AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate -Exam Guide
- Why we need to do aws certification? AWS Certification helps learners build credibility and confidence by validating their cloud expertise with an industry-recognized credential, and organizations identify skilled professionals to lead cloud initiatives using AWS.
- What are all the certification provide by AWS ? what is flow of certifications ? https://aws.amazon.com/certification/
- How AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certificate will help us ? 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.
- What is recommended knowledge and experience ? https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-solutions-architect-associate/
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Practice Exams fee ? $20USD+tax($23 nearly) INR 720 rs
- SAA-C02 AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam fee ? $150+$27 -13299
- what is exam details ? Format : Multiple choice, multiple answer Type: Associate Delivery Method: Testing center or online proctored exam Time: 130 minutes to complete the exam Cost : 150 USD (Practice exam: 20 USD) Language: Available in English, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese • No notes are allowed, no pen is allowed, no speaking • 65 questions will be asked in 130 minutes • At the end you can optionally review all the questions / answers • You will know right away if you passed / failed the exams • You will not know which answers were right / wrong • You will know the overall score a few days later (email notification) • To pass you need a score of a least 720 out of 1000 • If you fail, you can retake the exam again 14 days later https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-solutions-architect-associate/
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Topics EC2 Private ip , public ip, elastic ip, on demand instance, reserved instance, spot instance, dedicated hosts. Placement groups (cluster,spread,partion) IAM Users, roles, policies, Groups. ENI (elatic network interface), EC2 Hibernate, ELB and AUTOSCALING Types of load balancers (classic,application,network) and difference between these. Auto scaling groups scaling policies (target,simple,schedule) EBS EBS volume, EBS Volume types (GP2- General purpose SSD, IO1- Highest-performance SSD, ST1- Low cost HDD,SC1- Lowest cost HDD) https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-volume-types.html EBS Snapshots, EBS Encryption, Instance Store EFS EFS-Scale , EFS vs EBS RDS RDS Backups, Read Replicas, Netwok cost, RDS- Multi AZ, RDS Encryption Aurora ElastiCache Redis or Memcached, Redis Auth Route 53 A record, CNAME and Alias , Routing policies (simple, weighted, latency, failover, geolocation, Multi value), TTL Elastic Beanstalk (focus on application development not infrastucture) S3 S3- Versioning, S3 Encryption SSE-S3, SSE-KMS, SSE-C, Client Side Encryption. S3 Websites, S3 CORS, S3 - Consistency Model, S3 MFA-Delete. S3 Access Logs, S3 Cross Region Replication, S3 pre-signed URLs, S3 Storage Classes Amazon S3 Standard - General Purpose • Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (IA) • Amazon S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access • Amazon S3 Intelligent Tiering • Amazon Glacier • Amazon Glacier Deep Archive https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/ S3 Byte-Range Fetches, AWS Athena, AWS CloudFront CloudFront – S3 as an Origin, CloudFront – ALB or EC2 as an origin, CloudFront Signed URL / Signed Cookies, AWS Global Accelerator. SNOW BALL, Snow ball edge, snow mobile. AWS Storage Gateway File Gateway, Volume Gateway, Tape Gateway AMAZON FSX Windows file system. Storage Comparison • S3: Object Storage • Glacier: Object Archival • EFS: Network File System for Linux instances, POSIX filesystem • FSx for Windows: Network File System for Windows servers • FSx for Lustre: High Performance Computing Linux file system • EBS volumes: Network storage for one EC2 instance at a time • Instance Storage: Physical storage for your EC2 instance (high IOPS) • Storage Gateway: File Gateway, Volume Gateway (cache & stored), Tape Gateway • Snowball / Snowmobile: to move large amount of data to the cloud, physically • Database: for specific workloads, usually with indexing and querying Messaging AWS SQS , FIFo Queue AWS SNS KINESIS Kinesis Streams, Kinesis API, Kinesis Data Firehose, Kinesis Data Analytics. SERVERLESS Serverless in AWS • AWS Lambda & Step Functions • DynamoDB • AWS Cognito • AWS API Gateway • Amazon S3 • AWS SNS & SQS • AWS Kinesis • Aurora Serverless AWS Lambda, Befits, Language support, AWS Lambda Limits(128mb,15min), Lambda@Edge. DynamoDB Nosql, scalling, DynamoDB - DAX, DynamoDB Streams, Global Tables, AWS API Gateway AWS Cognito Redshift Columnar storage, OLAP, Redshift Spectrum, ElasticSearch AWS CloudWatch AWS CloudTrail AWS Config AWS STS Microsoft Active Directory AWS Directory Services (AWS Managed Microsoft AD, AD Connector, Simple AD) AWS Organizations AWS Parameter Store AWS Secrets Manager CloudHSM, AWS Shield, AWS WAF. VPC CIDR, Subnets, Internet Gateways, Route Tables, NAT Instances, NAT Gateway, Network ACLs, VPC Peering, VPC Endpoints, Flow Logs, Bastion Hosts, Site to Site VPN, Direct Connect, AWS PrivateLink, EC2-Classic & AWS ClassicLink, VPN CloudHub, Transit Gateway(1000’s vpc’s), Disaster Recovery RPO and RTO RPO Recovery Point Objective RTO: Recovery Time Objective Backup and Restore, Pilot Light, Warm Standby, Hot Site / Multi Site Approach AWS DataSync CloudFormation AWS ECS AWS ECR Fargate Amazon EKS Step Functions AWS SWF Amazon EMR AWS Glue AWS Opsworks AWS WorkSpaces AWS AppSync