AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C02)

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The AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C02) New examination is intended for individuals who perform in a solutions architect role. This exam validates an examinee's ability to effectively demonstrate knowledge of how to architect and deploy secure and robust applications on AWS technologies.

Your results for the examination are reported as a score from 100-1,000, with a minimum passing score of 720.
Exam duration 130 minutes.

Content Outline

Master the fundamentals of AWS core concepts and solutions on Cloud Security

    • AWS Global Infrastructure (Regions, Availability Zones, Edge Locations, Regions Edge Caches)
    • Multi-tiered architectures within a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
    • Amazon Route 53
    • Amazon CloudFront
    • Disaster recovery and business continuity strategies
    • Decoupled and event-driven architectures
    • AWS storage services (S3, Glacier, EBS)
  • Amazon EC2, ECS, and Elastic Beanstalk
  • Storage performance with the Elastic File System and Amazon S3 features
  • VPC Networking components: Subnets/ENIs/ENA’s/NACLs/Security Groups/NAT Gateways/ Bastion hosts/VPC Endpoints/VPN/Direct Connect/Transit Gateway/AWS Global Accelerator
  • AWS Databases
  • High availability across Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Aurora
  • Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)s
  • Deep dive on AWS Identity & Access Management(IAM)
  • Amazon Cognito for web & mobile security
  • AWS Organizations-Service Control Policies (SCPs)
  • Protecting application with AWS WAF, Firewall Manager, and Shield
  • Understand AWS logging mechanisms
  • Audit, monitor and evaluate with AWS Config and AWS CloudTrail
  • Data encryption using the AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
  • AWS storage costs across Amazon S3, Glacier, EFS, Storage Gateway, AWS Backu
  • Savings plans and reserved instances for compute instances
  • Protecting application with AWS WAF, Firewall Manager, and Shield
  • Cost optimization across the network infrastructure