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Exam Preparation Materials

Courses

  • Architecting on AWS
  • Advanced Architecting on AWS
  • Migrating to AWS
  • Security Engineering on AWS

White Papers

  • AWS Well-Architected Framework
  • Architecting for the Cloud AWS Best Practices
  • Microservices on AWS
  • AWS: Overview of the Security Process
  • Using AWS for Disaster Recovery
  • Security White Paper

Best Practices

The exam tests reading comprehension heavily. How you can solve for the ask is key.

Question Distribution

Parameter Name Description
Design for Organization Complexity 12.5%
Design for New solutions 31%
Migration Planning 15%
Cost Control 12.5%
Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions 29%
TOTAL 100%

Features released within last 6 months are not covered in the exam!

General Strategies

  1. Read both the question and the answer in full at least once.
  2. Identify text in the question that implies certain AWS features—for example, “data retrieval times.”
  3. Identify the features mentioned in the answers.
  4. Pay attention to qualifying clauses. For example, clauses like “in the most cost-effective way” and “will best fulfill” may eliminate certain answers.
  5. Eliminate obviously wrong answers to narrow the selection of possible right answers.

Practice Exams

Well-Architected Pillars

Sub-domains

Design for Organizational Complexity

  1. Cross-account authentication and access strategies
  2. Networks: Hybrid virtual private network (VPN) connections, storage gateways, and virtual private cloud (VPC) endpoints
  3. Multi-account AWS environments: multi-account AWS environments, billing strategies for multiple accounts and policy based central management (AWS Organizations)

New Solutions

  1. Implementation strategies for reliability requirements
  2. Ensuring business continuity
  3. Meeting performance objectives
  4. Security requirements and controls
  5. Deployment strategies for business requirements

Migration Planning

  1. Existing workloads and processes for potential migration to the cloud
  2. Migration tools or services for new and migrated solutions based on detailed AWS knowledge
  3. Strategies for migrating existing on-premises workloads to the cloud
  4. New cloud architectures for existing solutions

Cost Control

  1. Select a cost-effective pricing model for a solution.
  2. Determine which controls to design and implement that will ensure cost optimization.
  3. Identify opportunities to reduce cost in an existing solution.

Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions

  1. Troubleshoot solution architectures.
  2. Determine a strategy to improve an existing solution for operational excellence.
  3. Determine a strategy to improve the reliability of an existing solution.
  4. Determine a strategy to improve the performance of an existing solution.
  5. Determine a strategy to improve the security of an existing solution.
  6. Determine how to improve the deployment of an existing solution