AWS Solution Architect Associate Exam Study Notes

The exam covers 4 main domains:

1. Designing Resilient Architectures
2. Designing High-Performing Architectures
3. Designing Secure Applications and Architectures
4. Designing Cost-Optimised Architectures

Topics

In order to be able to answer questions on the above domains you will need to be familiar with some of the AWS services.

Click on the different services below in order to view a summary:

• IAM & Billing
• KMS & Cloud HSM
• Simple Storage Service (S3)
• Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)
• Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
• Elastic Load Balancers (ELB)
• Web Application Firewall (WAF)
• Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
• CloudWatch Vs Cloud Trail
• CloudFront
• Databases
• Athena
• Macie
• Kinesis
• Data Transfer
• ENI, EN & EFA
• CloudFormation
• SQS, SWF & SNS
• EFS & FSx
• Lambda
• Active Directory
• High Performance Computing
• Route 53
• Auto Scaling
• ECS, Fargate, EKS & ECR