AWS Solutions Architect Professional

Sunshine Learning & Technologies, especially designed AWS Solutions Architect Professional Course to enhance your technical knowledge and practical skills to gain deeper understanding of AWS. It is one of the most highly sought-after certifications in the IT industry. AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification is not at all easy but will stand you apart from the crowd when looking for your dream AWS cloud role. In order to be successful, you’ll need a high level of proficiency across a large number of AWS services. You’ll need in-depth knowledge of how to design multi-account and multi-region architectures, implement HA and fault tolerance, and plan and execute migrations to the AWS Cloud. Sunshine Learning & Technologies, helps you have everything you need to fully prepare at your fingertips. We teach you through a unique combination of video lectures, guided hands-on exercises, practice questions and cheat sheets. This training content has been carefully created to help you study for this AWS certification. The certification demands that the candidate demonstrates the ability to architect and deploy AWS solutions for different scenarios following AWS’s best practices. The AWS Solution Architect Professional Certification requires its candidates to be comfortable architecting, securing, migrating, optimizing deployments and managing full production operations on AWS.

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional certification is one of the most desired and reputable cloud certifications in the industry. Many of the concepts that you learn as you prepare for the exam are applicable to cloud computing in general, not just to AWS, so the knowledge gained from this certification could transfer to other cloud environments.

Sunshine Learning & Technologies, strongly recommend that you first complete your associate-level AWS certifications as those will set you up with a strong base of knowledge to build upon. This is the best online course for the AWS Solution Architect Professional available today and is completely up to date with the latest concepts featuring on the exam.

Main Objectives of “AWS Solutions Architect – Professional” certification

The main objective of AWS Solutions Architect – Professional certification is to validate your knowledge across a number of different key areas, which have been defined by AWS as being able to:

Select appropriate AWS services to design and deploy an application based on given requirements
Design and deploy dynamically scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant, and reliable applications on AWS
Design and deploy enterprise-wide scalable operations on AWS
Implement cost-control strategies
Migrate complex, multi-tier applications on AWS

According to a Website:

“The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional exam is intended for individuals who perform a solutions architect role with two or more years of hands-on experience managing and operating systems on AWS.”

Differences between the Professional and Associate level certifications

The difference between the AWS Solutions Architect Professional level and AWS Solutions Architect Associate level AWS exams, according to AWS, these are the abilities that are validated by each exam.

Abilities Validation:

AWS Solutions Architect Professional	AWS Solutions Architect Associate
Design and deploy dynamically scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant and reliable applications on AWS	Effectively demonstrate knowledge of how to architect and deploy secure and robust applications on AWS technologies
Select appropriate AWS services to design and deploy an application based on given requirements	Define a solution using architectural design principles based on customer requirements
Migrate complex, multi-tier applications on AWS	Provide implementation guidance based on best practices to the organization throughout the life cycle of the project
Design and deploy enterprise-wide scalable operations on AWS
Implement cost-control strategies

*The above text is quoted verbatim from the AWS certification site as published on 3/29/2021

Knowledge and Experience needed:

AWS Solutions Architect Professional	AWS Solutions Architect Associate
Two or more years of hands-on experience designing and deploying cloud architecture on AWS	Hands-on experience using compute, networking, storage, and database AWS services
Ability to evaluate cloud application requirements and make architectural recommendations for implementation, deployment, and provisioning applications on AWS	Hands-on experience with AWS deployment and management services
Familiarity with AWS CLI, AWS APIs, AWS CloudFormation templates, the AWS Billing Console, and the AWS Management Console	Ability to identify and define technical requirements for an AWS-based application
Explain and apply the five pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework	Ability to identify which AWS services meet a given technical requirement
Design a hybrid architecture using key AWS technologies (e.g., VPN, AWS Direct Connect)	Knowledge of recommended best practices for building secure and reliable applications on the AWS platform
Ability to provide best practice guidance on the architectural design across multiple applications and projects of the enterprise	An understanding of the basic architectural principles of building on the AWS Cloud
Familiarity with a scripting language	An understanding of the AWS global infrastructure
Familiarity with Windows and Linux environments	An understanding of network technologies as they relate to AWS
Map business objectives to application/architecture requirements	An understanding of security features and tools that AWS provides and how they relate to traditional services
Architect a continuous integration and deployment process

*The above text is quoted verbatim from the AWS certification site as published on 3/29/2021

What are the preparations needed for this Exam?

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional is one of the most difficult AWS certifications. To clear this certification, you would need in-depth knowledge of cloud computing and many essential AWS services. It is, after all, a Solutions Architecture exam, which means you will be tested on your ability to connect discrete AWS services together to create highly available, scalable, secure, reliable, and resilient architectures.

After passing the Exam

Shortly after you pass the exam, you are awarded a really cool digital badge, other perks include access to purchase AWS Certified branded items, membership to the AWS Certified Global LinkedIn Community, and a 50% discount on your next exam. Additionally, you may be invited to serve as a Subject Matter Expert to help AWS create and review questions for upcoming exams, which is a pretty cool opportunity.

What are the Prerequisites for CCNA Collaboration Course?

This is one of the two Professional level certifications available with AWS and it’s guided to those who already have experience with AWS, and ideally, have already passed the AWS Solutions Architect – Associate exam, but this is not a prerequisite in taking this certification.

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