AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Associate Exam (SAA) preparation experience...

Hi, Today I'm going to write an assistance article for those who preparing for the AWS Solutions Architect -Associate (SAA-C1 & C2). Because many friends and colleges are inquiring about this score.

I faced the exam on 30th June 2020 and scored 926 out of 1000 marks, This is not a too much difficult exam, but preparation in theory, as well as practical, are necessary.

I created my own handout for the exam which covers the whole areas.. I'm sure you can obtain more than 80% of my handouts... Herewith attached the Document for your all reference. (Click Here).

Today it's a global trend of moving from physical infrastructures to the Cloud.


You can check my score from here: ClickHere to Verify.

I faced to the SAA 2 which expired on 30th June 2020. But there is no significant changes between old exam and the new exam.

Exam Areas:
  • Well-Architected Framework
  • Route 53
  • S3
  • RDS, Redshift and ElastiCache
  • EBS
  • EFS
  • ELB and Autoscaling
  • SQS
  • SNS
  • API Gateway
  • Lambda
  • VPC
  • DynamoDB
  • ECS
  • Elastic Beanstalk
  • Storage Gateway
  • IAM, Cognito and Directory Services
  • KMS and CloudHSM
  • Kinesis
  • EMR
  • Misc
Let's see what are the ROI doing this exam:
  1. Job promotion
  2. Professional recognition
  3. Career change
  4. High remunerations
  5. See more .....
Exam Fee: 150USD (50% discount after the completion of the Certified Cloud Practitioner exam)

Pre-requisites: AWS Certified Cloud Practioner

Steps for the successful score:

  1. Read the exam guide...and see some sample questions (Open..). Then you will realize how exam is.
  2. Schedule your exam to take a date. You can choose the date from PearsonVUE also. You have to go to a test center even though the exam is an online type.
  3. Create an AWS FRee tier account. You need it later to do some labs.
  4. Listen to the AWS Video lecture series (free) - "Exam Readiness: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (Digital)" - Src: Click Here
  5. Listen to UDEMY Courses. I followed this one https://www.udemy.com/share/101Wg6CUAceF5VRHw=/. its worth to buy. There are some labs too.
  6. Refer to my handout. I made it after multiple time reviews. 
  7. Refer AWS FAQs in targeted AWS services. (visit...)
  8. Then do as much as Practical exams and make your own short-note to access a few days before the exam.
  9. Good Practice Exams:
    1. https://www.udemy.com/share/102DhfCUAceF5VRHw=/
    2. https://www.udemy.com/share/101A44CUAceF5VRHw=/
    3. https://www.examtopics.com/exams/amazon/aws-certified-solutions-architect-associate/view/1/ (free)
    4. https://www.whizlabs.com/blog/aws-solutions-architect-associate-exam-questions/ (free)
  10. Just a week before the exam:
    1. Re-do the practice test and try to get score of more than 85%. Update your note with missing areas.
    2. Just go through all the AWS areas base on https://tutorialsdojo.com/aws-cheat-sheets/ . This is really good and helpful.
  11. You're done... You can now pass the exam without hassle.


Please share your thoughts if really this article helpful to you.


Thanks
I wish you all the best for your exam...


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Comments

  1. UnknownApril 16, 2021 at 12:13 PM


    Thank you for the good post. I Successfully cleared my AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam. I found a site with more than 900 real exam questions for AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate helped me to clear the exam with 96%. Skillcertpro ! Good dumps for anyone who is looking to clear the exam.

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