AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional Exam Guide (SAP-C02): Gain the practical skills, knowledge, and confidence to ace the AWS (SAP-C02) exam on your first attempt

Patrick Sard · Yohan Wadia

Mar 2024 · Packt Publishing Ltd

About this ebook

Become an AWS Solutions Architect Professional with this latest AWS (SAP-C02) exam guide Purchase of this book unlocks access to web-based exam prep resources, including mock exams, flashcards, and exam tips, and the eBook PDFKey Features

• Explore content meticulously aligned with AWS (SAP-C02) exam objectives
• Challenge your knowledge through mock tests with exam-level difficulty
• Gain expert insights and learn best practices for optimizing your cloud solutions from experienced AWS practitioners

Book DescriptionKnown for its difficulty and ranking among the highest-paying IT certifications, the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional (SAP-C02) certification demands significant hands-on experience for success. This comprehensive guide reinforces your knowledge and enhances your skills in various solution architectures and services. Additionally, you’ll gain lifetime access to supplementary practice resources such as mock exams, flashcards, and exam tips from experts. Aligned with exam objectives, this AWS certification study guide helps you assess your knowledge through timed mock tests that simulate exam conditions. Beyond exam preparation, you’ll develop advanced skills in designing distributed systems on AWS cloud and become proficient in providing architectural recommendations for complex application implementation, and enhancing infrastructure efficiency. As you advance, you’ll gain insights into how to foster unique thinking and factor diverse considerations while architecting solutions. You’ll also get to grips with designing multi-tier applications, deploying enterprise-grade operations, and migrating complex applications to AWS. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to design and deploy innovative solutions on AWS, unlocking new opportunities and driving success in the dynamic world of cloud computing.What you will learn

• Design and deploy fully secure, dynamically scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant, and reliable apps on AWS
• Integrate on-premises environments seamlessly with AWS resources
• Select appropriate architecture patterns and AWS services for designing and deploying complex applications
• Continuously improve solution architectures for security, reliability, performance, operational excellence, and cost-efficiency
• Plan and execute migrations of complex applications to AWS
• Implement cost-control strategies to deliver cost-effective solutions on AWS

Who this book is for

This book is for seasoned IT professionals adept at crafting and implementing cloud architecture on AWS. Familiarity with the AWS platform and services is essential. You'll grasp the content more effectively if you have at least 2 years of hands-on experience in AWS-based applications.

About the author

As a Solutions Architect at AWS, Patrick Sard's role involves capturing and conveying best practices, offering prescriptive guidance on application and systems design across Amazon platforms and technologies. This includes direct interaction with customers and partners, creating technical content, conducting events, evangelism, training, and providing operational event support. Additionally, Patrick contributes to the evolution of Amazon platforms and technologies by providing direct input and feedback from the field to the engineering teams developing these offerings.

Yohan Wadia is a client-focused evangelist and technologist with an experience of more than 8 years in the cloud industry. He focuses on helping customers succeed with cloud adoption. As a technical consultant, he guides customers with pragmatic solutions that leverage cloud computing through either Amazon Web Services, Windows Azure, or Google Cloud Platform and make practical and business sense.