2022: AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional exam – materials

Materials

Whitepapers

Practice!

  • I assume you have professional experience with AWS.
  • Play with services that you do not use on daily basis.

Exam

  • If you are not a English native speaker request additional 30 minutes of time.
  • Multiple choice, multiple answers questions.
  • Lot of questions were around networks, hybrid cloud and migrations.
  • Questions are complex, read them very carefully. Try to eliminate all wrong answers that may seem a good option, but won’t technically work.
  • I had just enough time for all questions, but didn’t have much time for proper review.

YouTube Videos

Articles

You have to know most of the major services, read FAQs and how it works sections.
Beside that I recommend following articles:

AWS Organizations
Best practices for AWS Organizations
Enabling all features in your organization
Service control policies (SCPs)
Inheritance for service control policies
Using Cost Allocation Tags
Using AWS Organizations with other AWS services

Route53
Resolving DNS queries between VPCs and your network
How health checks work in complex Amazon Route 53 configurations
Latency Routing vs Geoproximity Routing vs Geolocation Routing
Using traffic flow to route DNS traffic
Configuring DNSSEC for a domain

CloudFront
Configuring secure access and restricting access to content
Using Amazon CloudFront with Multi-Region Amazon S3 Origins
Dynamically Route Viewer Requests to Any Origin Using Lambda@Edge
Optimizing caching and availability
CloudFront Signed URLs / Cookies and S3 Presigned URLs

Hybrid
How to Connect Your On-Premises Active Directory to AWS Using AD Connector
Replicating Amazon EC2 or On-Premises SQL Server to Amazon RDS for SQL Server
Migrating data from an on-premises data warehouse to Amazon Redshift
Setting up AWS Systems Manager for hybrid environments
AWS Direct Connect virtual interfaces
Direct Connect Resiliency
Site-to-Site VPN architectures

IAM&Auth
Identity providers and federation
Examples of policies for delegating access
Temporary security credentials in IAM

Messaging
Amazon SQS short and long polling
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Data Delivery

Storage
How Storage Gateway works (architecture)
EFS storage classes
Amazon EFS performance
Using the amazon-efs-utils Tools
Mounting file systems using the EFS mount helper
S3-select vs. Athena

Databases
Redshift System and architecture overview
Amazon Redshift clusters
Amazon Redshift database encryption
Using Amazon Aurora global databases
Working with Aurora multi-master clusters
Replication with Amazon Aurora
Using Amazon Aurora Auto Scaling with Aurora replicas
RDS Working with read replicas
DynamoDB Read/Write Capacity Mode
Global Tables: Multi-Region Replication with DynamoDB
Comparing Redis and Memcached

Elastic Load Balancing
How Elastic Load Balancing works
Application Load Balancers Now Support Multiple TLS Certificates With Smart Selection Using SNI
AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) for Application Load Balancers
Restricting access to Application Load Balancers

Compute
How do I troubleshoot Lambda
EC2 Placement groups

Other
Overview of AWS Service Catalog
SCT Using data extraction agents
The power of AWS with Amazon Connect
Working with shared AWS resources
Rapidly recover mission-critical systems in a disaster
Building highly-available HPC infrastructure on AWS

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