AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional — Cheatsheet
Take your cloud career to the next level!
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional 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.
As a Certified Solutions Architect — Professional, I have prepared this cheat sheet to help in your pursuit of earning this prestigious professional-level AWS certification and next-up your cloud career, just as I have.
About this Cheatsheet
This cheat sheet is divided into in-scope AWS services and features as defined in the official exam guide and covers the most important concepts, needed for the exam.
What's Inside?
- Introduction
- About the Exam
- Domains Breakdown
- AWS Well-Architected Framework
- AWS IAM — Identity and Access Management
- Multi-Factor Authentication
- IAM Role & Policy
- Data Stores
- General concepts
- EC2 Instance Store
- AWS S3
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Amazon DocumentDB
- AWS Storage Gateway
- Amazon WorkDocs
- Amazon Elastic File Service
- Amazon ElastiCache
- Amazon Redshift
- Amazon Neptune (very unlikely to come in Exam)
- Amazon Aurora — MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible
- Networking
- AWS Networking Technologies
- Implicit and explicit networking technologies
- VPC Peering
- VPC Mesh
- Site-to-site VPN using Virtual Private Gateway (Private Connectivity to On-Prem)
- Direct Connect
- Transit Gateway
- PrivateLink
- Client VPN
- CloudFront
- Global Accelerator
- AWS NLB
- NAT Gateway & NAT Instance
- Egress-Only Internet Gateway
- Amazon VPC
- Security
- Shared Responsibility Model
- Security baseline
- AWS Secrets Manager
- IAM Access Analyzer
- AWS Inspector
- AWS Security Hub
- Amazon Detective
- AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)
- Security Best Practices
- What is Intrusion Detection System (IDS) vs Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)?
- AWS CloudWatch and CloudTrail
- Multi-Accounts Management and Strategies
- AWS Organizations
- Multi-Account and Structure
- AWS Service Catalogs
- Migrations
- Migration Strategies
- Migration services offered by AWS
- Network Migration Planning
- Streaming Data
- Kinesis Data Stream
- Kinesis Data Analytics
- Kinesis Data Firehose
- AWS Glue
- AWS Athena
- Amazon EMR
- Amazon QuickSight
- Application decoupling
- Micro-services Pro’s and Con’s
- Decoupling Technologies in AWS
- AWS X-Ray
- Data Processing
- ETL Technologies on AWS
- EMR — Managed Hadoop cluster
- Workflow/Task co-ordination
- Logging and Monitoring
- CloudWatch Logs and Metrics
- Deployment
- Infrastructure as Code
- Deployment Pipelines
- AWS Developer Tools
- Architecting to Scale and High-Availability
- Auto-Scaling Group
- Auto-scaling
- Serverless
- Backups
- Disaster Recovery
- Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
- Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
- Disaster prevention and recovery
- Failover and routing solution
About the Author
Hi! My name is Puru Tuladhar, a lifelong technology enthusiast and aspiring minimalist. I have 10+ years of experience building software and digital infrastructure on the Internet. I'm a certified professional in AWS and Kubernetes.
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