SAA Final Review

Review order

1. High-frequency comparisons
2. VPC and networking
3. S3 / EBS / EFS
4. RDS / Aurora / DynamoDB
5. EC2 / Auto Scaling / ELB / Lambda
6. SQS / SNS / EventBridge
7. IAM / KMS / Organizations
8. CloudWatch / CloudTrail / Config / AWS Health
9. Artifact / Audit Manager / Control Tower
10. High availability, disaster recovery, RTO / RPO
11. Cost and performance trade-offs

Final self-check

• Narrow a scenario to two choices using keywords.
• Explain why the remaining options violate a requirement.
• Identify priorities such as least operations, highest availability, or lowest cost.
• Draw common three-tier, event-driven, and multi-account governance architectures.

New-topic self-check

• Explain migration with the three phases and 7Rs, and distinguish Evaluator, Discovery, Migration Hub, Transform MGN, DMS, DataSync, and Transfer Family.
• Distinguish AppSync, Amplify, Connect, SES, the three WorkSpaces delivery models, and IoT Core keywords.
• Map the former names Application Migration Service, AppStream 2.0, and WorkSpaces Web to their current service names.
• Distinguish root, IAM user, group, policy, role, and Identity Center; groups do not nest and users may join several.
• Explain implicit Deny, explicit Deny, managed / inline / resource-based policies, and Principal.
• Distinguish password policy, MFA, long-term access keys, and temporary credentials with a session token.
• Troubleshoot visibility through account → identity → Region → permission → filter / state.