AWS Certified Solutions Architect Official Study Guide: Associate Exam

by Joe Baron

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,

Mapping Multi-Tier Architectures to AWS Services, such as web/app servers, firewalls, caches and load balancers Understanding managed RDBMS through AWS RDS (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres, Aurora) Understanding Loose Coupling and Stateless Systems Comparing Different Consistency Models in AWS Services Understanding how AWS CloudFront can make your application more cost efficient, faster and secure Implementing Route tables, Access Control Lists, Firewalls, NAT, and DNS Applying AWS Security Features along with traditional Information and Application Security Using Compute, Networking, Storage, and Database AWS services Architecting Large Scale Distributed Systems Understanding of Elasticity and Scalability Concepts Understanding of Network Technologies Relating to AWS Deploying and Managing Services with tools such as CloudFormation, OpsWorks and Elastic Beanstalk. 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

790 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 28, 2016

Reviews

[Panos Matsinopoulos · Rating 2 out of 5]

I believe this book is old. The exam requires more up-to-date knowledge which is not covered by the book.

[Codfather · Rating 5 out of 5]

For the Associate exam this seems to cover all the bases - especially if you log into the on-line exercises and practise exams that are on the book publishers web site. You do have to use other resources , like the white papers and perhaps Linux Academy or Cloud Gurus to give you the full picture.

The exam has changed in 2018, so I would expect a new book, but if you have studied with this particular book, make sure you pick the right exam when you come to sit it. Things have changed since this book was published , so some of the topics and values on the new test , might be out of date now.

If you want to get into Amazon AWS - then this is a good place to start.

[Mike Chrisley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Decent coverage of core products and concepts, but some of the content is stale already, as of October 2017, and some new products covered on the exam are not even mentioned. A great resource to prepare for the exam, but you'll need to augment this with something more current. Personally, I found that the linuxacademy.com videos and practice exams did a good job of filling in the blanks.

[Zaid Rashwani · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good guide for the exam but some parts are outdated

Good reference for main AWS services and contains good set of questions for the exam - especially scenario based - but some parts need update as it don't cover recent developments in AWS services and exam that changed in the last couple of years

[Joshua D Young · Rating 5 out of 5]

A solid overview

Helpful prep in preparing for the AWS CSAA exam. Be sure to register online for access to a web version of the chapter quizzes and two practice tests. I would also recommend the CSAA courses by aCloudGuru and LinuxAcademy and the practice tests at whizlabs.

[Tsang Wong · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great book to study aws

I am going to prepare for the aws certified architect associate exam and it is the only available book for review.

[Steve · Rating 5 out of 5]

Essential reading for the exam

Read this and then review the FAQs. It’s due for a minor update, but still the best and only authoritative source.

[Atul Kumar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gives good over view of different services.

[Arya · Rating 4 out of 5]

passed exam

[Ashwin · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is largely outdated. So by studying this you will not be able to clear the certification exam. But serves as a good intro book for aws services to some detail. I will defintely not recomend this book if your buying this with hopes it will be sufficent to clear the certification exam. This book can be a starting point if you are completely new to aws and you have some amount of technical background in cloud then this could be a good starting place.

[Sergio Fernández · Rating 5 out of 5]

I succeeded passing the Associate exam thanks to this excellent book back in 2020.

[Jay Schober · Rating 5 out of 5]

Go to for AWS architecture, read the book, short class, passed the test.