The AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam is ideal for individuals who have experience designing distributed applications and systems on the AWS platform. Achieving AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certification validates your understanding of these concepts:
Designing and deploying scalable, highly available and fault-tolerant systems on AWS.
Lift and shift of an existing on-premises application to AWS.
Ingress and egress of data to and from AWS.
Selecting the appropriate AWS service based on data, compute, database or security requirements.
Identifying appropriate use of AWS architectural best practices.
Estimating AWS costs and identifying cost control mechanisms.
Before attempting the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam, you should have the following required knowledge and skills:
AWS Knowledge
Hands-on experience using compute, networking, storage, and database AWS services.
Professional experience architecting large-scale distributed systems.
Understanding of Elasticity and Scalability concepts.
Understanding of network technologies as they relate to AWS.
A good understanding of all security features and tools that AWS provides and how they relate to traditional services.
A strong understanding of how to interact with AWS (AWS SDK, AWS API, Command Line Interface, AWS CloudFormation).
Hands-on experience with AWS deployment and management services.
General IT Knowledge
Excellent understanding of typical multitier architectures: web servers (Apache, nginx, IIS), caching, applicati
RDBMS (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server), NoSQL.
on servers, and load balancers.
Knowledge of message queuing and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
Familiarity with loose coupling and stateless systems.
Understanding of different consistency models in distributed systems.
Experience with CDN and performance concepts.
Network experience with route tables, access control lists, firewalls, NAT, HTTP, DNS, IP and OSI Network.
Knowledge of RESTful Web Services, XML, JSON.
Familiarity with the software development lifecycle.
Work experience with information and application security, including public key encryption, SSH, access credentials and X.509 certificates.