Exam Objectives
The AWS Certified Solutions Architect
- A minimum of one year of hands-on experience designing systems on AWS
- Hands-on experience using the AWS services that provide compute, networking, storage, and databases
- Ability to define a solution using architectural design principles based on customer requirements.
- Ability to provide implementation guidance
- Ability to identify which AWS services meet a given technical requirement
- An understanding of the five pillars of the Well-Architected Framework
- An understanding of the AWS global infrastructure, including the network technologies used to connect them
- An understanding of AWS security services and how they integrate with traditional on-premises security infrastructure
The exam covers five different domains, with each domain broken down into objectives.