AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02) Notes

Table of Contents

1. Advanced Permissions and Accounts
   • MFA
   • IAM
   • AWS Organizations
   • STS
   • Policies
   • AWS Resource Access Manager - RAM
   • AWS Service Quotas
2. Advanced Identities and Federation
   • SAML 2.0 Identity Federation
   • IAM Identity Center (Successor to AWS Single Sing-On - SSO)
   • Amazon Cognito
   • Amazon Workspaces
   • AWS Control Tower
3. Networking and Hybrid
   • VPC - Virtual Private Cloud
   • VPNs
   • AWS Transit Gateway
   • BGP - Border Gateway Protocol
   • AWS Global Accelerator
   • DX - Direct Connect
   • Route53
4. Storage Services
   • FSx
   • EFS - Elastic File System
   • S3
   • EBS and Instance Store
5. Compute, Scaling and Load Balancing
   • Regional and Global AWS Architecture
   • EC2
   • ELB - Elastic Load Balancer
   • ASG - Auto Scaling Groups
6. Monitoring, Logging and Cost Management
   • CloudWatch
   • CloudTrail
   • AWS X-Ray
   • Cost Allocation Tags
   • AWS Trusted Advisor
   • AWS Billing and Cost Management
7. Databases
   • RDS - Relational Database Service
   • DynamoDB
   • AWS ElasticSearch - ES
   • Amazon Athena
   • Amazon Neptune
   • Amazon Quantum Ledger Database - QLDB
8. Data Analytics
   • Kinesis
   • EMR - Elastic Map Reduce
   • Amazon Redshift
   • AWS Batch
   • AWS Quicksight
9. App Services, Containers and Serverless
   • ECS - Elastic Container Service
   • SNS - Simple Notification Service
   • SQS - Simple Queue Service
   • Amazon MQ
   • AWS Lambda
   • CloudWatch Events and EventBridge
   • API Gateway
   • AWS Step Functions
   • SWF - Simple Workflow Service
   • Amazon Mechanical Turk
   • Elastic Transcoder and AWS Elemental MediaConvert
   • AWS IOT
10. Caching, Delivery and Edge
    • CloudFront
    • ElastiCache
11. Migrations and Extensions
    • The 6R's of Cloud Migrations
    • DMS - Database Migration Service
    • VM Migrations AWS <=> On-Premises
    • Storage Gateway
    • Snowball and Snowmobile
    • AWS DataSync
12. Security and Configuration Management
    • AWS GuardDuty
    • AWS Config
    • AWS Inspector
    • Encryption and KMS
    • CloudHSM
    • AWS Certificate Manager - ACM
    • AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store
    • AWS Secrets Manager
    • VPC Flow Logs
    • AWS Shield and Web Application Firewall (WAF)
13. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity in AWS
    • DR/BC Architecture
14. Infrastructure as Code
    • CloudFormation
15. Deployment and Management
    • Service Catalog
    • CI/CD
    • Elastic Beanstalk - EB
    • AWS OpsWorks
    • AWS Systems Manager (SSM)
16. Everything Else
    • Amazon Lex and Amazon Connect
    • AWS Rekognition
    • Kinesis Video Streams
    • AWS Glue
    • AWS Device Farm

Exam Description

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional is intended for individuals with two or more years of hands-on experience designing and deploying cloud architecture on AWS. Before you take this exam, we recommend you have:

• Familiarity with AWS CLI, AWS APIs, AWS CloudFormation templates, the AWS Billing Console, the AWS Management Console, a scripting language, and Windows and Linux environments
• Ability to provide best practice guidance on the architectural design across multiple applications and projects of the enterprise as well as an ability to map business objectives to application/architecture requirements
• Ability to evaluate cloud application requirements and make architectural recommendations for implementation, deployment, and provisioning applications on AWS
• Ability to design a hybrid architecture using key AWS technologies (e.g., VPN, AWS Direct Connect) as well as a continuous integration and deployment process

Preparation

• Official Exam Guide: https://d1.awsstatic.com/training-and-certification/docs-sa-pro/AWS-Certified-Solutions-Architect-Professional_Exam-Guide.pdf

• The exam may contain two types of questions:

  • Multiple choice
  • Multiple response

• Minimum passing score: 750/1000

• Number of questions: 75

• Time: 190 minutes to complete the exam (with a possibility to request 30 minutes extra for non-native english speakers)

Credits

• These notes are based on the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional course by Adrian Cantrill and on Ultimate AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional 2021 by Stephane Maarek
• All images present in the notes are taken from Adrian Cantrill's GitHub repository for his course