8 Ways to Pass Your AWS CSA-A Exam – Info Linux

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Level exam is very popular because it acts as a starting point for those looking to dive into the world of AWS certifications. With the widest breadth of AWS services coverage, the AWS CSA-A exam focuses on testing technical expertise around the following:

• Designing and deploying scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on the AWS platform
• Understanding many of the most popular AWS services and tools in order to leverage their use and understand costs
• Understanding AWS architectural best practices
• Understanding AWS security best practices
• Knowledge of migrating existing on-premises applications to AWS

Venture on a journey to becoming an AWS Certified Solutions Architect, and prepare yourself for the AWS CSA-A exam through these 8 Challenges. With tailored training based on your performance, find out if you're ready to take the exam, fill in your knowledge gaps, and gain the real-world experience needed to gain your certification.

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1. High Availability, Fault Tolerance, and Scalability

• Practice your Amazon EC2, Auto Scaling, Amazon S3, CloudWatch skills and more in this Challenge.
• Demonstrate your ability to implement a highly available cloud solution, design fault tolerance in the application, design scalable systems, and create and use Amazon Machine Images.
• Showcase your AWS skills by implementing variable capacity and application requirements.

2. VPC and VPC Networking

• Master your Amazon VPC skills and build a real-world scenario by configuring a VPC, Subnets, and VPC Networking in this Challenge.
• Identify and configure a NAT Gateway, create public and private subnets, configure subnet networking using given requirements, and more!

3. Design and Implement S3 Solutions

• Prove your ability to use many of Amazon S3's most important features.
• Create required folders in an S3 bucket with versioning and the required lifecycle rules.
• Make a static landing page using existing HTML documents in an S3 bucket, and modify permission on objects according to requirements.

4. Troubleshoot Multi-Tier Applications

• Practice your Amazon VPC, Auto Scaling, Application ELB, and RDS skills in this Challenge!
• Identify and troubleshoot VPC networking and high availability issues.
• Provision database capacity based on requirements and demonstrate your ability to create and configure RDS instance.

5. Implement Elastic Beanstalk Solutions

• Gain an edge in a competitive industry by validating your Elastic Beanstalk knowledge in this Challenge.
• Demonstrate your ability to set instance size, provision load balancer, create Auto Scaling Group and set application platform.
• Create a VPC, assign a VPC security group and assign a public IP address.
• Test your skills in these real-world scenarios to make sure you're 100% prepared for your certification exam.

6. Implementing Backup Strategies

• Showcase your ability to implement backup strategies in this AWS CSA-A Challenge. By creating a backup strategy for an EC2 application and testing a backup strategy, you'll practice your Amazon EC2, CloudWatch, and Linux skills.
• Build your skills portfolio while preparing for your exam!

7. EFS Storage Solutions

• Learn to share storage between instances in this Challenge.
• Create an encrypted, scalable, elastic file storage solution using AWS resources, and discern which VPC and subnets from which to deploy this solution.
• Demonstrate your knowledge of the EFS service by implementing a shared file storage solution across multiple instances.

8. Content and Media Delivery

• Master your CloudFront, Classic ELB and Route 53 skills in this Challenge.
• Learn to create multiple origins for a CloudFront distribution, ensure your content is quickly available to users anywhere in the world, create a reliable network for serving static content, and serve content from multiple sources via a single domain.
• Configure a domain name using Amazon Route 53, allow users to access your content using a human-readable domain, and configure health checks to ensure your content is accessible.

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