AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

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The AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAP-C01) exam is intended for individuals who want to perform a Solutions Architect–Professional role. This exam validates advanced technical skills and experience in designing distributed applications and systems on the AWS platform.

Income Expectation

$130,883/yr

The average salary for a AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certified Employee is $130,883/yr in New York City. Salary estimates are provided by AWS.

AWS Solutions Architect Associate Objective

Design and deploy dynamically scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant, and reliable applications 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 on AWS

Implement cost-control strategies

AWS Solutions Architect Associate Objective Outline

Domain 1: Design Resilient Architectures
1.1 Choose reliable/resilient storage.
1.2 Determine how to design decoupling mechanisms using AWS services.
1.3 Determine how to design a multi-tier architecture solution.
1.4 Determine how to design high availability and/or fault tolerant architectures.

Domain 2: Define Performant Architectures
2.1 Choose performant storage and databases.
2.2 Apply caching to improve performance.
2.3 Design solutions for elasticity and scalability.

Domain 3: Specify Secure Applications and Architectures
3.1 Determine how to secure application tiers.
3.2 Determine how to secure data
3.3 Define the networking infrastructure for a single VPC application.

Domain 4: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures
4.1 Determine how to design cost-optimized storage.
4.2 Determine how to design cost-optimized compute.

Domain 5: Define Operationally-Excellent Architectures
5.1 Choose design features in solutions that enable operational excellence

AWS Solutions Architect Associate Prerequisites

• Two or more years of hands-on experience designing and deploying cloud architecture on AWS
• Ability to evaluate cloud application requirements and make architectural recommendations for implementation, deployment, and provisioning applications on AWS
• Ability to provide best practice guidance on the architectural design across multiple applications and projects of the enterprise
• Familiarity with a scripting language
• Familiarity with Windows and Linux environments
• Familiarity with AWS CLI, AWS APIs, AWS CloudFormation templates, the AWS Billing Console, and the AWS Management Console
• Explain and apply the five pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Map business objectives to application/architecture requirements
• Design a hybrid architecture using key AWS technologies (e.g., VPN, AWS Direct Connect)
• Architect a continuous integration and deployment process
• HS Diploma/GED

 

 

AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam

AWS Solutions Architect Associate

 

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