AWS Exam Prep

Solutions Architect Professional

General knowledge from AWS needed:

• Cloudformation

• Hybrid scenario on-prem & cloud

• Direct connect

• AWS VPN

• Migrations strategies:

  • snowball, site to site vpn, DX connections
  • SMS & VM import/export
  • database migrations strategies
  • application migration service
  • migration hub

• Cheapest and costly aws services

• IAM

  • org level policies
  • sts and iam
  • scp vs iam policies

• Disaster recovery

  • RTO of 4 ? what does it mean?

• AWS Organizations

• Hybrid networking: connect aws with on-prem

• Multi-region infra design

Tips:

• Exam keywords: cost, performance, ha, resilient, faul-tolerant, operational

Resources

• cantrill: https://learn.cantrill.io/p/aws-certified-solutions-architect-professional
• Solutions architect examen guide: https://d1.awsstatic.com/training-and-certification/docs-sa-pro/AWS-Certified-Solutions-Architect-Professional_Exam-Guide.pdf

Resources for SAP01

• kms best practices whitepaper: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/kms-best-practices/kms-best-practices.pdf
• web hosting best practices whitepaper: https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-web-hosting-best-practices.pdf
• autoscaling faq: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/autoscaling/faqs
• loadbalancing faq: https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/faqs
• beanstalk faq: https://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/faqs

Process

1. https://www.aws.training/certification?src=sap
2. https://www.certmetrics.com/amazon/
3. https://www.certmetrics.com/amazon/candidate/exam_scheduling.aspx