Hello, I have attempted AWS solution Architect Associate exam and passed with 881 score. Here in this page I would like to share review of my exam
Before going for the exam, I have enrolled wizlabs practice tests, Udemy by Ryan Kroonenberg and also AWS practice tests by Jon Bonso.
A year back I have attempted the same exam but could not clear it. but now I found some free time for preparation and spent 20 days for preparation along with my work experience helped me to qualify the exam.
Although the above mentioned courses and practice tests will give some insight about the exam pattern, but that is not enough. when I appeared for the exam, I felt that most of the questions are almost new and never read before. but after mapping the concepts with the question I’m able to answer.
- All questions are very trickey and distractive. one need to read it carefully to understand the questions
- if there is any doubt to attemt question, one may use flag feature. one may review all the attempted questions or may directly review flagged questions. Everthing depends on time.
- There are few trickey questions that are related to AWS services integration with security best practices. for example Lambda and Dynamo DB integration, Best practices to access S3 from EC2, etc
- Designing the application to be resilient and high available
- Security best practices
- Storage solutions, EBS types, S3 classes, Storage gateway, Glacier
- Life cycle of S3, EBS
- High Availibility
- DR, RTO, RPO
Some useful Links:
https://www.udemy.com/course/aws-certified-solutions-architect-associate-amazon-practice-exams- https://www.udemy.com/course/aws-certified-solutions-architect-associate
- https://www.braincert.com/course/12833-AWS-Solution-Architect-Associate#
- https://www.whizlabs.com/aws-solutions-architect-associate/practice-tests/
Exam domains:
| Domain | % of Examination |
| Domain 1: Design Resilient Architectures | 34% |
| Domain 2: Define Performant Architectures 24% | 24% |
| Domain 3: Specify Secure Applications and Architectures 26% | 26% |
| Domain 4: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures 10% | 10% |
| Domain 5: Define Operationally Excellent Architectures | 6% |
A day before going for exam:
- First be relax for exam. ensure that you will be in exam hall 30 minutes of the exam time
- Attempt practice test, I scored 92% in practice test and that gave me some confidence. but remember scoring higher percentage in practice test may not implies that one will pass in actual exam 🙂
- Don’t be stressed for the exam. Having knowledge is most important.
Good Luck