AWS Certified Solutions Architect

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Associate (SAA-C02) 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.

  • Networking Introduction
  • OSI and TCP/IP Model
  • IPv4 addressing and subnetting
  • Routing Basics
  • NAT
  • Firewall Introduction

  • IAM Users and Groups
  • IAM Policies
  • IAM Roles
  • IAM Federated Users and Roles
  • AWS AD Connector

  • Creating and deploying EC2 on Windows and Linux
  • EC2 instance types and Security Groups
  • Pricing options
  • Installing webserver service
  • Creating AMIs and launching EC2 from custom AMIs
  • Attaching/Detaching EBS volumes, modifying volume size, vertical scaling
  • Snapshots: Taking, copying across regions, and launching EC2 from snapshots

  • Creating VPC, Subnets, Route Table, IGW
  • Elastic Network Interface, Elastic IP address
  • VPC NAT Gateway and NAT Instance
  • VPC NACLs
  • VPC Peering (within and across regions)
  • VPC Endpoint
  • Virtual Private Gateways (VPGs), Customer Gateways (CGWs), VPN

  • S3: Buckets, uploading/downloading, versioning, lifecycle, static website hosting, logging
  • S3 Encryption and MFA
  • Permissions, ACLs, and bucket policies
  • S3 Storage Classes
  • Cross Region Replication
  • Bucket management using CLI
  • Object storage vs Block storage
  • EBS Volume encryption

  • AWS Auto-Scaling overview
  • Types of scaling policies
  • Launch Configuration and Auto-Scaling Group
  • Scheduled Scaling

  • Classic Load Balancer
  • Network Load Balancer
  • Application Load Balancer
  • Cross-Zone Load Balancing
  • Load Balancing between VPCs

  • Hosted Zones
  • Record Sets
  • Health Checks
  • Routing Policies

  • Relational Database Service (RDS)
  • Amazon Aurora
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Amazon DynamoDB

  • CloudWatch Logs
  • CloudWatch Subscription Filters
  • CloudWatch Events

  • Amazon CloudFront
  • AWS CloudTrail
  • AWS Lambda
  • AWS SNS and SQS
  • AWS CloudFormation
  • AWS Elastic Beanstalk