Materials

• Solutions Architect Associate exam materials.
• Exam blueprint.
• A Cloud Guru course.
• Pluralsight course.
• Linux academy course – highly recommended. It contains a lot of useful labs!
• Jayendra’s Blog.
• AWS Well-Architected Framework.

Whitepapers

• Building Fault-Tolerant Applications on AWS
• Using Amazon Web Services for Disaster Recovery
• Encrypting Data at Rest
• AWS Security Best Practices
• Cost Management in the AWS Cloud
• Architecting for the Cloud
• Blue/Green Deployments on AWS

Practice!

• I assume you have professional experience with AWS.
• Play with services that you do not use on daily basis.
• Qwiklabs highly recommended.
• Practice exam on Whizlabs.

Exam

• 77 questions, 170 minutes.
• Multiple choice, multiple answers questions.
• From my experience you have plenty of time to answer all questions.
• From 3 February 2019 there will be NEW version of this exam. Previous one will be unavailable. 

YouTube Videos

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpeV4OqB6Us
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1eZjXQ55ec
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzeKPKpucS0
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCnAZjB2bHA
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX54mhZbN58
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyspfGRF9Bw
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIgAT7vjol8
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01hy48R9Kr8
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNxPhHTN8gY
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJexxdv054c
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXcs_e0oTKE
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U3QdNSFJDU

Articles

• https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/streaming-cloudwatch-logs/
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles_use_passrole.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles_providers_oidc.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles_providers_saml.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credentials_temp.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/STS/latest/APIReference/API_Operations.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/raid-config.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/dns-failover-complex-configs.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/latest/developerguide/searching-dynamodb-data.html
• https://aws.amazon.com/answers/networking/aws-multiple-region-multi-vpc-connectivity/
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/how-to-connect-your-on-premises-active-directory-to-aws-using-ad-connector/
• https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/public-private-interface-dx/
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/on-demand-streaming-video.html
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/using-amazon-cloudfront-with-multi-region-amazon-s3-origins/
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/Streams.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-delay-queues.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-long-polling.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-dead-letter-queues.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/private-content-choosing-signed-urls-cookies.html
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/replicating-amazon-ec2-or-on-premises-sql-server-to-amazon-rds-for-sql-server/
• https://aws.amazon.com/answers/networking/aws-multiple-data-center-ha-network-connectivity/
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/userguide/how-elastic-load-balancing-works.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/classic/enable-proxy-protocol.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/classic/x-forwarded-headers.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/best-practices.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/orgs_manage_org_support-all-features.html

Good luck!