AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional (SAP-C01) — Cheatsheet

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AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional (SAP-C01) is one of the most sought-after certifications in the IT industry. It is regarded as one of the most difficult IT certifications to acquire, as the syllabus of the exam is incredibly vast and compasses a wide range of concepts and topics related to the field of cloud computing and touches almost every service AWS has to offer.

Earning AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Professional validates the ability to design, deploy, and evaluate applications on AWS within diverse, complex requirements.

Recently, I earned the AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Professional certification. And in your pursuit of earning this prestigious professional-level AWS certification with flying colors. I have prepared this cheat sheet to help you elevate your AWS game, and propel your cloud career to the next level.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. AWS Well-Architected Framework
3. AWS IAM — Identity and Access Management
   1. Multi-Factor Authentication
   2. IAM Role & Policy
4. Data Stores
   1. General concepts
   2. EC2 Instance Store
   3. AWS S3
   4. Amazon DynamoDB
   5. Amazon DocumentDB
   6. AWS Storage Gateway
   7. Amazon WorkDocs
   8. Amazon Elastic File Service
   9. Amazon ElastiCache
   10. Amazon Redshift
   11. Amazon Neptune (very unlikely to come in Exam)
   12. Amazon Aurora — MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible
5. Networking
   1. AWS Networking Technologies
   2. Implicit and explicit networking technologies
   3. VPC Peering
   4. VPC Mesh
   5. Site-to-site VPN using Virtual Private Gateway (Private Connectivity to On-Prem)
   6. Direct Connect
   7. Transit Gateway
   8. PrivateLink
   9. Client VPN
   10. CloudFront
   11. Global Accelerator
   12. AWS NLB
   13. NAT Gateway & NAT Instance
   14. Egress-Only Internet Gateway
   15. Amazon VPC
6. Security
   1. Shared Responsibility Model
   2. Security baseline
   3. AWS Secrets Manager
   4. IAM Access Analyzer
   5. AWS Inspector
   6. AWS Security Hub
   7. Amazon Detective
   8. AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)
   9. Security Best Practices
   10. What is Intrusion Detection System (IDS) vs Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)?
   11. AWS CloudWatch and CloudTrail
7. Multi-Accounts Management and Strategies
   1. AWS Organizations
   2. Multi-Account and Structure
   3. AWS Service Catalogs
8. Migrations
   1. Migration Strategies
   2. Migration services offered by AWS
   3. Network Migration Planning
9. Streaming Data
   1. Kinesis Data Stream
   2. Kinesis Data Analytics
   3. Kinesis Data Firehose
   4. AWS Glue
   5. AWS Athena
   6. Amazon EMR
   7. Amazon QuickSight
10. Application decoupling
    1. Microservices Pro’s and Con’s
    2. Decoupling Technologies in AWS
    3. AWS X-Ray
11. Data Processing
    1. ETL Technologies on AWS
    2. EMR — Managed Hadoop cluster
    3. Workflow/Task co-ordination
12. Logging and monitoring
    1. CloudWatch Logs and Metrics
13. Deployment
    1. Infrastructure as Code
    2. Deployment Pipelines
    3. AWS Developer Tools
14. Architecting to Scale and High-Availability
    1. Auto-Scaling Group
    2. Auto-scaling
    3. Serverless
    4. Backups
15. Disaster Recovery
    1. Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
    2. Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
    3. Disaster prevention and recovery
    4. Failover and routing solution