1. Welcome to AWS Certification Exam

2. Topics for these slides
What to expect on the exam
Domain 1 - Architecture: Designing highly available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, scalable systems
(Questions are focused on what to use)
Domain 2 - Implementation: Questions are focused on how to use the services. How the services work. For this, hands-on experience is critical.
Domain 3 - Security: Recognize and implement secure procedures for optimum cloud deployments and maintenance. Recognize critical disaster recovery techniques and their implementation.
Domain 4 - Troubleshooting (general troubleshooting and questions)
About the exam
Sample Questions

3. What to expect: Focus on key AWS Services
Compute and Networking – EC2 (including EBS, ELB, Auto Scaling) and VPC (including Route53)
Storage and Content Delivery – S3 (and how does it work with CloudFront) and Glacier
Database - RDS
Deployment and Management – AWS CloudFormation, CloudWatch and IAM
App Services: SQS and SNS

4. Domain 1 http://aws.amazon.com/architecture/

5. Domain 2- Implementation
I recommend the following video courses and materials:
(free for a week)
($199 forever)
(free for a week)
(again, only focus your efforts on the key Services)

6. Domain 3 – Data Security

7. Domain 4: Troubleshooting
EC2 instance connectivity
For example: inability to connect due to EIP, NACLs, Security Groups
EC2 instance or EBS volume connectivity
For example what happens to an EBS volume if an instance fails
AWS service limit issues
For example what is the limit for the number of instances per account
(The videos noted on slide 5 will help a lot)

8. About the exam Domain 1: 60% Domain 2: 10% Domain 3: 20% Domain 4: 10%
Questions are focused on identifying a single service or small group of services solving a use case
Questions are single and multiple selection, multiple choice
There is no penalty for guessing
There are 55 questions on the exam
You can mark a question for future consideration
Before submitting the exam you will see a list of all your answers and which questions you market so you can go back easily

9. Sample questions Amazon Glacier is designed for: (Choose 2 answers)
A. active database storage.
B. infrequently accessed data.
C. data archives.
D. frequently accessed data.
E. cached session data.

10. Sample Questions
Your web application front end consists of multiple EC2 instances behind an Elastic Load Balancer. You configured ELB to perform health checks on these EC2 instances. If an instance fails to pass health checks, which statement will be true?
A. The instance is replaced automatically by the ELB.
B. The instance gets terminated automatically by the ELB.
C. The ELB stops sending traffic to the instance that failed its health check.
D. The instance gets quarantined by the ELB for root cause analysis

11. Sample Questions
Which of the following will occur when an EC2 instance in a VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) with an associated Elastic IP is stopped and started? (Choose 2 answers)
A. The Elastic IP will be dissociated from the instance
B. All data on instance-store devices will be lost
C. All data on EBS (Elastic Block Store) devices will be lost
D. The ENI (Elastic Network Interface) is detached
E. The underlying host for the instance is changed

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