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.
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