
Refer to User Guide of following services (core services for the exam):ġ. For example, Kinesis Home Page lists all use-cases, key design patterns (of using data streams, difference between Firehose & Data Stream, etc.) Refer to AWS product home pages if you are not able to go through all FAQs. Nice to Read: Elastic Beanstalk, Route 53, API Gateway, Elasticache, Redshift, CloudHSM, Kinesis, WAF, Athena, CloudFormation, EKS, Cognito, AWS Directory Service, CloudTrail Must Read: EC2, Autoscaling, ELB, EBS, EFS, S3, VPC, Cloudfront, IAM, RDS (specifically Aurora), SQS, SNS, ECS, DynamoDB, Lambda, CloudWatch You might get overwhelmed by this but here are my recommendations for FAQ: Step 4 – Refer to AWS FAQ, User Guide & White Papers Note that practice exams will only prepare you to develop the mindset of how AWS will ask questions – don’t think that these will be exact set of questions. Refer to Whizlabs AWS Practice Exams or Neal Davis’s Practice Exams Step 3 – Use Practice Exam for near real-time exam questions Key recommendation – In your cheat sheet, keep screenshot of AWS Services, which you are not comfortable with to keep it as a reminder. For examples, based on your interest and what you remember, you might be good in S3 & VPC, but may need more revision of Autoscaling and hence your cheat sheet will have more focus on Autoscaling. Though there are many, recommendation is to prepare your own cheat sheet because in my opinion it is very personalized. Step 2 – Prepare a Cheat Sheet for revision and key reminders Step 1 – Complete an online course to cover broader AWS servicesīelow mentioned are top 3 popular courses for preparing for this certification (even if you have hands-on AWS experience for 1-2 years, recommendation is to complete the course as it covers broader spectrum of AWS capabilities & managed services): Here are 5 steps for AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification you can follow to make sure your journey also results in success:


AWS has launched new version of AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate SAA-C02) in March 2020 and based on my journey of getting certified, would like to share my experience to make you successful.
