AWS Certified Solutions Architect Study Guide: Associate (SAA-C03)
Advance your career with our AWS Certified Solutions Architect course—gain the skills to pass the exam and stand out for promotions in the cloud computing field.
(SAA-C03.AE1) / ISBN : 978-1-64459-408-7About This Course
This study guide discloses the concepts and skills required to appear for the AWS SAA-C03 exam. It covers all exam objectives and offers various learning tools, including practice tests, flashcards, and access to an online interactive environment. By enrolling, you'll gain the confidence to design secure, high-performing, and cost-optimized solutions on the AWS cloud, launching a successful career as a sought-after Solutions Architect.
Skills You’ll Get
- Deploy EC2 instances, use auto-scaling, and secure and optimize compute resources.
- Implement and manage various AWS storage services like S3, Glacier, and EFS.
- Design and configure VPCs, subnets, security groups, and advanced networking features.
- Launch, manage, and monitor AWS database services including RDS, Redshift, and DynamoDB.
- Implement and manage IAM roles, policies, and security credentials.
- Use CloudTrail, CloudWatch, and AWS Config for monitoring, logging, and compliance.
- Configure Route 53 and CloudFront for DNS and content delivery.
- Set up data ingestion, transformation, and analytics using AWS services like Kinesis and Lake Formation.
- Design resilient, high-performing, and cost-optimized architectures, and apply security best practices.
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Interactive Lessons
14+ Interactive Lessons | 334+ Exercises | 280+ Quizzes | 181+ Flashcards | 181+ Glossary of terms
Gamified TestPrep
65+ Pre Assessment Questions | 2+ Full Length Tests | 65+ Post Assessment Questions | 130+ Practice Test Questions
Hands-On Labs
38+ LiveLab | 00+ Minutes
Introduction
- What Does This Course Cover?
- Exam Objectives
- Objective Map
Introduction to Cloud Computing and AWS
- Cloud Computing and Virtualization
- The AWS Cloud
- AWS Platform Architecture
- AWS Reliability and Compliance
- Working with AWS
- Migrating Existing Resources to AWS
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
Compute Services
- Introduction
- EC2 Instances
- EC2 Storage Volumes
- Accessing Your EC2 Instance
- Securing Your EC2 Instance
- EC2 Auto Scaling
- AWS Systems Manager
- Running Containers
- AWS CLI Example
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
AWS Storage
- Introduction
- S3 Service Architecture
- S3 Durability and Availability
- S3 Object Life Cycle
- Accessing S3 Objects
- Amazon S3 Glacier
- Other Storage-Related Services
- AWS CLI Example
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
- Introduction
- VPC CIDR Blocks
- Subnets
- Elastic Network Interfaces
- Internet Gateways
- Route Tables
- Security Groups
- Network Access Control Lists
- AWS Network Firewall
- Public IP Addresses
- Elastic IP Addresses
- AWS Global Accelerator
- Network Address Translation
- Network Address Translation Devices
- AWS PrivateLink
- VPC Peering
- Hybrid Cloud Networking
- High-Performance Computing
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
Database Services
- Introduction
- Relational Databases
- Amazon Relational Database Service
- Amazon Redshift
- Nonrelational (NoSQL) Databases
- DynamoDB
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
Authentication and Authorization—AWS Identity and Access Management
- Introduction
- IAM Identities
- Authentication Tools
- AWS CLI Example
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
CloudTrail, CloudWatch, and AWS Config
- Introduction
- CloudTrail
- CloudWatch
- AWS Config
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
The Domain Name System and Network Routing: Amazon Route 53 and Amazon CloudFront
- Introduction
- The Domain Name System
- Amazon Route 53
- Amazon CloudFront
- AWS CLI Example
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
Data Ingestion, Transformation, and Analytics
- Introduction
- AWS Lake Formation
- AWS Transfer Family
- Kinesis
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
Resilient Architectures
- Introduction
- Calculating Availability
- EC2 Auto Scaling
- Data Backup and Recovery
- Creating a Resilient Network
- Simple Queue Service
- Designing for Availability
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
High-Performing Architectures
- Introduction
- Optimizing Performance for the Core AWS Services
- Infrastructure Automation
- Reviewing and Optimizing Infrastructure Configurations
- Optimizing Data Operations
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
Secure Architectures
- Introduction
- Identity and Access Management
- Detective Controls
- Protecting Network Boundaries
- AWS Firewall Manager
- Data Encryption
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
Cost-Optimized Architectures
- Introduction
- Planning, Tracking, and Controlling Costs
- Cost-Optimizing Compute
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
Compute Services
- Creating a Linux Instance
- Creating a Placement Group
- Creating a Snapshot
- Creating an Encrypted Amazon EBS Volume with a Cold HDD
- Creating an EC2 Auto Scaling Group
- Creating an ECS Cluster
AWS Storage
- Creating an S3 Bucket and Enabling Versioning On It
- Creating an Amazon S3 Glacier Vault
- Creating and Customizing an EFS File System
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
- Creating a VPC
- Creating a Subnet
- Creating a Network Interface
- Creating an Internet Gateway
- Configuring a Route Table
- Creating a Security Group
- Creating a Network ACL
- Creating a VPC Peering
- Creating a Virtual Private Gateway
- Creating a Transit Gateway
- Creating a VPN Connection
Database Services
- Creating an Amazon DynamoDB Table
Authentication and Authorization—AWS Identity and Access Management
- Configuring a Key
- Creating an AWS CloudHSM Cluster
CloudTrail, CloudWatch, and AWS Config
- Creating CloudTrail
- Creating a Rule in Amazon EventBridge
- Creating a CloudWatch Alarm
The Domain Name System and Network Routing: Amazon Route 53 and Amazon CloudFront
- Creating a Hosted Zone Using Amazon Route 53
- Creating CloudFront
Data Ingestion, Transformation, and Analytics
- Creating a Kinesis Firehose Delivery Stream
- Creating a Kinesis Data Stream
Resilient Architectures
- Creating an Amazon SQS Queue
High-Performing Architectures
- Creating an Elastic Load Balancer
- Using ElastiCache
- Creating a CloudFormation Template
- Creating a CloudWatch Dashboard and Adding a Metric to it
Secure Architectures
- Enabling and Disabling Amazon Inspector
- Enabling and Disabling GuardDuty
- Creating an AWS WAF Web ACL
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Contact Us NowThe SAA-C03 exam includes 65 questions. The format includes a combination of question types, such as single and multiple-choice.
The passing score for AWS SAA-C03 is 720.
Becoming an AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate validates your expertise in designing and deploying scalable, reliable, and cost-effective systems on AWS, enhancing your job prospects, career advancement opportunities, and earning potential.
To clear the AWS SAA-C03 exam, you must take our exam training course for thorough understanding and preparation. It covers all the topics outlined in the exam objectives and includes interactive content resources such as hands-on labs, video lessons, practice tests and more.
There are no formal prerequisites for the SAA-C03 exam, but AWS recommends having at least one year of hands-on experience with AWS services and a basic understanding of cloud computing concepts.