AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam is intended for individuals with experience designing distributed applications and systems on the AWS platform. Exam concepts you should understand for this exam include:

• 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
  

Eligible candidates for this exam have:

• One or more years of hands-on experience designing available, cost efficient, fault tolerant, and scalable distributed systems on AWS
• In-depth knowledge of at least one high-level programming language
• Ability to identify and define requirements for an AWS-based application
• Experience with deploying hybrid systems with on-premises and AWS components
• Capability to provide best practices for building secure and reliable applications on the AWS platform