AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional Updated Exam

About AWS – Certified Solutions Architect – Professional Exam

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional exam validates advanced technical skills and experience in designing distributed applications and systems on the AWS platform. Example concepts you should understand for this exam include:

• Designing and deploying dynamically scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant, and reliable applications on AWS
• Selecting appropriate AWS services to design and deploy an application based on given requirements
• Migrating complex, multi-tier applications on AWS
• Designing and deploying enterprise-wide scalable operations on AWS
• Implementing cost-control strategies

Recommended AWS Knowledge                                                          

• One or more years of hands-on experience developing and maintaining an AWS based application
• In-depth knowledge of at least one high-level programming language
• Understanding of core AWS services, uses, and basic AWS architecture practices
• Proficiency in developing, deploying, and debugging cloud-based applications using AWS
• Ability to use the AWS service APIs, AWS CLI, and SDKs to write applications
• Ability to identify key features of AWS services
• Understanding of the AWS shared responsibility model
• Understanding of application lifecycle management
• Ability to use a CI/CD pipeline to deploy applications on AWS
• Ability to use or interact with AWS services
• Ability to apply a basic understanding of cloud-native applications to write codes
• Ability to write codes using AWS security practices (e.g. using IAM roles instead of using secret and access keys in the code)
• Ability to author, maintain, and debug code modules on AWS
• Proficiency writing code for server-less applications
• Understanding of the use of containers in the development process