AWS Solution Architect Exam Preperation

by Koray Sonmezsoy

Here is a list of materials to help you to prepare for AWS Solution Architect exams:

A curated list of AWS resources to prepare for the AWS Certifications https://gist.github.com/leonardofed/bbf6459ad154ad5215d354f3825435dc

AWS Whitepapers - (must read) https://aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/

AWS Youtube channel has a great set of resources. Here is a playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhr1KZpdzukcMmx04RbtWuQ0yYOp1vQi4

If you have attended to the AWS SA Training, you need to read Architecting on AWS Student Guide which is 780 pages.

Also, acloud.guru has a great set of online courses that also could be purchased via udemy https://www.udemy.com/aws-certified-solutions-architect-associate/learn/v4/overview

I think most important thing is also to experience the AWS services yourself rather than just reading the materials provided.

You can also try the AWS labs at https://qwiklabs.com/. Find the quest for AWS Solution Architect. It has a good set of exercises. There are also free labs that you can try and experience AWS services without having an AWS account.

AWS platform is a very dynamic platform and it changes all the time with more awesome features and new services.

To give you a specific example, 2016 Q4 you couldn't attach IAM role to an already created EC2 instance, however, today you can attach an IAM role to an EC2 instance.

The focus areas/domains of the exam would be:

  1. Designing highly available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, scalable systems 60%
  2. Implementation/Deployment 10%
  3. Data Security 20%
  4. Troubleshooting 10%

Good Luck!!