How I passed the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam

I'm Sashihara, an infrastructure engineer.
I passed an AWS certification exam some time ago (about six months ago, actually).

the overviewSee

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

Exam scope

• Designing and deploying scalable, highly available, and highly fault-tolerant solutions on AWS
• Migrating and migrating existing on-premises applications to AWS
• Sending and receiving data to and from AWS •
Selecting the appropriate AWS services based on data, computing, database, or security requirements
• Identifying the appropriate use of AWS architectural best practices
• Forecasting AWS costs and identifying 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
• Read the 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 Resource CollectionI also highly recommend

You should get training

"Architecting on AWS"There is a training course called

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