{"id":1138,"date":"2020-10-08T03:17:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T03:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2021-03-27T14:58:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T14:58:44","slug":"preparation-tips-for-aws-solution-architect-associate-certification-saa-c02","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/preparation-tips-for-aws-solution-architect-associate-certification-saa-c02\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparation Tips for AWS Solution Architect Associate Certification (SAA-C02)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to prepare for AWS Solution Architect Associate Certification (SAA-C02)?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\" id=\"caret\">I started my cloud journey in 2019 when I heard so much about different cloud providers and I decided to start with Amazon Cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">There were a lot of comparisons between Amazon Web Services and other Cloud Providers I read on google and it made me go through different tracks of AWS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">I completed my third and final AWS Associate level certification on 27th Sept 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">The AWS Solution Architect Preparation journey was a mix of patience and restlessness as I had scheduled my exam but somewhere I was feeling if I will be able to meet the deadline.&nbsp; However, I motivated myself and finally, when I saw my exam result I found hard work always pay you back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Below are the steps I followed to prepare for Amazon Web Services Solution Architect Associate Certification Exam &#8211; SAA C02.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I registered for my first training video course on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/learn.cantrill.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">learn.cantrill.io<\/a>. I found the course content very nice especially the examples the author has used in the course to describe various AWS services.<\/li><li>Once completed I attempted practice tests present in the training course and found the gaps in my preparation.<\/li><li>My Second course was from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.udemy.com\/course\/aws-certified-solutions-architect-associate-saa-c02\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">udemy.com<\/a>. The practise questions are very well explained and also linked to the course videos wherever required.<\/li><li>Once I was set with the theory and practice exams from training courses I decided to attempt mocks on the tutorials dojo. The same course is also present on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.udemy.com\/course\/aws-certified-solutions-architect-associate-amazon-practice-exams-saa-c02\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">udemy.com<\/a><\/li><li>Frequently asked questions on Amazon Web Services official website are also very helpful&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/faqs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">aws.amazon.com<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-block-heading\">List of Services I found at most of the places in Real Exam<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">1.&nbsp;<strong>RDS, DynamoDB, Aurora, Redshift<\/strong>:&nbsp; When to use as per availability, latency<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">2.&nbsp;<strong>S3 bucket policies<\/strong>: The Examples were simple majorly on EC2 and DynamoDB<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">3.&nbsp;<strong>Internet Gateway,&nbsp;<\/strong>VPC-Peering, Transit Gateway, Site-to-Site, Gateway Endpoint, interface endpoint: When to use and how to use. Which one is effective on the public internet and How to connect multiple VPCs and VPNs together<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">4.&nbsp;<strong>AWS organization and SCP<\/strong>:&nbsp;How to restrict the access present with AWS Admin role<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">6.&nbsp;<strong>IAM roles and IAM policies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">7.&nbsp;<strong>Amazon S3 storage classes<\/strong>: Its usage, time to fetch the objects in each storage class, Use cases for each storage class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">8.&nbsp;<strong>S3 transfer acceleration and CloudFront<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">9.&nbsp;<strong>Amazon Route 53 as a DNS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">10.&nbsp;<strong>Amazon<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Cloudwatch agent, cloud watch logs, cloud trail<\/strong>:&nbsp;When to use CloudWatch Agent, How to set up CloudTrails<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">11.&nbsp;<strong>AWS Shield and AWS WAF<\/strong>:&nbsp;Use cases and scenarios<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">12.&nbsp;<strong>NACL and Security Groups<\/strong>:&nbsp;When to use NACL and when to use Security groups<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">11.&nbsp;<strong>EC2 user data and metadata<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">12.&nbsp;<strong>Application load balancer, Classic load balancer, and Network load balancer<\/strong>:&nbsp;Which load balancing option to use for UDP<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">13.&nbsp;<strong>Amazon&nbsp;FSx,&nbsp;Elastic File System (EFS), Elastic Block Store (EBS), instance store<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">14.&nbsp;Different types of&nbsp;<strong>Elastic Block<\/strong>&nbsp;Storage: gp2, ioc1, sc1, st1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">15. <strong>Different types of encryption and various scenarios to use them<\/strong> &#8211;&nbsp;KMS, CloudHSM, SSS-S3, SSS-C, server-side encryption, and client-side encryption<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">16. Relational and NoSQLs data storage options which include&nbsp;<strong>RDS , DynamoDB , Aurora<\/strong>&nbsp;and their use cases. Understand Read Replicas and Multi-AZ<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">17.&nbsp;Have a basic understanding of&nbsp;<strong>CloudFormation,&nbsp;OpsWorks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-block-heading\">Other Exam Readiness Strategies for AWS Solution Architect Associate<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-color-black has-text-color wp-block-list\"><li>Create a cheat sheet of all AWS services during your preparation and compare them with similar services used for achieving the same functionality. One example is&nbsp;Site-to-Site&nbsp;and&nbsp;AWS Direct Connect<\/li><li>Utilize complete 130 minutes of your exam<\/li><li>Follow the approach of removing wrong answers based on the keywords present in questions<\/li><li>Mark for review those questions you are not sure about and come back later once you have attempted all the questions.<\/li><li>Keep patience and stay calm.<\/li><li>Crack the exam with flying colours.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">All the best for the AWS Certification Exam SAA-C02. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">Author: <strong>Jatin Goel<\/strong> is a cloud enthusiast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">You can connect with him on LinkedIn for more assistance&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jatingoel12\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">linkedin.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>Have questions? Participate in AWS discussions on our Forums. <a href=\"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/forums\/\">Click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\"><strong><strong>Announcement from ReviewNPrep<\/strong>: Our Marketplace is live now. <a href=\"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/marketplace\/details\/aws-certified-solutiona-architecture-associate\/13\/EXAM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Check out AWS Solutions Architect SAA-C02 Practice exam with over 800 questions to help you pass this exam<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Create a cheat sheet of all AWS services during your preparation and compare them with similar services used for achieving the same functionality. 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