AWS Certified SAA-C03 Exam Preparation Guide

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Study Guide: Associate (SAA-C03) Exam 4th Edition

A subsidiary of Amazon, Amazon Web Services, Inc. offers government agencies, businesses, and people metered pay-as-you-go cloud computing platforms and APIs. Through AWS server farms, these cloud computing web services offer software tools and distributed computer processing capacity. The most complete and widely used cloud platform in the world, Amazon Web Services (AWS), provides over 200 fully functional services from data centers across the world. Millions of clients use AWS to save costs, increase agility, and accelerate innovation, including the largest corporations, most successful governmental organizations, and the fastest-growing startups. The AWS cloud computing services include Compute, Networking, Storage, Database, Application Management, and Security and Identity. An AWS solutions architect is the person whose job is to look after these service categories. An AWS Solutions Architect designs, builds, deploys, and maintains business applications and critical infrastructure inside the AWS Cloud.

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect Study Guide: Associate (SAA-C03) Exam, 4th Edition comprehensively and effectively prepares you for the challenging SAA-C03 Exam. This Study Guide contains efficient and accurate study tools that will help you succeed on the exam. It offers access to the Sybex online learning environment and test bank, containing hundreds of test questions, bonus practice exams, a glossary of key terms, and electronic flashcards.

In this complete and authoritative exam prep blueprint, you are guided on you how to:

• Design resilient AWS architectures
• Create high-performing solutions
• Craft secure applications and architectures
• Design inexpensive and cost-optimized architectures

Here is the list of contents covered in this guide:

Introduction to Cloud Computing and AWS

Cloud computing and virtualization
Cloud computing architecture
Cloud computing optimization
The AWS Cloud
AWS platform architecture
AWS reliability and compliance
The AWS shared responsibility model
The AWS service level agreement
AWS organizations
AWS control tower
AWS service catalog
AWS license manager
AWS artifact
The AWS CLI
AWS SDKs
Migrating existing resources to AWS

AWS Compute Services

EC2 instances
EC2 storage volumes
Accessing your EC2 instance
Securing your EC2 instance
EC2 auto scaling
AWS systems manager
Running containers
Amazon elastic container service
Amazon elastic Kubernetes service

AWS Storage

S3 service architecture
S3 durability and availability
S3 object life cycle
Accessing S3
Amazon S3 Glacier
Amazon elastic file system
Amazon FSx
AWS storage gateway
AWS snow family
AWS DataSync

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

VPC CIDR Blocks
Secondary CIDR blocks
IPv6 CIDR blocks
Subnet CIDR blocks
Availability zones
Elastic network interfaces
Primary and secondary private IP addresses
Attaching elastic network interfaces
Enhanced networking
Internet gateways
Route tables
Security groups
Stateful firewall
Default security group
Network access control lists and security
AWS network firewall
AWS global accelerator
Network Address Translation
AWS PrivateLink
VPC Peering
Hybrid cloud networking
AWS site-to-site VPN
AWS transit gateway
AWS direct connect 
High-performance computing
Elastic fabric adapter
AWS parallel cluster

Database Services

Relational databases
Columns and attributes
Structured Query Language
OLTP and OLAP
Amazon relational database service
Amazon Redshift
Norelational (NoSQL) databases
DynamoDB

Authentication and Authorization - AWS Identify and Access Management

IAM Identities
Authentication tools
Amazon Cognito
AWS managed Microsoft AD
AWS single sign-on
AWS key management service
AWS secret manager
AWS cloudHSM
AWS Resource Access Manager

CloudTrail

Management events
Data events
Event History
Trails
Log file integrity validation

CloudWatch

CloudWatch metrics
Graphing metrics
Metric math
CloudWatch logs
CloudWatch alarms
Amazon EventBridge

AWS Config

The Configuration Recorder
Configuration items
Configuration history
Configuration snapshots

The Domain Name System and Network Routing

Amazon Route 53 
Amazon CloudFront

Data Ingestion, Transformation, and Analytics

AWS Lake Formation
AWS Transfer Family
Kinesis video streams
Kinesis data streams
Kinesis data firehose

Resilient Architectures

Availability differences in traditional vs. cloud-native applications
EC2 auto scaling
Data Backup and Recovery
Creating a resilient network
Simple queue service

High-Performance Architectures

Optimizing performance for the core AWS service
Infrastructure automation
Reviewing and optimizing infrastructure configurations
Optimizing data operations (cashing, partitioning/sharding, and compression)

Secure Architectures

Identity and access management
Protecting AWS credentials
Fine-grained authorization
Roles
Enforcing service-level protection
Detective controls
Searching logs with Athena
Auditing resource configurations with AWS config
Amazon GuardDuty
Amazon Inspector
Amazon Detective
Security Hub
Amazon fraud detector
AWS audit manager
Protecting network boundaries
Network access control lists and security groups
AWS web application firewall
AWS Shield
AWS Firewall Manager
Data encryption
Data at Rest
Data in Transit
Macie

Cost-Optimized Architectures

Planning, tracking, and controlling costs
AWS budgets
Monitoring tools
AWS trusted advisor
Online calculator tools
Cost-optimizing compute
Maximizing server density
EC2 reserved instances
EC2 spot instances
Auto Scaling
Elastic block store lifecycle manager

Additional Services

AWS Amplify
AWS Serverless Application Repository
AWS Proton
Amazon API Gateway
AWS Device Farm
AWS Step Functions
AWS Outposts
AWS Wavelength
VMware Cloud on AWS
Amazon Pinpoint
AWS Transfer Family
AWS AppSync
Amazon DocumentDB
Amazon Keyspaces
Amazon Quantum Ledger Database
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka
Amazon MQ
AWS Data Exchange
Amazon AppFlow
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Comprehend
Amazon Forecast
Amazon Lex
Amazon Polly
Amazon Recognition
Amazon Textract
Amazon Transcribe
Amazon Translate
AWS Batch
AWS X-Ray
Amazon Kendra
Amazon OpenSearch Service
Amazon Managed Grafana
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus