AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam objectives
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Design Secure Architectures
30% of exam1.1 1.1 Design secure access to AWS resources.
1.2 1.2 Design secure workloads and applications.
1.3 1.3 Determine appropriate data security controls.
Design Resilient Architectures
26% of exam2.1 2.1 Design scalable and loosely coupled architectures.
2.2 2.2 Design highly available and/or fault-tolerant architectures.
Design High-Performing Architectures
24% of exam3.1 3.1 Determine high-performing and/or scalable storage solutions.
3.2 3.2 Design high-performing and elastic compute solutions.
3.3 3.3 Determine high-performing database solutions.
3.4 3.4 Determine high-performing and/or scalable network architectures.
3.5 3.5 Determine high-performing data ingestion and transformation solutions.
Design Cost-Optimized Architectures
20% of exam4.1 4.1 Design cost-optimized storage solutions.
4.2 4.2 Design cost-optimized compute solutions.
4.3 4.3 Design cost-optimized database solutions.
4.4 4.4 Design cost-optimized network architectures.
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