AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Interactive Course

Access controls and management across multiple accounts

AWS federated access and identity services

AWS global infrastructure

AWS security best practices

The AWS shared responsibility model

Applying AWS security best practices to IAM users and root users

Designing a flexible authorization model that includes IAM users, groups, roles, and policies

Designing a role-based access control strategy

Designing a security strategy for multiple AWS accounts

Determining the appropriate use of resource policies for AWS services

Determining when to federate a directory service with IAM roles

Application configuration and credentials security

AWS service endpoints

Control ports, protocols, and network traffic on AWS

Secure application access

Security services with appropriate use cases

Threat vectors external to AWS

Designing VPC architectures with security components

Determining network segmentation strategies

Integrating AWS services to secure applications

Securing external network connections to and from the AWS Cloud

Data access and governance

Data recovery

Data retention and classification

Encryption and appropriate key management

Aligning AWS technologies to meet compliance requirements

Encrypting data at rest

Encrypting data in transit

Implementing access policies for encryption keys

Implementing data backups and replications

Implementing policies for data access, lifecycle, and protection

Rotating encryption keys and renewing certificates

API creation and management

AWS managed services with appropriate use cases

Caching strategies

Design principles for microservices

Event-driven architectures

Horizontal scaling and vertical scaling

How to appropriately use edge accelerators

How to migrate applications into containers

Load balancing concepts

Multi-tier architectures

Queuing and messaging concepts

Serverless technologies and patterns

Storage types with associated characteristics

The orchestration of containers

When to use read replicas

Workflow orchestration

Designing event-driven, microservice, and/or multi-tier architectures based on requirements

Determining scaling strategies for components used in an architecture design

Determining the AWS services required to achieve loose coupling based on requirements

Determining when to use containers

Determining when to use serverless technologies and patterns

Recommending appropriate compute, storage, networking, and database technologies based on requirements

Using purpose-built AWS services for workloads

AWS global infrastructure

AWS managed services with appropriate use cases

Basic networking concepts

Distributed design patterns

Disaster recovery strategies

Failover strategies

Immutable infrastructure

Load balancing concepts

Proxy concepts

Service quotas and throttling

Storage options and characteristics

Workload visibility

Determining automation strategies to ensure infrastructure integrity

Determining the AWS services required to provide a highly available and/or fault-tolerant architecture across AWS Regions or Availability Zones

Identifying metrics based on business requirements to deliver a highly available solution

Implementing designs to mitigate single points of failure

Implementing strategies to ensure the durability and availability of data

Selecting an appropriate DR strategy to meet business requirements

Using AWS services that improve the reliability of legacy applications and applications not built for the cloud

Using purpose-built AWS services for workloads

Hybrid storage solutions to meet business requirements

Storage services with appropriate use cases

Storage types with associated characteristics

Determining storage services and configurations that meet performance demands

Determining storage services that can scale to accommodate future needs

AWS compute services with appropriate use cases

Distributed computing concepts supported by AWS global infrastructure and edge services

Queuing and messaging concepts

Scalability capabilities with appropriate use cases

Serverless technologies and patterns

The orchestration of containers

Decoupling workloads so that components can scale independently

Identifying metrics and conditions to perform scaling actions

Selecting the appropriate compute options and features to meet business requirements

Selecting the appropriate resource type and size to meet business requirements

AWS global infrastructure

Caching strategies and services

Data access patterns

Database capacity planning

Database connections and proxies

Database engines with appropriate use cases

Database replication

Database types and services

Configuring read replicas to meet business requirements

Designing database architectures

Determining an appropriate database engine

Determining an appropriate database type

Integrating caching to meet business requirements

Edge networking services with appropriate use cases

How to design network architecture

Load balancing concepts

Network connection options

Creating a network topology for various architectures

Determining network configurations that can scale to accommodate future needs

Determining the appropriate placement of resources to meet business requirements

Selecting the appropriate load balancing strategy

Data analytics and visualization services with appropriate use cases

Data ingestion patterns

Data transfer services with appropriate use cases

Data transformation services with appropriate use cases

Secure access to ingestion access points

Sizes and speeds needed to meet business requirements

Streaming data services with appropriate use cases

Building and securing data lakes

Designing data streaming architectures

Designing data transfer solutions

Implementing visualization strategies

Selecting appropriate compute options for data processing

Selecting appropriate configurations for ingestion

Transforming data between formats

Access options

AWS cost management service features

AWS cost management tools with appropriate use cases

AWS storage services with appropriate use cases

Backup strategies

Block storage options

Data lifecycles

Hybrid storage options

Storage access patterns

Storage tiering

Storage types with associated characteristics

Designing appropriate storage strategies

Determining the correct storage size for a workload

Determining the lowest cost method of transferring data for a workload to AWS storage

Determining when storage auto scaling is required

Managing S3 object lifecycles

Selecting the appropriate backup and/or archival solution

Selecting the appropriate service for data migration to storage services

Selecting the appropriate storage tier

Selecting the correct data lifecycle for storage

Selecting the most cost-effective storage service for a workload

AWS cost management service features

AWS cost management tools with appropriate use cases

AWS global infrastructure

AWS purchasing options

Hybrid compute options

Distributed compute strategies

Instance types, families, and sizes

Optimization of compute utilization

Scaling strategies

Determining an appropriate load balancing strategy

Determining appropriate scaling methods and strategies for elastic workloads

Determining cost-effective AWS compute services with appropriate use cases

Determining the required availability for different classes of workloads

Selecting the appropriate instance family for a workload

Selecting the appropriate instance size for a workload

AWS cost management service features

AWS cost management tools with appropriate use cases

Caching strategies

Data retention policies

Database capacity planning

Database connections and proxies

Database engines with appropriate use cases

Database replication

Database types and services

Designing appropriate backup and retention policies

Determining an appropriate database engine

Determining cost-effective AWS database services with appropriate use cases

Determining cost-effective AWS database types

Migrating database schemas and data to different locations and/or different database engines

AWS cost management service features

AWS cost management tools with appropriate use cases

Load balancing concepts

NAT gateways

Network connectivity

Network routing, topology, and peering

Network services with appropriate use cases

Configuring appropriate NAT gateway types for a network

Configuring appropriate network connections

Determining strategic needs for content delivery networks and edge caching

Configuring appropriate network routes to minimize network transfer costs

Reviewing existing workloads for network optimizations

Selecting an appropriate throttling strategy

Selecting the appropriate bandwidth allocation for a network device