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AWS Solutions Associate Architect Associate

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Intro

Intro to AWS

Computing

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)
Auto Scaling Group (ASG)
Lambda
High Performance Computing (HPC)
Workflows

Storage

Instance Store
Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
Elastic File System (EFS)
Simple Storage Service (S3)
Relational Database Service (RDS)
Aurora
DynamoDB
ElastiCache
FSx
Redshift
Neptune
ElasticSearch

Data Migration & Sync

Snow Family
Database Migration Service (DMS)
Storage Gateway
DataSync
AppSync
Transfer Family

Networking

Route 53
API Gateway
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
PrivateLink
Site-to-Site VPN
Direct Connect (DX)
Transit Gateway
Networking Costs
Reachability Analyzer
Traffic Mirroring

Messaging

Simple Queue Service (SQS)
Simple Notification Service (SNS)
Kinesis
Amazon MQ
EventBridge

Access Management

Identity & Access Management (IAM)
Cognito
Security Token Service (STS)
Identity Federation in AWS
AWS Organizations
AWS Directory Services
Single Sign-On (SSO)

Distribution

CloudFront
Global Accelerator

Monitoring & Audit

CloudWatch
CloudTrail
Config
X-Ray
Trusted Advisor
CostExplorer

Containerization

Elastic Container Service (ECS)
Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Elastic Container Registry (ECR)

Deployment

CloudFormation
Elastic Beanstalk
Serverless Application Model (SAM)
Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery (CICD)
Blue-Green Deployment

Parameters & Encryption

Key Management Service (KMS)
SSM Parameter Store
Secrets Manager
CloudHSM
OpsWorks

Analytics

Athena
Elastic Map Reduce (EMR)
Glue

Cloud Security

AWS Shield
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Firewall Manager
GuardDuty
Inspector
Macie

Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery
AWS Backup

Sharing

Resource Access Manager (RAM)

Misc

Amazon WorkSpaces
Well Architected Framework
Extras

Architecture

Serverless ToDo List App
Serverless Blogging Website
Serverless Premium Stock Video Website
DDoS Protection
Cost Effective Highly Available Monolithic Architecture

Theory

Concepts
Important Ports
Shared Responsibility Model

Course

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C02) | Udemy

Certification

  • AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C02)
  • Certificate Validity: 3 years
  • Grading: 100-1000 (passing score = 720) - 72% correct required to pass
  • Pass / Fail Exam (score doesn’t appear on the certificate)
  • 65 questions - 130 minutes (2h 10min)
  • Can request extra 30 mins on exam if you are a non-native English speaker
  • Badge public URL: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate - Credly

Last updated: 2022-06-03