AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate examination is especially for individuals who perform a solutions architect role and have more than one year of experience in designing available, fault-tolerant, cost-efficient, and scalable distributed systems on AWS.
Abilities Validated by the Certification
- Define a solution using architectural design principles according to client requirements
- Effectively present the knowledge about how to architect and implement security and robust applications on AWS technologies.
- Provide deployment guidance on the bases of best practices to the business till the end of the project
Recommended Experience and Knowledge
- Hands-on experience with AWS implementation and management services
- Hands-on experience using networking, compute, database, and storage AWS services.
- Ability to recognize which of the AWS services meet the desired technical requirement
- Knowledge about the recommended best practices for creating reliable and secure applications on AWS platform
- Ability to define and identify the technical requirements for an application on the basis of AWS.
- Understanding of architectural ethics of building based on AWS Cloud
- An understanding of network technologies that are being related to AWS
- The understanding of AWS global setup
- An understanding of the security tools and features that AWS provides and how they are related to basic traditional services
Prepare for Your Exam
There is nothing that could be better for preparation than to have hands-on experience. There are lots of relevant AWS Training courses, and other study material resources are available in order to assist you in getting the additional skills and knowledge to be prepared for certification. One should review the exam guide for having additional information and for assessing the core competencies on the certification exam.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional exam is for those aspirants who do a solutions architect role with more than two years of practical experience in operating and managing systems on AWS.
Abilities Validated by the Certification
- Select suitable AWS services in order to design and implement an application that is based on given requirements
- Design and implement dynamically scalable, fault-tolerant, highly available, and reliable applications on AWS
- Design and implement enterprise large scalable operations on AWS
- Multi-tier, Migrate complex applications on AWS.
- Deploy cost-effective strategies
Recommended Knowledge and Experience
- Ability to assess cloud application given requirements and create architectural recommendations for deployment, implementation, and provisioning applications on AWS
- More than two years of experience in designing and implementing cloud architecture on AWS
- Familiarity with AWS APIs, AWS CLI, the AWS Billing Console, AWS CloudFormation templates, and the AWS Management Console
- Build a hybrid architecture by using core AWS technologies (e.g., AWS Direct Connect or VPN)
- Explain and deploy the 5 main pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework
- Ability to provide practice guidance on the architectural design over many applications and projects of the organization.
- Familiarity with Linux, Windows environments, and scripting language
- Architect a deployment process and continuous integration
- Map business objectives to architecture/ application requirements
Prepare for Your Exam
There is nothing that could be better prepared than having a practical experience. There are a lot of relevant AWS Training courses, and other resources are available in the marketplace for assisting you to acquire additional skills and knowledge to get yourself prepared for the exam.
