Exam guide
There are different types of responses
- Multiple choice - has 1 correct response and 3 incorrect
- Multiple response - has 2 correct responses out of 5 response options
Domain
There are four types of domains which includes subdomains.
- Design resilient architectures (30%)
- Design high-performing architectures (28%)
- Design secure applications and architectures (24%)
- Design cost optimized architectures (18%)
Design resilient architectures
- Design a multi-tier architecture solution
- Design highly available and/or tfault-tolerant architectures
- Design decoupling mechanisms using AWS services
- Choose appropriate resilient storage
Design high-performing architectures
- Identify elastic and scalable compute solution for a workload
- Select high-performing and scalable storage solutions for a workload
- Select high-performing networking solutions for a workload
- Choose high-performing database solutions for a workload
Design secure applications and architectures
- Design secure access to AWS resources
- Design secure application tiers
- Select appropriate data security options
Design cost optimized architectures
- Identify cost-effective storage solutions
- Identify cost-effective compute and database services
- Design cost-optimized network architectures
Pass mark
The result from the exam is a score from 100 to 1000. For a passing gradde you’ll need 720 points, and there is 65 questions over 130 minutes.
