AWS Architect Certification (Associate & Professsional)

Associate Certification

AWS landing page: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
80 minutes multiple choice test
Recommended trainings
- Architecting on AWS
- Preparation Guidelines
Sample questions
AWS Practice Exam Questions (IaaS Academy)

Resource Collection

Topic	Resources	White Papers	Technical Terms	Qwiklabs
EC2 Security	FAQs			Introduction to EC2 Spot Instances: 20 minutes
ELB	FAQs	ELB: Documentation	sticky session, ELB, ALB, NLB, code 504, TCP/IP Level 7, TCP/IP level 4, intelligent routing, Cross Zone Load Balancing, Path Patterns	Working with Elastic Load Balancing: 20 minutes
Networking: VPC	FAQs VPC landing page	Getting Started Guide(html) User Guide Amazon VPC Connectivity Options	End point, gateway, public subnet, subnet, peering, routing, AZ
Networking: Direct Connect	FAQs		VLAN, 1000BASE-LX, 10GBASE-LR, singlemode fiber, Bidirectional Forwarding Detection, IPsec VPN, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Autonomous System Number (ASN)
Storage: EBS	EC2 FAQs
Storage: S3, CloudFront	FAQs Documentation		Bucket, Origin Access Identity, trusted signer, Cloud Front signed URL
Storage: Glacier	FAQs		vault lock policy
Storage: Storage Gateway	FAQs	Youtube Introduction video	Gateway-VTL, Gateway-Cached Volumes, Gateway-Stored Volumes
SQS	FAQ (one question)		hidden (after having fetched it), standard queue, FIFO queue, batch, send receive, delete, DeadLetterSourceQueues, Lifecycle, long polls, retention
Security	IAM FAQ Cloud HSM FAQ WAF FAQs	Overview of Security Processes Introduction to AWS Security (High level introduction) Security Best Practices AWS Best Practices for DDoS Resiliency	IDS (Re-Invent pres.), DDos, WAF sandwich	Auditing Your Security with AWS Trusted Advisor: 35 minutes Auditing Changes to Amazon EC2 Security Groups: 37 minutes
Autoscaling	Example setup (youtube 11min) Documentation			Maintaining High Availability with Auto Scaling: 50 minutes Launching Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with Auto Scaling and Amazon CloudWatch: 45 minutes
Database: RDS	FAQs		know the DB specific replication technologies RDS is using	Administering Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server: 90 minutes
Database: DynamoDB	FAQs		partition key, item, attribute, key-value, composite primary keys, Global Secondary Index, Local Secondary Index (LSI), Projection, Fine-Grained Access Control (FGAC), provisioneds through put, cross-region replication, streams	Working with Amazon DynamoDB:: 25 minutes
Database: Redshift	FAQs Cluster Management Guide	Getting Started Guide (Video, hands on lab etc.)	Cluster, Node, Cluster Type, Cluster Parameter Group, WLM (Workload management Configuration)	Working with Redshift: 55 minutes
CloudWatch	FAQs
CloudFormation	FAQs Documentation	Overview of Deployment Options on AWS (Covers as well OpsWork and CodeDeploy	Stack, Template, create- cancel- delete- rollback-stack, UserData, AWS:CloudFormation:init, stack updates	Creating an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) with CloudFormation: 27 minutes Launching and Managing a Web Application with AWS CloudFormation: 27 minutes
Elastic Beanstalk	FAQs Documentation		ebextensino, leader_only
Architecure, Availability			RTO, RPO, AZ
SNS		SNS Mobile Push	topic, subscribe, publish
SWF: Simple Workflow Service	Developer Guide		asynchronous, distributed, workflow, activities, domain, activity workers, activity tasks, deciders
Route 53	FAQs Route 53 Developer Guide		DNS, A (address) record, CNAME (canonical name record), AAAA (IPv6 addres record), Alias record, hosted zone, TTL, WWR (Weighted Round Robin), LBR (Latency Based Routing), Geo DNS, private DNS, health check	Introduction to Amazon Route 53: 55 minutes

Annoying Facts

S3 Path Styles

See

1. Virtual hosted-style

Format: https://bucket-name.s3.Region.amazonaws.com/key name (Reference)

2. Path-style

support ends September 30, 2020

Examples:

3. C-Name Method

Example: http://www.awsexamplebucket1.net/homepage.html

The C.Name is an alias for bucketname.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com (Reference)

4. s3-Region

Example: https://my-bucket.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com

some regions only

Professional Certification

AWS landing page: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

170 minutes: Multiple choice and multiple answer questions

Exam Guide

Sample questions

Recommended trainings

Advanced Architecting on AWS
Exam Readiness Workshop

General advice

How I Passed The AWS Solutions Architect Professional Exam (Hydras)
Passing the AWS Professional Solutions Architect Exam (Identifies important domains)
AWS Professional Solution Architect Certification Tips

Resource Collection (for specific Professional Certification Topics)

Topic	Resources	White Papers	Technical Terms	Qwiklabs
Architecture		Well-Architected Framework (Great appendix) Security Best Practices AWS Best Practices for DDoS Resiliency Disaster Recovery Whitepaper NAT	Security, Reliability, Performance, Cost optimization
IAM		Temporary Security Credentials Cross Account Access Roles	Cognito, STS, Identity Federation, SSO
Deployment: CodeDeploy	FAQs		configuration, application, revision, group, Appspec file, lifecycle events, agent	Introduction to CodeDeploy: 40 minutes
Deployment: CodePipeline	FAQs		pipeline, revision, stage, artifact, transition, action
Architecture: CloudFront	FAQs	Developer's Guide	edge location, CNAME alias, invalidation requests, price class, geo restriction, RTMP delivery, signed request
Data Pipeline	FAQs	Documentation	activity, precondition, on-premises task runner
Kinesis	FAQs	Documentation	streams, shards data records retention period partition keys firehose, Firehose delivery stream records data producers analytics time-series analytics real-time dashboards real-time metrics	Introduction to Amazon Kinesis Firehose: 30 minutes Building Real-Time Dashboards with Amazon Kinesis Dynamic Aggregators: 55 minutes

Qwiklabs

SA Pro Learning Quest: 295 minutes
General topics which are useful:

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