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AWS Solution Architecture Associate Exam Prep

Table of Contents

Domains

Domain 1: Design Secure Applications and Architectures(30%)

Design secure access to AWS resources

  • Best practices for IAM users and root users

    • Enforce the use of MFA for the root account
    • Enforce the use of complex passwords for member accounts root user logins
  • Deisng a flexible authorization model that include IAM users, groups, and roles

  • Deisgn a role based access control strategy

  • Design a security strategy from multiple AWS accounts

  • Determine the appropraite use of resource policies for AWS services

  • Determine when too federate a directory service with IAM roles.

Design secure workload and applications

  • Deisng VPC archtectures with security components
  • Determine network segmentation strategies
  • Integrate AWS services to secure applications
  • Secure external network connections to adn from the AWS cloud

Domain 2: Design Resilient Architectures(26%)

Domain 3: Design High-Performing Architectures(24%)

Domain 4: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures(20%)