Introduction

The official AWS Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C02) exam guide

Exam Content Breakdown:

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Domain 1: Design Resilient Architectures

1.1 - Design a multi-tier architecture solution

1.2 - Design highly available and/or fault-tolerant architectures

1.3 - Design decoupling mechanisms using AWS services

1.4 - Choose appropriate resilient storage

Domain 2: Design High-Performing Architectures

2.1 - Identify elastic and scalable compute solutions for a workload

2.2 - Select high-performing and scalable storage solutions for a workload

2.3 - Select high-performing networking solutions for a workload

2.4 - Choose high-performing database solutions for a workload

Domain 3: Design Secure Applications and Architectures

3.1 - Design secure access to AWS resources

3.2 - Design secure application tiers

3.3 - Select appropriate data security options

Domain 4: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures

4.1 - Identify cost-effective storage solutions

4.2 - Identify cost-effective compute and database services

4.3 - Design cost-optimized network architectures

You can cover a lot of ground by skimming over what you already know or what you can infer to be true. In particular, read the first sentence of each paragraph and if you have no uncertainty about what is being said in that sentence, move on to the first sentence of the next paragraph. Take notes whenever necessary.

  1. AWS Well-Architected Framework

  2. Amazon VPC FAQs

  3. AWS Autoscaling FAQs

  4. Amazon EC2 FAQs

  5. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling FAQs

  6. Amazon EBS FAQs

  7. Elastic network interfaces

  8. Amazon S3 FAQs

  9. Elastic Load Balancing FAQs

  10. Amazon Route 53 FAQs

  11. AWS Storage Gateway FAQs

  12. Amazon EFS FAQs

  13. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server FAQs

  14. Amazon FSx for Lustre FAQs

  15. AWS Organizations FAQs