The story of passing the AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate exam

My name is Sashihara and I am an infrastructure engineer.
I passed the AWS certification exam a while ago (about six months ago).

Click here for an overview

I would like to briefly write about the study method I used at that time

Exam scope

Design and deploy scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant AWS
applications. Shift and move existing on-premises applications to AWS
. Transfer data to and from AWS.
Select appropriate AWS services based on data, compute, database, or security requirements.
Identify the appropriate use of AWS architecture best practices.
Identify AWS cost forecasting and cost control mechanisms.

That being said, it is quite spacious

Naturally, EC2 and RDS require knowledge of a fairly wide range of services, including IAM and storage services

Personally, I think it's important to deepen my knowledge of EBS, VPC, and S3

With so many similar services available, it is important to understand the differences and characteristics of each

For example, the difference between RDS, Elasticache, and DynamoDB

Differences between S3 and Amazon Glacier, etc

study method

This is a bit tricky, and there are very few question books that are useful for qualification exams

If there is anything, it is the officially released sample questions (about 8 questions)

In my case

• Try it out。
• Take a mock exam
• Load official documentation

These three points were important

It is especially important to actually try it out, and if you have used the service before, you will naturally understand it more quickly

All that's left is to take a mock test and check the official documentation for any parts you don't understand

The answer is usually written there

Mock exams are very helpful in determining the questions that will actually appear on the exam, so although it will cost a little money, I recommend taking one before the actual exam

The AWS Cloud Services Utilization Materials Collection is also highly recommended as it is very useful.

You should get training

There is a training called Architecting on AWS

The event lasts for three days and is not cheap, but I highly recommend it

I also took the course, and the instructor was actually from AWS, so it was very easy to understand

 

summary

If you have knowledge of each service and can imagine what would be best to do in a given situation, I think you will be able to pass

for now

• If you haven't touched it yet, try it out
• Get training if possible
• Take practice tests and read the documentation before taking the real exam

I am hoping to get my professional certification this year