AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03) Exam Notes

Exam scheduled 3/24/2023

AWS Fundamentals

• AWS Building Blocks
• AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Key AWS Services
• Shared Responsibility Model

Identity and Access Management (IAM)

• IAM Fundamentals
• IAM Policy Documents
• Managing IAM Credentails
• IAM Exam Tips

S3

• Overview
• Security
• Versioning
• Storage Classes
• Lifecycle Management
• Object Locks
• Encryption
• Performance
• Replication
• S3 Exam Tips

EC2

• Overview
• Command Line
• IAM Roles
• Security Groups
• Metadata and User data
• Networking with EC2
• EC2 Placement Groups
• Licensing for Dedicated Hosts
• Spot Instances

EBS

• Overview
• Volumes and Snapshots
• EBS Encryption
• Hibernation
• EFS Overview
• FSx Overview
• Amazon Machine Images
• AWS Backup

Databases

• Relation Database Service (RDS) Overview
• Read Replicas
• Amazon Aurora
• DynamoDB
• DynamoDB Transactions
• DynamoDB Backups
• DynamoDB Streams and Global Tables
• Amazon DocumentDB - MongoDB compatible Databases
• Amazon Keyspaces - Apache Cassandra Workloads
• Amazon Neptune - Graph Databases
• Amazon Quantum Ledger Database
• Amazon Timestream