AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate

What you'll be able to do

• Choose the right service for a scenario and justify the choice
• Design for availability, durability and cost at the same time
• Read a question and spot which constraint is actually being tested
• Build the reference architectures, not just describe them

Modules

1. 01
   Core services and the exam blueprintDomain weightings, question style, the well-architected framework as the marking scheme
2. 02
   Identity and securityIAM policies, roles, cross-account access, KMS, secrets, security-first defaults
3. 03
   NetworkingVPC design, subnets, route tables, NAT, endpoints, peering, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect
4. 04
   Compute and containersEC2 families, autoscaling, load balancers, Lambda, ECS and EKS trade-offs
5. 05
   Storage and databasesS3 classes and lifecycle, EBS, EFS, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, choosing between them
6. 06
   Resilience and DRMulti-AZ versus multi-region, RTO and RPO, backup strategy, failover patterns
7. 07
   Cost optimisationPricing models, commitments, storage tiering, egress, the cheapest answer that still meets the requirement
8. 08
   Exam rehearsalTimed practice sets, elimination technique, reviewing every wrong answer to its root cause