AWS Solution Architect Associate (SAA-C03): Exam Readiness

Conceptual guidelines and key preparation points

Preparing for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect exam can be very exhaustive, tedious and time-consuming. Taking time off from your busy daily routines could be very challenging. Keeping these common problems in mind, this course has been developed with an objective of providing concise conceptual guidelines and study notes to make you ready for the certification exam.

The course is divided into the following sections:

1. Cloud and virtualization: Concepts of virtualization and cloud computing, XaaS service models- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud deployment models, benefits of cloud computing, AWS global infrastructure

2. Compute: Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance types, access, health checks, purchasing options, Autoscaling, scaling policies, Elastic load balancer, Simple Queue Service (SQS), AWS Lambda

3. Networking: Virtual Private Cloud, main components of VPC, security Groups, Network access control lists (NACL), VPC peering, AWS Route 53, AWS Cloudfront

4. Storage: Detailed description on Elastic block storage and Simple Storage Service (S3)

5. Security: Details on Identity and Access Management

6. Databases: Relational and Non-relational database, policies

7. Miscellaneous Topics: Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF), Migration strategies and AWS well-architected framework

Practice solving some sample exam questions so that you can get an idea about what type of questions can you expect at the exam. Wish you good luck with the certification !