Certified Solutions Architect - Introduction
Resources
Exam Guide
Response types:
- Multiple choice: has one correct response and three incorrect responses (distractors).
- Multiple response: has two correct responses and three incorrect responses (distractors).
Split over 4 domains:
- Design resilient architectures: 30%
- Design High-Performing Architectures: 28%
- Design Secure Applications and Architectures: 24%
- Design Cost-Optimized Architectures: 18%
Design Resilient Architectures
- Design a multi-tier architecture solution.
- Design highly available and/or fault-tolerant architectures.
- Design decoupling mechanisms using AWS services.
- Choose appropriate resilient storage.
Design High-Performing Architectures
- Identify Elastic and scalable compute solutions for a workload.
- Select high-performance and scalable storage solutions for a workload.
- Select high-performing networking solutions for a workload.
- Choose high-performing database solutions for a workload.
Design Secure Applications and Architectures
- Design secure access to AWS resources.
- Design secure application tiers.
- Select appropraite data security options.
Design Cost-Optimized Architectures
- Identify cost-effective storage solutions.
- Identify cost-effective compute and database services.
- Design cost-optimized network architectures.
Pass mark
- Result is a score from 100 - 1000.
- Minimum passing mark is 720.
- There are 65 questions and you have 130 minutes to complete.
Supporting courses
- Designing resilient architectures for solution architects.
- High availability & scalability for AWS solutions architects.
- Networking and compute for associate solutions architects.
- Storage, Database & Migrations for solutions architects.
- Application services for associate AWS solutions architects.
- Logging & security for associate solutions architects.