The AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) exam covers a breadth of topics, including the right choice of AWS services under different conditions and constraints, setting up high-availability architectures, disaster recovery, hybrid cloud models, networking/routing traffic in different configurations, etc. Answering AWS SAA Questions
Many questions on the exam start by presenting a situation and identifying constraints (e.g. a database must be stored on-prem, data in transit must be encrypted) that help rule out answers that would otherwise be viable. The question then usually asks to you select the answer (an AWS service, feature, option, etc.) that optimizes a variable such as:
This is meant to simulate the problems Solutions Architect face day-to-day on the job. The design of an architecture has to optimize certain variables and suffice constraints. AWS Cloud Practitioner: A Prerequisite for AWS SAA? Although the AWS Cloud Practitioner certification is not a prerequisite for the AWS SAA exam, I found it very helpful to study for the AWS Cloud Practitioner, especially to learn the basics of the many AWS services. Check out my AWS Cloud Practitioner (ACP) Study Notes. EC2 INSTANCES 300 Instance Types across 5 Instance Families
Instance Purchasing Options
Launching Instances
Placement Groups
Scaling Instances
VPC, SUBNETS, NETWORKING
Subnets
Public Subnet vs. Private Subnet
VPC Endpoints
3 Types of Network Adapters
Security Groups vs. Network ACL (NACL)
Amazon Route 53
Routing Records
AWS Services Calling into a VPC
Elastic Load Balancers
AWS Direct Connect (DX) Gateway
AWS Transit Gateway
VPN Connection
AWS CloudFormation
Disaster Recovery (DR)
STORAGE Instance Store
EBS
EFS
S3
Glacier
Amazon FSx
Amazon Aurora Global Database
RDS
ElastiCache
DynamoDB
AWS Storage Gateway
Copying and Converting
Analytics (OLAP)
SERVICES FOR ARCHITECTURE Amazon SQS
Amazon SNS
Amazon Kinesis
Amazon API Gateway
Amazon CloudFront
AWS Global Accelerator
AWS STS (Security Token Service)
Amazon ECS
SECURITY Encryption
Amazon GuardDuty
IAM
AWS Accounts
AWS CloudTrail
MANY MORE AWS SERVICES Although the AWS Cloud Practitioner certification is not a prerequisite for the AWS SAA exam, I found it very helpful to study for the AWS Cloud Practitioner, especially to learn the basics of the many AWS services. Check out my AWS Cloud Practitioner (ACP) Study Notes especially to review a fuller list of AWS services such as:
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