SKILL BENCHMARK
AWS Associate Solutions Architect 2020: Design High-performing Architectures Competency (Intermediate Level)
- 32m
- 32 questions
The AWS Design High-performing Architectures Competency benchmark measures your ability to identify elastic and scalable compute solutions for a workload. You will be assessed on your skills to select high-performing networking, storage, and database solutions for a workload. A learner who scores high on this benchmark demonstrates that they have the skills to choose appropriate high performing solutions.
Topics covered
- attach an EBS volume to an EC2 instance
- automate the addition and removal of EC2 instances to support a workload
- configure a custom AMI
- configure a hosted DNS domain
- configure an AWS site-to-site VPN
- configure a network ACL
- configure CloudFront
- configure Glacier archiving
- configure VPC DHCP options
- configure VPC DNS options
- connect to Linux virtual machines over SSH
- create volume snapshots
- deploy an auto scaling group
- deploy a static website
- deploy a storage queue
- deploy DynamoDB
- differentiate between SQL and NoSQL
- enable NFS mount points through EFS
- enable RDS replicas for increased fault tolerance
- enable S3 bucket cross-region replication
- enable VPC peering
- improve app performance through a load balancer configuration
- manage Linux instances over SSH
- modify the instance type to support the workload
- recognize how data is treated at various stages in its life
- recognize the purpose of content delivery networks
- select the appropriate database type to address business needs
- set the object storage class using the GUI
- upload S3 content using PowerShell
- use PowerShell to deploy a Windows EC2 instance
- use the CLI to create a S3 bucket
- use the GUI to configure a placement group