Aws Solutions Architect Associate Sg

by Joe Baron, Hisham Baz, Tim Bixler

Validate your AWS skills.  This is your opportunity to take the next step in your career by expanding and validating your skills on the AWS cloud.  AWS has been the frontrunner in cloud computing products and services, and the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Official Study Guide for the Associate exam will get you fully prepared through expert content, and real-world knowledge, key exam essentials, chapter review questions, access to Sybex’s interactive online learning environment, and much more. This official study guide, written by AWS experts, covers exam concepts, and provides key review on exam topics, including: Learn from the AWS subject-matter experts, review with proven study tools, and apply real-world scenarios. If you are looking to take the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam, this guide is what you need for comprehensive content and robust study tools that will help you gain the edge on exam day and throughout your career. 

Genres: Technology, Technical, Computers, Nonfiction, Textbooks, Software

504 pages, Paperback

Published October 7, 2016

Reviews

[Javier Carranza · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent teaching material to prepare the certification. Although in general the material is very good quality, it's very clear that it's written by several people. The most critical and important chapters of this book are very well developed (maybe the first 10 approx). However, I think that among the last chapters there are some of them which haven't been received the best attention. I think that they haven't been well reviewed. They shine by the amount of duplicate content, even in one of the exam exercises. At the same time, the loss of quality is noted, especially in the didactic aspect in those last chapters, which become difficult to read.

[Mau Ha Quang · Rating 5 out of 5]

A good resource to prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam. Highly recommend!

[Emre Sevinç · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a fairly broad introduction to the fundamental concepts, services, and techniques for building highly available and scalable solutions on Amazon Web Services platform. It is a good reference both for AWS in general, and preparing for the Solutions Architect - Associate Level in particular (maybe even for the Professional Level).

Having said that, I also have to add that the questions at the end of chapters are not very representative of the exam. So you'll have to put more effort, and you should not consider having gone through them as enough.

Another thing to consider is that AWS is a moving target; in other words, you have to keep in mind that the fundamental technologies described in the book doesn't change every few months, but the devil is in the details, so you have to keep yourself up-to-date by keeping an eye on relevant FAQs and whitepapers.

[Yash Bindlish · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent for readers/Solution Architects who really wanted to learn AWS Cloud Computing. This book is designed and organized so well that after every chapter you get step by step exercise to practice and then with set of practice questions which will help you to evaluate your learning.

All concepts mentioned in the book are crisp and well drafted for clearing all your doubts. A Must recommended read for people who are targeting their AWS Solution Architect Associate Level Certification.

This really helped me to clear my credentials in a great way!

[Yevgen Polyak · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book was helpful with preparation, however, the hands-on experience was the best tool to get ready for the exam. However, it was still helpful for those concepts that you don't use every day, such as Redshift, setting up DNS, etc. In other words, I recommend the book for the exam preparation.

[Fabiano Tessarolo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book, it helped me achieve my certification and to consolidate my knowledge.

[Himanshu Modi · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is good for what it is - A summary view of official AWS documentation, with a good flow. It has a good set of "review questions" in each chapter to give a reader the confidence that the key concepts have been understood by the reader. However, as a study book it is not all that great. I wish the approach was more practical and had more use cases instead of a dry instruction manual kind of exposition. To that end, the last chapter is pretty good and a great encapsulation of the approach a Solution Architect would tend to need. But other chapters could be made so much more sticky with a better approach.

Also, a section "where to next" would have been handy. Sure, people have bought this book to get their certification done, and most people who are on this path would have scoured the internet to determine their "What next", but I personally would have liked to have known the author's views.

I would increase a star if I could get access to their prep-tests on the website that they have shared, but the web page isn't open. I will investigate this more and report back.

[John · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great review of the key facts for designing "solutions" that leverage AWS. I think I have touched most of the services mentioned here, but this book filled in my gaps. I'm not a big one for certification but AWS is so big, it was useful to have a map to the territory. Aside from a couple of obviously wrong answers in the sample questions, most of it seemed accurate. One thing: The Security chapter repeated information from the service-specific chapters: Since Security is such a deep concern throughout all of AWS, I almost wondered if that chapter could have been skipped.

I see a number of people have rated this 4 or fewer, but having read a lot of these types of books, this is a good one; and I also contributed a chapter to a similar book, and it's hard. So, naysayers, go write your own book.

Now let's see if I can pass the exam. :-)

[Adam Komisarek · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is outdated and should be revisited (especially whole load balancing chapter as new service was introduced some time ago). Also review questions are not the best, a lot of duplication and I think one of them was not correct. (As there was exactly the same question in another chapter with correct answer, really confusing). Sometimes the material hasn’t covered the review section.

I think you would be better off grabbing some online course which are sometimes heavily discounted than this book in current shape.

[Cris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some chapters are well-written and illustrated to communicate complex inter-dependencies between components; others are horrible - like legalize without any context or attempt to instruct given (Ch. 8 - SWF is a good example). Ch. 8 in general was atrocious, but the section on SWF required more than one internal pep-talk to make it through.

Some of the information in this book is also out of date for the Feb 2018 revision of the exam. You'll likely need more than this to pass the test.

[Aaron · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this book in 2022, since it's the only version available in our city library.
Took the exam (SAA02) and I found out quite some gap either in the content, or the format of the question (never came across a remembering-a-number question like the ones following each chapter). I did pass the exam, just because I've using other materials for the preparation along side with this book.
Let me put it in one line - This book have served its purpose, but I wouldn't recommend it in 2022.

[Ajitabh Pandey · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a good reference book for people preparing for the certification. However, additional reading is definitely required. Also, before preparing make sure you have the latest edition of this book as Amazon is constantly adding features to its portfolio and this book can be outdated very fast.

[Harinder Gill · Rating 5 out of 5]

The content is clear and the labs are just enough to make you the understand the concepts. The review questions are good for evaluating your progress.
But i would recommend the white papers for passing the exam.

[Michael Anderson · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was a helpful condensed view of the subject matter. There are some sections that are getting a little long in the tooth (a consequence of the speed at which AWS advances).

Still recommended for getting a quick overview of the core services.

[Kevin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Gives a decent overview of AWS in general, but should be updated with all the advances AWS has made. It is worth reading.

[Steven Thomas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Always good to keep up with what the competition is doing. I did it for VMWare years back and never regretted it.

[Jeff Ai · Rating 4 out of 5]

Used this book to pass the exam - however, it is pretty dry and contents are somewhat repetitive.
The practice questions are really good though.

[Rakesh Sarangi · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must-read for those who aspire to become AWS SA

[Sharlina · Rating 4 out of 5]

-2 stars because exam covered a lot of material what was not in the book.

[Amanda · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[Novi · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's good book for those preparing for the exam. Very detailed explanation in the book.

[Felipe Leite · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book, bad printing

[Huyen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read the 2nd edition.
It does what it is expected to. Good for the purpose of taking the test.

[Dave Schwinn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I passed the exam... what more can I say?

[Hussein Elsayed · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book both for those who are new to AWS or those who have experience with the most famous cloud provider.

[Rizwaana Husaini-grimes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Crucial reading for the exam.

[Gonzalo Fernández-Victorio · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm not planning to get certified at this moment. I have some experience with AWS but I wanted a book that would provide me with some general overview of the services, filling the gaps in my knowledge. So I was a bit worried with some initial reviews mentioning that book seemed an old book full of mentions of deprecated services and old screenshots. The book doesn't have many screenshots. Page 293 with Trusted advisor was the only one I found and it looks recent to me. And yes, it mentions EC2-Classic in the specific EC2 chapter, but probably because it is required for the certification. My overall perception is that it's a book that it's quite updated and it targets the certification very well (again, not certified and not planning).
The only caveat I can find is that it doesn't mention (except in a couple of questions) AWS Lambda an AWS API Gateway. My guess is that they don't appear in the exam and hence they are not mention.
So excellent book to prepare the certification. And quite a good book to my use case (filling gaps in my knowledge)
Updated Jan-2019
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Now I'm preparing for the certification and I still highly value the book.
Caveats. The IAM part, specially the practice questions, is on a lower level than other chapters. Also the compliance part seems to have been written much before than the rest of the book.

[Sebastian Gebski]

Won't rate until I know whether I've passed or not ;>

[Frank Palardy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is good but they avoid the same questions on the test. Even if you don't certify it helps cause AWS is so big.

[Don · Rating 3 out of 5]

Used this book to prepare for exam...failed. Used online resources the second time...passed. Just sayin.