AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03)

About AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) Practice Exam

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) exam has been developed and updated for candidates who plan to pursue a career in the solutions architect role. The AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam evaluates the skills and knowledge of the candidate to implement AWS technologies for designing solutions based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

Skills Evaluated

The AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03)  exam has been developed to evaluate the skills of the candidate to perform the following tasks - 

• Ability to design solutions that integrate AWS services to meet current business requirements and future projected needs
• Ability to design secure, resilient, high-performing, and cost-optimized architectures for businesses
• Ability to review existing solutions and determine improvements

Who should take the exam?

The AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) exam is suitable for candidates with a minimum 1 year of hands-on experience in designing cloud solutions using AWS services.

Exam Pattern for AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Certification

• Exam Code: SAA-C03
• Total Questions: 65 Questions
• Type of Questions: Multiple-choice and multiple-answer questions
  
• Exam Time: 130 minutes to complete the exam
• Language: English, French (France), German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Simplified Chinese, and Spanish (Latin America)
• Exam Result:  720 (on a scale of 100-1000)

Course Outline 

The AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) covers the given topics - 

Module 1: Overview of Design Secure Architectures (30%)

1.1 Learn to design secure access to AWS resources 

Knowledge Area

• Access controls management across multiple accounts
• AWS federated access and identity services 
• AWS global infrastructure 
• AWS security best practices 
• AWS shared responsibility model 

Skills Validated

• Ability to apply AWS security best practices to IAM users and root users
• Ability to design a flexible authorization model (IAM users, groups, roles, and policies)
• Ability to design a role-based access control strategy
• Ability to design a security strategy for multiple AWS accounts
• Ability to determine the appropriate use of resource policies for AWS services
• Ability to determine and federate a directory service with IAM roles

1.2 Learn to design secure workloads and applications

Knowledge Required

• Application configuration and credentials security
• AWS service endpoints
• Control ports, protocols, and network traffic on AWS
• Secure application access
• Security services with suitable use cases
• Threat vectors external to AWS (for example, DDoS, SQL injection)

Skills Validated

• Ability to design VPC architectures with security components
• Ability to determine network segmentation strategies
• Ability to integrate AWS services to secure applications
• Ability to secure external network connections to and from the AWS Cloud 

1.3 Learn to demonstrate appropriate data security controls.

Knowledge Required

• Data access and governance
• Data recovery
• Data retention and classification
• Encryption and appropriate key management

Skills Validated 

• Ability to align AWS technologies to meet compliance requirements
• Ability to encrypt data at rest 
• Ability to encrypt data in transit 
• Ability to implement access policies for encryption keys
• Ability to implement data backups and replications
• Ability to implement policies for data access, lifecycle, and protection
• Ability to rotate encryption keys and renew certificates

Module 2: Overview of Design Resilient Architectures (26%)

2.1 Learn to design scalable and loosely coupled architectures.

Knowledge Required

• API creation and management 
• AWS Managed Services with suitable use cases 
• Caching strategies
• Design principles for microservices 
• Event-driven architectures
• Horizontal scaling and vertical scaling
• Use edge accelerators 
• Migrate applications into containers
• Concept of Load balancing 
• Multi-tier architectures
• Queuing and messaging concepts 
• Serverless technologies and patterns 
• Storage types with associated characteristics 
• Orchestration of containers 
• Learn to use read replicas
• Workflow orchestration 

Skills Required

• Ability to design event-driven, microservice, and/or multi-tier architectures based on requirements
• Ability to demonstrate scaling strategies for components used in an architecture design
• Ability to demonstrate the AWS services required to achieve loose coupling based on requirements
• Ability to demonstrate when to use containers
• Ability to demonstrate when to use serverless technologies and patterns
• Ability to suggest appropriate compute, storage, networking, and database technologies as per requirements
• Ability to purpose-built AWS services for workloads

2.2 Learn to design highly available and/or fault-tolerant architectures.

Knowledge Required

• AWS global infrastructure
• AWS managed services with suitable use cases
• Basic networking concepts
• Disaster recovery (DR) strategies
• Distributed design patterns
• Failover strategies
• Immutable infrastructure
• Load balancing concepts 
• Proxy concepts 
• Service quotas and throttling
• Storage options and characteristics
• Workload visibility 

Skills Validated

• Ability to demonstrate automation strategies for ensuring infrastructure integrity
• Ability to demonstrate the AWS services to offer a highly available and/or fault-tolerant architecture across AWS Regions or Availability Zones
• Ability to identify metrics based on business requirements to deliver a highly available solution
• Ability to implement designs to mitigate single points of failure
• Ability to implement strategies to ensure the durability and availability of data (for example, backups)
• Ability to implement suitable DR strategy to meet business requirements
• Ability to use AWS services to improve the reliability of legacy applications 
• Ability to use purpose-built AWS services for workloads
  

Module 3: Overview of Design High-Performing Architectures (24%)

3.1 Learn to demonstrate high-performing and/or scalable storage solutions.

Knowledge Required

• Hybrid storage solutions 
• Storage services with suitable use cases 
• Storage types with associated characteristics 

Skills Validated

• Ability to demonstrate storage services and configurations to meet performance demands
• Ability to demonstrate storage services that can scale to accommodate future needs

3.2: Learn to design high-performing and elastic compute solutions.

Knowledge Required

• AWS compute services with suitable use cases 
• Distributed computing concepts using AWS global infrastructure and edge services
• Concept of Queuing and messaging 
• Scalability capabilities with suitable use cases
• Serverless technologies and patterns
• Orchestration of containers 

Skills Validated

• Ability to decouple workloads so that components can scale independently
• Ability to identify metrics and conditions to perform scaling actions
• Ability to select suitable compute options and features
• Ability to select suitable resource type and size 

3.3 Learn to determine high-performing database solutions.

Knowledge Required

• AWS global infrastructure 
• Caching strategies and services 
• Data access patterns 
• Database capacity planning 
• Database connections and proxies
• Database engines with appropriate use cases 
• Database replication 
• Database types and services 

Skills Validated

• Ability to configure read replicas to meet business requirements
• Ability to design database architectures
• Ability to demonstrate suitable database engine 
• Ability to demonstrate suitable database type 
• Ability to integrate caching to meet business requirements

3.4 Learn to determine high-performing and/or scalable network architectures

Knowledge Required

• Edge networking services with suitable use cases 
• Design network architecture 
• Load balancing concepts 
• Network connection options 

Skills Validated

• • Creating a network topology for various architectures (for example, global, hybrid, multi-tier)
• • Determining network configurations that can scale to accommodate future needs
• • Determining the appropriate placement of resources to meet business requirements
• • Selecting the appropriate load balancing strategy

3.5 Learn to demonstrate high-performing data ingestion and transformation solutions.

Knowledge Required

• Data analytics and visualization services 
• Data ingestion patterns 
• Data transfer services with appropriate use cases 
• Data transformation services 
• Secure access to ingestion access points
• Sizes and speeds needed 
• Streaming data services 

Skills Validated

• Ability to build and secure data lakes
• Ability to design data streaming architectures
• Ability to design data transfer solutions
• Ability to implement visualization strategies
• Ability to select suitable compute options for data processing 
• Ability to select suitable configurations for ingestion
• Ability to transform data between formats 

Module 4: Overview of Design Cost-Optimized Architectures (20%)

4.1: Learn to design cost-optimized storage solutions.

Knowledge Required

• Access options 
• AWS cost management service features 
• AWS cost management tools 
• AWS storage services 
• Backup strategies
• Block storage options
• Data lifecycles
• Hybrid storage options 
• Storage access patterns
• Storage tiering 
• Storage types with related characteristics 

Skills Required

• Ability to design suitable storage strategies (for example, batch uploads to Amazon S3 compared with individual uploads)
• Ability to identify the correct storage size for a workload
• Ability to identify the lowest cost method of transferring data for a workload to AWS storage
• Ability to identify when storage auto scaling is required
• Ability to manage S3 object lifecycles
• Ability to select suitable backup and/or archival solution
• Ability to select suitable service for data migration to storage services
• Ability to select suitable storage tier
• Ability to select suitable correct data lifecycle for storage
• Ability to select most cost-effective storage service for a workload

4.2: Learn to design cost-optimized compute solutions

Knowledge Required

• AWS cost management service features 
• AWS cost management tools 
• AWS global infrastructure 
• AWS purchasing options 
• Distributed compute strategies 
• Hybrid compute options 
• Instance types, families, and sizes
• Optimization of computing utilization
• Scaling strategies 

Skills Validated

• Ability to identify suitable load balancing strategy
• Ability to identify suitable scaling methods and strategies for elastic workloads 
• Ability to identify suitable cost-effective AWS compute services
• Ability to identify required availability for different classes of workloads
• Ability to select a suitable instance family for a workload
• Ability to select suitable instance size for a workload

4.3 Learn to design cost-optimized database solutions.

Knowledge Required

• AWS cost management service features 
• AWS cost management tools 
• Caching strategies
• Data retention policies
• Database capacity planning 
• Database connections and proxies
• Database engines 
• Database replication 
• Database types and services 

Skills Validated

• Ability to design suitable backup and retention policies 
• Ability to identify suitable database engine 
• Ability to identify cost-effective AWS database services 
• Ability to identify cost-effective AWS database types 
• Ability to migrate database schemas and data to different locations and/or different database engines

4.4. Learn to design cost-optimized network architectures.

Knowledge Required

• Features of AWS cost management service 
• AWS cost management tools 
• Load balancing concepts 
• NAT gateways 
• Network connectivity 
• Network routing, topology, and peering 
• Network services 

Skills Validated

• Ability to configure suitable NAT gateway types for a network 
• Ability to configure suitable network connections
• Ability to configure suitable network routes to minimize network transfer costs
• Ability to identify strategic requirements for content delivery networks (CDNs) and edge caching
• Ability to review existing workloads for network optimizations
• Ability to select throttling strategy
• Ability to select suitable bandwidth allocation for a network device 

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