L1 AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C02) Exam Guide
Domain 1: Design Resilient Architectures 30%
1-1 Design a multi-tier architecture solution
- Determine a solution design based on access patterns.
- Determine a scaling strategy for components used in a design.
- Select an appropriate database based on requirements.
- Select an appropriate compute and storage service based on requirements.
1-2 Design highly available and/or fault-tolerant architectures
- Determine the amount of resources needed to provide a fault-tolerant architecture across Availability Zones.
- Select a highly available configuration to mitigate single points of failure.
- Apply AWS services to improve the reliability of legacy applications when application changes are not possible.
- Select an appropriate disaster recovery strategy to meet business requirements.
- Identify key performance indicators to ensure the high availability of the solution.
1-3 Design decoupling mechanisms using AWS services
- Determine which AWS services can be leveraged to achieve loose coupling of components.
- Determine when to leverage serverless technologies to enable decoupling.
1-4 Choose appropriate resilient storage
- Define a strategy to ensure the durability of data.
- Identify how data service consistency will affect the operation of the application.
- Select data services that will meet the access requirements of the application
- Identify storage services that can be used with hybrid or non-cloud-native applications.
Domain 2: Design High-Performing Architectures 28%
2-1 Identify elastic and scalable compute solutions for a workload
- Select the appropriate instance(s) based on compute, storage, and networking requirements.
- Choose the appropriate architecture and services that scale to meet performance requirements.
- Identify metrics to monitor the performance of the solution.
2-2 Select high-performing and scalable storage solutions for a workload
- Select a storage service and configuration that meets performance demands.
- Determine storage services that can scale to accommodate future needs.
2-3 Select high-performing networking solutions for a workload
- Select appropriate AWS connectivity options to meet performance demands.
- Select appropriate features to optimize connectivity to AWS public services.
- Determine an edge caching strategy to provide performance benefits.
- Select appropriate data transfer service for migration and/or ingestion.
2-4 Choose high-performing database solutions for a workload
- Select an appropriate database scaling strategy.
- Determine when database caching is required for performance improvement.
- Choose a suitable database service to meet performance needs.
Domain 3: Design Secure Applications and Architectures 24%
3-1 Design secure access to AWS resources
- Determine when to choose between users, groups, and roles.
- Interpret the net effect of a given access policy.
- Select appropriate techniques to secure a root account.
- Determine ways to secure credentials using features of AWS IAM.
- Determine the secure method for an application to access AWS APIs.
- Select appropriate services to create traceability for access to AWS resources.
3-2 Design secure application tiers
- Given traffic control requirements, determine when and how to use security groups and network ACLs.
- Determine a network segmentation strategy using public and private subnets.
- Select the appropriate routing mechanism to securely access AWS service endpoints or internet-based resources from Amazon VPC.
- Select appropriate AWS services to protect applications from external threats.
3-3 Select appropriate data security options
- Determine the policies that need to be applied to objects based on access patterns.
- Select appropriate encryption options for data at rest and in transit for AWS services.
- Select appropriate key management options based on requirements.
Domain 4: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures 18%
4-1 Identify cost-effective storage solutions
- Determine the most cost-effective data storage options based on requirements.
- Apply automated processes to ensure that data over time is stored on storage tiers that minimize costs.
4-2 Identify cost-effective compute and database services
- Determine the most cost-effective Amazon EC2 billing options for each aspect of the workload
- Determine the most cost-effective database options based on requirements.
- Select appropriate scaling strategies from a cost perspective.
- Select and size compute resources that are optimally suited for the workload.
- Determine options to minimize total cost of ownership (TCO) through managed services and serverless architectures.
4-3 Design cost-optimized network architectures
- Identify when content delivery can be used to reduce costs.
- Determine strategies to reduce data transfer costs within AWS.
- Determine the most cost-effective connectivity options between AWS and on-premises environments.
5、AWS services and features
Analytics:
- Amazon Athena
- Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES)
- Amazon EMR
- AWS Glue
- Amazon Kinesis
- Amazon QuickSight
AWS Billing and Cost Management:
- AWS Budgets
- Cost Explorer
Application Integration:
- Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
- Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
Compute:
- Amazon EC2
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
- Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
- Elastic Load Balancing
- AWS Fargate
- AWS Lambda
Database
- Amazon Aurora
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Amazon ElastiCache
- Amazon RDS
- Amazon Redshift
Management and Governance:
- AWS Auto Scaling
- AWS Backup
- AWS CloudFormation
- AWS CloudTrail
- Amazon CloudWatch
- AWS Config
- Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events)
- AWS Organizations
- AWS Resource Access Manager
- AWS Systems Manager
- AWS Trusted Advisor
Migration and Transfer:
- AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
- AWS DataSync
- AWS Migration Hub
- AWS Server Migration Service (AWS SMS)
- AWS Snowball
- AWS Transfer Family
Networking and Content Delivery:
- Amazon API Gateway
- Amazon CloudFront
- AWS Direct Connect
- AWS Global Accelerator
- Amazon Route 53
- AWS Transit Gateway
- Amazon VPC (and associated features)
Security, Identity, and Compliance:
- AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)
- AWS Directory Service
- Amazon GuardDuty
- AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Amazon Inspector
- AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)
- Amazon Macie
- AWS Secrets Manager
- AWS Shield
- AWS Single Sign-On
- AWS WAF
Storage:
- Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
- Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
- Amazon FSx
- Amazon S3
- Amazon S3 Glacier
- AWS Storage Gateway