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AWS Certified Solution Architect – Professional (SAP-C01) Exam Learning Path

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (SAP-C01) exam is the upgraded pattern of the previous Solution Architect - Professional exam which was released last year (2018) and upgraded this year.

AWS Certified Solution Architect - Professional (SAP-C01) exam basically validates

- Design and deploy denamically scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant, 
and reliable application on AWS
- Select appropriate AWS services to design and deploy an application based 
on given requirements
- Migrate complex, multi-tier applications on AWS
- Design and deploy enterprise-wide scalable operations AWS
- Implement cost-control strategies

Refer to AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional Exam Guide

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AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C01) Exam Summary

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C01) exam was for a total of 170 minutes but it had 75 questions. The questions and answers options are quite long and there is a lot of reading that needs to be done, so be sure you are prepared and manage your time well. As always, mark the questions for review and move on and come back to them after you are done with all.
  • One of the key tactic I followed when solving any question was to read the question and use paper and pencil to draw a rough architecture and focus on the areas that you need to improve. Trust me, you will be able eliminate 2 answers for sure and then need to focus on only the other two. Read the other 2 answers to check the difference area and that would help you reach to the right answer or atleast have a 50% chance of getting it right.
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C01) focuses a lot on concepts and services related to Scalability, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Migration, Security and Cost Control.

Be sure to cover the following topics:

Whitepapers are the key to understand

Migration & Transfer

  • Understand Cloud Migration Services
  • Know Server Migration Service
  • Know Database Migration Service (Hint: Elasticsearch is supported by DMS)
  • Know Snowball vs Snowball Edge vs SnowMobile
  • Know AWS Application Discovery Service (Hint: agentless mode does not track processes)

Management & Governance tools

Networking & Content Delivery

Security, Identity & Compliance

Storage

  • Exam does not cover Storage services in deep
  • Focus on Simple Secure Service (S3) (Hint: Know S3 supports retrieval of partial content using Range Get requests)
    • Understand S3 Permissions (Hint: know S3 bucket policy to control access to VPC Endpoints)
    • Understand S3 Data Protection
    • Understand S3 Storage Classes (Hint: Glacier for archival)
    • Understand S3 Subresources (Hint: Requester Pays can allow you to host content, while the user of the content pays the transfer costs)
    • Know S3 disaster recovery across region. (Hint: cross region replocation)
    • Know CloudFront for caching to improve performance
  • Elastic Block Store
    • Focus mainly on EBS Backup using snapshots for HA and Disaster recovery
  • Understand Storage Gateway

Database

Compute

Analytics

  • Understand Kinesis
    • Understand the difference between Kinesis Data Streams and Kinesis Firehose
  • Know Amazon Elasticsearch provides a managed solution

Integration Tools

  • Understand SQS in terms of loose coupling and scaling.
  • Know how CloudWatch integration with SNS and Lambda can help in notification

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