The AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate examination is intended for individuals who perform a solutions architect role and have one or more years of hands-on experience designing available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems on AWS.

Abilities Validated by the Certification

• Effectively demonstrate knowledge of how to architect and deploy secure and robust applications on AWS technologies

• Define a solution using architectural design principles based on customer requirements

• Provide implementation guidance based on best practices to the organization throughout the life cycle of the project

Recommended Knowledge and Experience

• Hands-on experience using compute, networking, storage, and database AWS services

• Hands-on experience with AWS deployment and management services

• Ability to identify and define technical requirements for an AWS-based application

• Ability to identify which AWS services meet a given technical requirement

• Knowledge of recommended best practices for building secure and reliable applications on the AWS platform

• An understanding of the basic architectural principles of building on the AWS Cloud

• An understanding of the AWS global infrastructure

• An understanding of network technologies as they relate to AWS

• An understanding of security features and tools that AWS provides and how they relate to traditional services