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SAA-C03

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

Associate cert. 65 questions (50 scored), 130 min, pass score 720/1000. Domains: Design Secure Architectures 30%, Resilient Architectures 26%, High-Performing Architectures 24%, Cost-Optimized Architectures 20%. Source: AWS SAA-C03 Exam Guide.

Domains
D1 Design Secure Architectures 30%
Design Secure Access to AWS Resources (Task 1.1) Design Secure Workloads and Applications (Task 1.2) Determine Appropriate Data Security Controls (Task 1.3)
D2 Design Resilient Architectures 26%
Design Scalable and Loosely Coupled Architectures (Task 2.1) Design Highly Available and Fault-Tolerant Architectures (Task 2.2)
D3 Design High-Performing Architectures 24%
High-Performing and Scalable Storage Solutions (Task 3.1) High-Performing and Elastic Compute Solutions (Task 3.2) High-Performing Database Solutions (Task 3.3) High-Performing and Scalable Network Architectures (Task 3.4) High-Performing Data Ingestion and Transformation (Task 3.5)
D4 Design Cost-Optimized Architectures 20%
Cost-Optimized Storage Solutions (Task 4.1) Cost-Optimized Compute Solutions (Task 4.2) Cost-Optimized Database Solutions (Task 4.3) Cost-Optimized Network Architectures (Task 4.4)

Domain 1: Design Secure Architectures

30%

Task 1.1 secure access to AWS resources; 1.2 secure workloads and applications; 1.3 data security controls.

Design Secure Access to AWS Resources (Task 1.1)
IAM AWS IAM Identity Center AWS STS AWS Organizations AWS Control Tower Service Control Policies Resource Policies
Design Secure Workloads and Applications (Task 1.2)
Security Groups NACLs AWS WAF AWS Shield Amazon Cognito AWS Secrets Manager AWS GuardDuty Amazon Macie AWS VPN AWS Direct Connect
Determine Appropriate Data Security Controls (Task 1.3)
AWS KMS AWS CloudHSM AWS Certificate Manager S3 Encryption Macie AWS Backup S3 Object Lock Amazon S3 Replication

Domain 2: Design Resilient Architectures

26%

Task 2.1 scalable and loosely coupled architectures; 2.2 highly available and fault-tolerant architectures.

Design Scalable and Loosely Coupled Architectures (Task 2.1)
Amazon SQS Amazon SNS Amazon EventBridge AWS Step Functions Amazon API Gateway Amazon ECS Amazon EKS AWS Lambda AWS Fargate ElastiCache CloudFront RDS Read Replicas
Design Highly Available and Fault-Tolerant Architectures (Task 2.2)
Route 53 Multi-AZ RDS Aurora Global Database S3 Cross-Region Replication AWS Backup CloudWatch AWS X-Ray EC2 Auto Scaling RDS Proxy

Domain 3: Design High-Performing Architectures

24%

Task 3.1 storage; 3.2 elastic compute; 3.3 database; 3.4 network; 3.5 data ingestion and transformation.

High-Performing and Scalable Storage Solutions (Task 3.1)
Amazon S3 Amazon EBS Amazon EFS Amazon FSx AWS Storage Gateway AWS DataSync AWS Transfer Family
High-Performing and Elastic Compute Solutions (Task 3.2)
Amazon EC2 EC2 Auto Scaling AWS Lambda AWS Fargate Amazon ECS Amazon EKS AWS Batch Amazon EMR Spot Instances Placement Groups
High-Performing Database Solutions (Task 3.3)
Amazon Aurora Amazon DynamoDB Amazon ElastiCache RDS Read Replicas RDS Proxy Amazon Redshift Amazon MemoryDB
High-Performing and Scalable Network Architectures (Task 3.4)
CloudFront AWS Global Accelerator ELB (ALB/NLB/GWLB) Route 53 AWS PrivateLink VPC Endpoints Direct Connect Transit Gateway
High-Performing Data Ingestion and Transformation (Task 3.5)
Amazon Kinesis (Streams/Firehose/Analytics) Amazon MSK AWS Glue Amazon EMR Amazon Athena Amazon Redshift AWS Lake Formation Amazon QuickSight AWS DataSync AWS Transfer Family

Domain 4: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures

20%

Task 4.1 storage; 4.2 compute; 4.3 database; 4.4 network cost optimization.

Cost-Optimized Storage Solutions (Task 4.1)
S3 Storage Classes S3 Lifecycle Policies S3 Intelligent-Tiering S3 Requester Pays EBS gp3 AWS DataSync AWS Storage Gateway AWS Transfer Family AWS Backup
Cost-Optimized Compute Solutions (Task 4.2)
Spot Instances Reserved Instances Savings Plans EC2 Auto Scaling Lambda Fargate Compute Optimizer EC2 Hibernation
Cost-Optimized Database Solutions (Task 4.3)
Amazon Aurora Serverless Amazon DynamoDB RDS Read Replicas RDS Proxy ElastiCache Amazon Redshift AWS DMS
Cost-Optimized Network Architectures (Task 4.4)
NAT Gateway VPC Endpoints AWS Direct Connect AWS VPN VPC Peering AWS Transit Gateway Amazon CloudFront AWS Global Accelerator Route 53
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