Certainly! The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam covers a wide range of topics related to designing and deploying scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS. Here are some of the key topics you should study for the exam:
- Compute
- EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)
- ECS (Elastic Container Service)
- Lambda
- Elastic Beanstalk
- Storage
- S3 (Simple Storage Service)
- EBS (Elastic Block Store)
- EFS (Elastic File System)
- Glacier
- Networking
- VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)
- Route 53 (DNS service)
- CloudFront (Content Delivery Network)
- Direct Connect
- Databases
- RDS (Relational Database Service)
- DynamoDB
- Redshift
- Aurora
- Security
- IAM (Identity and Access Management)
- Security Groups and NACLs
- KMS (Key Management Service)
- Encryption (in-transit and at-rest)
- Monitoring and Management Tools
- CloudWatch
- CloudTrail
- AWS Config
- Trusted Advisor
- Deployment and Automation
- AWS CloudFormation
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- CodeDeploy
- OpsWorks
- High Availability and Scalability
- Load Balancers (ELB – Elastic Load Balancing)
- Auto Scaling
- Multi-AZ deployments
- SQS (Simple Queue Service) and SNS (Simple Notification Service)
- Architectural Best Practices
- Designing fault-tolerant and highly available architectures
- Decoupling mechanisms (e.g., SQS, SNS)
- Disaster recovery strategies
- Cost Optimization
- AWS pricing models (On-Demand, Reserved Instances, Spot Instances)
- Resource tagging
- Cost allocation tags
- AWS Cost Explorer
