AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

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 computer, 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 Cloud Formation).
• Hands-on experience with AWS deployment and management services.

General IT Knowledge

• Excellent understanding of typical multitier architectures: web servers (Apache, nginx, IIS), caching, application
• 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.