AWS Solutions Architect Associate Exam : Key Question Areas

This video is second part of 2 part series which discusses about how to prepare for the AWS Solutions Architect Exam. In this second part, we will discuss about the key topic areas from where you can expect questions.

Preparation Round 1: Go through Course Material

Useful Links:

Free tutorial (tutorials point):

AWS services overview document:

Udemy Courses:

Round 2 - Practice Tests
AWS SAA Exam Sample questions:

Free Practice Tests:

Udemy Practice Test - TutorialsDojo:

Udemy Practice Test - Stephane Maarek:

Round 3: Official Trainings & Practice Tests:

Official Practice Test from AWS:

Readiness Test
Step 1: Note down 4-5 key facts about the following services without referring any documents: IAM, Common security attacks and remedies (WAF, Shield standard & advanced, GuardDuty), EC2 (instance types, costs), ELB, Route 53 (different record types, different routing types), S3, DynamoDB, RDS, Kinesis (Stream, Firehose, Analytics), VPC (subnets, SG, NACL, CIDR), VPC Peering & Transit VPC, Auto scaling, EBS & its different types

Step 2: Note down 3-4 key facts about the following services: Identity Federation & Cognito, AWS Organizations, AWS Directory, Lambda, EFS, CloudFront, ElastiCache (incl Memcached, Redis), Aurora, Encryption types, CloudWatch, Storage gateway, SSL certificates , SQS, SNS.

Step 3: Write down 1-2 key facts about the following services : Single Sign On, CloudTrail, ECS, Fargate, API gateway, Redshift, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFormation, Snowball, DMS, SCT, Disaster recovery related concepts (RPO, RTO. Backup & restore, pilot light, warm standby, Multisite), VPC endpoints, Transit Gateway, IAM role, Service Control Policy, EFA, ENA, High Performance computing, Direct Connect & Site to Site VPN, KMS & CloudHSM, AWS Support Tiers.

Step 4: Try to recall where these service are used : STS, RAM, AWS Config, Elastic Search, Cloud Search, Step Functions, Amazon MQ, Amazon EMR, AWS Batch, Athena, Quicksight, X-ray, OpsWorks, ServiceCatalogue, Cost allocation tags, Trusted Advisor, AWS Inspector, Lex, Alexa for business, Connect, Comprehend, Polly, AWS Rekognition, AppSync, DataSync, Firewall manager, FSx, Lustre, Deployment types (Blue-green, rolling, A/B testing etc..), CodeDeploy, Aurora server-less, SSM, Parameter Store, Secrets Manager

[varunakuthota]

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[aashag]

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[UnusAWS]

This video discusses some of the topic areas from where questions are asked frequently in the AWS SAA certification exam. Please feel free to use the comment box to provide your tips to other test takers as well.