AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

This credential helps organizations identify and develop talent with critical skills for implementing cloud initiatives. Earning AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate validates the ability to design and implement distributed systems on AWS.

Target Audience

Anyone with one or more years of hands-on experience designing available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems on AWS.

Learning Objectives

Design a multi-tier architecture solution
Design highly available and/or fault-tolerant architecture
Design decoupling mechanisms using AWS services
Choose appropriate resilient storage
Identify elastic and scalable compute solutions for workload
Select high-performing networking/database and scalable storage solutions
Design secure acess to AWS resources and select appropriate data security
Design secure application tiers
Identify cost-effective storage solutions and compute/database services
Design cost-optimized network architectures

Prerequisites

One year of hands-on experience with AWS technology, including using compute, networking, storage, and database AWS services as well as AWS deployment and management services
Experience deploying, managing, and operating workloads on AWS as well as implementing security controls and compliance requirements
Familiarity with using both the AWS Management Console and the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)
Understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, AWS networking, security services, and the AWS global infrastructure
Ability to identify which AWS services meet a given technical requirement and to define technical requirements for an AWS-based application

Certification

To earn this certification, you’ll need to take and pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam (SAA-C02). The exam features a combination of two question formats: multiple choice and multiple response.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate