AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Level
Achieving AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Level certification validates that you have the hands-on experience using AWS to design highly available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems. It confirms your ability to identify and define requirements for an Amazon Web Services-based application and to follow best practices for building secure and reliable applications on the AWS platform.
Before attempting the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Level exam, you should have the following required knowledge and skills:
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Knowledge
- Hands-on experience using compute, 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 CloudFormation)
- Hands-on experience with AWS deployment and management services
General IT Knowledge
- Excellent understanding of typical multi-tier architectures: web servers (Apache, nginx, IIS), caching, application servers, and load balancers
- RDBMS (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server), NoSQL
- 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
Required Training and Exam
The AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Level exam includes multiple-choice and multiple-answer questions. You will have 80 minutes to complete it
| Required Exam | Training Course |
|---|---|
| AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Level exam | Architecting with Amazon Web Services (GK4502) |