AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Exam Guide

CONTENT

1. Introduction to Cloud Computing and AWS
1.1 Cloud Computing and Virtualization
1.2 The AWS Cloud
1.3 AWS Platform Architecture
1.4 AWS Reliability and Compliance
1.5 Working with AWS
1.6 Migrating Existing Resources to AWS

2. Compute Services
2.1 Introduction
2.2 EC2 Instances
2.3 EC2 Storage Volumes
2.4 Accessing Your EC2 Instance
2.5 Securing Your EC2 Instance
2.6 EC2 Auto Scaling
2.7 AWS Systems Manager
2.8 Running Containers

3. AWS Storage
3.1 Introduction
3.2 S3 Service Architecture
3.3 S3 Durability and Availability
3.4 S3 Object Life Cycle
3.5 Accessing S3 Objects
3.6 Amazon S3 Glacier
3.7 Other Storage-Related Services
3.8 AWS CLI Example

4. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
4.1 Introduction
4.2 VPC CIDR Blocks
4.3 Subnets
4.4 Elastic Network Interfaces
4.5 Internet Gateways
4.6 Route Tables
4.7 Security Groups
4.8 Network Access Control Lists
4.9 AWS Network Firewall
4.10 Public IP Addresses
4.11 Elastic IP Addresses
4.12 AWS Global Accelerator
4.13 Network Address Translation
4.14 Network Address Translation Devices
4.15 AWS PrivateLink
4.16 VPC Peering
4.17 Hybrid Cloud Networking
4.18 High-Performance Computing

5. Database Services
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Relational Databases
5.3 Amazon Relational Database Service
5.4 Amazon Redshift
5.5 Nonrelational (NoSQL) Databases
5.6 DynamoDB

6. Authentication and Authorization—AWS Identity and Access Management
6.1 Introduction
6.2 IAM Identities
6.3 Authentication Tools
6.4 AWS CLI Example

7. CloudTrail, CloudWatch, and AWS Config
7.1 Introduction
7.2 CloudTrail
7.3 CloudWatch
7.4 AWS Config

8. The Domain Name System and Network Routing: Amazon Route 53 and Amazon CloudFront
8.1 Introduction
8.2 The Domain Name System
8.3 Amazon Route 53
8.4 Amazon CloudFront
8.5 AWS CLI Example

9. Data Ingestion, Transformation, and Analytics
9.1 Introduction
9.2 AWS Lake Formation
9.3 AWS Lake Formation
9.4 Kinesis

10. Resilient Architectures
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Calculating Availability
10.3 EC2 Auto Scaling
10.4 Data Backup and Recovery
10.5 Creating a Resilient Network
10.6 Simple Queue Service
10.7 Designing for Availability

11. High-Performing Architectures
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Optimizing Performance for the Core AWS Services
11.3 Infrastructure Automation
11.4 Reviewing and Optimizing Infrastructure Configurations
11.5 Optimizing Data Operations

12. Secure Architectures
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Identity and Access Management
12.3 Detective Controls
12.4 Protecting Network Boundaries
12.5 AWS Firewall Manager
12.6 Data Encryption

13. Data Encryption
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Planning, Tracking, and Controlling Costs
13.3 Cost-Optimizing Compute