SKILL BENCHMARK
AWS Associate Solutions Architect 2022: Design High-performing Architectures Competency (Intermediate Level)
- 20m
- 20 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
- Change the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance type to accommodate a workload
- Configure bucket policies to allow limited access
- Configure the CloudFront CDN to accelerate content retrieval speed
- Create an EC2 launch configuration auto scaling group
- Create an S3 bucket
- Deploy a Linux EC2 instance
- Deploy a Windows EC2 instance
- Deploy Storage Gateway
- Enable S3 encryption
- Ensure data immutability with S3 object lock
- Ensure the correct storage tier is being used based on file usage
- Manage a Linux EC2 instance using SSH
- Manage a Windows EC2 instance using RDP
- Manage EC2 Instance Hibernation
- Monitor EC2 instance performance
- Recall when CDNs should be used
- Recognize the benefit of database caching
- Recognize when Amazon Fargate, EMR, and Batch should be used
- Recognize when to use Amazon Athena, Amazon QuickSight, Amazon Kinesis, AWS Glue, and AWS Lake Formation
- Upload data to an S3 bucket