AWS

can design, and architect scalable and reliable solutions based on customer requirements.

AWS Certification helps professionals build credibility by confirming their AWS knowledge in practical, real world scenarios. These certifications highlight expertise in specific technologies or skill sets. They also enhance your experience and help advance your career. Some tangible benefits of an AWS Certification include digital badges to highlight your progress, event and store discounts, and recognition in the global community.

The Solutions Architect Associate path is just one of many paths you can take when certifying with Amazon AWS. A Solutions Architect Associate certification signifies the examinee’s ability to architect and deploy correct, secure, and robust solutions on AWS technologies.

A Solutions Architect - Professional path, in comparison, signifies advanced technical skills and experience in designing distributed applications on AWS. Other certification paths focus on specific specialties using AWS services. If you are a developer, engineer, or coder who develops applications on AWS, you may focus on the AWS Certified Developer Associate or Professional programs. If you are more into systems integration and administration, you may take on the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Associate or Professional exam; the Certified SysOps Administrator exam is yet another option. Other specialties include those in Machine Learning, Big Data, Advanced Networking, and Security.

The Certified Solutions Architect Associate certification exam is a multiple choice, multiple answer exam that must be taken at a testing center. It is comprised of sixty-five questions to be completed in one hundred thirty minutes; the test has a pass or fail result available immediately after completion. Validity of your certificate and recertification requirements come up every three years.

The exam focuses on the core AWS services used in architecting real world solutions to business problems. As I mentioned earlier, the focus is on crafting solutions that are scalable, fault tolerant, performant, and cost efficient using AWS services. I will discuss 4