About this course

Benefits of becoming AWS Certified

The AWS Certification exams are designed to test your knowledge and hands-on experience on the AWS platform. Getting certified on the AWS cloud platform is the next step in your career progressions and enables you to showcase your skills on the AWS cloud.

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect is also becoming a much sought after IT certification across the globe and demand for highly skilled qualified individuals is at an all-time high.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate SAA-C01

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate SAA-C01 examination is intended for individuals who perform a solutions architect role. This exam validates an examinee’s ability to effectively demonstrate knowledge of how to architect and deploy secure and robust applications on AWS technologies.

It validates an examinee’s ability to:

• Define a solution using architectural design principles based on customer requirements.

• Provide implementation guidance based on best practices to the organisation throughout the lifecycle of the project.   

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Exam Objectives

This exam tests the examinee's core knowledge and experience against the following domains.  The exam is divided across these domains based on the weightings shown:

• Domain 1: Design Resilient Architectures - 34%

• Domain 2: Define Performant Architectures - 24%

• Domain 3: Specify Secure Applications and Architectures - 26%

• Domain 4: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures - 10%

• Domain 5: Define Operationally Excellent Architectures - 6%

Our AWS Practice Exam Simulator

At the IaaS Academy, we have spent countless hours developing our practice exam questions to ensure that they are inline with the core exam blueprint and cover all concepts you are likely to be tested on the exam.  We use feedback from our students as well as our instructors take and pass the official exams to ensure we understand exactly what you need to know to pass this certification. 

These practice exam questions go a long way to help you with your revision for the official AWS Certification exams and will help you identify areas/concepts that you might need to study further. 

Our exam simulator offers the following core features:

• Simulates the actual, and the latest, AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification exam SAA-C01 version  

• 260 unique practice exam questions across 4 complete premium exams

• 65 questions per exam

• 130 minutes timed assessment to complete each exam

• Answer explanations and references

• Questions are categorised by AWS Services allowing you to track your progress against each service

• Better value than the official AWS Practice Test which costs $20 but only contains about 25 questions

• Free Q&A support from a certified instructor

• Free Exam Tips available at the IaaS Academy website

Best Practice

These practice exams have a passing score of 70%.  However, I strongly recommend that you aim to get all questions right.  For each question you wrong, I would advice you to review the concepts being tested in the questions and conduct further study on that concept as part of your revision program.  Remember, you can always message me on the Q&A board and I will respond to all your questions. 

If you need additional revision content, you can also visit the IaaS Academy website and review our exam tips.  The exam tips are condensed articles covering every AWS service and core certification topics which you can study as part of your revision.

Best of Luck and let me know how you get on.  I am want you to pass this certification the first time, so feel free to let me know if you need any further assistance!