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 some time ago (about half a year ago).

Click here for the overview

I would like to briefly write about my study method at that time.

Test range

・Design and deploy for scalability, high availability, and high fault tolerance on AWS
・Elevate and shift existing on-premises applications to AWS
・Send and receive data to and from AWS
・Select the appropriate AWS service based on your data, compute, database, or security requirements - Selecting various services in AWS
- Identifying appropriate use of AWS architecture best practices
- Identifying AWS cost forecasting and cost control mechanisms

That being said, it is quite spacious.

EC2 and RDS naturally require knowledge of a relatively wide range of services such as IAM and storage services.

Personally, I thought it was important to deepen my knowledge of EBS, VPC, and S3.

While there are many similar services, 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 troublesome, and there are very few question sets that are useful in qualification exams.

There are only sample questions (about 8 questions) that are officially released.

in my case

• actually touch it。
• take a mock exam
• Load official documentation

These three points were important.

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

All you have to do is take a mock test and check the official documentation for the parts you don't understand.

Most of the answers are written there.

Mock exams are very helpful in determining the questions that will actually appear, so we recommend that you try them before the actual exam, although it may cost some money.

We also recommend the AWS Cloud Service Utilization Materials Collection

should receive training

There is a training called Architecting on AWS

It only lasts for 3 days and the price is not cheap, but it is highly recommended.

I also took the course, and it was taught by an actual AWS person and it was very easy to understand.

 

summary

Knowledge of each service + what is the best thing to do in such a situation? I think you can pass if you can imagine that.

for now

• If you have never touched it, let's try it out.
• Take training if possible.
• Take practice exams and read the documentation before the actual exam.

I myself would like to become a professional within this year.