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AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Licensing authority: AWS Training and Certification
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AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
- Exam questions
- Total questions: 65; Scored questions: 50; Unscored questions: 15; The total includes the scored and unscored questions.
Examination outline
Design Secure Architectures (30%)
- Design secure access to AWS resources
- Design secure workloads and applications
- Determine appropriate data security controls
Design Resilient Architectures (26%)
- Design scalable and loosely coupled architectures
- Design highly available and/or fault-tolerant architectures
Design High-Performing Architectures (24%)
- Determine high-performing and/or scalable storage solutions
- Design high-performing and elastic compute solutions
- Determine high-performing database solutions
- Determine high-performing and/or scalable network architectures
- Determine high-performing data ingestion and transformation solutions
Design Cost-Optimized Architectures (20%)
- Design cost-optimized storage solutions
- Design cost-optimized compute solutions
- Design cost-optimized database solutions
- Design cost-optimized network architectures
Examination sources
- SAA-C03 Exam Guide
PDF page 5 / Introduction
- SAA-C03 Exam Guide
PDF page 7 / Content outline
- SAA-C03 Exam Guide
PDF page 7 / Service References
- SAA-C03 Exam Guide
PDF page 6 / Response types
- SAA-C03 Exam Guide
PDF page 6 / Exam results
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
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