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.

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