As the cloud continues to grow, organizations need IT talent with cloud skills. AWS Certifications validate cloud knowledge with an industry-recognized credential that can help advance your career.
Join this webinar to learn more about why AWS Certifications matter and to hear tips from an AWS expert about how to prepare for certification exams. During this webinar, you’ll hear about the AWS training, self-paced labs, and online resources that can help you on your path toward preparing for any one of our Associate exams including: Solutions Architect, Developer, and SysOps Administrator. We’ll also walk you through sample questions and study tips so you can learn how to think through typical associate-level exam questions. Finally, you’ll have the chance to have your questions answered live by an AWS expert.
Learning Objectives:
• Hear about a recommended preparation path for the career-enhancing AWS associate certification exams
• Learn more about how AWS Training can help you prepare to take the exam
• Hear study tips, work through a practice question, and have your questions answered live
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7. What industry research says
AWS Certified Solutions Architect –
Associate is recognized as a high
paying certification in the industry
*Data from the 2016 Global Knowledge IT Skills and Salary Report
73% of respondents who
pursued certification in the
past year noted an increase
in their job effectiveness
because of related training
$123,801
average annual salary
8. What other IT professionals say
AWS Certification has helped me
establish my technical
credibility at Adobe.”
– Todd Murchison
Cloud Operations Engineer, Adobe Systems
“ The company now sees me as an
expert in my area.
Colleagues consult me on cloud
solutions more often.”
– Deepak Panth
Architect, Accenture
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12. How to prepare
The best preparation for certification exams is practical experience, and we
also offer preparation resources to help you study
13. How to prepare
The best preparation for certification exams is practical experience, and we
also offer preparation resources to help you study
14. How to prepare
The best preparation for certification exams is practical experience, and we
also offer preparation resources to help you study
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21. Sample SA – Associate question
You are architecting a website for viewers of a commercial to complete a survey.
The survey is an interactive PHP application, displaying dynamic set of
questions to each viewer. Which architecture will use Auto Scaling to scale out
during periods of peak demand, while providing a cost optimized solution:
22. Sample SA – Associate question
You are architecting a website for viewers of a commercial to complete a survey. The
survey is an interactive PHP application, displaying dynamic set of questions to each
viewer. Which architecture will use Auto Scaling to scale out during periods of peak
demand, while providing a cost optimized solution:
A) Calculate the instances that will accommodate peak load. Use this number as
your Auto Scaling minimum.
B) Create an Auto Scaling group 30% larger than the size needed for peak load.
Stop some instances, and configure Auto Scaling to start instances as traffic
increases.
C) Move static content to CloudFront and Amazon S3. Configure Auto Scaling to
add instances to the group as traffic increases. Configure a Launch
Configuration with an AMI which contains your web application.
D) Move PHP application to CloudFront and Amazon S3. Configure Auto Scaling as
the origin of your CloudFront distribution.
23. Sample SA – Associate question
You are architecting a website for viewers of a commercial to complete a survey. The
survey is an interactive PHP application, displaying dynamic set of questions to each
viewer. Which architecture will use Auto Scaling to scale out during periods of peak
demand, while providing a cost optimized solution:
A) Calculate the instances that will accommodate peak load. Use this number as
your Auto Scaling minimum. (expensive, provisioning for peak)
B) Create an Auto Scaling group 30% larger than the size needed for peak load.
Stop some instances, and configure Auto Scaling to start instances as traffic
increases.
C) Move static content to CloudFront and Amazon S3. Configure Auto Scaling to
add instances to the group as traffic increases. Configure a Launch
Configuration with an AMI which contains your web application.
D) Move PHP application to CloudFront and Amazon S3. Configure Auto Scaling as
the origin of your CloudFront distribution.
24. Sample SA – Associate question
You are architecting a website for viewers of a commercial to complete a survey. The
survey is an interactive PHP application, displaying dynamic set of questions to each
viewer. Which architecture will use Auto Scaling to scale out during periods of peak
demand, while providing a cost optimized solution:
A) Calculate the instances that will accommodate peak load. Use this number as
your Auto Scaling minimum. (expensive, provisioning for peak)
B) Create an Auto Scaling group 30% larger than the size needed for peak load.
Stop some instances, and configure Auto Scaling to start instances as traffic
increases. (Auto Scaling doesn’t start/stop instances)
C) Move static content to CloudFront and Amazon S3. Configure Auto Scaling to
add instances to the group as traffic increases. Configure a Launch
Configuration with an AMI which contains your web application.
D) Move PHP application to CloudFront and Amazon S3. Configure Auto Scaling as
the origin of your CloudFront distribution.
25. Sample SA – Associate question
You are architecting a website for viewers of a commercial to complete a survey. The
survey is an interactive PHP application, displaying dynamic set of questions to each
viewer. Which architecture will use Auto Scaling to scale out during periods of peak
demand, while providing a cost optimized solution:
A) Calculate the instances that will accommodate peak load. Use this number as
your Auto Scaling minimum. (expensive, provisioning for peak)
B) Create an Auto Scaling group 30% larger than the size needed for peak load.
Stop some instances, and configure Auto Scaling to start instances as traffic
increases. (Auto Scaling doesn’t start/stop instances)
C) Move static content to CloudFront and Amazon S3. Configure Auto Scaling to
add instances to the group as traffic increases. Configure a Launch
Configuration with an AMI which contains your web application.
D) Move PHP application to CloudFront and Amazon S3. Configure Auto Scaling as
the origin of your CloudFront distribution. (S3 cannot host a PHP application,
autoscaling cannot be configured as an origin)
26. Sample SA – Associate question
You are architecting a website for viewers of a commercial to complete a survey. The
survey is an interactive PHP application, displaying dynamic set of questions to each
viewer. Which architecture will use Auto Scaling to scale out during periods of peak
demand, while providing a cost optimized solution:
A) Calculate the instances that will accommodate peak load. Use this number as
your Auto Scaling minimum. (expensive, provisioning for peak)
B) Create an Auto Scaling group 30% larger than the size needed for peak load.
Stop some instances, and configure Auto Scaling to start instances as traffic
increases. (Auto Scaling doesn’t start/stop instances)
C) Move static content to CloudFront and Amazon S3. Configure Auto Scaling to
add instances to the group as traffic increases. Configure a Launch
Configuration with an AMI which contains your web application.
D) Move dynamic content to CloudFront and Amazon S3. Configure Auto Scaling
as the origin of your CloudFront distribution. (S3 cannot host a PHP application,
autoscaling cannot be configured as an origin)
27. Sample Developer – Associate question
A recently deployed application is using DynamoDB to store customer
registrations. Customers are given a unique randomized hash for the
primary key. The application has been working without issue for a month.
After unexpected increase of customer registrations we are now seeing a
large number of application exceptions and customer complaints.
What could a potential cause of the issue?
28. Sample Developer – Associate question
A recently deployed application is using DynamoDB to store customer registrations.
Customers are given a unique randomized hash for the primary key. The application
has been working without issue for a month. After unexpected increase of customer
registrations we are now seeing a large number of application exceptions and customer
complaints.
What could a potential cause of the issue?
A) The VPC subnet of the application instance is missing a route to an internet
gateway.
B) DynamoDB reads and writes are exceeding the provisioned throughput of the
DynamoDB table.
C) The randomized key is causing sub optimal usage of the provisioned
throughput.
D) IAM policy to allow is throttling DynamoDB traffic.
29. Sample Developer – Associate question
A recently deployed application is using DynamoDB to store customer registrations.
Customers are given a unique randomized hash for the primary key. The application
has been working without issue for a month. After unexpected increase of customer
registrations we are now seeing a large number of application exceptions and customer
complaints.
What could a potential cause of the issue?
A) The VPC subnet of the application instance is missing a route to an internet
gateway. (Everything was previously working)
B) DynamoDB reads and writes are exceeding the provisioned throughput of the
DynamoDB table.
C) The randomized key is causing sub optimal usage of the provisioned
throughput.
D) IAM policy to allow is throttling DynamoDB traffic.
30. Sample Developer – Associate question
A recently deployed application is using DynamoDB to store customer registrations.
Customers are given a unique randomized hash for the primary key. The application
has been working without issue for a month. After unexpected increase of customer
registrations we are now seeing a large number of application exceptions and customer
complaints.
What could a potential cause of the issue?
A) The VPC subnet of the application instance is missing a route to an internet
gateway. (Everything was previously working)
B) DynamoDB reads and writes are exceeding the provisioned throughput of the
DynamoDB table.
C) The randomized key is causing sub optimal usage of the provisioned
throughput.
D) IAM policy to allow is throttling DynamoDB traffic. (This is not an IAM property)
31. Sample Developer – Associate question
A recently deployed application is using DynamoDB to store customer registrations.
Customers are given a unique randomized hash for the primary key. The application
has been working without issue for a month. After unexpected increase of customer
registrations we are now seeing a large number of application exceptions and customer
complaints.
What could a potential cause of the issue?
A) The VPC subnet of the application instance is missing a route to an internet
gateway. (Everything was previously working)
B) DynamoDB reads and writes are exceeding the provisioned throughput of the
DynamoDB table.
C) The randomized key is causing sub optimal usage of the provisioned
throughput. (Good key entropy gives optimal use of throughput)
D) IAM policy to allow is throttling DynamoDB traffic. (This is not an IAM property)
32. Sample Developer – Associate question
A recently deployed application is using DynamoDB to store customer registrations.
Customers are given a unique randomized hash for the primary key. The application
has been working without issue for a month. After unexpected increase of customer
registrations we are now seeing a large number of application exceptions and customer
complaints.
What could a potential cause of the issue?
A) The VPC subnet of the application instance is missing a route to an internet
gateway. (Everything was previously working)
B) DynamoDB reads and writes are exceeding the provisioned throughput of the
DynamoDB table.
C) The randomized key is causing sub optimal usage of the provisioned
throughput. (Good key entropy gives optimal use of throughput)
D) IAM policy to allow is throttling DynamoDB traffic. (This is not an IAM property)
33. Sample SysOps – Associate question
Which of the following is not available via a standard Amazon CloudWatch
metric to monitor?
34. Sample SysOps – Associate question
Which of the following is not available via a standard Amazon CloudWatch
metric to monitor?
A) The number of bytes currently used by hash tables on an Amazon
ElasticCache node.
B) Memory utilization on an EC2 instance.
C) Disk usage activity on an EC2 instance.
D) The number of connections that were not successfully established
between the load balancer and the registered EC2 instances.
35. Sample SysOps – Associate question
Which of the following is not available via a standard Amazon CloudWatch
metric to monitor?
A) The number of bytes currently used by hash tables on an Amazon
ElasticCache node. (BytesUsedForHash)
B) Memory utilization on an EC2 instance.
C) Disk usage activity on an EC2 instance.
D) The number of connections that were not successfully established
between the load balancer and the registered EC2 instances.
36. Sample SysOps – Associate question
Which of the following is not available via a standard Amazon CloudWatch
metric to monitor?
A) The number of bytes currently used by hash tables on an Amazon
ElasticCache node. (BytesUsedForHash)
B) Memory utilization on an EC2 instance.
C) Disk usage activity on an EC2 instance.
D) The number of connections that were not successfully established
between the load balancer and the registered EC2 instances.
(BackendConnectionErrors)
37. Sample SysOps – Associate question
Which of the following is not available via a standard Amazon CloudWatch
metric to monitor?
A) The number of bytes currently used by hash tables on an Amazon
ElasticCache node. (BytesUsedForHash)
B) Memory utilization on an EC2 instance.
C) Disk usage activity on an EC2 instance. (VolumeReadBytes,
VolumeWriteBytes, VolumeReadOps, VolumeWriteOps)
D) The number of connections that were not successfully established
between the load balancer and the registered EC2 instances.
(BackendConnectionErrors)
38. Sample SysOps – Associate question
Which of the following is not available via a standard Amazon CloudWatch
metric to monitor?
A) The number of bytes currently used by hash tables on an Amazon
ElasticCache node. (BytesUsedForHash)
B) Memory utilization on an EC2 instance.
C) Disk usage activity on an EC2 instance. (VolumeReadBytes,
VolumeWriteBytes, VolumeReadOps, VolumeWriteOps)
D) The number of connections that were not successfully established
between the load balancer and the registered EC2 instances.
(BackendConnectionErrors)
39. Next Steps
1. Review exam-specific preparation paths at
aws.amazon.com/certification/certification-prep/
2. Take the first step – sign up for a training class
3. Schedule your exam so you have a date to study for
4. Take a practice exam online to test your knowledge
before your exam date
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