriate data security options
• Questions walkthrough

Reading: Secure Applications

Hands-on Exercise: Comparing Databases

Secure Applications Close

Module 4: Cost-optimized Architectures

• Identify cost-effective storage solutions
• Identify cost-effective compute and database services
• Design cost-optimized network architectures
• Questions walkthrough

Reading: Cost-optimized Architectures

Hands-on Exercise: Implementing Elasticity

Cost-optimized Architectures Close

Benchmark Assessment: Practice Questions

Course Close