Certification Preparation

Welcome to the cliff notes test prep for the AWS Solution Architect Associate certification exam. These notes were taken while going through the ACloudGuru.com certification course, or through course work at PluralSight. I recommend reviewing the courses yourself. -> A cloud Guru / PluralSight

Availability & Reliability

From PluralSight: Architect for availability and reliability

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AWS VPC from the CLI

From PluralSight: Architect for availability and reliability

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Big Data

Big Data, RedShift, EMR, Kinesis, Athena, ElasticSearch

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Caching

Caching, CloudFront, ElasticCache, DAX, Global Accelerator

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Databases

Relational Database Service, Aurora, DynamoDB

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Decoupling Workflows

Decoupling is the way. SQS, SNS, Dead letter queues

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EBS, EFS

Elastic Block Storage, Elastic File System

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EC2

Elastic Compute Cloud, Server in AWS

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ELB

Elastic Load Balancer, (Application, Network, Classic)

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AWS Fundamentals

Overview of AWS basic, fundamentals

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Governance

Governance, organizations, AWS config, Active Directory in AWS

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Automation

Guru notes - Why automate, Cloudformation

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IAM

Security through Users, Group, Roles

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Migration

Migration, Snow Family, Storage Gateway, Transfer Family

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Monitoring

What is Cloudwatch. Cloudwatch Logs

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Route 53

DNS, Record Types, Routing Policies

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S3

Simple Storage Service, Object Storage

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HA, Scaling

High Availability and Scaling, (Templates, EC2, DB)

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Security

Security, Cloudtrail, Shield, WAF, GuardDuty, Macie, Secret Manager

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Serverless

Serverless, Lambda, Container, Kubernetes, EKS, Fargate

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VPC

Virtual Private Cloud. Your network in the cloud.

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