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This lesson outlines the structure and content of an exam guide, detailing the types of questions, previous and new exam domains, and essential knowledge areas for each domain. The exam consists of scenario-based, multiple choice, and multiple response questions, with a total of 65 questions to be completed in 130 minutes, requiring a minimum score of 720 to pass. Key domains include designing resilient architectures, high-performing architectures, secure architectures, and cost-optimized architectures, each with specific focus areas and exam tips provided for success.

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Exam Guide

This lesson outlines the structure and content of an exam guide, detailing the types of questions, previous and new exam domains, and essential knowledge areas for each domain. The exam consists of scenario-based, multiple choice, and multiple response questions, with a total of 65 questions to be completed in 130 minutes, requiring a minimum score of 720 to pass. Key domains include designing resilient architectures, high-performing architectures, secure architectures, and cost-optimized architectures, each with specific focus areas and exam tips provided for success.

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Okay. Hello, Cloud Gurus.

Welcome to this lesson


where we're going to walk through the exam guide
so we can see what we can expect when we take our exam.
Let's have a quick lesson breakdown.
The first thing we'll do
is we'll go over our response types.
So this is where we'll talk
about what kind of questions we'll see.
We'll look at the previous exam domains.
And then using that,
we'll talk about the difference in the new exam domains.
After talking about the differences between the two exams,
we'll start looking at each domain individually
and see what we really need to know
to become an expert in those said domains.
And then we'll wrap everything up with some exam tips.
So let's take a look at the response types.
The first question you'll get is a scenario-based response.
So a large majority of the questions on the exam
will be based on real-world scenarios.
So you really need to do well in picking out keywords
and requirements in these scenarios
to pick the best answer for it.
There will also be multiple choice questions,
so there will be one correct response
and usually three incorrect responses,
which are known as distractors.
Now, these distractors are written usually in a way
that makes them seem as if they can be correct.
However, they are not.
There's always at least one thing in each distractor
that makes them an incorrect answer
based on the scenario in question.
And you'll also have multiple response questions,
so you'll have to pick two correct responses
out of five response options.
Again, this follows the same principle
as the multiple choice
where they will likely have distractors
for three of the incorrect answers.
So let's take a look at the previous exam.
There were four original domains and their breakdowns.
We had design resilient architectures at 30%,
design high-performing architectures at 28%,
design secure applications and architectures
which came in at 24%,
and then we finished up
with design cost-optimized architectures,
which weighed in at 18% of the total exam.
Well, with this third version of the exam,
AWS switched some things up.
They moved some weights around
and they renamed one of the domains.
So now we have design resilient architectures at 26%.
We have design high-performing architectures
which is now at 24%.
And they renamed the secure architecture domain
to design secure architectures, which weighs in at 30%.
So there's a big emphasis on this particular domain now.
And then lastly,
they kept design cost-optimized architectures
and they bumped it up to 20%.
So you can see they moved some of the weights around
and then they renamed this one domain.
So what can we expect
in the design resilient architectures domain questions?
Well, a lot of the questions you're gonna encounter
are based around designing
multi-tier architecture solutions.
So how can you make them scalable
or loosely coupled and multi-tiered?
You also need to know how you can design highly-available
and/or fault-tolerant architectures.
You need to know the key differences
between being highly available and fault tolerant
and we'll cover those throughout this course.
You also need to know how you can design
decoupling mechanisms using different services,
so when you use message queuing
or notification topics within your architectures.
And lastly, you need to know when you need to choose
the appropriate resilient storage.
So what are the requirements for your storage?
How often is data accessed, et cetera?
Now let's move on
to designing high-performing architectures.
In this, we need to know how we can identify
elastic and scalable compute solutions for our workloads,
so things like auto-scaling groups or elastic load balancers
for handling and dispersing load.
We need to know how we can select high-performing
and scalable storage solutions for workloads as well.
You also need to know how to select
the best high-performing networking solution
for your workload.
So will VPN cut it
or do you need something like a Direct Connect?
And lastly, you need to know
which database solution fits your workload best.
So do you need a non-relational database like DynamoDB?
Do you need something more like Amazon Redshift, et cetera?
Now let's move on to designing secure architectures.
This is the newly named domain,
but it follows similar concepts as the previous exam.
You'll need to know how you can design
secure access to AWS resources.
So things like IAM, AWS Single Sign-On,
things of that nature.
You need to know how you can design
secure application tiers.
We also need to know
how to select appropriate data security options,
so think of things like encryption at rest
and in transit for instance.
And then the last domain
design cost-optimized architectures.
We're going to explore how we can identify
cost-effective storage solutions,
so maybe different tiers in S3 storage, for example.
We're gonna look at how we can identify
the most cost-effective compute and database services,
so Aurora serverless, maybe spot instances for EC2,
different things like that.
We'll also look at designing
cost-optimized network architectures.
Now let's move on to our exam tip.
So what does it take to pass?
Well, your result on the exam is going to be a score
from 100 all the way to 1,000.
The minimum pass mark is 720.
So as long as you score 720 points out of 1,000,
you officially reach this certification.
There are 65 questions
and you're going to have 130 minutes to complete the exam,
so be sure to pace yourself correctly.
Now, we also wanted to pass along some testing tips.
We recommend not spending too much time
on your hard questions at first.
Select an answer, flag them, and then review them later on.
Be sure to watch for keyword indicators
in certain scenarios.
There's going to be very specific keywords
that make the difference in which service you should choose.
And lastly, always remember
the well-architected framework pillars.
These have a big play in a lot of the scenario answers.
Now, that's gonna do it for this lesson.
Let's go ahead and wrap up
and then we'll start getting into the course.

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