AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C01) Notes

Table of Contents

1. Permissions, Identity and Federation
   • MFA
   • IAM
   • STS
   • AWS Resource Access Manager - RAM
   • AWS Service Quotas
   • SAML 2.0 Identity Federation
   • AWS Single Sing-On - SSO
   • Amazon Cognito
   • Amazon Workspaces
2. Networking and Hybrid
   • VPC - Virtual Private Cloud
   • BGP - Border Gateway Protocol
   • AWS Global Accelerator
   • DX - Direct Connect
   • Route53
3. Storage Services
   • FSx
   • EFS - Elastic File System
   • S3
   • EBS and Instance Store
4. Compute, Scaling and Load Balancing
   • Regional and Global AWS Architecture
   • EC2
   • ELB - Elastic Load Balancer
   • ASG - Auto Scaling Groups
5. Monitoring, Logging and Cost Management
   • CloudWatch
   • CloudTrail
   • AWS X-Ray
   • Cost Allocation Tags
   • AWS Trusted Advisor
   • AWS Billing and Cost Management
6. Databases
   • RDS - Relational Database Service
   • DynamoDB
   • AWS ElasticSearch - ES
   • Amazon Athena
   • Amazon Neptune
   • Amazon Quantum Ledger Database - QLDB
7. Data Analytics
   • Kinesis
   • EMR - Elastic Map Reduce
   • Amazon Redshift
   • AWS Batch
   • AWS Quicksight
8. App Services, Containers and Serverless
   • ECS - Elastic Container Service
   • SNS - Simple Notification Service
   • SQS - Simple Queue Service
   • Amazon MQ
   • AWS Lambda
   • CloudWatch Events and EventBridge
   • API Gateway
   • AWS Step Functions
   • SWF - Simple Workflow Service
   • Amazon Mechanical Turk
   • Elastic Transcoder and AWS Elemental MediaConvert
   • AWS IOT
9. Caching, Delivery and Edge
   • CloudFront
   • ElastiCache
10. Migrations and Extensions
    • The 6R’s of Cloud Migrations
    • DMS - Database Migration Service
    • VM Migrations AWS <=> On-Premises
    • Storage Gateway
    • Snowball and Snowmobile
    • AWS DataSync
11. Security and Configuration Management
    • AWS GuardDuty
    • AWS Config
    • AWS Inspector
    • Encryption and KMS
    • CloudHSM
    • AWS Certificate Manager - ACM
    • AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store
    • AWS Secrets Manager
    • VPC Flow Logs
    • AWS Shield and Web Application Firewall (WAF)
12. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity in AWS
    • DR/BC Architecture
13. Infrastructure as Code
    • CloudFormation
14. Deployment and Management
    • Service Catalog
    • CI/CD
    • Elastic Beanstalk - EB
    • AWS OpsWorks
    • AWS Systems Manager (SSM)
15. Everything Else
    • Amazon Lex and Amazon Connect
    • AWS Rekognition
    • Kinesis Video Streams
    • AWS Glue
    • AWS Device Farm

Exam Description

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (SAP-C01) examination is intended for individuals who perform a solutions architect professional role. This exam validates advanced technical skills and experience in designing distributed applications and systems on the AWS platform. It validates an examinee’s ability to:

• Design and deploy dynamically scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant, and reliable applications on AWS.
• Select appropriate AWS services to design and deploy an application based on given requirements.
• Migrate complex, multi-tier applications on AWS.
• Design and deploy enterprise-wide scalable operations on AWS.
• Implement cost-control strategies.

Preparation

• Official Exam Guide: https://d1.awsstatic.com/training-and-certification/docs-sa-pro/AWS-Certified-Solutions-Architect-Professional_Exam-Guide.pdf

• The exam may contain two types of questions:
  • Multiple choice
  • Multiple response
• Minimum passing score: 750/1000
• Number of questions: 75
• Time: 190 minutes to complete the exam (with a possibility to request 30 minutes extra for non-native english speakers)

Exam Content

Domain	% of Examination
Domain 1: Design for Organizational Complexity	12.5%
Domain 2: Design for New Solutions	31%
Domain 3: Migration Planning	15%
Domain 4: Cost Control	12.5%
Domain 5: Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions	29%
Total	100%

Credits

• These notes are based on the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional course by Adrian Cantrill and on Ultimate AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional 2021 by Stephane Maarek
• All images present in the notes are taken from Adrian Cantrill’s GitHub repository for his course

My other AWS Certification Notes

• AWS Certified Developer – Associate (DVA-C01)
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C02)
• AWS Certified SysOps – Associate (SOA-C01)
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (DOP-C01)