Compsortia

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Domain 1: Cloud Concepts

24% – 15 questions. As there are 3 tasks expect 3 questions under each task statement

Task Statement 1.1: Define the benefits of the AWS Cloud

Knowledge of:

  1. Value proposition of the AWS Cloud

Skills in:

  1. Understanding the economies of scale (for example, cost savings)
  2. Understanding the benefits of global infrastructure (for example, speed of deployment, global reach)
  3. Understanding the advantages of high availability, elasticity, and agility

Task Statement 1.2: Identify design principles of the AWS Cloud

Knowledge of:

  1. AWS Well-Architected Framework (WAF)

Skills in:

  1. Understanding the pillars of the Well-Architected Framework (for example, operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, sustainability)
  2. Identifying differences between the pillars of the Well-Architected Framework

Task Statement 1.3: Understand the benefits of and strategies for migration to the AWS Cloud

Knowledge of:

  1. Cloud adoption strategies
  2. Resources to support the cloud migration journey

Skills in:

  1. Understanding the benefits of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) (for example, reduced business risk; improved environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance; increased revenue; increased operational efficiency)
  2. Identifying appropriate migration strategies (for example, database replication, use of AWS Snowball)

Task Statement 1.4: Understand concepts of cloud economics

Knowledge of:

  1. Aspects of cloud economics
  2. Cost savings of moving to the cloud

Skills in:

  1. Understanding the role of fixed costs compared with variable costs
  2. Understanding costs that are associated with on-premises environments
  3. Understanding the differences between licensing strategies (for example, Bring Your Own License [BYOL] model compared with included licenses)
  4. Understanding the concept of rightsizing
  5. Identifying benefits of automation (for example, provisioning and configuration management with AWS CloudFormation)
  6. Identifying managed AWS services (for example, Amazon RDS, Amazon Elastic Container Service [Amazon ECS], Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service [Amazon EKS], Amazon DynamoDB)

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