This guide outlines key learning areas and strategy for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional exam.
It complements the detailed checklist in CHECKLIST_SAP.md and helps you prioritize how to approach your study.
- Advanced architectural scenarios and tradeoffs
- Multi-account, multi-region designs
- Security, compliance, DR, and cost optimization
- Complex integrations and deployment automation
- Questions often have multiple correct answers — choose the best given the scenario
- Organizations, SCPs, Control Tower, landing zones
- Delegated administration, permission boundaries
- VPC Peering, PrivateLink, Transit Gateway
- Route 53 DNS across accounts/regions
- Centralized networking and traffic inspection
- RTO/RPO-driven architecture
- Route 53 failover, Multi-AZ vs Multi-Region
- S3 CRR, Aurora Global, Global DynamoDB
- CloudFormation StackSets, CDK Pipelines
- Centralized CloudWatch and CloudTrail
- Canary and Blue/Green deployments
- Consolidated billing and CUR
- Cost tagging and cross-account budgets
- Snowball, Storage Gateway, Direct Connect vs VPN
- Hybrid identity and access management
- Use this guide to plan your study
- Track your topic progress using CHECKLIST_SAP.md
- Use linked
.mdfiles in the main knowledge base to go deep on each topic