{"id":50,"date":"2020-01-14T16:41:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T16:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2021-09-26T20:54:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T20:54:20","slug":"how-to-prepare-for-aws-solutions-architect-associate-exam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/how-to-prepare-for-aws-solutions-architect-associate-exam\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Prepare for AWS Solutions Architect Associate Exam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">AWS Solution Architect Exam Info<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-very-dark-gray-color has-text-color\">The link below is the home page for AWS Solution architect associate exam. We can find all information related to the exam on this page. The exam guide and sample exam questions are also available to download on the page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-medium-font-size\" style=\"color:#594cec\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/certification\/certified-solutions-architect-associate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"AWS-certified-solutions-architect-associate (opens in a new tab)\">AWS-certified-solutions-architect-associate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Resources for AWS Solution Architect Exam<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-very-dark-gray-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Udemy Courses<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-very-dark-gray-color has-text-color\"><strong>Acloudguru Course<\/strong>:&nbsp;This is the best seller course on Udemy and it is good.\nSince I have taken the exam, I can say it covers only the 70% of the exam.\nThere are a number of exam topics which are not covered (sometimes in details\nand sometimes absent altogether) from this course. However I don&#8217;t think any\ncourse covers all the topics since the exam is so vast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-very-dark-gray-color has-text-color\">There are couple of other courses on\nUdemy which are supposed to be very good. At the time of writing, course by\nStephane Maarek was the best rated course on Udemy for the Solution Architect\nAssociate exam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-very-dark-gray-color has-text-color\"><strong>Practice Exams:<\/strong>&nbsp;I bought a practice exam course also. It had 6 mock exams and had very detailed explanations for the answers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-very-dark-gray-color has-text-color\">However, the questions were quite verbose. But the mock exam is totally worth its price and I would highly recommend it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-medium-font-size\" style=\"color:#594cec\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.udemy.com\/aws-certified-solutions-architect-associate-amazon-practice-exams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">aws-certified-solutions-architect-associate-amazon-practice-exams<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-very-dark-gray-color has-text-color\">The exam guide also lists a number of whitepapers. These can be downloaded in various formats and are also available to download Solution Architectd on Kindle (for free) for leisurely reading. Highly recommended to go through these.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-very-dark-gray-color has-text-color\"><strong>For the hands-on training and practice, AWS offer free tier accounts.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-very-dark-gray-color has-text-color\"><strong>Other resources:<\/strong>&nbsp;I heard from couple of friends that the courses on\nLinux Academy are also extremely good, but I did not take them myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Actual Preparation for AWS Solution Architect<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-very-dark-gray-color has-text-color\">The exam feels theoretical however\nit is not. One has to be hands-on. The main services, S3, EC2, VPC and\nDatabases require practice and requires lots of learning. Unless you can do\nthings on your own in the AWS console from memory, I wouldn&#8217;t recommend sitting\nfor the exam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-very-dark-gray-color has-text-color\">I followed the following strategy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>However, after taking the mock exams\nand the real exam, in my opinion, it lacked in detail on the following\nsections:<ul><li>IAM integration with Identity\nProviders, On premise LDAP<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Kinesis Streams<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>ALB<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>DynamoDB<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Some small services like Containers\non AWS, AWS workflow etc<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Completed the A cloud course above. It took me longer as I had to do that in my own personal time which was short because I had a newborn at home who took all my time and energy. People can definitely cover this faster. It had lots of hands-on tutorials. <\/li><li>I would definitely recommend to go beyond tutorials and play with things in the free tier accounts. Things get clearer once we do things on our own in the console. The course does a good job in covering the below sections:<ul><li>S3<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>EC2<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>VPC<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Load Balancing<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Autoscaling<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Only attempted the Mock Exams after\nI had completed the course once. The mock exam course mentioned above is quite\ntough and the level is very near to the real exam. If you fail the mock exam,\ndon&#8217;t get disheartened, identify the weak points \/ topics and go through them\nagain.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Sometimes during preparation and\nmock testing, one may feel that there is a discrepancy in the course content or\nexam question. In all such cases, AWS documentation itself has the last word.\nIt is the single source of truth for anything and everything related to the\nexam. The documentation is extremely detailed, so it is not possible to go\nthrough everything. However, make sure to have the FAQs for main services\ncovered completely.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I covered the above missing details\n(in the acloudguru course) through the details provided in mock exams answers,\nAWS documentation and by playing with things in AWS console.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The AWS Solution Architect Exam is multiple choice format. We have to choose 1 out of 4 or 2 out of 5 options provided. I noticed in the real exam sometimes all the given answers could have solved the problem. But we have to choose the most cost effective and performance efficient answer. That is where I feel this exam was different than the previous certification exams I have taken.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-very-dark-gray-color has-text-color\">So, this was my journey of AWS solution architect associate exam. I wish everyone reading this best of luck in theirs. <a href=\"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/certificate-review-details\/46\">Check out the original review for AWS Solution Architect Associate preparation journey<\/a> on website <a href=\"http:\/\/reviewNprep.com\">reviewNprep.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Author: Rahul Tyagi is a veteran in IT and Principal Engineer. You can find him on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rahulktyagi\/\">LinkedIn<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><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>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to prepare for AWS Solution Architect Associate &#8211; preparation journey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11,4,3],"tags":[18,6,34,10,7],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aws","category-aws-solution-architect","category-certification-reviews","category-reviewnprep","tag-aws","tag-aws-cloud-certifications","tag-aws-solution-architect","tag-prepare-for-aws-certification","tag-review-for-aws-certifications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2672,"href":"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/2672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}