Pass AWS SAA Certification, SAA-C01

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, SAA-C01

Reason why I take the exam

• We use lots of AWS services on production
• They’re fast and stable
• AWS vs. Azure

Where to start

• AWS Official Online labs
• Linux academy ★★
• Only a subset of services are in the test

Amazon Services in SAA

• ★★ appears in SAA exam, multiple questions
• ★ appears in SAA exam, few question
• (no start) Mentioned in SAA exam, but it’s not an exam point

1. Analytics
   • Amazon Athena
   • Amazon Kinesis ★★
     • Amazon Kinesis Stream
2. Application Integration
   • Amazon Step functions (with Lambda)
   • SNS&SQS ★★
3. Compute
   • EC2 ★★
     • types
     • Monitoring ★
   • EC2 Auto Scaling ★★
   • Elastic Beanstalk
   • Lambda ★★
4. Containers
   • ECS ★
5. Database
   • Aurora ★★
   • DynamoDB ★★
   • ElastiCache ★
   • RDS ★★
   • Redshift ★
6. Management & Governance
   • CloudWatch ★★
     • Memory monitoring ★
   • CloudTrail ★
   • CloudFormation
   • AWS Config
   • AWS Organizations
7. Networking & content Delivery
   • Amazon VPC ★★
   • API Gateway ★
   • CloudFront ★★
     • CloudFront IOA ★★
   • Route 53 ★★
   • PrivateLink
   • Elastic Load Balancing ★★
     • ALB ★★
     • NLB
8. Security, Identity & Compliance
   • IAM ★★
   • KMS ★★
     • KMS-S3 ★*
     • KMS-C
   • Congito ★
   • WAF
9. Storage
   • S3 ★★
     • lifecycle policy ★★
     • types ★★
     • content hosting ★
   • S3 Glacier ★
   • EBS ★
   • EFS ★
   • Storage Gateway

Next Steps

After this certification, my eyes are opened up. My plans:

1. How to test AWS services locally? Current solution is to set up testing AWS resource. I know there are some frameworks can do this job. So I’ll try them out.
2. From MicroServices, to MicroServices Mesh. In fact, serverless is the true future. I want to try more Servicesless services.
3. Dive into SNS*SQS, to see more posibilities.
4. Pass the professional level certification when I’m ready.