I recently passed the aws solutions architect certification Exam. Here’s my study guide. I spent around 1 week to prepare for this exam.
First, I read the white paper Overview of Amazon Web Services. A lot of questions on the exam are related to this white paper. The question is scenario based, and they’ll ask which service are used for that scenario. There are a lot of services to remember, but I watched these two videos to have a high level of understanding of what services to use for each scenario.
Introduction To aws solutions architect certification This is free, but you need to create an account on I watched this series for 2-3 times after reading the whitepaper.
AWS All Services Overview. Again, I watch this video for 2-3 times.
The second part is to read the paper Architecting for The Cloud. There will be questions on the exam which discuss about what design principles are applied for specific scenario, how to optimize for cost, scalability, loose coupling, etc.
The third part is to read the paper How AWS Pricing Works. In the exam, they talked a lot about how to save cost using AWS. The most important concept is the EC2 pricing model (On demand, reserved instance, spot instance, etc). Make sure that you understand when to use these pricing model because this type of question is really popular in the exam.
You also need to check the aws training Support Plans. They have some questions like Who will have access to Technical Account Manager, who have AWS Trusted Advisor 7 Core Checks, etc.
The AWS Free Digital Class (roughly 4.5 hours) to reinforce all the concepts above.
If you want to skip the Free Digital Class, you can go ahead and get aws solutions architect certification: 6 full practice tests 2019 ($12). These practice exams are harder than the actual exam, so if you have a low score, it is totally fine. I ran through these test twice, and noted the wrong question and studied further.
