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| Topic 1 | - Design Secure Architectures: This section of the exam measures skills of Cloud Security Engineers and Solutions Architects and covers the design of secure architectures on AWS. Learners explore secure access to AWS resources, secure workloads and applications, and appropriate data security controls. The content addresses access controls and management across multiple accounts, AWS federated access and identity services, VPC architectures with security components, network segmentation strategies, application security integration, data access and governance, encryption and key management, and compliance requirements. The material focuses on applying AWS security best practices, designing flexible authorization models, implementing role based access control strategies, securing network connections, encrypting data at rest and in transit, and implementing data backup and protection policies.
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| Topic 2 | - Design Cost Optimized Architectures: This section of the exam measures skills of Cloud Financial Analysts and Solutions Architects and covers the design of cost optimized architectures that maximize value while minimizing expenses. Learners study cost optimized storage solutions, compute solutions, database solutions, and network architectures. The content addresses AWS cost management service features and tools, storage access patterns and tiering, backup strategies, AWS purchasing options, distributed compute strategies, instance types and sizes, compute utilization optimization, scaling strategies, caching strategies, data retention policies, database capacity planning, load balancing concepts, NAT gateways, and network routing and peering. The material focuses on designing appropriate storage strategies, managing object lifecycles, determining cost effective compute and database services, selecting appropriate instance families and sizes, configuring appropriate network connections and routes, minimizing network transfer costs, and reviewing existing workloads for optimization opportunities.
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| Topic 3 | - Design Resilient Architectures: This section of the exam measures skills of Infrastructure Architects and Solutions Architects and covers the design of resilient architectures that ensure business continuity. Learners study scalable and loosely coupled architectures, highly available and fault tolerant architectures, and disaster recovery strategies. The content addresses API creation and management, caching strategies, microservices design principles, event driven architectures, horizontal and vertical scaling, load balancing concepts, serverless technologies and patterns, container orchestration, AWS global infrastructure, distributed design patterns, failover strategies, and service quotas and throttling. The material focuses on designing event driven and multi tier architectures, determining scaling strategies, achieving loose coupling, implementing automation to ensure infrastructure integrity, mitigating single points of failure, and selecting appropriate disaster recovery strategies to meet business requirements.
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| Topic 4 | - Design High Performing Architectures: This section of the exam measures skills of Performance Engineers and Solutions Architects and covers the design of high performing architectures that meet demanding workload requirements. Learners explore high performing and scalable storage solutions, elastic compute solutions, database solutions, network architectures, and data ingestion and transformation solutions. The content addresses hybrid storage solutions, compute services with appropriate use cases, distributed computing concepts, database capacity planning and replication, caching strategies, edge networking services, network architecture design, data analytics and visualization services, data transfer services, and streaming data services. The material focuses on determining storage configurations that meet performance demands, decoupling workloads for independent scaling, selecting appropriate compute and database options, creating network topologies for various architectures, building and securing data lakes, designing data streaming architectures, and implementing visualization strategies.
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