SAA-C02.AE1 ISBN: 978-1-64459-250-2

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Study Guide (SAA-C02)

Gain hands-on experience to pass the AWS SAA-C02 exam with the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Study Guide. The AWS training comprehensively covers AWS SAA-C02 certification exam objectives and provides knowledge in areas such as multi-tier architecture solutions, secure access to AWS resources, cost-effective compute and database services; high-performing and scalable storage solutions for a workload; and many more.

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certification exam is ideal for the professionals working in solutions architect job roles and having one or more years of hands-on experience in designing available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems on AWS. The AWS Solutions Architect certification validates a candidate's ability to provide implementation guidance based on best practices to the organization throughout the life cycle of the project.

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34 Hands-On LiveLabs

Practice real IT tasks in guided environments.

  • Real environments
  • Auto-graded
  • No installation

01 / About

About This Course

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Target Career Roles

  • AWS Architect
  • AWS Developer
  • SysOps Engineer
  • SysOps Manager
  • AWS DevOps Engineer
  • Systems Administrator
  • AWS Systems Administrator

02 / Lessons & labs

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Lessons

15 Interactive Lessons · 116 topics
01 Introduction to Cloud Computing and AWS 7 topics
  • Cloud Computing and Virtualization
  • The AWS Cloud
  • AWS Platform Architecture
  • AWS Reliability and Compliance
  • Working with AWS
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
02 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon Elastic Block Store 10 topics · 4 LiveLab
  • Introduction
  • EC2 Instances
  • EC2 Storage Volumes
  • Accessing Your EC2 Instance
  • Securing Your EC2 Instance
  • EC2 Auto Scaling
  • AWS Systems Manager
  • AWS CLI Example
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials

4 LiveLab in this lesson — see the labs panel →

03 AWS Storage 10 topics · 3 LiveLab
  • Introduction
  • S3 Service Architecture
  • S3 Durability and Availability
  • S3 Object Lifecycle
  • Accessing S3 Objects
  • Amazon S3 Glacier
  • Other Storage‐Related Services
  • AWS CLI Example
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials

3 LiveLab in this lesson — see the labs panel →

04 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud 18 topics · 11 LiveLab
  • Introduction
  • VPC CIDR Blocks
  • Subnets
  • Elastic Network Interfaces
  • Internet Gateways
  • Route Tables
  • Security Groups
  • Network Access Control Lists
  • Public IP Addresses
  • Elastic IP Addresses
  • AWS Global Accelerator
  • Network Address Translation
  • Network Address Translation Devices
  • VPC Peering
  • Hybrid Cloud Networking
  • High‐Performance Computing
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials

11 LiveLab in this lesson — see the labs panel →

05 Database Services 8 topics · 1 LiveLab
  • Introduction
  • Relational Databases
  • Amazon Relational Database Service
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Nonrelational (NoSQL) Databases
  • DynamoDB
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials

1 LiveLab in this lesson — see the labs panel →

Hands-On Labs Our edge

34 LiveLabs
  • Creating a Linux Instance
  • Creating a Placement Group
  • Creating an Encrypted Amazon EBS Volume with a Cold HDD
  • Creating a Snapshot
  • Creating an Amazon S3 Bucket
  • Creating a S3 Glacier Storage Using Lifecycle Rules
Labs run in your browser — nothing to install.

03 / Exam details

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Study Guide (SAA-C02) Details

Gain hands-on experience to pass the AWS SAA-C02 exam with the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Study Guide. The AWS training comprehensively covers AWS SAA-C02 certification exam objectives and provides knowledge in areas such as multi-tier architecture solutions, secure access to AWS resources, cost-effective compute and database services; high-performing and scalable storage solutions for a workload; and many more.

Official exam objectives →
Questions 65 (per exam)
Duration 130 minutes (per exam)
Passing Score 720 (on a scale of 1000)
Exam Fee USD 150 (per exam)
Delivered by PSI or Pearson VUE (in-person or online)
Question Format Multiple choice, multiple answer   single/multiple choice, performance-based
Practice Tests 260 Practice Questions (mapped to official exam objectives)
Certification SAA-C02.AE1 Amazon credential

04 / FAQs

Questions before you start

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What are the prerequisites for this exam?
  • One year of hands-on experience designing available, cost-effective, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems on AWS.
  • Hands-on experience using compute, networking, storage, and database AWS services.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS deployment and management services.
What is the exam registration fee?
USD 150
Where do I take the exam?
What is the format of the exam?
Multiple choice, multiple answer  
How many questions are asked in the exam?
The exam contains 65 questions.

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